EXPERIMENTAL ART_Rattling the Archive
Issue 46:1 | Parnati–Kudlila / Autumn–Winter 2026
Guest Editor: Sasha Grbich, in association with Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), Flinders University Museum of Art and Griffith University Art Museum.
Experimental Art has been historically aligned with radical, speculative and creative acts that challenged conventional art practices, institutional critique and museum collecting. Now that experimental art is—arguably—comprehensively institutionalised and many of Australia’s cultural institutions are approaching their fiftieth year, questions of how to hold and remember experimental art arise. Given how its archives and histories have formed, can we use experimental art as a critical tool to challenge, reconsider and develop our art institutions and practices? And what can we learn from experimental (often immaterial) art of the recent past?
Bridget Currie, Each surface touched [work in progress], 2026. Mulberry and rag papers eaten by snails, glue, board, pearlescent ink. Photo: Sam Roberts.
