A Manifesto of Arrival and Understanding

Exhibition review Paintings: Zhong Chen
Adelaide Central Gallery,
South Australia
7 March - 20 April 1997

Published June 1997

Linking Art, Science and Technology through the body

Looks at the conference 'inter sections 1996' hosted by the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. The theme for the conference was Imag(in)ing Bodies; Issues of art, design, technolgy, health, medicine and science.

Published June 1997

Post-mortem: Farrell and Parkin

For a number of years the collaboration of Farrell and Parkin has produced photographic imagery dealing with medical history. Their photographic work involves the almost archaeological reconstruction of medical contraptions together with bandaging and stirrups and so on which are described in medical texts.

Published June 1997

Getting a Glimpse of the San

Exhibition review Eland and Moon: Contemporary San Art of Southern Africa
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
29 November - 31 March 1997

Published June 1997

Kevin Todd: Magnetic resonance

Published June 1997

Manifesto of Carnal Art

Carnal art is self portraiture in the classical sense, but realised through the possibility of technology. It swings between defiguration and refiguration. Its inscription in the flesh is a function of our age. The body has become a 'modified ready-made', no longer seen as the ideal it once represented.

Published June 1997

Introspecting

"The belief system that makes the artworld so unlike - let us say - the builder's hardware world is distinguished primarily by the doctrines that there are no truths and that nothing is real.... To put the point with moderation: artists would not be inconvenienced in the least by a general theory of representation that brought the trustworthiness of their critic somewhere within powerful cooee of the trustworthiness of their radiologist. And Theory owes it to them."

Published June 1997

The Irrepressible Imprecision of Emotion

One of the general aims of internationally focussed survey exhibitions is to reflect the art of a particular time....However there is also a sense in which exhibitions of this nature can tend to operate as a form of cultural engineering, where the very status of inclusion in such exhibitions influences the kind of work made.

Published June 1997

The Visible Human Project: Life and Death in Cyberspace

The Visible Human Project, which first made its public appearance in 1994, is an innovation in medicine's ability to picture bodily interiors, and its iconography has commanded an extraordinary degree of interest. It is an extraordinary visual text.

Published June 1997

Historical Incisions

Exhibition Review Intervention 4: Michael Schlitz
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
3 February - 2 March 1997

Published June 1997

Art Therapy: The New Frontier

Looks at the program in the College of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales.

Published June 1997

Search and You Shall Find

Book review Max Germaine's Artists and Galleries on CD Rom
Published by Macquarie Multimedia
RRP $199
(reviewed by Anna Ward with Julia Farrow vi$copy@wr.com.au)

Published June 1997