Category Visual Arts
What critical questions would you ask of yourself and your own work?
Following on from my own dry conversations in September about unfolding an ‘Arab-centred’ approach to research and to discussion about cultural production, I took the opportunity to document a conversation with an Arab woman artist, in the site of her latest solo exhibition. (Thanks FK for being open and trusting. Thanks to AG for the […]
e.phemera…
a couple days ago, a throw-away line: ‘And is there any value in ephemeral material (such as old programmes, posters, reviews)?’ and ironcally this evening, i went to an event marking ’30 years of passionate dissent’ ‘LET THE WALLS SPEAK: POLITICAL POSTER EXHIBITION’ http://jura.org.au/node/517 the walls were full of strongly-coloured hand-screenprinted posters from the 1970s […]
3arabi Mapping 
significant cultural processes and productions that come to mind for you?
The other day I found some old papers (as you do). Three years ago I had emailed a number of people (see below), attempting a small random ‘survey’ (very Sydney-centred, I admit) to prepare for a presentation at UTS called: “Facing Fear: Community Anti-Racism after September 11, 2001”. ::———-:: 16 Nov 2004 dear friends i […]