On SafARI in Sydney

SafARI is the unofficial fringe event to the Biennale of Sydney, presenting the work of unrepresented Australian artists across multiple artist-run initiatives and public spaces in Sydney. It was founded in 2004 by Lisa Corsi and Margaret Farmer. Artists are selected after an open call for submissions.

Published September 2012

We are all Flesh: Berlinde De Bruckyere

ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne
2 June – 29 July 2012

Published September 2012

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

Published September 2012

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…"

Published September 2012

On seeing the pattern

Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at Flinders University and Founder of the Experimental Art Foundation, Donald Brook takes on the March 2012 issue of Artlink titled 'Pattern and Complexity' and guest edited by well-known curator Margot Osborne.

Published September 2012

Artrave

Published September 2012

dOCUMENTA (13)

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

Published September 2012

Editorial

This country is broader than our accents and older than almost any other place on the planet, yet there is a great untruth at its heart that we are still not confronting as a people.

Published September 2012

James Dodd the colonial bus stop

James Dodd (the Doddfather) is a street and fine artist who researches and reproduces graffiti old and new from around Australia. In 'bus stop (Eugene was ere)' which refers to Eugene von Guerard, the work uses graffiti from old Adealaie Gaol and is counterposed to the 'refined' South Australia Illustrated exhibition inside the Art gallery of South Australia.

Published September 2012

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.

Published September 2012

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.

Published September 2012

ARIna spaces for the unexpected

Curator Brianna Munting, who co-organised (with Georgie Meagher) the We Are Here Symposium of ARIs in Sydney in 2011, describes the new ARI online resource ARIna and asks: "Perhaps what we really need is to spend a lot more time asking each other whether our architectures and images, our hierarchies and ambitions, our ideas and narratives, are really any good for us or simply cultural fictions?"

Published September 2012