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Published September 2009

Visual arts at OzAsia

The 2009 OzAsia Festival runs from 3 – 17 October, and also includes a fantastic family-friendly program of theatre, dance, film, food, as well as the free community opening event, the Moon Lantern Festival in Elder Park. See www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au

Open from 29 September - 1 November at the Festival Centre
Curious Screen: Festival Theatre (FT) Foyer
The Sum of Cultures: Piano Bar
Follow, Northern India: Faces and Words and Okami: FT Foyer
Miss Taken: Space Theatre Foyer
'this reminds me of some place': FT Foyer
29 September - 8 November, Following Threads: Artspace Gallery (Upstairs, Dunstan Playhouse)

Published September 2009

Drifting in My Own Land: Nalda Searles

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

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

The Second Life of Pye: Daniel Jay Mounsey

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

Speed of dark: Boris Eldagsen

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

Ann Newmarch: Opening Pandora's box

In 2007 Ann Newmarch was represented in 'WACK, Art and the Feminist Revolution', a major exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Newmarch embraced feminism in the early 1970s. Her art practice manifests the view that all representation is political. Her new work, reiterates a position that she adopted in 1972 : "I try to get onto the page visual images that combine to make memory: past memories incorporated in new sensations and new images related back to past experience. Contemplation ...of our environment that recalls other times, places and relationships."

Published September 2009

The Divided Heart

The divided heart

Rachel Power
Red Dog Books, Melbourne
RRP $29.99

Published September 2009

Strange bedfellows

Why write or think about the work of Patricia Piccinini and Richard Billingham together? Because the work of each of them elicits a visceral response, a response characterised by emotion and gut feeling. Because the border between humans and animals and the relationships between us are examined by both Piccinini and Billingham in a manner that emphasises our relatedness. These are intensely moral artworks with a strong documentary flavour that ask us questions about responsibility and connection that go to the very heart of our lives.http://www.artlink.com.au/admin/article_edit.cfm?id=3280

Published September 2009

Exhibitions 2 Watch: September - November 09

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