Art & Death: Facing Mortality
Issue 14:4 | December 1994
Guest editor Peter Bishop. Artlink looks at art and death, facing mortality, abjection - pleasure and cinema, forensics, mortuary and mourning ritual, art and war, AIDS and grief, Aboriginal artists and death, memorials and landscapes for the dead, gender identity and death. A challenging issue.
In this issue
Editorial: Australasian artists' responses to death
What is indefinable is defined
Mourning: Traditions, Symbols and Meaning
Grief and the Gay Community
Learning to Understand: Art Helps to Dispel Ignorance
Kumantji and the Contemporary Curator
Death's Artefact... Recent Art and War
Women's War Memorials
A Cemetery for the Community: Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia
Death in Excess: Nuclear Imagery
In the Coil of Life's Hunger
Animal Death and an Artist's Culture: Brian Blanchflower's Tursiops Installation
And Love a Fantasy: Breastfeeding our Sexuality
Guide to...Image Bank
Death, Pleasure and Gender in Film
Cinema, Death and the Abject
Death: A Post-Mortem
600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Conference Day 21 October 2, 1994
Images of Death 600,000 HOURS (Mortality) Experimental Art Foundation
No Drop City: Contemporary Australian Architecture
Indecent Exposures and Dissonance: Two New Books from Catriona Moore
A Paradigm Exhibition
Symmetry: Craft Meets Kindred Trades and Professions
Monstrous Gorgeous
Fania
Chris Hopewell
19th Fremantle Print Award
Familiarity? Re-Examining Australian Suburbia
Crossovers - Site Works and Symposium