March 2018 Issue 305
1 SMALL STEPS, LARGER JOURNEY: sYDNEY bIENNALES IN THE 1970S AND 1980S: TERRY SMITH
Installation view, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 4th Biennale of Sydney,1982;image courtesy Biennale of Sydney
2 REVELATIONS AND REVOLUTIONS: HETTI PERKINS IN CONVERSATION WITH MAMI KATAOKA
Yvonne Koolmatrie, Burial basket, 2017,woven sedge rushes, 46 x 111 x 57cm;image courtesy the artist and Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney;© YvonneKoolmatrie and Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney; photo: Isaac Coen Lindsay
3 SEMICONDUCTOR: SURVEYING THE TECHNOLOGICAL SUBLIME: RUTH JARMAN AND JOE GERHARDT
Semiconductor, Earthworks, 2016, installation view, SónarPLANTA,Barcelona, 2016; five-channel computer-generated animation withfour-channel surround sound, 11:20 mins duration; commissioned by SónarPLANTA; produced by Advanced Music; image courtesy the artists; photo:Semiconductor
4 From a distance: Lili Dujourie's AMERICAN IMPERIALISM AND SUBSTANTIA: MARTIN GERMANN
Lili Dujourie, American Imperialism, 1972,steel, paint, dimensions variable; image courtesy the artist and Peter Freeman Inc, New York and Paris; photo: Dirk Pauwels
5 DISPATCHES FROM A PARALLEL UNIVERSE, CHIA-WEI HSU
Chia-Wei Hsu, Ruins of the Intelligence Bureau, 2015, film stills; videoinstallation, 13:30 mins duration; produced by Le Fresnoy; images courtesythe artist and Liang Gallery, Taipei
6 'PERMITTED TO EXIST': AKIRA TAKAYAMA'S OUR SONGS - SYDNEY KABUKI PROJECT, MAMI KATAOKA
Akira Takayama, Our Songs–Sydney Kabuki Project, 2018, video documentation of performances that took place at Sydney Town Hall on 28January 2018, 3.5 hours; filmmaker: Hikaru Fujii; commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with support from the Neilson Foundation and assistance from Ishibashi Foundation, the Japan Foundation and the Australia-Japan Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; images courtesy the artist;photos: Tai Spruyt
7 ENTERTAINMENT AND WONDER: SPECULATING ON THE 'NGV TRIENNIAL': MICHAEL FITZGERALD, MELBOURNE
Uji Handoko Eko Saputro (a.k.a. Hahan), Young speculative wanderers, 2014–15,installation views,‘NGV Triennial’, NGV International, Melbourne, 2017; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, purchased through NGV Supporters of Contemporary Art, 2016; photos: Tom Ross
8 PENNY BYRNE: ARMED AND VULNERABLE: ARJMAND AZIZ
Penny Byrne, Hurt Locker, 2015, installation views,‘Hearts and Minds’, Canberra Glassworks, 2018; Murano glass, mild steel, 200 x 80 x 50cm;images courtesy Canberra Glassworks; photos: Sam Cooper
9 STIMULATING THINKING, FEELING AND SEEING: GERHAD RICHTER AT GOMA, TONI ROSS, BRISBANE
Gerhard Richter, The Life of Images, exhibition installation view, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, 2017, with (from left):Abstract painting (726), 1990;Reader (804) and Reader (799-1), both1994; photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
10 ANTHONY MANNIX: CAPTURING THE DEFINITIVE NERVE: GARETH JENKINS
ANTHONY MANNIX, The Museum of Everything, exhibition install view, Museum of Old and New Art(MONA), Hobart, 2018, featuring seven artist books by Anthony Mannix; imagecourtesy the artist and MONA; photo: MONA/Jesse Hunniford
11 SINGAPORE ART WEEK: FACILITATING CREATIVITY: ANNE-MARIE JEAN, SINGAPORE
Jesse Jones, Tremble Tremble,installation detail view, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts, 2017–18; photo:Weizhong Deng