Summer 2017-2018 Issue 304
1 Dispatches: Andrew Stephens
Jennifer Mitchell, Hugo Weaving as Martin, 1991, from the film Proof directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse;
image courtesy House And Moorhouse Films Pty Ltd, and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
2 Inhabiting complex currents and contexts: mami kataoka in conversation with julie ewington
Mami Kataoka, Sydney Opera House, April 2017; image courtesy the Biennale of Sydney; photo: Catherine McElhone
3 From 'Asia Corridor' to 'Sunshower': Illuminating North and Southeast Asian art in Japan: Judy Annear
Felix Bacolor, Stormy Weather, 2009/2017, installation view, ‘Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2017; wind chimes, dimensions variable; image courtesy Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; © the artist; photo: Kioku Keizo
4 Watch the Inside of the heart of the other: notes on Pipilotti rist: Natasha Bullock, Sydney
Pipilotti Rist, 4th Floor to Mildness, 2016, installation view, ‘Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2017; image courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine; © the artist; photo: Ken Leanfore
5 Crossing boundaries and calling homeTintin Wulia in conversation with Tess Maunder
Tintin Wulia, Eeny Meeny Money Moe, 2012, installation view, 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Brisbane, 2012–13; interactive installation with handmade passports and synchronised machines, commissioned for APT7; image courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane; © the artist; photo: Mark Sherwood
6 Remaking culture in‘Project Banaba’Katerina Teaiwa in conversation with Michael Fitzgerald
Katerina Teaiwa, Project Banaba, exhibition detail from Teaiwa’s Kainga; image courtesy the artist; photo: Katerina Teaiwa
7 Benjamin Duterrau A grand contradiction: Greg Lehman, Hobart
Benjamin Duterrau, The Conciliation, 1840, oil on canvas, 121 x 170.5cm; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Museum Fund and the Murray Fund, 1945
8 Urgency rezoned ‘Canton Express’ at M+ Pavilion: Mikala Tai, Hong Kong
Xu Tan, Biennale.dog, 2003, digital print on vinyl banner; M+, Hong Kong, gift of Guan Yi, 2013; image courtesy M+, Hong Kong
9 ‘It’s not that I’m afraid to die ...’: Kit Messham-Muir, Perth
Abdullah M. I. Syed, Flying Rug of Drones (Circle), 2015–17, razor blades, sound; image courtesy the artist and Aicon Gallery, New York
10 Sociopolitical whirls ‘After Utopia’ at Samstag: Christine Nicholls, Adelaide
After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art, exhibition installation view, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2017; photo: Sam Noonan
11 Resonating strong ‘Sung into Being’ at QAGOMA: Sasha Grishin, Brisbane
Sung into Being: Aboriginal Masterworks 1984–94, exhibition installation views, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, 2017; photos: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
12 Creating shape within shape ‘Emu Island’ at Penrith Regional Gallery: Christine France, Emu Plains
Emu Island: Modernism in Place, exhibition installation view, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains, 2017, with (from right to left): Marea Gazzard, Crater, 1963, earthenware, tin and interior glaze, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, gift of Tanya Crothers and Darani Lewers, 2001; Lyndon Dadswell, Untitled, c. 1965,
brown gummed paper on metal support and wooden base, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, gift of Tanya Crothers and Darani Lewers, 1980; photo: Silversalt Photography
13 A crucial shift ‘Fred Williams in the You Yangs’: Christopher Heathcote, Geelong
Fred Williams, You Yangs III, 1963, oil and tempera on composition board; TarraWarra Museum of Art collection, gift of Eva Besen AO and Marc Besen AO, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2008; © Estate of Fred Williams
14 Both sides of the picture: Writing Whiteley on TriaL: Gabriella Coslovich, Melbourne
Detective Senior Constable Justin Stefanec and the writer examine Big Blue Lavender Bay