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New Developments for the Papua New Guinea National Museum
Brief article outlining the current directions and focus for the PNG Museum and Art Gallery in Port Moresby.
Indigenous Arts of the Pacific
Art is Land: Land is Art - Talks with Banduk Marika
Discussion with the artist Banduk Marika about the issues facing her community of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Indigenous art practice and land rights, cultural heritage, education and knowledge, environmental protection and mining intrusions are discussed.
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The Waka and the Cattle Truck
What do a traditional Maori canoe (waka) and a cattle truck have in common?...In both these cases these vehicles were conveyors of culture. These images are central to two collaborative works at the second Asia Pacific Triennial of Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery.
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Pacific Wave: A Festival of Pacific Arts
Brief article outlining Pacific Wave, a celebration and investigation of contemporary trends in art and cultural life of the Pacific taking place across Sydney November 2-17 1996.
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Nucleus: Feeling Compromised
As Judy Watson was about the commence her residency in France, the French Government announced they would be conducting nuclear tests in the Pacific. As an Australian, an Aboriginal, a conservationist, a woman and an artist, she felt compromised. Discusses her work in this context.
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Maori Film Images and Intellectual Property Rights - A Breakthrough?
For those depositing films with a significant Maori content, the New Zealand Film Archive has developed a Deposit Agreement which acknowledges that named Maori guardians have spiritual guardianship authority over their image treasures in perpetuity. This goes way beyond white copyright regimes.
Indigenous Arts of the Pacific
Contemporary Maori Architecture - The Case for the Untraditional
One of the most insidious myths about contemporary Maori architecture is that it does not exist, since 'traditional' Maori building design has been influenced by colonial architecture. Looks at contemporary issues in Maori architecture.
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Taki Rua: Bi-cultural Theatre in Aotearoa
Taki Rua Theatre has been at the cutting edge of indigenous theatre since its inception in 1983. It has now produced a season of Maori plays in te reo Maori (Maori language).
Indigenous Arts of the Pacific
Telling it How it is: Pacific Islands Theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand
Pacific Islands Theatre is at an exciting phase in New Zealand. Although relatively young compared to Maori and Pakeha theatre, the debut of key successful plays has placed it in the spotlight of New Zealand's national stage in recent years as it continues to gain strength.
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The Art of Survival: The Importance of Contemporary Theatre in Papua New Guinea
In many developing countries where indigenous communities are faced with the rapid process of development, theatre has become an extremely important educational tool. With escalating resource exploitation, rising numbers of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS and increases in violent crimes by an unemployed and disillusioned youth, the importance of this form of communication cannot be underestimated.
Indigenous Arts of the Pacific
Polynesian Tattoo: A Shift in Meaning
Tattoo played a significant role as a marker of status, wealth, and pride in Polynesian societies. A more fluid, creative tattoo tradition is being practised today.
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Creativity in the Forest
In 1994, the small Balai community of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, commenced paper making which led to the development of printmaking. Small enterprises and ecotourism may well be the future of these small island communities.
Indigenous Arts of the Pacific
Spirit Blong Bubu I Kam Bak [The Return of the Spirits of the Ancestors]
Reflections on an exhibition in Vanuatu of old pieces of ni Vanuatu art held in European collections. Touring Exhibition 'Arts of Vanuatu' 29 June - 10 August 1996 at the National Museum of Vanuatu in the national capital of Port Vila.
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The Contemporary Highland Shield: Hybrid Forms in Papua New Guinea
The author examines shield collected in 1995 to discuss issues fundamental to the introduction of the art of emergent societies in an international art context. Issues such as the definition of art and aesthetics, art versus craft, function of art in the various contexts etc...
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Oceanic Arts Society of Sydney
Describes the establishment and membership of this new society.
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Acting Out the Culture: The Making of Culturally Relevant Theatre, Papua New Guinea
Culturally relevant theatre in education in Papua New Guinea challenges, questions, asserts, transgresses, subverts, opposes, resists and negotiates with the demands of political and cultural relations. It offers new forms of representation and contributes to the process of destabilising and decentering the domination of Western processes of teaching, learning and performance.
Indigenous Arts of the Pacific
Art and Ritual: Aina Asi A Mavaru Kavamu
The artist writes of the issues facing her as a citizen of Papua New Guinea, a descendant of the Motu Koita people, being female and an artist/textile designer. Her traditional grass skirts were included in the Asia-Pacific Triennial.
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Weaving the Old with the New: Textile Art Forms in Niugini
Women artists were conspicuously absent from the important exhibition 'Luk Luk Gen'. The exhibition 'Pacific Dreams' included textile works by the artist Agatha Waramin who works with bilums and the exhibition 'Weaving the Old with the New' will extend women's exposure in an artistic context.
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Dancing the Society: Performing Arts in the Solomon Islands
Performing arts in the Solomon Islands Since the common determining facts in whether to keep, add changes, or reject aspects of the performing arts are based on the dollar, Solomon Islanders will continue to adopt new styles of dances, music, songs and forms of acting in the same way as some Church groups have done.
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Educating Public Taste
The National Museum's role in the development of contemporary art in the Solomon Islands. Artists Dick Taumata, Kuai Maueha, Frank Haikiu, Rex Mahuta, Jack Saemala and Billy Vina are discussed.
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Pacific Stories from New Caledonia
Collecting Pacific Art is not a straight forward endeavour. There are really no set criteria of what 'contemporary Pacific art' might be, little interpretive literature on the subject and very few precedents for forming even small collections for cultural institutions. There is a new cultural centre 'the Jean-Marie Cultural Centre' being built in Noumea, New Caledonia.
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Soapstone Workshop
April 1996 at the Pouebo Town Hall northern New Caledonia. A sculptural tradition has always been alive in this area so a workshop was held to explore the use of soapstone sculpture.
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The Island Race in Aotearoa
Today the art of the Pacific Islanders is still trapped within its category. The display cases of the institutions have not been shattered. Yet the very act of exhibiting demonstrates that the making and the appreciation of art is a dynamic process. Institutions are caught by a need to both legitimise themselves and acknowledge (and perhaps attempt to control) the art of the migrant communities.
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Vaka - Only the Brave
Looks at the contemporary art and the cultural and economic pressures faced by the people of the Cook Islands.
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Fiji: Artists Carve Out Their Own Future
Looks at issues in contemporary art practice in Fiji anticipating the construction of the new Fiji National Art School.
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Asia and Oceania Influences - Sydney
Exhibition review Asian and Oceania Influence
Curated by Nick Waterlow
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
2-30 September 1995
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The World Over - Wellington
Exhibition review The World Over
City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
June 8 - August 11, 1995
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Darwin Festival - A Glimpse
Overview of the Festival of Darwin with its temporary visual art installations 'art head land' by 18 artists. For the summer of 1996.
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Australia Goes to Samoa: 7th Pacific Festival of the Arts
Overview of the 7th Pacific Festival of Arts which is held in a different country every 4 years. 1996 the festival was held in Apia in Western Samoa. Previous hosts 1992 Raratonga, Cook Islands 1988 Townsville Queensland Australia Lists the communities of Aboriginal Australians who were in attendance at the festival.
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Alternative Festival in Samoa
An alternative festival celebrating the people of the Pacific was held on one of the outer islands (Manono) in Western Samoa at the same time as the official Pacific Festival of the Arts in Apia. The festival was conducted from 8-23 September 1996.
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Collaboration - Zhou Xiaoping and Jimmy Pike
Chinese Australian artist Zhou Xiaoping and Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike exhibit collaborative works in China later in 1996. The author discusses Zhou's new work and his collaboration with Jimmy Pike.
Indigenous Arts of the Pacific
The Necessity of Craft ed Lorna Kaino
Book review The Necessity of Craft: Development and Women's Craft Practice in the Asian Pacific Region
Edited by Lorna Kaino
University of Western Australia Press 1995
RRP $24.95
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Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia ed David Horton
Book review Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia with companion CD Rom
Edited by David Horton
Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS
RRP $150
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Doin' the Limbo
Exhibition review White Hysteria
Curated by Susan Treister
Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide South Australia
7 - 30 June 1996
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Whetting the Appetite
Exhibition review State of the Art 4 Biennial survey exhibition
curated by Stephanie Radok
New Land Gallery, Port Adelaide South Australia
21 April - 12 May 1996
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The Silence which Howls
Exhibition review Second Look: Prospect Textile Biennial
Prospect Gallery
14 April - 5 May 1996
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Funk Junk
Exhibition review Junk Bonds
New Land Gallery, Port Adelaide South Australia
Touring South Australia and interstate with Visions of Australia
28 June - 28 July 1996.
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Truth, Whose Truth?
Exhibition review Peter Dailey: Prime Time
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
University of Western Australia
17 May - 30 June 1996
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Memories - Macabre and Magic
Exhibition review Aadje Bruce: Domestic Bliss
Artplace Claremont Western Australia
9 May -1 June 1996
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Resilient Modernism
Exhibition review Miriam Stannage and Tom Gibbons
Goddard de Fiddes
Contemporary Art Perth, Western Australia
2- 22 June 1996
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From the Back Shed
Exhibition review House and Home
Anne Neil and Steve Tepper
Fremantle Art Centre galleries,
grounds and craft shop
25 May - 16 June 1996
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Neo-colonialist Precipice
Exhibition review Secret Places
Sieglinde Karl, Hazel Smith, Kate Hamilton, Ron Nagorka
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery,
Touring regional Australia through Contemporary Art Services Tasmania and the national Exhibitions Touring Scheme.
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Touch Don't Touch
Exhibition review Tangibility
Claire Barclay, John R Neeson, Stephen Bush & Jan Nelson Plimsoll Gallery and Powder Magazine, Hobart
10 - 31 May 1996
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Counting Digits: Electronic Art will not go away
A witty and wise approach to issues confronting electronic arts by celebrated art theorist and philosopher. He starts by speculating on a contemporary analysis of the first stonecarvings that were not useful directly as tools, but indirectly as symbolic substitutes or stand-ins for some other thing....
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Negotiating Artistic Practice in Late Capitalist Techno-Culture
Whatever art is to become in the realm of consumer electronic culture, it is critical that some sort of autonomy be maintained from the pressures of the technological imperative. Otherwise the politic implicit in the technological manifestation will override the necessary anarchic liberty of art.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Emergent Behaviours: Towards computational aesthetics
Overview of the electronic arts moving from the 1960s to the creation of artificial intelligences. Discusses various artists and their projects.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Holography permeates art and commerce? A question of time
One of the strange novelties of running a large format holography business is the regular telephone calls one receives from inspired and inventive people who clearly see holography as representing some kind of magical solution to often relatively ordinary problems.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Spectres of Cyberspace
A new spectre is haunting Western culture- the spectre of virtual reality. For if we are to properly characterise cyberspace as a postmodern phenomenon, it must be as part of a postmodernism that does not come after the modern so much as assertively re-enacts modernismÕs desire to fold back on itself...
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Is there art on the Web?
The Web is unknowingly large and diverse. Lists web sites
Art in the Electronic Landscape
The Artists Interface 1/0
The interface paradigm is at the core of current work by artists in the area of interactive multimedia. All the works in the exhibition Burning the Interface at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, approach the issues of interface design and interaction with the audience or user or interactor in different ways.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Landmark Exhibition: Burning the interface
Exhibition review Burning the interface International Artists CD Rom Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney NSW March - July 1996
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Interactive Phantasmagoria: Pre-Cinema to Virtuality
Exhibition review Phantasmagoria Curated by Peter Callas and David Watson
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Virtual Topographics: an interview with Peter Callas
It is now well accepted that what has been variously dubbed the Ònew mediaÓ, Òelectronic artsÓ, ÒmultimediaÓ, or Òhybrid artsÓ are rapidly changing how we engage with issues of subjectivity, identity, nationality and interactivity.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Living in Second-Natureland: the role of obsession in Technology-based Art.
From a confession of context, the author looks at new definitions where ÔlifeÕ and ÔexperienceÕ are defined as time spent engaging with technology, where ÔspaceÕ and ÔtimeÕ are primary sources for experience; the necessity of obsession and the work of Adrienne Jenik
Art in the Electronic Landscape
The Planetary Collegium: art and education in the post biological era
We live in deeply cynical, distrusting and despairing times...The author calls for a Planetary Collegium to advance the electronic media and its related educational process.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
I couldnÕt do my homework: the cat ate my mouse
The role of computers in the education of young people looking at examples from student in schools in South Australia.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
A Magic Toyshop: an interview with John Bird
John Bird is Associate Professor at the Centre for Animation and Interactive Multi Media at RMIT Melbourne Victoria. Looks at developing technologies and entertainment from a background of this centre for the new media arts.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
The Tasmanian Connection
The electronic landscape in Tasmania is only just beginning to be visibly integrated into the exhibition culture...largely influenced by a young generation of artists recently graduated or arrived at the Art School and Conservatorium in Tasmania.
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In Search of a Continuum
An article curated by the author whereby four artists were invited to select two of their documentation images and write captions for these images after considering issues of control, motion, space and trigger - issues that span old and new technologies in order to discover whether a sense of a continuum of approach and practice may emerge.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Cyb(erotic) transformations
If the human body is disappearing into technology, then technology too is disappearing into flesh. Not just literally integrating into human skin and bone, but incorporated into our psychology and body imagery, creating a body as cyborg.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Fax me your head (in 3D)
Collaborative article by Dorothy Erickson, Jill Smith, Stephanie Britton and Phil Dench. The process of scanning in 2D images of manipulating and combining them in electronic paintboxes and of printing the results is familiar to many artists. Techniques are now being developed that will allow us to do the same thing with three dimensional objects.
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Computers, machines, mathematics.
There are 2 specific problems attached to creating 3D computer art. One is funding and the other is often the need for expert and professional assistance. Examines the issues faced by artists working in the area of 3D computer art.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Nigel HelyerÕs Silent Forest
An installation by Nigel Helyer at the Walter McBean Gallery San Francisco Art Institute as part of Soundculture, San Francisco, April 1996.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Skadada@pica
Skadada at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art was an instant success when it was performed in September 1995. It is a dance, music and computer hybrid art performance with works by Katie Lavers, Jon Burtt and John Patterson using innovative MIDI technology with computer graphics, video and manipulated sound keyed in by a live performer.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Waiting for the CyberMuse
Moral: Having the tools available doesnÕt necessarily generate artistic ideas but when the idea is there, the artist will move heaven and earth to execute it.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Bursting with opinions
Book review Critical issues in electronic media Edited by Simon Penny State University of New York Press, USA 1995
Art in the Electronic Landscape
CMCs Open for business
Looks at the role of CMCs Cooperative Multimedia Centres which are rapidly spreading across Australia. CMCs are government seeded consortia of a range of share holders and stake holders, designed to develop and support local and national multimedia industries. They all have a tripartite brief: education and training; research and development; and industry support...
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Electronic art in Australia: do we have critical mass?
Looks at art practice as it has developed since 1987 using the ARTLINK issue in 1987 of ÔArt and TechnologyÕ-(Vol 7 Nos 2 & 3, 1987) as the starting point for what was at that time the mostly unrecognised relationship between art and technology.
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Cyber Cultures in Western Sydney
Article with co-curator David Cranswick , Cyber Cultures at the Performance Space Gallery is an on-going exhibition and performance project initiated by Street Level an artist run initiative in Western Sydney.
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Electronic Media Collections
Looks at the collection of electronic artworks held by the Griffith University Queensland.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Perth Science Centre employs artists
Opened in August 1988, Perths Scitech Discovery Centre aimed to add a ÔfunÕ environment to the physical and human sciences, with hands-on interactions and experiences. From its inception it employed design graduates to design and make many of its displays.
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Playing with the Planet
Digital Arts Film and Television is developing an interactive game based around the filme Epsilon, which award winning director Rolf de Heer produced with Digital Arts in 1995. Producer Sean Caddy previews this most unusual computer game, which has no violence and is a chilling scenario of the crisis in the ecology of planet Earth.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
The Virtual Museum
Looks at Compact Disc Interactive or CDi which allows people to chart their own personal pathways through material.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Negotiating the Museum of Sydney
Review of the new Museum of Sydney whose challenge it was to compose a cultural metaphor for Sydney. It was conceived as a site that lets the visitor experience the jostling versions of what was going on, what it looked, sounded and behaved like.
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Open Market: Computer art in China
ÒFrom herbs and opium to Amway and Coca-cola. The market opens and the game starts.Ó
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Loudscreen: Animation network
In an expressive sense animation is as personal a medium as writing. New technologies have the potential to build on this trend...
Art in the Electronic Landscape
MM in Queensland education
Multi media education requires a wide range of resources. In Queensland the Bachelor of Multimedia at Griffith University draws on the expertise of 5 faculties and colleges
Art in the Electronic Landscape
Arts Queensland
In March 1996, Arts Queensland presented Giles Consulting report on the state of play in multi media to a packed public forum at the Museum of Modern Art. Outlines the recommendations.
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Men
What boys give up to become men is all contained in this photograph...
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Masculinities Reflected
Guest editors of 'Masculinities Reflected' Noel Sanders and Kurt Brereton reflect on the nature of masculinity.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Observing Father's Day in a Good Weekend
Analysis of maleness from a semiotic approach in the context of the lifestyle magazine 'Good Weekend' published as a supplement to both The Age in Melbourne and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Fathers and/or Sons
Musings on the man who was the author's father from a multicultural perspective.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
I've Written a Letter to Daddy
Social documenter Maxx Image is obsessed with the colour purple. Black leather is the costume of rebellion and the thrill and valour expounded by such an ideal could be seen as enticing accessories to the passion and zeal of leather sexuality.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Art and Masculinity after Auschwitz after Bosnia: The work of Dennis Del Favero, 1995
Masculinity continues its argument with itself, quizzical at its self-propelled self-assertion. But in asserting aggression the pain is not just experienced in the victim. For even in the crudest acts of coitus, for a moment, the raper becomes the raped, he is tied by his penis and his balls into an abomination.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Men and Mettle: Recent Portraits by Rox De Luca
Rox de Luca's exhibition of 19 men portrayed in 'All Meat No Veg' were all of men known to her. What did the portraits reveal about the sitters?
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Demystifying Masculinity: The Photography of Krystyna Petryk
Polish born Krystyna Petryk has long been fascinated with portraiture and representations of the nude in photography. Her own investigations began in Warsaw by photographing her pregnant friends and continued after her arrival in Western Australia in 1982. Once here she broadened her explorations to include both male and female subjects before shifting to photograph and research representations of men exclusively.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Exquisite Corpses
We collage, genderbend, cross dress and polymorph exquisite corpses out of media and advertising personalities, then use them as fantasy aids in the cause of our mundane desires.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Image Bank: Works by Various Artists
Series of works by Tyrone Townsend, Victoria Straub, Polixeni Papapetrou, Phil George and Simon Cardwell. Large format and mainly colour images.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
They Are Not Photographs: Natalie Lowrie
The images are selections from a body of work called flamingharlots@trashed, created by Sydney based photographer Natalie Lowrie. The images, digitally retouched photos of Natalie's circle of friends and acquaintances were exhibited at the Polymorph Gallery at Newtown.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Figures of Elongation
Using illustrations from a technical manual of the 1940s `the author examines the working male figure in popular iconography focusing on masculine representation in the visual arts and its link to the means of production.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Saviour and Sportsman
Vigilantly looking out to sea, the two manifestations of the life saver, the saviour and the sportsman, are combined in this 'gay greeting card' in such a way as to draw on the history of surf club masculinity and create an erotic pose.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Symbolic Identities: Masculinity and the Motor Cycle
Since 1927, the idea that the motor cycle is synonymous with assertive and unmediated masculinity has been enlarged and expanded through a broad range of visual, literal and cinematic imagery to the point where a machine which was once acclaimed as a means of transport has been transformed into a gendered cultural icon, an object of and for masculine display.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Sorely Tried Men: The Male Body in World War Two Australia
During World War Two, the Australian government's Department of Information represented the male body in at least two distinct ways. The photographer Edward Cranstone photographed a heroically active, phallicised body and the cameraman Damien Parer filmed a heroically suffering abject body.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Unwanted Shadow Man
Photos and essay by the author on a relationship between men.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Public Objects and Private Parts in Harry Hummerston's Recent Assemblages
Harry's work immediately identifies the object as a site of meaning. It is fair to say that Harry is strongly opposed to any restriction or taboo upon what he may represent, particularly from the arena of representing the female object or gender.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Men Without Toilets
Let's speak about nomads and farmers... The acrid vapours that fill the cast iron nooks and crannies by day: the trickles on metal that appear in my black and white slides each night like blood from a more visible crime: this evidence of the distillation of men: these signs are signs enough of the collapsing consequences of 'farming'.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Soap: A Letter to Sam Schoenbaum on Not Writing an Essay on a Show Called Phallus and its Funtions
What is the phallus?
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Blokes and Sheds
Images and text by Mark Thomson from his recent book 'Blokes and Sheds'.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
The Back Yard Shed
In 1992, Helen Moyes made a documentary 'The Back Yard Shed' which set out to look at the lives of a cross-section of Australian households through the phenomenon of the back-yard shed.
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected
Like a Chant
Exhibition review Recent Work: Hossein Valamanesh
4-29 October 1995,
Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide SA
Men's Business: Masculinities Reflected