Art and occupation: Raeda Saadeh

Raeda Saadeh is a Palestinian artist who was born in Umm Al-Fahem, a Muslim village (now a city) in the northern region of Haifa. She completed art studies at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, where she now lives. Her questioning of the forces of both political occupation of the Palestinian territories, and personal occupation by traditional cultural and social expectations, have inspired her to focus on her own body with performance and photography.

Published September 2009

Oh that I were where I would be

Oh that I were where I would be
Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
10 June – 4 July 2009

Published September 2009

Inside Sydney's new Outsider art centre

Outsider Art is enjoying increasing attention in Australia. STOARC – the Self-Taught and Outsider Art Research Collection – at the University of Sydney opened its public face at Callan Park Gallery in March 2009.

Published September 2009

Living palely

The Stoics may have taken rationality too far in their resolute minimisation of all feeling. Are emotions no more than disturbances in the logical landscape? What of Pascal’s ‘the heart has its reasons that reason is not acquainted with’? Perhaps the rationality/emotion divide is overdrawn, risking battle lines forming around pure opposites never found in real life examples. Yet the issue has bite, relevance to intimate features of our life: our friendships, our sense of safety in the world, how much we give of ourselves and give up of ourselves to our working life and the living texture of what it feels like to be us: fugitive, or having the ‘warm antiquity of self’.

Published September 2009

Reconstruction Works: Paul Caporn

Reconstruction Works: Paul Caporn
Turner Galleries, Perth
17 April – 16 May 2009

Published September 2009

A New Truth to Materials

A New Truth to Materials
Boxcopy (Miles Hall, Chris Handran, Chloe Cogle, and Ross Manning)
Curator: Raymonde Rajkowski
Level 3 Metro Arts, Brisbane
April 30 - May 30 2009

Published September 2009

Sail Away: Ian North

Sail Away: Ian North
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1-26 April 2009

Published September 2009

Astra and the ventilation hypothesis

Astra Howard’s 'Action Research/Performances' necessarily require participation by members of the public. This makes them unpredictable. Astra’s presence is not about entertainment. It is not a show. There is no star. There is no attempt to expose any individual. There are simply sincere attempts to understand them. Astra acknowledges and responds sincerely to one of our deepest and most affective human needs – our need for emotional expression. Our need to have our voice heard. Our need to vent.

Published September 2009

Exhibitions 2 Watch: September - November 09

Published September 2009

The Underpass Motel

This project grew as an extension of a Fellowship awarded to Stuart Elliott in 2006 from ArtsWA – the major arts funding body of the WA Government.
Artists involved: Stuart Elliott, Graham Taylor, Patrizia Tonello, Amanda Williams, Peter Dailey, Ben Jones, Richard Heath and Si Hummerston.

The Underpass Motel, DVD premiere and gallery exhibition opens at Turner Galleries 9 October - 7 November 2009. www.turnergalleries.com.au

Visit the website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~reuham/theunderpassmotel.html

Published September 2009

53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds

53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds
Bantin Duniyan, Hacer Mundos
Director: Daniel Birnbaum
7 June – 22 November 2009

Published September 2009

William Kentridge between chance and a programme

Pat Hoffie interviewed William Kentridge on the phone to 'draw' out some of his ideas about drawing and art. His work remains committed to a sense of the tactile, and to the slow grainy effort of drawing.
In his words: ‘I would repeat my trust in the contingent, the inauthentic, the whim, the practical, as strategies for finding meaning. I would repeat my mistrust in the worth of Good Ideas.'

Published September 2009