Big Ideas
Issue 36:1 | March 2016
This edition of Artlink puts the spotlight on art of scale, scope and visionary capacity, coinciding with Australia's three major recurrent exhibitions of contemporary visual art: the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, the 14th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the 20th Biennale of Sydney.
Cover image is a detail from Robyn Stacey, Lighthouse Hotel, Port Adelaide, 2015, type C print. Courtesy the artist, Stills Gallery, Sydney and Jan Manton Art, Brisbane.
In this issue
Return to the Wunderkammer
Eve Sullivan interviews Lisa Slade Curator of the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object
Let's boycott all biennales!
Ian Milliss on why biennales, like wars, are the continuation of politics by other means
Material thinking and sustainability in contemporary ceramics
Altair Roelants on critical new directions in ceramics from Australia and New Zealand
On First Nations agency in our European-based cultural institutions
Léuli Eshraghi interviews First Nations curators and artists Tess Allas (UNSW Art and Design), Bruce McLean (QAGOMA), Kimberley Moulton (Museum Victoria) and Rosanna Raymond (SaVAge K’lub for APT8)
The new National Gallery Singapore: A monument for intersecting histories
Alan Cruickshank on branding the city-state as a global city for the arts
Artist-run initiative: Fontanelle moving to Port Adelaide
Eve Sullivan in conversation with directors Brigid Noone and Ben Leslie
Moana Project Space becomes a Fremantle Success story
Eve Sullivan in conversation with director Dale Buckley about a new gallery in the basement of a former department store in Fremantle
