Visibility: a survey of major recent exhibitions and publications on surveillance art

Cover of Visibility: a survey of major recent exhibitions and publications on surveillance art
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Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai
Feature
Balamohan Shingade

Published 01 September 2018
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Human flow in Melanesia: Taloi Havini's artefacts and habitats
Feature
Nicholas Thomas

Published 01 September 2018
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Living and dying under surveillance: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
Feature
Sasha Grbich

Published 01 September 2018
Joondalup
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Inhuman flow: Censorship and art in the two Chinas
Feature
Darren Jorgensen and Tami Xiang

Published 01 September 2018
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Sublime Plight: Richard Mosse, Ai Weiwei and the social turn
Feature
Wes Hill

Published 01 September 2018
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YARN: The art of conversation
Feature

Coby Edgar interviews Warren Roberts, CEO of YARN Australia

Published June 2018
NAVA
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Editorial: Kanarn Wangkiny/Wanggandi Karlto (Speaking from Inside)
Feature
Clothilde Bullen with James Tylor

Published 01 June 2018
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Katie West: Living well
Feature
Katie West

Published 01 June 2018

Dr Jane Button provides a rich viewing of recent exhibitions and texts concerned with self-scrutiny, the scrutiny of others and strategies of control from 'Proof: The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes' curated by Mike Stubbs at ACMI to 'against the grain/tim burns/survey' at the AEAF.

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Batesian mimicry and Urban scarecrows
Feature
Kate Fulton

An Australian artist based in Berlin Kate Fulton is the Site Manager of HomeBase LAB. In 2006-7 she made a series of bogus surveillance cameras commenting on the false construct of authority.

Published September 2011
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Neighbourhood watching
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Destiny Deacon

Melbourne-based blak artist Destiny Deacon provides some insight into her inquisitive nature and the stickybeaking she sees as endemic in the world, especially towards indigenous people.

Published September 2011
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Contemporary Chinese Art
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Christen Cornell

Christen Cornell manages Local Consumption Publications and 'Artspace China' a blog on contemporary Chinese culture. Currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Sydney on China's contemporary art districts her article outlines the very latest developments in this volatile field.

Published September 2011
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Forthcoming exhibitions on surveillance
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Published September 2011
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Don't go kissing at the garden gate
Feature
Brenda L Croft

Indigenous artist, curator, writer and lecturer at the University of South Australia Brenda Croft looks back at the courtship of her parents and their early life together in her 1996 photographic series 'Don't go kissing at the garden gate' shown at the Australian Centre for Photography and regionally.

Published September 2011
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Treading the fault-line of inter-cultural relations in Alice Springs
Feature
Kieran Finnane

Alice Springs-based writer Kieran Finnane explicates the long roots of the project 'Pmere Arntarntareme / Watching This Place' and how it points towards a different kind of future where 'there is no us and them' for the residents of Mparntwe (Alice Springs).

Published September 2011
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People love to watch: From Mr Rumbold to Julian Assange
Editorial
Natalie King Virginia Fraser

The editors of 'Surveillance' Natalie King and Virginia Fraser describe how they put this issue together - from surreptitious encounters to self-exploitation.

Published September 2011
Photosynthetic: Carolyn Lewens, Same River: Peter Annand, glacies lux: Peter Charuk, Breath: Vivian McLatchie, Submerge: Carolyn Lewens, Asmund Heimark and Tim Catlin and Voicing Concerns
Review
Eva Franzidis

Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP)
16 July – 14 August 2011

Published September 2011
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Three secrets
Feature
Djon Mundine

Bandjalung curator and writer Djon Mundine says there are three kinds of secrets – the secrets you keep from others, the secrets you share with others and the secrets others keep from you.

Published September 2011
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The way you look at me
Feature
Nusra Qureshi

Pakistan-born Melbourne-based Nusra Qureshi who often works collaboratively with Naeem Rana describes their works focusing on eye adornment in religiously segregated societies.

Published September 2011
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Zones of Exception: Art and Asylum Seekers
Review
Danni Zuvela

Curators: Dr Prue Ahrens and
Michele Helmrich
UQ Art Museum, Brisbane
11 June – 7 August 2011
Two shows at the University of Queensland Art Museum Collaborative Witness: Artists’ responses to the plight of the asylum seeker and refugee comprising 17 works, and Waiting for Asylum: Figures from an Archive consisting of the installation ‘protection’, by Ross Gibson and Carl Warner - focus attention on the plight of refugees in contemporary Australia.

Published September 2011
Bad Angle
Review
Margaret Farmer

Curator: Clare Lewis
Stills Gallery, Sydney
29 June – 30 July 2011

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