Editorial: Australasian artists' responses to death

Published 01 December 1994

600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Conference Day 21 October 2, 1994

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

Published December 1994

A Cemetery for the Community: Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia

Thus we come full circle to view the cemetery not as a necessary inconvenience to be isolated on the edge of town and visited once every few years but as a resource that can make a positive contribution to the community.

Published December 1994

And Love a Fantasy: Breastfeeding our Sexuality

On 17 March 1993, the body of photographer Angelo Campana was discovered in the burnt out remains of the newly opened IEG Waste Recycling Plant in Corrimal. According to the coroner's report, his death had not been caused by this fire, but from fatal head injuries incurred by the deceased's head being repeatedly bashed with a theodolite. This is the immediate crime which is appears to be investigated in Dennis Del Favero's sleuthian compilation of words and images, objects and installations called 'Prima Facie'.

Published December 1994

Animal Death and an Artist's Culture: Brian Blanchflower's Tursiops Installation

Examination of the installation Tursiops by Brian Blanchflower which refers to the brutal heritage of Western Australia's first settlement at Albany which had a large whaling station until the late 1970s.

Published December 1994

Cinema, Death and the Abject

Cinema is both dead and deathless. Cinema like this can take us to the great chasm in our lives and hold us over the edge.

Published December 1994

Death in Excess: Nuclear Imagery

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

Death's Artefact... Recent Art and War

Published December 1994

Death, Pleasure and Gender in Film

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

Death: A Post-Mortem

Looks at the exhibition 'Death' co-curated by Felicity Fenner and Anne Loxley held at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in April 1993. 'Death' was a mixed media survey covering more than 200 years of Australian art which directly addressed the theme of death.

Published December 1994

Grief and the Gay Community

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.

Published December 1994

Guide to...Image Bank

Exploration of images and statements by artists on the theme of death. Artists include William Kelly, Ross Moore, Bette Mifsud and Dennis Del Favero.

Published December 1994

Images of Death 600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Experimental Art Foundation

Images of death explored in the context of the exhibition 600,000 hours (mortality) held at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide South Australia October 1994.

Published December 1994

In the Coil of Life's Hunger

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

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

Learning to Understand: Art Helps to Dispel Ignorance

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

Mourning: Traditions, Symbols and Meaning

Published December 1994

What is indefinable is defined

Published December 1994

Women's War Memorials

Published December 1994