Pretty as a Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era

Exhibition review Feminisms
Curated by Niki Miller
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Western Australia
November 1 - 28 1992

Published March 1993

Aleksi Vellis

Feature

Deb Verhoeven

Aleksi Vellis announced his arrival in the turmoil of early 90s Australian cinema with his debut feature 'Nirvana Street Murder' a restlessly energetic film with cavalier camera moves that are almost as swish as the director himself.

Published March 1993

Colonial Patterns Repeated: Robert Harrison

Review

Margaret Worth

Exhibition review Architecture without Walls Robert Harrison
University of South Australia Art Museum
10 September - 3 October 1992

Published March 1993

Come Again: Aldo Lacobelli

Review

John Neylon

Exhibition review Souvenirs Aldo Iacobelli
Experimental Art Foundation
South Australia
22 October - 15 November 1992

Published March 1993

Film and Video

Editorial

Annette Blonski

The emphasis in this collection has been on the films and videos themselves rather than the structures which support their production and circulation but they have not been overlooked....

Published March 1993

Who Told You We Wanted To Make Our Own TV?

Feature

Philip Batty

The broadcasting in remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme and the failure of policy.

Published March 1993

Memory and Image: The Multiculturalism in Film Project

Feature

Cecelia Cmielewski

It is diversity, and the celebration of the marginal which makes Australian film innovative. Diversity provides the opportunity for people in Australia to enjoy and reflect on the cultural heterogeneity rather than on the alienating myth with which we are so familiar.

Published March 1993

Against 'Neofuturism': Women Artists in Technological Media

Feature

Zoe Sofia

In matters of technology, as in matters of sex, it is easy to assume one's own preferences are universal and normal, and to regard other's tastes as somehow debased or improper.

Published March 1993

Cinema or Death

Feature

Anna Epstein

What is the effect on film when the maker's background is utterly different from the culture in which he now works. Anna Epstein talked to a film-maker who brings fresh vision to the Australian film industry.

Published March 1993

The Last Days of Chez Nous: Love Stories and Girls' Blouses

Feature

Leonie Naughton

In his discussion of male sexuality, it was Freud who asserted that men customarily distribute their libido with expedience. What psychical energies a man 'employs for cultural aims he to a great extent withdraws from women and sexual life'. But not so in the love story, a genre which disavows this predicament.

Published March 1993

Journey by Proxy

Review

Dorothy Erickson

Exhibition review Crossings Mary Knott: Drawings and Sculptures 1988 - 1992
Curated by Tony Geddes
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
October 3 - December 13 1992
Geraldton Regional Gallery
December 18 -January 21 1993
Bunbury Art Galleries
January 30 - March 7 1993

Published March 1993

Perplexities: Experimenta 1992

Feature

John Cumming

Over 12 days in November 1992, the Melbourne based Modern Image Makers Association (MIMA) held the third Experimenta presenting nearly 200 works of film, video, installation and performance. It included work from Germany, Japan, England and the USA, thus providing an opportunity to assess the current state of 'avant garde' practice and discourse.

Published March 1993