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Whams and Whimms: An Exercise in Classification and Meaning
Interview with Louise Dauth about issues of gender. Dale Spender is a foundation member of the Women Heritage and Museums Group.
Museums on the Edge
The Ownership of Cultural Meaning: Local Museums and Access
According the the Australia Council figures in 1990 a number of people exceeding the entire population of Australia visited the 187 Australian Museums that employed paid staff in 1989/90 at a cost, for maintence, development and operations in excess of $13.00 per head of population, excluding any charges imposed on entry to museums or exhibitions. And what does $13.00 buy for the Museum going public?
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Implementing Aboriginal and Multicultural Policy in the Museum Sector
Helen Andreoni writes on matters which are addressed in the report commissioned by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) by Amareswar Galla (also in this edition of Artlink).
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Background to the Project: Heritage Curricula and Multiculturalism (HC&M)
Background to the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia with the final report to be released by the Office of Multicultural Affairs OMA in mid 1992. See also the article by Helen Andreoni in this issue.
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European Museums Make an Exhibition of Themselves
Report on the 3rd International Salon of Museums and Exhibitions (SIME) at the Grand Palais Paris January 1992
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Repatriation of Papua New Guinea's Cultural Heritage
Jim Specht of the Australian Museum Sydney, has written that "public and private collections of archaeological and ethnographic specimens around the world contain tens of millions of specimens yet only a minute fraction of this total is actually held in its countries of origin" ; most of this material he says, was acquired through colonial or military occupation.
Museums on the Edge
Designing for Interesting People
Andrew Andersons is, and has been, engaged to contribute to many of Australia's leading art museums as well as to other public buildings and spaces. His work might be described as adaptive; accommodating to the style and typology of the major buildings on which he has worked as well as responding to the varied views of curators with whom he has co-operated closely when designing galleries.
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Abel Tasman at Dunedin
Looks at the exhibition 'Terra Australis Incognita' at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand, to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Abel Tasman's discovery.
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Local Conditions: New Zealand Art
Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art. Exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 31st March 1992. Article by the co-curator Robert Leonard.
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Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand
Looks at recent issues for the National Art Gallery of New Zealand from the boardroom dismissals and judgments as well as the operations.
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A Continuum of Maori Art
Whatu Aho Rua - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide Festival. The exhibition Whatu Aho Rua 'weaving with two strands' organised by the Sarjeant Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand, is a departure form exhibitions usually seen in New Zealand Galleries.
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Sources of Synergy: Museums for Design
The Zandra Rhodes costume in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum holds unique significance within the design collection.
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Exhibiting the Museum
The recession led rash of public conferences on the theme of Australian identity raises questions about the sources of our national self-knowledge. The congregation of bureaucrats, economists, television personalities, writers and artists has a democratic ring to it but it also points to the failure of our cultural institutions - notably our museums, galleries and libraries - to embrace their responsibility to develop a regional self consciousness.
Museums on the Edge
Charging to Disaster: The Introduction of Museum Entry Fees
Museums are complex social phenomena and valuable resources. There's an ecological analogy there; if you mess with even apparently trivial elements of a complex system, the results can be unpredictable, powerful and are most often catastrophic.
Museums on the Edge
A New Museum for Victoria
In the first project of its kind, private investors will provide half the money needed to build the Museum of Victoria at a new site on the Yarra River.
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Victoria Moves Towards Museum Accreditation
Accreditation is set to become one of the significant features of the Victorian museum scene in the 1990s. At a time when Victoria might be perceived as out for the count it may seem unlikely to be introducing major developments in the operation of the State's 400 Museums.
Museums on the Edge
Multicultural Artworkers: Sacrificial Anodes?
This is a new notion for me. I'm sure it is a term familiar to most readers. However, just in case, this is my version of what it means. To understand it you need to appreciate that there is an hierarchical order of metals determined by their 'nobility'. A sacrifical anode is less a noble metal which is used to attract impurities away from more noble metals that you do not wish to be eroded. Thus if you wish to avoid erosion in your copper boiler, you can put a sacrificial anode in the water which will attract the impurities in the water and keep them away from your noble boiler. The link between multicultural artworkers and sacrificial anodes is entirely my own!
Arts in a Multicultural Australia
If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It!
I am particularly troubled about debates such as those illustrated by the publications 'What Price Heritage? - Finance 1989' and 'What value Heritage? DASETT 1990' and Professor Donald Horne's article 'Weekend Australian Jan 4-5 1992' on museums, because there is nearly always truth on all sides.
Museums on the Edge
Museums and Technology: A Recession Boom?
With so many people feeling bruised and battered by the 1980s, it may seem cynical to point out that this unlamented decade also produced some new museums. These two 1980s legacies appear unrelated. On the face of it, museums are a quintessentially boom-time phenomenon, another emblem of 1980s extravagance.
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Heritage Collections not Museums
In 1975 the Whitlam Government's Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections (the Piggott Committee, after its chairman P H Piggott) unsuccessfully recommended setting up of a Museum's Commission.
Museums on the Edge
Bad Names Improved
Suggestions for renaming many cultural institutions which are ambiguously named.
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Conservation: The State of the Art Conservation - Access, Equity and Future Directions
Conservation - access, equity and future directions. Everyone is talking about the effects of the economic climate, some people are calling it a recession and others a depression.
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A Virtue of Necessity: Deaccessioning Without Guilt
De-accessioning is too often characterised as an ill-wind, blowing through the vast and mostly undisturbed reaches of our cultural store-houses capriciously violating the integrity of our collections.
Museums on the Edge
CAMA Conference: An Overview
Conference review CAMA Something for Everyone: Access to Museums held at the University of Adelaide October 1991.
Museums on the Edge
Independent Curators
Book review A guide for the Employment of Independent Curators
by Alison Carroll
Published by the Art Museums Association of Australia 1991
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Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory
Book review Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory published by the Art Museums Association of Australia Inc and the National Centre for Australian Studies Monash University 1991.
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A Dialogue with Richard Grayson
Exhibition review An Interrupted Dialogue. One of the first international experimental art exhibitions to be shown outside Hungary since the end of World War 2. Grayson worked with Suzy Meszoly of the Soros Fine Art Documentation Centre of Budapest in 1988 during the time when changes were sweeping through Central Europe.
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Spirit of Enquiry Refreshing
Exhibition review Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibition
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart
12 February - 22 March 1992 and touring
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Testing the Meaning of Heritage
Exhibition review The Heritage of Namatjira
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Adelaide South Australia
November - December 1991
Curated by Angela Tidmarsh and JVS Megaw on behalf of the Flinders University of South Australia
Catalogue edited by Ruth Megaw.
Museums on the Edge
Ordinary Otherness
Exhibition review Unfamiliar territory: Second Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 1992
Art Gallery of South Australia
28 February - 19 April 1992
Museums on the Edge
Mom's Long Arms: The Art Institution Reaches Out
Art and Design Education A letter from Noel Sheridan to the editor Stephanie Britton. One of the main reasons for coming to Perth (Western Australia) was to get away from art education...
Art & Education
Art?
Art and Design Education For 2 years now, being busy about other things, I have not thought much about art education; and this abstinence seems not to have been injurious to anybody. But the thing nags. It ought to be possible to say something so manifestly enlightened and reasonable about art education that every rational person will agree and productive action will follow as the night follows the day.
Art & Education
The Balloon Man Cometh: A Salutary Tale
Art and Design Education A brief overview of the Australian Art and Design School phenomena today suggests that, given that educational philosophies are couched in the language of diversity, they still appear to be dominated by a referential and almost umbilical attachment to the early moderns...
Art & Education
Art Schools Academe 2001
Art and Design Education By what criteria do we judge the success of visual arts courses?
Art & Education
Crisis in Queensland
Art and Design Education The Queensland College of Art and its dubious future.
Art & Education
Amalgamation chaos at College of Art
Art and Design Education A student view See also article by Effemera Phaxx in this issue of Artlink.
Art & Education
Aboriginal and Islander Art Course: More than survival
Art and Design Education Written with Penryhn Henderson Discusses the Associate Diploma of Art (Aborigine and Torres Strait Islander) being offered at the Cairns College of TAFE in Far North Queensland and now in its 8th year.
Art & Education
More Exotic More Humane: World Music
Art and Design Education at the Victoria College of Arts.
Art & Education
Computer Art: Critical issues in teaching
Art and Design Education In attempting to teach something called computer art, we inherit our critical base from art history and another from engineering. Not only are these traditionally at odds with each other, but neither of them, nor a combination of the two, are adequate for our historical moment.
Art & Education
Mini-theories? Film and Video Education
Art and Design Education It would be beneficial for the educational sector to look at an integration with the low-budget, grass roots end of existing film practice and make links with other film makers and independent festivals both nationally and internationally that are responsive to the work.
Art & Education
From Solving to Setting Problems: Project-based Design Education
Art and Design Education The strength and vitality of post secondary design education programs in Australia arguably derives from the established tradition of project based learning.
Art & Education
Freemasonry or Free Interchange?
Art and Design Education A new model for training architects and designers.
Art & Education
Government Help Available
Art and Design Education Looks at the various government schemes which are available to art and design graduates and undergraduates.
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Rites of Passage - Queensland Mergers
Looks at the Brisbane College of Advanced Education's art programmes more popularly known as the Kelvin Grove Art School and the Carseldine expressive arts department who joined forces in May 1990 on the occasion of the amagamation of B C A E with the larger entity of Queensland University of Technology.
Art & Education
A Sociology of Art... Why Does Art Look (or Sound) Like it Does?
Analytical perceptions for a new century. The artist - the creative thinker. The mechanics of thinking. Rational and irrational mechanics of thinking. Aesthetics and sociology - the conjugal relationship etc The critics best friend or friends must necessarily be the artist!
Art & Education
Modernism and Post Modernism in Asian Art
Review of conference at the Australian National University Canberra, 22 -25 March 1991. Organised by the Humanities Research Centre and the Department of Art History ANU.
Art & Education
Rescue
ACCA the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art affiliates with Monash University.
Art & Education
Learning to be Naive
Review of works of Malcolm Otton at the Naive Galleries Woolhara NSW
Art & Education
Problems with Art Publishing in Australia
Art writing and payment to writers and how this influences who writes for what!
Art & Education
Distribution - Who Will Tame the Bete Noir?
The case for a viable national infrastructure.
Art & Education
Funding for Visual Arts Publishing
The Visual Arts/Crafts Board has been grappling with the difficulties facing specialist visual arts publishing in Australia for many years.
Art & Education
A Cornucopia? Arts Publishing in New Zealand
Looks at the impressive range of publications on the visual arts in New Zealand. This is not an exhaustive overview but a thumbnail sketch of this large and diverse topic.
Art & Education
Field of Vision by Janine Burke
Book review Field of Vision:A Decade of Change: Women's Art in the Seventies
By Janine Burke
Penguin Australia 1990
RRP $40.00
Art & Education
Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s by John McDonald
Book review Jeffrey Smart: Paintings of the 70s and 80s
By John MacDonald
Craftsman House 1990
RRP $65
Art & Education
A Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture by Richard Apperly
Book review A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture: Styles and Terms from 1788 to the Present by Richard Appleby, Robert Irving and Peter Reynolds with photographs by Solomon Mitchell Angus and Robertson 1989 RRP $39.95
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Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert by Geoffrey Bardon
Book review Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert
By Geoffrey Bardon
McPhee Gribble 1991
RRP $50.
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Lyndal Jones Prediction Piece 10
Exhibition review Installation by Lyndal Jones
University of South Australia Art Museum
30 May - 22 June 1991
Art & Education
Film Theory Seminars
Exhibition review The Power of Perversion, Film Theory Seminars
Media Resource Centre Adelaide South Australia
April 8 - May 13 1991
Art & Education
Dadang Christanto
Exhibition review an Installation of the work by Dadang Christanto Contemporary Indonesian Artist
University of South Australia Art Museum
August 1 - 31 1991
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Ginger Riley and Ian Abdulla
Exhibition review (indigenous artists) Koori Perspective
12 May - 31 June 1991
Ian Abdulla
9 June - 31 July 1991
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
7 July - 31 August
Tandanya Adelaide South Australia
Art & Education
Gavin Blake
Exhibition review Gavin Blake: Immaculate Projections
North Adelaide School of Art Gallery
23 July - 8 August 1991
Art & Education
Torso, Group Show: Richard Baxter Smith and Bill Doyle
Exhibition review Torso: Gray Street Workshop
25 July - 18 August 1991
Bite: Richard Baxter Smith and Bill Doyle Artzone
31 August - 11 September 1991
Art & Education
Helen Taylor, Judith Dinham, Glen Phillips, Jill Kempson
Exhibition review Helen Taylor See Saw: Part One Delaney Galleries
4 - 26 June 1991
Judith Dinham and Glen Phillips: Nothing More Real to Me, Leaning on Images
Perth Galleries
28 April - May 15 1991
Jill Kempson: Threading Light and Land in Tuscany
Galerie Duseldorf
17 May - 9 June 1991
Art & Education
Jokes and Jelly
Exhibition review Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
University of Western Australia
April 21 - May 26 1991
Simon Gevers: 'perf' Steven Holland: 'a plaintive "Plee-erk"'
Art & Education
The Body in Question: Jewellery
Exhibition review The Body in Question: Jewellery and Metalsmithing Symposium
University of Tasmania Launceston
July 1991
and related exhibition programme
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South of No North
Exhibition review Dick Bett Gallery
Hobart Tasmania
17 July - early August 1991
Richard Flanagan Curator
Art & Education
Cultural Lifestyle as a Taxpayer: 1990 the new era for self responsibility
Polemic for 1990 (in two parts) Part 1 Odours of redundancy Facts and Foibles part 2 Alternatives as suggested in Polemic No 1 Culture tax and Ôknow howÕ
Community Arts
Why do Angels fly Anti-clockwise?
Community arts has been eminently successful with an impressive list of achievements for a field not more than fifteen years old.
Community Arts
Through the Looking Glass: Community art at the Strathmont Centre
Every human being is an artist wrote Joseph Beuys who believed the creativity and its potentially concomitant powers of self determination and freedom are inherent in all people and the most worthy occupation for them.
Community Arts
Community Arts: the Seventies Fad that never went away
The category Ôcommunity artsÕ had no real currency in Australia until it appeared in federal arts policy as a separate funding programme in 1973.
Community Arts
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
Over the last 12 years the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has slowly evolved into a community arts success story. From its beginnings on Stonewall Day in 1978 to the multi functional arts organisation it is now, Mardi Gras continues to develop the culture of gay and lesbian communities who own and manage it.
Community Arts
Reflections on Experience
A conversation for Artlink between Kay Lawrence, Ann Newmarch and Cedar Prest, three South Australian based professional artists who have worked extensively with communities. May 3 1990
Community Arts
Australian Labour Based Art in an International Context.
Artwork produced in conjunction with the labour movement (in common with much community based work) receives little public attention.
Community Arts
Now we are 10 Redback Graphix 10 year anniversary touring exhibition
Redback Graphix was formed in 1979 not as a co-operative or a community based access workshop but as a fully fledged business.
Community Arts
Towards the Yapa Way
Much arts activity in Aboriginal communities revolves around, and is driven by, the forces of the international art market. Looks at the artist in residency programme in the community of Lajamanu in the Northern Territory.
Community Arts
WhatÕs wrong with the Lounge Room? Community arts and Public TV
Television is one of the fundamental cultural realities of our time. Any attempt to deal with Australian cultural life has to come to grips with this phenomenon. Yet to a great extent this has not happened with arts commentators.
Community Arts
Curbin the Urban
An environmental arts project in inner Melbourne, Victoria. Cartoonist Judy Horacek has been employed to create cartoons about the environmental concerns of local residents ranging from the destruction of rain-forests to the dilemma of cremation or burial.
Community Arts
Music by any other name would be as sweet.
If all the arguments about community music that have raged around Australia for the past 15 years or so were laid end to end, they would stretch from the Sydney Opera House to the Hobart Casino, from the Boggabrai Light Opera Company to the Geraldton Recorder Group, from the Rockhampton Youth Orchestra to the Busselton Trade Union Choir and back, forming a veritable spider web tapestry of case histories that neither prove nor disprove any one definition of what community music is or is not.
Community Arts
Community Arts -- Collaborative Design
Written with Michelle Howard Looks at the new Box Hill Community Arts Centre designed by Greg Burgess and Peter Ryan of Greg Burgess and Associates.
Community Arts
Photo Access
Photo Access is a community organisation located close to central Canberra. It offers low cost access to photographic darkroom facilities, course, information and exhibition space.
Community Arts
Gasworks
The Gasworks is located in an 8 acre park on the edge of the sea in South Melbourne. In 1985 the City of South Melbourne adopted a plan to transform the polluted industrial wasteland into a Park and convert the building surrounding its perimeter into artistsÕ studios, workshops, perfomance and exhibition spaces.
Community Arts
Realising Potential in Writing
There is considerable potential for writing-in-the-community and community theatre writing. However, that potential may only be fully achieved if there is a re-evaluation of the aesthetics, processes and products of such writing. The re-evaluation should be based on the assumption that the product should have substance rather than flopsy-bunny triviality. The community arts are worse than useless if they do not have a functional as well as an artistic aspect.
Community Arts
The Evolution of Urban Art
A seven metre alien and a five metre cloaked warrior were two of the sensational pieces in Western AustraliaÕs first gallery showing of Urban Art. The display at Curtin UniversityÕs Erica Underwood Gallery, July 10 - 27 1990 showed the works of ten of the City of GosnellsÕ talented aerosol artists and was yet another development in the City of Gosnells unique Urban Arts programme that is being used as a model around Australia.
Community Arts
Excuse me but we are still out here...
Billboard spaces is part of an on-going initiative from the Festival of Arts 1990 (Adelaide) hoping to expand the idea of suburban street activity.
Community Arts
Teenage Roadshows Journeys of Discovery
Looks at the work of Gil Weaver and the Teenage Roadshows and what started for one individual as a rescue mission for deprived urban kids in 1972 has become one of the few arts educational enterprises for people living in outback Australia. Great photos of the kids and their artworks.
Community Arts
Interview with Deborah Mills, director of the Community Development Cultural Unit
Interview with Deborah Mills, director of the Community Development Cultural Unit. ÒI cannot really predict where community arts is going to go... butÓ
Community Arts
Powerhouse Regional Arts Centre
At Casula railway station just outside Liverpool NSW stands an old but sturdy former power station which is steadily taking on its new life as a community arts centre. John SkennerÕs architectural plans have resulted from extensive community and council consultation.
Community Arts
State of the Arts in Community Arts - a special 16 page directory to national resources.
State of the Arts in Community Arts - a special 16 page directory to national resources. Comprehensive and clear listing of national organisations and agencies.
Community Arts
People and places
In Hastings Victoria, a performance artist and a conservationist worked with school children and the community to raise their consciousness of the necessity to protect the seagrass in the area against destruction from industrial development. Three years after the start of the Seagrass Project, the community voted into council a large contingent of environmentally conscious representatives.
Community Arts
Belles Lettres: Voices from Homes of Violence
Belles Lettres is a collection of writing and visual images by participants in a women's writing project held under the umbrella of Women's Refuge and the Incest Centre in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory).
Community Arts
The Arts Council at a Cultural Frontier
The environmental movement has given weight to a genuine desire for people to re-associate with the bush and discover values beyond the limitations of a suburban Brick Wall Dreaming.
Community Arts
Savage Lives
Savage Lives began in June 1989 when 3 artists Leigh Hobba, Ray Arnold and John Dale took up residence in a minerÕs house in Savage River, Tasmania.
Community Arts
Anita Aarons on Aesthetic Aerobics
Anita Aarons said this fell off the back of a bus while in Bali.
Community Arts
From a Cardboard Box to Knox
Community arts in Victoria in 1990. Looks at the Oakleigh Community railway project and details of Austin Hospital Textile mural. Great colour photos.
Community Arts