Sustainable?
On artworld and real-world ecologies
Issue 34:4 | December 2014
This issue tackles the big questions of art and life as we enter an age of new funding models, declining government revenue, apparent limits to growth and a need to be more efficient with the Earth's resources. Broadly responding to the theme, this edition embraces new contexts and strategies for creative producers working in the visual arts today. It features provocative essays and profiles on artists who engage in resource re-use and recycling, shape big and little landscapes and prompt diverse social interactions.
In this issue
Culturally ambitious: Moving with the times
Joanna Mendelssohn on the Australia Council’s latest strategic plan.
Red mud: Art and the post-mining landscape
Amelia Hine, Philipp Kirsch and Iris Amizlev on building sustainable landscapes and land shapes from post-mining space
Relational acts: Art, commoning and sustainability
Linda Carroli on creative practices that contribute to ‘the commons’
The aesthetics and ethics of landscape design
Margot Osborne on the practice of Taylor Cullity Lethlean
The artworld and the paradox of sustainability
Robert Nelson proposes poetic solutions to overcoming our carbon plinth print
Valediction for a gallery: Following the art money
In 2001, the Damien Minton Gallery opened in Newcastle, moving to the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern in 2005. In August 2014, the gallery closed its doors for the last time. Here, Damien Minton reflects on the changing role of the commercial art dealer and the power of art money
