Personal Political Emotional

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
Feature
Sasha Grbich

Published 01 December 2019
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Eating together online: The ambivalent conviviality of ASMR videos
Feature
Francis Russell

Published 01 December 2019
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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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In conversation with Sabrina Baker

Published 01 December 2019
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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
Feature
Courtney Coombs

Published 01 December 2019
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Eat the problem: MONA's carnivalesque of cuisine
Feature
Ashley Crawford

Published 01 December 2019
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Fair Share Fare
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Jen Rae

Published 01 December 2019
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Violent dreams of development: A food bowl in the north‑west of Australia?
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Alana Hunt

Published 01 December 2019
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Mai Contemporary Kaurna Food
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James Tylor

Published 01 December 2019

Artist Megan Evans was for some years the partner of Aboriginal activist and artist Les Griggs who suicided in 1993. Fifteen years later she has begun to write his story - a story of reconciliation with herself and her country, through a relationship that undid her and put her back together again.

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Speed of dark: Boris Eldagsen
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Robert Cook

Artist Boris Eldagsen and writer Robert Cook are both looking down the barrel of forty.
Cook is fascinated by other members of his exact generation. In his words: 'They are alternative selves, part of my body. Mid-life is hard life, the life as lived not the life not lived, the other path, the no stepping back.'
Cook and Boris did not meet.

Published September 2009
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Inside Sydney's new Outsider art centre
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Colin Rhodes

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
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William Kentridge between chance and a programme
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Pat Hoffie

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
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Astra and the ventilation hypothesis
Feature
Eliza Muldoon

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
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Drifting in My Own Land: Nalda Searles
Review
Holly Story

Drifting in My Own Land: Nalda Searles
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth
Touring Australia 2009 – 2013
19 June - 30 August 2009

Published September 2009
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Choosing who will keep the stories strong
Feature
Henry F. Skerritt

In early 2006, the renowned Liyagauwumirr painter Mickey Durrng Garrawurra died in his home on Milingimbi. For many years, Durrng (1940-2006) and his brother Tony Dhanyala (1935-2004) were the only people authorised to paint the Liyagauwumirr’s most important clan designs. Before his death, however, Durrng made the seemingly unorthodox decision to pass this knowledge and authority to his sister Ruth Nalmakarra (b.1954) and her family. What followed was a flowering of tradition, as Nalmakarra and her sisters used this broadened authority to instigate a cultural revival that united their community around these ancient designs.

Published September 2009
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The Second Life of Pye: Daniel Jay Mounsey
Feature
Charity Bramwell

Social media is the new buzz word and trend - like it or not.
Daniel Jay Mounsey is ahead of the pack in having Pyewacket Kazyanenko as his well-established alter-ego in Second Life, AND collaborating and performing online through an avatar with Stelarc and others, AND(!) performing onstage live as anime character Hell Girl.
Curator and writer Charity Bramwell interviewed all she could find of him.

Published September 2009
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The Divided Heart
Book Review
Rox De Luca

The divided heart

Rachel Power
Red Dog Books, Melbourne
RRP $29.99

Published September 2009
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Len Lye: An Artist in Perpetual Motion
Review
Adrian Martin

Len Lye: An Artist in Perpetual Motion
Curators: Alessio Cavallaro and
Tyler Cann
ACMI, Melbourne
16 July – 11 October 2009

Published September 2009
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Nobody Likes a Show Off: Richard Lewer
Review
Jared Davis

Nobody Likes a Show Off: Richard Lewer
Curator: Kirrily Hammond
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
1 July – 5 September 2009

Published September 2009
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Sail Away: Ian North
Review
Adam Geczy

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

Published September 2009
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53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds
Review
Joanna Mendelssohn

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

Published September 2009