Contributors
Alex Taylor
Alex Taylor is Project Coordinator at Experimenta, and is working on an honours thesis in Art History at University of Melbourne.
Articles
Jan Flook, Recycology
Jan Flook, Recycology Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts 11 October - 10 November 2002
Fallout
Habitat: Callum Morton
Contemporary Projects Gallery The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne 31 May - 17 August 2003
Rich & Strange
Flatness Packed
While the idea of modern and contemporary art are located in a fairly nebulous discursive realm, the notion of modern or contemporary lifestyle (the two seem, in fact, interchangeable) are very much a part of the familiar rhetoric of consumer spending. No Nonsense Return Policy (2003), Pat Foster and Jen Bereans installation at BUS Gallery, documented six miss-assembled items of IKEA furniture and dissect the curious aesthetic cycles that drive the commercial products in both realms. Taylor looks at this work and others which are focused on drawing attention to the formal and ideological intersections between modernism and the stuff of homes and home decoration.
Shopping & Extreme Pleasures