The arse-end of public art

Poet, writer and lecturer in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne Tony Birch lives near the grand enigmatic Melbourne Gateway usually seen form the airport road. He writes about its underbelly where odour and mess show it to be both fucked and beautiful.

Published June 2010

Conquest for country: Rockhole or mine

Anthropologist Eve Vincent has done fieldwork in mining towns in South Australia. She writes about Ali Russell's documentary Keeper about mining on Kokatha land near Ceduna.

Published June 2010

1. Muffled sounds 2. The ear trumpet of the artworld has been struck by lightning

Emeritus Flinders University Professor and philosopher Donald Brook writes about his 'new theory' and why it has never been taken up. He wonders: 'Could it be that he is wrong?'

Published June 2010

Remembering Judith Hoffberg 1934-2009

Expert on Len Lye, editor of Umbrella Magazine Judith Hoffberg died on January 16, 2009. Tributes to her life and work continue with a memorial exhibition planned for late 2010.
Judith Hoffberg wrote of her last visit to Adelaide in 2002 as one of ‘’Paradise regained’...

Published June 2010

Exhibitions to watch

Published June 2010

Stop the press: the allure of ink

Caren Florance is Ampersand Duck, a blog and nom de press for activities including letterpress printing. Florance has breathed the ink and describes the history of moveable type focusing on the recent past and the present and how something magical happens to text when it is printed.

Published June 2010

Underground networks in the age of web2.0

Media Theorist, nethead, activist and founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures Geert Lovink reports on the erotica of touching between 'weak links' and the importance of experimenting with new forms of organisation both on and offline.

Published June 2010

Ruth Waller: A 30 Year Survey

Curator: Deborah Clark
Canberra Museum and Gallery
6 February - 6 June 2010

Published June 2010

The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography: FotoFreo 2010

The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography: FotoFreo 2010

Silence – The West Australian Wheatbelt : Brad Rimmer
Fremantle Prison
20 March – 16 May 2010

The Clubs: David Dare Parker
The Fremantle Club
20 March – 18 April 2010

FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival

Paradise Lost: Rebecca Dagnall
Studio Red Dust, Mount Hawthorn
20 March – 10 April 2010

Published June 2010

Feminism Never Happened

Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Kirsty Bruce, Jacqueline Fraser, Anastasia Klose, Fiona Lowry, Fiona Pardington, Yvonne Todd, Jemima Wyman
Curator: Robert Leonard
IMA (Institute of Modern Art), Brisbane
30 January - 20 March 2010

Published June 2010

Scene, Not Herd: The evanescent underground

Chris Fleming, Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney and author of a book on Rene Girard, explores the evanescence of the underground. "Once the cultural products generated by the underground enter broader circulation (once scene becomes herd) the underground empties itself and is forced to regenerate."

Published June 2010

Renew Adelaide pilot: 2 wheels good

Zine publisher and educator Dr Ianto Ware is the Project Manager of Renew Adelaide, an urban renewal clone of Marcus Westbury's Renew Newcastle, in which the 'definition of creativity has to be broad enough to encompass the wide fields of socially innovative activity that simply doesn't fit elsewhere.'

Published June 2010