Old Categories, New Frameworks: Asia-Australia

Writer, researcher and arts manager Christen Cornell studies the way China is now much more of a player on the international art curcuit than Australia and what it means to young Chinise-Australian artists.

Published March 2011

Artrave

Published March 2011

Weeds without Frontiers: Stephanie Radok

Poet, novelist and broadcaster Cath Kenneally examines the recent work of Stephanie Radok which involves weeds painted on beer coasters and finds tenacity, diversity and survival-skills in it.

Published March 2011

Wrong Solo

This text is my earnest response to the question posed to me: how do artists approach cultural diversity in relation to their work or arts practice?

Published March 2011

Home Open: Fremantle Artists and Their Collections

Fremantle Arts Centre
27 November 2010 - 23 January 2011

Published March 2011

Reconnecting the Dots: Next Sydney Biennale Directors

Indigenous Canadian Gerald McMaster and Belgian Catherine de Zegher are joint directors of the next Biennale of Sydney. Joanna Mendelssohn interviewed Catherine de Zegher about the global and the local, difference and similarity...

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

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

21st Century: Art in the First Decade

GoMA/QAG, Brisbane
18 December 2010 – 26 April 2011

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

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 Naked Face: Self-Portraits

Curator: Vivien Gaston
National Gallery of Victoria

Published March 2011