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Link to reference to r e a  PolesApart at Breenspace gallery in 2009 with essay by Dr Christine Nicholls

Enwezor on Sydney & Melbourne contemporary art scene

Curator Okwui Enwezor travelled to Melbourne and Sydney, checking out the scene and researching for the 2015 Venice Biennale
"I think this cross-section of practices, in a sense, describes the landscape of contemporary art – which means, rather than an Australian-ness of the work I see here, the key for me is the specific individual artist's own language"

"I'm excited about Australia on two levels – first of course, Fiona's work. We met and had a discussion of what she might be working on, but she was a bit cagey about it! Which is normal – it needs to be surprising," says Enwezor. "Second is the new pavilion. This is very exciting – it will be the first contemporary architecture in the Giardini since the South Korean pavilion. I'm looking forward to it. It's a very important milestone for Australia's presence in the Biennale."

 June 2014

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Fiona Hall's Big Game Hunting was at dOCUMENTA(13)

Link to audio from ABC radio

Fiona Hall and Big Game Hunting

(photo Sophie Reid http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/fiona-hall-image-1/4671784)

Christian Thompson

Links for reference to artist
We Bury Our Own at Pitt Rivers Museum in 2013
Blouin Artinfo link to article by Nicholas Forrest 2013

Alex Speed article includes biog, Tree of Knowledge, Charlie Perkins award

At PICA in Western Australia for Hijacked III in 2012 link

one image from the series King Billy

Kimberley artists recorded

ABC Open Project archive
I am an artist: I come from the bush series on ABC open here

Right is Wrong: Bildmuseet Umea

Opening on 8 June Right is Wrong shows 40 years of Chinese contemporary art from the M+Sigg Collection
The exhibition runs to 12 October 2014. Link to website here

Wang Xingwei, New Beijing, 2001. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the M+ Sigg Collection.

19th century views of the European invaders

Rock paintings in Stone Country, Arnhem Land plateau, show observations of the incomers to Australia's north.
Link here

Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, 25 years ago

Artist Guo Jian arrested

artnet reports here
CNN report here

Tom Mitchell Lunch with the FT: Guo Jian
'Now an artist creating work out of minced pork and litter, the former soldier and Tiananmen Square protester recalls the horrors of that night in Beijing 25 years ago.'

BBC report on journalist detained

China journalist Gao Yu detained in Tiananmen lead-up

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo

June Fourth in My Body poem by Liu Xiaobo read in English here

CNN report

Ma Jian remembers Tiananmen Square Massacre 4 June 1989

On 4 June 1989, when the Chinese Communist party (CCP) sent 200,000 soldiers in armoured tanks to suppress the peaceful pro-democracy protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, causing hundreds if not thousands of fatalities, it was unimaginable to me and most of my compatriots that, 25 years later, this barbaric regime would still be in power, and the massacre would be rendered a taboo. But despite the party's most ardent efforts to wipe the episode from history, memories of the massacre refuse to be crushed. On the milestone 25th anniversary, Tiananmen is more important than ever.
The Guardian 1 June 2014