Creative Adaption and Continuing Conversations

A flying journey through some of the Australia Council's most recent innovative projects which are also conversations with community partners and where outcomes are broad and diverse leading potentially to new forms of contemporary art practice...

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Transcultural Radical

Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney Aaron Seeto attends to the artwork of Sumugan Sivanesan, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Guan Wei and Kaleb Sabsabi to raise questions of experiences of cultural difference and the way they are inadequately critically interrogated in contemporary art practice.

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Editorial: Diaspora

Last week, I was standing in front of a man called Daryl who has lived in the Campbelltown suburb of Minto for 20 years. I saw him dance some of the story of his life.

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Traditional Skills: Refugees

South Australia's Craftsouth ran an outstanding workshop series in May 2010 where refugees with traditional craft skills from six countries taught their secrets to Australian craftspeople.

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MONANISM

Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart 22 January – 7 July 2011

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Hermannsburg: echoes in the landscape

Curator: Alison French Flinders University City Gallery 11 December 2010 – 30 January 2011

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Fremantle Arts Centre The Knife's Edge: video recently seen in Beijing

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AlphaStation/Alphaville : Luke Roberts

27 November 2010 - 26 February 2011 IMA, Brisbane 17 June–23 July 2011 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

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Andrew Drummond: Observation/ Action/ Reflection

Andrew Drummond: Observation/ Action/ Reflection by Jennifer Hay et al Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand, 2010. ISBN 978-1-877375-19-4, rrp NZ $89.99.

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Iran: Scripts of Despair and Love: Nasim Nasr & Siamak Fallah

Curator, artist and doctoral candidate Lisa Harms writes about two artists, Nasim Nasir and Siamak Fallah, both originally from Iran who now live and work in Adelaide and make work that references their homeland.

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