Grief and the Gay Community

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Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai
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Balamohan Shingade

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

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

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

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

Published 01 September 2018
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YARN: The art of conversation
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Coby Edgar interviews Warren Roberts, CEO of YARN Australia

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

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Katie West: Living well
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Katie West

Published 01 June 2018

While AIDS does indeed affect everyone in our society, at the moment in Australia we are seeing predominantly a gay and lesbian artistic response to the epidemic.

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Death's Artefact... Recent Art and War
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Elena Taylor

Although one would expect the field of war art to be generously littered with dead bodies, this is not the case. Instead death has been presented circumspectly, through the rituals surrounding it or through metaphor.

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Familiarity? Re-Examining Australian Suburbia
Review
Sean Kelly

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Mikala Dwyer, Michele Beevors, Glen Clarke, Elizabeth Woods, Tony Schwenson and Aleks Danko
Curated by Brian Parkes
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
23 September - 16 October 1994

Published December 1994
600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Conference Day 21 October 2, 1994
Feature
John Neylon

Examination of the issues addressed at the conference which accompanied the exhibition 600,000 hours (mortality).

Published December 1994
In the Coil of Life's Hunger
Feature
Ian North

Looks at the work of James K Baxter 1926 - 1972 (poet) Colin McCahon 1919 - 1987 (artist) both of whom found in travel through New Zealand recurrent metaphor's for life's journey. The principle referent in their work was death.

Published December 1994
Kumantji and the Contemporary Curator
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John Kean

Across much of Aboriginal Australia the announcement of a death is followed by profound communal mourning, the removal or destruction of the deceased's belongings and most significantly a prohibition on the use of the deceased's name.

Published December 1994
Death, Pleasure and Gender in Film
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Barbara Creed

The cinema's ability to represent death - the act of dying, bodily transformations, decay, the corpse - in astonishing realistic terms helps to explain why film, the moving rather than the static image, has become the central depository of death narratives (ancient and modern) in contemporary culture.

Published December 1994
Monstrous Gorgeous
Review
Suzanne Treister

Exhibition review Monstrous Gorgeous
Curated by Virginia Barratt
Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
8 July - 7 August 1994

Published December 1994
Learning to Understand: Art Helps to Dispel Ignorance
Feature
Bronwyn Bancroft

The artist looks at the paintings which were developed for the Health Commission on education, prevention and caring in the AIDS environment. Using an Aboriginal perspective these paintings were produced as a powerful series of posters.

Published December 1994
Fania
Review
Angela Valamanesh

Exhibition review Fania
Curated by Erica Green
University of South Australia Art Museum
28 July - 27 August 1994

Published December 1994
Symmetry: Craft Meets Kindred Trades and Professions
Review
Janene Pellarin

Exhibition review Symmetry: Crafts and Kindred Trades and Professions Curated by Kevin Murray
University of South Australian Art Museum
8 September - 8 October 1994

Published December 1994
Death in Excess: Nuclear Imagery
Feature
Rod James

Nuclear conflagration - whether real or imagined - captivated the post war psyche. Endist images of one form or another were developed in response to what many foresaw as the likely outcome of a third world war.

Published December 1994
Australasian Artists' Responses to Death
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Peter Bishop

Postmodern culture has proclaimed the death of meaning, of the real, of metanarrative. Identity, memory, the body, nature, culture, power and the sacred - those fundamental ingredients of death's imagination - have undergone profound transformations over the last three decades. The contributions in this issue of Artlink address various parts of this new vision of death.

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