The Divided Heart

The divided heart

Rachel Power
Red Dog Books, Melbourne
RRP $29.99

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

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

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

Exhibitions 2 Watch: September - November 09

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

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

Not Absolute

Not Absolute
Curator: Janice Lally
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
24 July – 27 September 2009

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

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

Artrave

Published September 2009