Exhibitions 2 Watch: September - November 09

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

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

Sail Away: Ian North

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

Published September 2009

Choosing who will keep the stories strong

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

Editorial

Published September 2009

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

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

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

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

Len Lye: An Artist in Perpetual Motion

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

Published September 2009

The Divided Heart

The divided heart

Rachel Power
Red Dog Books, Melbourne
RRP $29.99

Published September 2009