Freedom of expression and the mode of detachment

Art theorist, philosopher and Emeritus Professor at Flinders University Donald Brook advocates 'detached contemplation' as the most desirable, appropriate and potentially rewarding response to art.

Published December 2009

Artists want catalogues

Campbelltown Arts Centre Director Lisa Havilah writes about the crucial importance of catalogues to artists. Famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei had his first international survey exhibition at Campbelltown in partnership with Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. The incentive for Ai Weiwei was that a 2,000 print run book on his art would be published.

Published December 2009

Nyukana Baker : Retrospective

Nyukana Baker : Retrospective
JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide
Curator: Diana Young
1 August - 7 September 2009

Published December 2009

Writing in the age of graphomania

Novelist and sinologist Linda Jaivin rejects the excess writing and publishing that the internet affords every person with a keyboard and compares it to Milan Kundera's definition of graphomania(an obsession with writing books). She would rather have fewer readers than more scanners believing that a 'long form' like a novel or book-length non-fiction needs slow writing and carefully crafted prose.

Published December 2009

Netting the big and the little fish: monographs and biographies

Emeritus Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia and highly respected investigative curator and writer Daniel Thomas pulls out the stops in a far-ranging appraisal of art book publishing in Australia. He writes: "Once the artist is well dead, even if the book is 'only' a monograph, disregard the family and friends; we need to know everything."

Published December 2009

Collaborative Practice

Amanda Matulick is the managing editor of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)'s publication Filter magazine, which is hardcopy as well as online at http://filter.anat.org.au. Filter uses open source Creative Commons licensing for its contributors. This means free sharing of information and ideas or as she puts it: "creation for creation's sake".

Published December 2009

Possession

Theme Park: Brook Andrew
AAMU, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2008.
124pp, RRP $39.95

Between Indigenous Australia and Europe: John Mawurndjul
Claus Volkenandt and Christian Kaufmann (eds)
Dieter Reimer Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 2009.
350pp, RRP 45

Judy Watson: blood language
by Judy Watson & Louise Martin-Chew, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2009.
240pp, RRP $39.95

New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Art
McCulloch and McCulloch, Fitzroy, Victoria, 2008.
159pp, RRP $79.95

Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal paintings from Papunya
Edited by Roger Benjamin with Andrew C. Weislogel, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2009.
192pp, RRP $49.95

Published December 2009

Measuring the footprint: dead trees vs live text

Freelance writer, author of True Green @ Work and editor Tim Wallace discusses the conflict between new technologies making everything available for free and writers and content creators needing to be paid. He quotes from on a book by Kevin Kelly called New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World: 'The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.'

Published December 2009

Gallery A Sydney 1964-1983 Edited by John Murphy

Published December 2009

Colour Country: Art from Roper River by Cath Bowdler and My Father, my brother: stories of Campbelltown's Aboriginal Men by Dvora Liberman

Published December 2009

Wild Design - ecofriendly innovations inspired by nature by Alan Marshall and Back to the City - Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions Edited by Steffen Lehmann

Published December 2009

Twelve Australian Photo Artists by Blair French and Daniel Palmer

Published December 2009