The archive in the contemporary

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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

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Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
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Jessie Boylan

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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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Transformative communities: Curation and care
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Rayleen Forester

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Guildhouse
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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

The artworks of Danie Mellor, Brian Robinson and Christian Thompson each draw on archival material for subject matter, for inspiration, and to develop new work that harks back and forward at the same time.

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Danie Mellor, Brian Robinson and Christian Thompson are exhibiting with Michael Reid Berlin (www.michaelreid.com.au) at Preview Berlin, 19th – 22nd September, 2013, Hangar2 Tempelhof Airport.

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The dearth of criticism
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Daniel Browning

Some artists are often heard to complain about the lack of honest criticism of Aboriginal art. But in such a limited sphere, criticising an Aboriginal artist in formal or aesthetic terms, or at a deeper level, is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Too often, critics play the man and not the ball. Can we handle the truth?

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In the Shadow of the Past, this World Knots Tight
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Harry James Wedge (1957-2012)
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Assistant Curator of Indigenous Heritage Collections at the Macleay Museum Matt Poll writes a thoughtful, engaging and detailed account of the life and art of Harry Wedge, known as 'Big H' in his home community in Cowra. Poll says:" Harry’s artistic career remained an enigma to those closest to him throughout his life. His work is an exemplary case of an Australian outsider art – though not in the conventional definition."

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The limits of criticism
Feature
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Anthropologist John Carty casts his eyes over the last ten years of writing on Desert art, mostly in newspapers, and finds many cliches and inconsistencies. He asks: "Where are the fine-grained localised art histories, the rich biographies of our most interesting and important individual artists? Where are their voices?" And replies: "They are still waiting in the Desert."

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Louise Bourgeois: Late Works
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Curator: Jason Smith
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Spirits beyond borders: Shadowlife
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Curator and Associate Director of Taiwan Culture and Creative Platform Foundation Antoanetta Ivanovna, resident in Taiwan since 2011, discusses the travelling exhibition Shadowlife curated by Djon Mundine and Natalie King, and its impact in Taiwan where consciousness of their indigenous people is not as developed as it is in Australia.

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Field
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Maria Georgiou

Curator: Lisa Bryan-Brown
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The (white) elephant in the room: Criticising Aboriginal art
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Djon Mundine

Aboriginal super-curator Djon Mundine, who travelled to Europe in 1994 as touring curator with the significant exhibition Aratjara: art of the first Australians, looks back at the genesis and reception of that exhibition. He asks where is the political impetus evident in Aratjara today and where is the Aboriginal input into the development of national survey exhibitions.

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Rekospective
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