August 2004 Issue 172
1 COMPETITIONS GALORE!
Adversing Competition
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Winter Reading Special
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Art Monthly @ Home Competition
We have a copy of Peter Conrad's At Home in Australia (RRP $49) to give away to one of our lucky subscribers. To enter, simply send or email us a photo of Art Monthly 'at home. Submissions could include you or a friend or famous face reading Art Monthly in your house or on an exotic location. All entries must be accompanied by a completed subscription form. Entries close ! October. See the August issue for more detials.
The "NO BULL" Art Monthly Australia's Readers Competiton
We hope you enjoyed this 'meaty' issue. You may have noticed a recurring, quite unintentional, theme; so let's see how observant you are! We have a Tony Coleing Japanese Scientific Experiment, 1993 print (edition of 50) valued at $150 to five to one of our readers who can correctly identify the numbers of images in both articles and advertisements that refer to meat, livestock or dead flesh appearing in the August issue. Entries close 3 September. See the August issue for more details.
2 Zero to one thousand to nothing: ROBERT COOK
I have nothing to say about craft and have been saying it for ten years. I say nothing and it takes 750 words, 5000 words, for me to finisth. Here, its' 1000. That means I've got 964 to go.....Read more in the August issue!
3 Manifesta 5, 2004 in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain: MARCO MARCON
Huseyin Alptekin, Hostal Pasaia (Capacity/Capacities &: hospitality), 2004. Photo Marco Marcon. For Manifesta 5, Alptekin used hotel name signs he had acquired in his travels, and hung them along what is referred to as 'Rape Alley' in Pasaia, the port area of Donosita-San Sebastian.
4 Books: MARY EAGLE ‘What's Wrong with Contemporary Art?’: Peter Timms
Interesting people have moved purposefully away from the art scene before today.
5 Caricature finally triumphs at the Archibald Prize: ROSS WOODROW
Craig Ruddy, David Gulpilil, two worlds, 2004. Charcoal and graphite on wallpaper (detail). Photo Ben Rushton/tairfaxphotos.
The news that a Sydney artist backed by a substantial fighting fund is to challenge the award of this year's Archibald Prize to Craig Ruddy for his portrait David Gulpilil, two worlds must have heartened many.
6 Art, politics and ideology: TAMARA WINIKOFF
It being election time, arts policies are busily being pulled out of drawers and dusted off, replenished and presented to the public, in particular to those of us with a vested interest.
7 On reason and emotion: Biennale of Sydney 2004: MICHAEL DESMOND
Helena Almeida, Sem titulo (Untitled), 1994 -95, black and white photographs, one with red acrylic paint (detail: single photograph). Collection of the Serralves Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal. Photo Arthur Rosa.
First impressions shouldn't count, but I suspect that the works encountered at the doors of the Sydney Biennale, both at the MCA and at the AGNSW jaundiced my view of the entire show.
8 2004: Australian culture now In Melbourne: LINDA MICHAEL
Monica Tichacek, The shadowers,, 2004, still from digital video. Courtesy of the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery.
I keep thinking of 2004: Australian culture now as the caption for an image of a child in detention or an American flag and ponder its malleable meaning.
9 FLeshly moralities: Ivan Durant in Melbourne: DANIEL THOMAS
Ivan Durrant, The window, 1970, acrylic on board. Courtesy of the artist.
He proposed his meat-themed exhibition Paddock to plate: Ivan Durant 1968 - 2004 to the Monash Gallery of Art because of the gallery site, at Jells Road, Wheelers HIll, had once been a paddock where Ivan Durrant rented land for fattending beef.
10 A gatekeeper in every paradise: Paradise now? Contemporary art in the Pacific in New York: TREVOR SMITH
Lisa Reihana, Native portraits, n. 19897, 1977, mulit-media installation. Courtesy of the artist and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
In mythology and religion, every paradise has its gatekeeper and each has rules of entry. Some are entered through acts of grace and others through acts of exclusion and violence; but all are entered through some form of sacrifice or conformation to a set of rules or tasks.
