The Chronic Population

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

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Eating together online: The ambivalent conviviality of ASMR videos
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Francis Russell

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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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In conversation with Sabrina Baker

Published 01 December 2019
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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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Courtney Coombs

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Eat the problem: MONA's carnivalesque of cuisine
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Ashley Crawford

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Fair Share Fare: Recipe for Disaster
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Jen Rae

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Violent dreams of development: A food bowl in the north‑west of Australia?
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Alana Hunt

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Mai Contemporary Kaurna Food
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James Tylor

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Art Brut is that manner of making something whereby all of the individual is.

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Foils for the Silver City
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Matthew Simon

Disillusioned with the contemptible familiarity of our environment in the South Australian School of Art a group of fellow students and I decided to take our art somewhere else. So, displaced and gung-ho, our controversial creations in tow, we set off to Broken Hill, the self proclaimed art capital of Australia.

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Bill Sorrell
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Looks at the environment of Bill Sorrell working in the small farming town of Toodyay in the Avon Valley about 80 kilometres from Perth Western Australia.

Published December 1992
Disposable Icons
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Ex de Medici

Tattoos

Published December 1992
Self, Image and the Gaze: Anna Platten
Review
Jude Adams

Exhibition review Works by Anna Platten: Paintings and Studies 1982 -1992
University of South Australia Art Museum
30 July - 29 August 1992

Published December 1992
The Australian Collection of Outsider Art
Feature
Philip Hammial

Outsider Artists in Australia? Of course. The phenomenon is universal.

Published December 1992
The Dictionary of Australian Artists
Book Review
Daniel Thomas

Book review The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870
Edited by Joan Kerr
Oxford University Press Melbourne
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Published December 1992
From Stone Henge to Post-Feminist Creatures
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Lawrence Hall

Tattoo in Aotearoa/ New Zealand
Tattooing is not 'Outsider' or 'Other' art. To suggest this is to fall once more into the tiresome quagmire of Western art definitions. Looks at an exhibition 'Tattoo' 1993.

Published December 1992
Naive Archive
Feature
Stephanie Britton

A national survey of Australian Naives - short biographies by various contributors as well as the artists themselves and images many in colour. Artists include Bernard Jeffery, Hugh Schulz, Bill Yaxley, Sam Byrne, Maitreyi Ray, Pam Bartley, Roma Higgins, Phyl Delves, Alison Vodic, Gwen Mason, Reny Mia Slay, Stella Dilger, Del Luke, Muriel Smith, Elfrun Lach, Susan Wanji Wanji, Miriam Naughton, Gwen Clarke, Selby Warren, Malcolm Otton, Harold Kangaroo Thornton, Ivy Robson, Lorna Chick and George Deurden.

Published December 1992
Tivaevae
Book Review
Susan Cochrane

Book review Tivaevae: Portraits of Cook Island Quilting
By Lynnsay Rongokea
Photographs John Daley
Published Daphne Brussell Assocs Press Wellington New Zealand

Published December 1992
Arcanum (Extracts from the Archives)
Review
Kerry Giles Kurwingie

Exhibition review Union Gallery
Adelaide University
South Australia
19 August - 4 September 1992

Published December 1992
Nothing if Not Innocent
Feature
Victoria Coles

Artists of the modern era have always been fascinated by the primitive, be it the obsession of the surrealists, futurists and modernists for the art of the Negro, the passion of a handful of British in the 60s for the work of the Cornish primitive Alfred Wallis or Jean Dubuffet's exploration of children's art and the art of the asylum which he termed Art Brut.

Published December 1992
Frank 'Bronco' Johnson - The Poetics of Defence
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He was always delighted to be fighting with someone....

Published December 1992