The grey space between art and politics

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Unfettered actions: Sportification, playgrounds and public art
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David Cross

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'The work that art does': Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
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Abigail Moncrieff

Published 25 August 2021
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Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
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Jessie Boylan

Published 25 August 2021
City of Unley 2
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First Nations museum memorials: Daniel Boyd and Yhonnie Scarce
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Erin Vink

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Counter-monuments: Challenging distorted colonial histories through public art and memorials
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Published 25 August 2021
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Transformative communities: Curation and care
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Rayleen Forester

Published 25 August 2021
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Blue skies, blood moon
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

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A close-up of Amazon Acres: Helen Grace
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Fiona Kelly McGregor

Published 25 August 2021

Curator and Artistic Director of LUMA, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Vincent Alessi discusses art that is political and experimental focusing on the recent work of Melbourne-based Carl Scrase who describes the Occupy Movement as: “one of the greatest social art experiments the world has ever seen."

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