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“This body of work was made while traveling overseas, time felt like it was condensing, becoming arbitrary, barely a function to signal the difference between night and day, I had a feeling of being displaced, not knowing languages, unfamiliar locations, people…”
The famous koan, ‘one hand clapping’, says the Guggenheim, is a metaphor for how meaning is destabilised in a globalised world.
Public art ‘…uncomfortably presents us with our own specific place, our own subject position relative to other, often competing positions within the public space it inhabits.’
Bad news… it’s the year 3018
On June 24 this year New York-based Australian artist, Sara Morawetz embarked on a 2000 kilometre walk through France and Spain for a performance titled étalon…
A long looping road trip, to see and judge art, find vintage paperbacks, and the search for something amazing…
“I always think of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly when he’s ambushed by a man who talks so much he doesn’t realise Tuco has whipped his gun out. Tuco kills him, then gives the corpse some excellent advice: ‘When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.’ Likewise, with academics: when you have to argue, argue. Don’t blather on.”
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George Shaw, resting and relaxing in New York City with guns, nuts and beer…
Frances Hodgkins, Still life: self-portrait, circa 1935. New Zealand.
Grace Crowley, Abstract Painting, 1950. Australia.