Unrequited Language: Khaled Sabsabi

Freelance writer and doctoral candidate Farid Farid analyses the installations and videos of deep thinker Khaled Sabsabi which use sound and collaboration as a significant part of their presence.

Published March 2011

John Barbour: Work for Now

Curator: Kerry Crowley
Australian Experimental Art Foundation
12 November 2010 - 29 January 2011

Published March 2011

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.

Published March 2011

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.

Published March 2011

The whole and the sum of its parts: Kate Scardifield

MOP Projects, Sydney
3 December - 19 December 2010

Published March 2011

Flight: Philippines

Associate Professor at the University of the Phillipines and visiting research fellow at the University of New South Wales Flaudette May V. Datuin looks at the complex ideas of home, absence and presence in the work of artists examining the lives of Overseas Filipino and Filipina workers (OFWs).

Published March 2011

MONANISM

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

Published March 2011

Manifesta 8: Seeking a Dialogue with Africa

Curator and arts manager Alison Carroll visited Manifesta 8 the European Biennial of Contemporary Art held 9 October 2010 - 9 January 2011 in both Murcia and Cartegena in Spain and featuring over 100 artists.

Published March 2011

AlphaStation/Alphaville : Luke Roberts

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

Published March 2011

After the Deluge

Novelist, freelance writer and contributor to Inside Story website www.inside.org.au Jane Goodall writes about the recent floods in Queensland in relation to climate change and art and how "we need the merging energies of many artists to shift the consciousness of an era mesmerised by determination to perpetuate a way of life that may well be no longer viable."

Published March 2011

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

Published March 2011

Trace: Rosemary Burke

Curator: Eliza Burke
Rosny Barn, Hobart
12 November - 5 December 2010

Published March 2011