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Stirring II

Substantial essays asking questions about: the effect of the 'art as research' model in our universities, design and art for climate change, art and sport - odd bedfellows?, Australia's 'moat complex', identifying secret sacred Indigenous material, colour, sense impressions and 'theory', and welcoming a new museum of Chinese art in Sydney. Other content: image based profiles of Shen Shaomin, Ariel Hassan, Fiona MacDonald, twelve new art books reviewed, thirty years in the business of contemporary Australian publishing - where it has been and where it is going, 'Exposed' at the Tate Gallery and the Liverpool Biennial reviewed. Authors include: Jane Goodall, Kevin Murray, Alison Carroll, Jo Higgins, Wu Hung, Felicity Fenner, Djon Mundine, Catriona Moore, Peter Hill, Donald Brook.

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Articles in vol 30 no 4, 2010
Art and Sport Full article available
Feature by Peter Hill

Artist and art critic Peter Hill reflects on the boredom factor of sport and how the Basil Sellers Prize has got it right. — More »

Art as a Catalyst of Change: Sydney's HotHouse International Symposium
Feature by Felicity Fenner

Chief Curator at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at the College of Fine Arts, Uni of NSW, Felicity Fenner discusses the HotHouse Symposium the launch event of a longer-term research project called 'Curating Cities' being conducted by NIEA in association with Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design and the City of Sydney. Other research partners include the Melbourne-based group, Carbon Arts, which facilitates opportunities for artists to generate awareness and action on climate change. The central premise of the project is that we can no longer simply curate art, but need to think more holistically, instead curating space in ways that are environmentally sustainable. — More »

Designing with the Neighbours in Mind: Unlimited Asia Pacific
Feature by Kevin Murray

'Unlimited Asia Pacific' is a platform for the Queensland state government to join Victoria as a leading force in Australia's emergent design economy. It coincides with the birth of the Australian Design Alliance as a lobbying group to promote design as a capacity across government. — More »

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
Feature by Jo Higgins

One of Artlink's London correspondents Jo Higgins visited EXPOSED : Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera at the Tate Modern, an exhibition of photography first developed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and found it overwhelmingly strong. — More »

Indigenous art in front: National Gallery changes focus
Feature by Sarah Scott

Sarah Scott is the Convenor of the Museums and Collections Graduate coursework at the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU. Her take on the new indigenous galleries at the NGA is that they work but could be more subtle in their categorical divisions and more background information could be provided in wall texts. — More »

Is it Sacred? The Collarenebri Files
Feature by Djon Mundine

Senior curator Djon Mundine reflects on his experiences in the past of consultation with Aboriginal people about artefacts, in particular carved trees in NSW that he wanted to include in 'Spirit and Place' at the MCA in 1997. — More »

Liverpool Biennial 2010: Touched
Feature by Alison Carroll

Former Head of Asialink Alison Carroll visited Touched the Liverpool Biennial and found 870 artists showing in 400 exhibitions over the 10 weeks of the event. — More »

Patronage of the Passionate
Feature by Stephanie Britton

Stephanie Britton was very impressed by her visit to the country's only art gallery devoted to contemporary art made by Chinese artists - White Rabbit Gallery and its third six monthly hang titled 'The Big Bang'. — More »

Resistance to Change: Art in the university environment
Feature by Jane Goodall

Novelist and former Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies in the College of Arts at the University of Western Sydney Jane Goodall responds to the new collection of essays edited by Brad Buckley and John Conomos called 'Rethinking the Contemporary Art School'. Goodall analyses the complexity and often dire times engendered by the incorporation of art schools into universities. However she is optimistic and suggests a first step to be a well-designed retreat system. — More »

Theory is Bunk
Feature by Donald Brook

Artlink resident genius Emeritus Professor Donald Brook decries Theory with a big T. — More »

Edge of Elsewhere Full article available
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Campbelltown Arts Centre 15 January - 13 March 2011 — More »

Interpreting Portraits Full article available
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Macquarie 1810 - 2010 Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 10 December - 6 February 2011 — More »

100KM Artworks: Fiona MacDonald's Local Studies
Profile by Catriona Moore

Senior Lecturer at the Power Institute, University of Sydney, Catriona Moore writes bout the recent work of Fiona MacDonald in terms of its connections to locality and history. — More »

Confluent Forms: Ariel Hassan recent work
Profile by Niki Sperou

Biotech artist Niki Sperou unpacks at the curious art practice of Adelaide and Berlin-based Ariel Hassan who uses science, philosophy and politics as well as paint, canvas and polyurethane foam to make work embodying action, reaction and the connectivity between all things. — More »

Shen Shaomin's Bonsai
Profile by Wu Hung

University of Chicago Professor Wu Hung analyses Sydney and Beijing-based Shen Shaomin's Bonsai series as seen at the MCA for the 2010 Biennale of Sydney as "uncovering secrets". — More »

Stop the Moats: Recent work by Cecile Williams and Nick Mangan
Profile by Kevin Murray

Adjunct Professor at RMIT Kevin Murray contrasts the idea of Australians as xenophobic 'moat' people with the idea of 'poor craft' which uses detritus to alchemically create a new preciousness. — More »


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