Preview
Christian Marclay: The Clock
The Clock, 2010, by Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay, is a 24-hour video installation montaged from untold hours of cinematic footage.
Review
Open Window
Open Window, an exhibition by the artist collective Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn at West Space in Melbourne, consisted of altered interior architecture, sculptures and wall works.
By Zara Sigglekow
Preview
Gabriella and Silvana Mangano: There is no there
Quiet and considered movement and gesture pervade Gabriella and Silvana Mangano’s lyrical, mainly video based, practice.
By Zara Sigglekow
Preview
Rosie Hastie: Pendulous
Tasmanian artist Rosie Hastie exploits the photographic medium like an illusionist. To create her work, Hastie combines skillfully placed lighting with wads of crumpled paper to produce the impression of a fantastical landscape.
By Briony Downes
Preview
Catherine Truman: no surface holds
Encompassing both created and found objects, jewellery, film, images, installation and sculpture, no surface holds marks the first time Catherine Truman’s science-influenced works have been brought together.
By Tiarney Miekus
Opinion
I, For One, Welcome Our Celebrity Overlords
Celebrities are our sun gods and we don’t really need to see them brought down to our level by ill-advised forays into art. I, for one, accept my celebrity overlords but I’d prefer them to stay where they are.
By Andrew Frost
Preview
LOVE
Digging deep into this most universal of human experiences, LOVE at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum includes a wealth of objects from the Museum Victoria collection, as well as artworks and oral histories collected from the community.
By Anna Dunnill
Interview
Robyn Stacey on new still lifes and old collections
As still as life celebrates the work of photographer Robyn Stacey, whose arrangements of museum holdings reconstitute the obsessions and occupations of historical collectors.
By Sheridan Coleman
Preview
Beyond Reason: Exploring the Logic of the Imagination
Beyond Reason is an embrace of colour, shape and exuberant imaginings. The full-throttle aesthetic of these paintings, sculptures, ceramics, videos, fashion, and installations is only just contained by the space in the QUT Art Museum.
By Louise Martin-Chew
Feature
Southeast Contingency
Slipping between questions of constructed identity and culture, the agenda proposed by South/East Interference Vol. 2 is a bold and critical one.
By Anna Dunnill
Preview
The Ropes: Amrita Hepi x Adrian Piper
This summer, in association with the 2019 Sydney Festival, Cement Fondu presents the work of the renowned American artist Adrian Piper alongside the work of Amrita Hepi, a first nations dancer, choreographer and artist from Bundjalung (Aus) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories.
By Nadiah Abdulrahim
Preview
Future food on the menu in Plenty
As urbanised humans are increasingly distanced from the means of food production, the choice of what and how we eat becomes a political act.
