Why the Guerilla Girls don't have to be naked to get into the Met

Curator Laura Castagnini interviews Guerilla Girls founding members Frida Kahlo and Käthe Kollwitz on the past, the present, the legacy of feminist activism and the institutionalisation of experimental practices.

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Turner Galleries, Perth 18 May – 16 June 2012

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Every map has an agenda? PVI

Kellie McClusky is an artist, writer and Head Girl of the celebrated PVI Collective in Perth. She describes their new work 'deviator' and some of the experimental thinking and working processes of PVI including a wiki-map of connections.

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Artistic Director: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Kassel, Germany 9 June – 16 September 2012

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

Remembering: Rethinking a place in the sun

Alice Springs-based writer Kieran Finnane writes a tribute and homage to the work of Pamela Lofts who died on July 4 2012 of motor neurone disease. Since 1992 Lofts held 27 solo shows across Australia and was the founder in 1993 of the Alice Springs artist-run initiative 'Watch This Space'. Her legacy in the desert is profound with a singular and generous body of work arising from the contact zone between white and Aboriginal Australia. She will be deeply missed.

Kieran Finnane

No Added Sugar: Engagement and Self-determination

Curator: Rusaila Bazlamit Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 12 May – 18 July 2012

Julie Lien

Animal/Human

Curator: Michele Helmrich UQ Art Museum, Brisbane 12 May – 22 July 2012

Robyn Daw

The original model - Australian Experimental Art Foundation

Long term resident artist at the department of Medical Biotechnology, Flinders University in Adelaide, Niki Sperou describes the fluidity of the Experimental Art Foundation (now the Australian Experimental Art Foundation)which is now almost four decades old.

Niki Sperou

Artist run spaces of the future

Christopher Lee Kennedy plays inside a living museum called Elsewhere, and is pursuing a PhD at the University of North Carolina. Here he culture-jams with Erica Curry of Lousiana, Paula Damasceno of Brazil, Aislinn Pentecost-Farrin of North Carolina, Wythe Marschall and Ethan Gould of New York, and Capp Larsen of Halifax, California, about their experiences of artist-run spaces, their passions, joys, discontents and plasticities.

Christopher Kennedy

Shaun Tan: Suburban Odyssey

Fremantle Arts Centre 18 May – 19 July 2012

Gemma Watson

18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations

Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster Museum of Contemporary Art, Cockatoo Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Pier 2/3, Carriageworks 27 June – 16 September 2012

Pat Hoffie

In-Habit (Project Another Country)

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney 22 June – August 2012

Joanna Mendelssohn

Street legal: unmediated exchange

Eco-architect Paul Downton gets down with street artist Peter Drew who endorses Adelaide's mayor Stephen Yarwood's statement: “Art isn’t just for art galleries… Cities are the best art galleries you could possibly have.” Yet Drew also thinks that street art will maintain its authenticity “because there’s always going to be an illegal aspect to it…"

Paul Downton

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