Iâm looking through a tiny window at the silvery surface of the sea roughly 10,000 metres below. I donât know where I am, or which ocean this is. After five straight days of lectures, workshops, panels, exhibitions and performances at Berlinâs transmediale festival, I can barely concentrate on the text in front of me, an […]
I met Thomas Jeppe at the famous Place de la Republique in Paris, under blue skies. He brought me to the Square du Temple, where Marcel Proust would have strolled a century ago. We sat down on a bench watching people passing by, the French way⊠We had met to talk about his nomination for […]
Amina McConvell is an artist, curator, and community arts worker who lives in Darwin and often enables cross-cultural exchanges between artists in the Northern Territory and South East Asia in her role as the creative producer of Asia in Darwin. Amina also works at Darwin Community Arts as the creative producer of Arts Access Darwin […]
For a week now Iâve had a file saved to my computer titled âNotes on Hobiennale 2017â. It contains fragments of thoughts, passages copied out from gallery room sheets, quotes from artist and curator talks, headings in caps lock with no writing yet to follow â ECOLOGY, CULT, SITE, WALKING. The list goes on. I […]
FĂ©licia Atkinson is a visual artist, an experimental musician and the co-publisher of the independent imprint Shelter Press and curatorial platform Argument with BartolomĂ© Sanson. Her works explores improvisation, fiction, instant composition, noise, abstraction and poetry. Born 1981 in Paris, FĂ©licia graduated with Honors from lâEcole Nationale SupĂ©rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her paintings, drawings, […]
The following is a series of transcribed and edited conversations between producers of âFacts on the Ground: a situated reading groupâ Hannah Ekin & Jorgen Doyle and Apmere angkentye-kenhe project artist Beth Sometimes. Introduction Apmere angkentye-kenhe – which translates to âa place for languageâ – is an artist-led social project made in collaboration with Arrernte […]
Dear un, We had talked over email about this text being a âpostcard from sunny Perthâ, but itâs hailing as I write this and the state deficit for 2017-18 is forecast to be $2 billion. What can I tell you about the state of the arts in Perth, Western Australia? The usual WA line is […]
The following is a series of transcribed and edited conversations between producers of âFacts on the Ground: a situated reading groupâ Hannah Ekin & Jorgen Doyle and Apmere angkentye-kenhe project artist Beth Sometimes. Introduction Apmere angkentye-kenhe – which translates to âa place for languageâ – is an artist-led social project made in collaboration with Arrernte […]
Given that this iteration of documenta has been particularly shadowed by calls for political accountability, manifesting in rigorous critique bordering boycott, the exhibitionâs title Learning from Athens could perhaps now, in the almost aftermath, be thoroughly reconsidered: What have we learnt from documenta?[^1] Unable to make it to Athens, I recently ventured east to Kassel […]
Alana Hunt: I’m looking to you as a means of engaging with some of my own questions and uncertainties as a non-indigenous artist living in and being increasingly influenced by a community and environment – or perhaps, rather, a world – that is predominately Aboriginal. You and I are on opposite sides of the Kimberley, […]
Dark Mofo 2017 was on from 8 – 21 June in Hobart, Tasmania. The Museum of Everything is on 10 June 2017 – 22 April 2018 at MONA. âI actually thought that was a jokeâ, she replies, as we wait for the ferry to come and take us back from a trip around the exhaustive […]
As part of the research project on the cultural economies of Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) in Australia, directed by Maria Miranda at the Victorian College of the Art, Anabelle Lacroix has curated An Act of Showing: Rethinking Artist Run Initiatives Through Place. Maria and Annabelle framed the exhibition as a material conversation between ARIs and […]
The walls and floors of the Supreme Court in Darwin are filled with works of art that speak of a very clear curatorial intention to illustrate the history of the legal system and its relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Territory. This is an undeniably fraught history and present. The […]