Counting artists Australia

report on gender representation in Australian contemporary art
The Countess Report

and the blog CoUNTesses

Koolark Koort Kooliny

Response by Tony Hughes-D'eath on return of Carrolup pictures to Noongar country and into custodianship of Curtin University
https://westerlymag.com.au/koolark-koort-koorliny/


2013 TV report on return of a selection of the images
link

Interview with curator of Bella Kelly exhibition, Annette Davis interview  

Links from Japingka Gallery

waiting in Saskatoon

Remai Modern Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Can art make cities, can new museums rescue cities from obscurity and generate economic well-being:  article on this new museum in Guardian.

But
One of the early programmes is with Swiss artist Thomas Hirschorn who will facilitate a workshop of learning exchange - knowledge exchange. “What can I learn from you. What can you learn from me“
In its outline the workshop proposes to bring people together for informal exchange of competencies. Why, in this museum that holds a collection of Indigenous works, are the indigenous knowledge exchange people missing? Why is it not a Canadian Indigenous artist running this?
Is this the hero artist overlaid on the territory ... it seems wrong on the surface, maybe there is something behind this we cannot be privilege to.
Everything looks like ngapartji-ngapartji principles co-opted...  and we wait, you wait..

https://remaimodern.org/program/exhibitions/exhibition/what-i-can-learn-from-you-what-you-can-learn-from-me-critical-workshop-thomas-hirschhorn


Remai Modern Web commissions here

The time before the time now-after

A solitary candle warms the room from the centre of the dining table. The slowly opening door rushes air toward the flame. It bends away in response, hesitates, then slowly gathers itself and leans inward, anticipating the next breath. When it comes it is quiet, a long slow release of air announces its approach in a small puff and the flame shudders at first. Needing the breath of air and fearing it – at once life giving and life taking. Breathe that is snatched away by him as he violently closes the door on humanity.
https://www.fundacioncesaregidoserrano.com/en/

Anri Sala | The Last Resort

Anri Sala installation in the rotunda/ bandstand at Observatory Point or Tar -Ra or Dawes Point
 - so called after Lieutenant Dawes of the First Fleet who set up an observatory here in 1788
See link

Botanical illustrations

Vera Scarth-Johnson OAM (1912-1999): settled in Cooktown, Guugu Yimithirr coutnry, FNQ,  in 1972.
Established Botanic Gardens and interpretation centre

Dendrobium phalaenopsis Vera Scarth-Johnson

Encyclopedia of Australian Science

Anne Coombs, Scratch the surface  
Griffith Review Edition 21: Hidden Queensland

Links for Yhonnie Scarce

http://writingandconcepts.com.au/index.php/lecture-3-8-yhonnie-scarce/
Ellen Van Neeren in The Saturday Paper on Thunder Raining Poison

Faith Ringgold review

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 at the Brooklyn Museum NY
Ramsay Kolber Review

In 2017, there is still much work to be done to break down the barriers to a truly equitable society: some palpable, others invisible. But fighting for freedom often comes with having the freedom to do so in the first place, and not everyone is equally free. This is a point that Faith Ringgold and We Wanted a Revolution both make ardently clear: we cannot continue to whitewash the histories of those women who society has systemically failed. Rather we need to acknowledge those failures and see the long road out, towards a better, more empathetic future. Ringgold’s painting still offers us a window to that world; don’t send it back unseen.

Art histories

making art histories visible
How Pacific Time is Writing Long-Overlooked Chicano Artists Back into Art History
Catherine Wagley
Artnet News

Commentary on the novel and anthropocene

McKenzie Wark
On the Obsolescence of the Bourgeois Novel in the Anthropocene
Verso Books Blog

on Amitav Ghosh's lectures 'the great derangement'
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2016)

move from proletarian to individual (interior) novel which is proposed as an obsolete genre for current day where the network of relationships between human, nonhuman and inhuman (technology and labour) should be part of the cultural workers' consideration and are made urgent by climate change and the acknowledgement of this period of the anthropocene...
something along these lines
Refs to other writers and articles with links are included in the blogpost

Presence | economies

obligation to attend
Amalia Ulman
Hito Steyerl

Jennifer Tee

Jennifer Tee Structures of recollection and perseverance at Kunstraum
link

Hidden in plain view | British war on Tasmania

Better information on the colonial wars in Tasmania is waiting to be found, and historian Nick Brodie has done the graft and produced the analysis from documents and records held in the national repositories.
Brodie’s advice: look beyond the regular sources, find the bigger picture and the context that the records are produced in.
Think about what the records were created for, how they were used during and after creation, how they were archived, how complete they appear, and only then worry about relating the stories they might contain. 

Interview with Nick Brodie on his process for new book The Vandemonian War: the Secret History of Tasmania's Colonisation

'After Mabo: Koiki's Vision For a great New Society', Jeff McMullen

https://newmatilda.com/2017/06/04/after-mabo-koikis-vision-for-a-new-great-society/

Australian journalist Jeff McMullen delivered the following speech to 25^th Anniversary Mabo Celebration in Townsville tonight.

The many distinct cultures and hundreds of different languages here have produced a national treasure of ancient knowledge of what it is to be here. Remember that in the natural world diversity is the secret of abundance, the source of strength and resilience. Each ancient language and knowledge system preserves many shades of human creativity and often a precise understanding of how to solve local problems with local knowledge.

New work in Sydney

Beyond the dot: Brigid Delaney on exhibition at SCA Sydney dot dot dot [...]

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dot, dot, dot […] Curated by Janelle Evans Opening: Wednesday 5 July, 6-8pm Exhibition: Thursday 6 July – Saturday 29 July

SCA Wingara Mura Fellow Janelle Evans in collaboration with Dr Geraldine LeRoux (University de Bretagne) is curating an exhibition opening in July 2017 at the SCA Galleries. The exhibition seeks to provide a discourse about the ways in which contemporary Australian artists interpret the dot beyond the protective skin or screen used by Central and Western Desert artists and in ways which are non-derivative.

The artists in this exhibition explore the dot as indexical markers or indicators of time, place, memory, erasure, self-determination, feminist agency and diaspora; as energy points or ways of mapping a person or architecture and as points of dislocation and relocation.

Exhibiting artists: David Asher Brook, Bronwyn Bancroft, Jon Cattapan, Dacchi Dang, John Di Stefano, Janelle Evans, Lindy Lee, Ms Saffaa, Armelle Swan and ek.1 (Katie Louise Williams + Emma Hicks) with Willl Cooke.

Lala Rukh

Lala Rukh (1948-2017)
From Natasha Ginwala documenta 14

Cook

Links for events and info in 2017 for Captain Cook and Endeavour
The 250th anniversary of Cook’s voyage, which began at Plymouth in August 1768

Nicholas Thomas, director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, recently edited the first illustrated edition of Cook’s writings, The Voyages of Captain James Cook (Murdoch Books).

Timeline

Title: Endeavour at sea
Description: Endeavour at sea from Sketches made in Captain Cook’s First Voyage
Pencil
Date: 1768-1771
Author: Sydney Parkinson
Dimensions:
Collection: British Library
Reference no: Add.Ms.9345f.16v
Record no.: 19411

East Coast Encounter; Australian National Maritime Museum

Australian National Maritime Museum

Mapping

Linguist Hedvig Skirgård links to maps here

Grenfell Tower

sadness                                                                                                 

Illustration: Steve Bell  
                                                                                                            
                                                                                                            
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2017/jun/15/steve-bell-grenfell-tower-fire-disaster-cartoon

Christian Thompson

review in realtime
performative self-portrait
http://www.realtime.org.au/christian-thompsons-performative-self-portraiture/

documenta 14

documenta Kassel
https://frieze.com/article/documenta-14-kassel-overview

10 to see in Münster

review of Skulptur Projekte Münster
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/sculpture-projects-m-nster-2017-the-essential-things-to-see/

Hili Perison June 12 review Pierre Huyghe After Life Ahead


Skulptur Projekte Münster

Typography

Apostrophe or Prime: who chooses?
A prime: a straight mark is used for minutes '  and as a double for seconds " (or feet ' and inches " )
An apostrophe: indicates a missing letter or a possessive. It’s a point with a downward curved tail. 
( ’ )  alt shift ] keys on mac make the apostrophe  ’

typography:

I Love Typography

what to do

FOCUS 2017, by Courtney Martin and Wendy MacNaughton

From Brain Pickings Maria Popova’s site:
  ‘With an eye to the various brokennesses of the world, past and present, Toni Morrison writes: This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom. Like art.’ (‘No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear,’ The Nation, April 6, 2015, p.185)

Julie Gough

collecting refs to artist Julie Gough
YouTube channel here
artists are a pressure gauge for society | art is a way to show what's coming
interview NAVA
Artist website

more than material

Terri Bird
More than material: art and the incorporeality of the event
material thinking

history | theory

Dr. Heather Igloliorte
Concordia Canada
thesis contributes the first art history of the Nunatsiavummiut, focusing on over 400 years of post-contact production, Nunatsiavummi Sananguagusigisimajangit / Nunatsiavut Art History:  Continuity, Resilience, and Transformation in Inuit Art (2013)

Principal Investigator, Exceptional Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Project Title: Indigenous Theories and Methodologies for Art History Workshop (co-edited volume with Dr. Carla Taunton)

Participants in Teachings Theories and Methodologies for Indigenous Art History in North America

documenta and la biennale

la biennale and documenta
curators choose to include partners

documenta’s traditional home, the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel
Photo: Carroy via Wikimedia Commons

Fanny Balbuk Yooreel

Fanny Balbuk Yooreel: resistance fighter Whadjuk Noongar country

National Trust Project Gina Pickering

Art market - a view

Ralph Hobbs of nanda\hobbs gallery King St Sydney
An insider's observation

Armenia

24 and 25 April 1915
Armenia | Australia | Ottoman

Australia's Armenian story
by Vicken Babkenian & Judith Crispin
Inside Story

'Australia has had a long relationship with Armenia and its people. But since Australia also has a Turkish past – because Gallipoli in Turkey is such an important part of Australia’s understanding of the place of the first world war in our history – it also needs to come to terms with what happened to the people of Armenia during and after that conflict.'

This is an extract from The Honest History Book, edited by David Stephens and Alison Broinowski, published this month by NewSouth.

Sydney Biennale 2018

Mami Kataoka- director
“The biennale is a great opportunity for me to rethink or to look at the world of today, geographically, and also historically,” Kataoka said. “We are really living in a time [in which] multiple, plural values are colliding and competing. How can we see this from a bigger perspective?”
Announcement re artists included
16 March to 11 June 

Read Haraway

'Read the fucking book' says Ben Denham

"thinking one thinking practice at a time will get us no-where, but the job is to build contact zones that matter" (DJH)

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
by Donna J. Haraway
(Duke University Press, Sept 2016)

On John Berger

Ben Lerner
Postscript: John Berger, 1926-2017
The New Yorker

Read Confabulations (Penguin Random House, 2016)
review by Kate Kallaway: 'People forget that Berger is funny. And curious. And that he listens – how he listens.'

Berger: “The way I observe comes naturally to me as a curious person – I’m like la vigie – the lookout guy on a boat who does small jobs, maybe such as shovelling stuff into a boiler, but I’m no navigator – absolutely the opposite. I wander around the boat, find odd places – the masts, the gunwale – and then simply look out at the ocean. Being aware of travelling has nothing to do with being a navigator.”

Canada | Universities | Indigenous Knowledges

Implementation of courses with Indigenous content in some Canadian universities
Madison Ranta, The Charleton

Laura Fisher: Aboriginal Art and Australian Society: Hope and Disenchantment

Review article

'Sheer Pleasure' by

Tim Rowse

Sydney Review of Books 28 March, 2017

'Her book is a superb demonstration of the value of Bourdieu’s concept of field in describing a sensibility as complex as settler-colonial auto-critique.'

 

Aboriginal Art and Australian Society: Hope and Disenchantment
by Laura Fisher
Anthem Press
312pp
Published May, 2016
ISBN 9781783085316

 

 

'Like any tightrope walker, Laura Fisher has a finely attuned sense of balance. Her clear-sighted analysis of the historical record takes her beyond the moral high ground and ideological posturing that for decades have stifled intelligent discussion of the mixed blessings of Aboriginal art’s success. This book should be essential reading for anyone to whom Indigenous art is more than a just a pretty picture.'

—Vivien Johnson, former NewSouth Global Professor, University of New South Wales and author of 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists'

http://www.anthempress.com/aboriginal-art-and-australian-society 

A photograph never stands alone: Teju Cole

'All images, regardless of the date of their creation, exist simultaneously and are pressed into service to help us make sense of other images. This suggests a possible approach to photography criticism: a river of interconnected images wordlessly but fluently commenting on one another.'

'A photograph can’t help taming what it shows. We are accustomed to speaking about photographs as though they were identical to their subject matter. But photographs are also pictures — organized forms on a two-dimensional surface — and they are part of the history of pictures. A picture of something terrible will always be caught between two worlds: the world of “something terrible,” which might shock us or move us to a moral response, and the world of “a picture,” which generates an aesthetic response. The dazzle of art and the bitterness of life are yoked to each other. There is no escape.'

Teju Cole, The New York Times Magazine 14 March 2017

Australian women Impressionist artists

Jane Sutherland

The mushroom gatherers (c 1895), oil on canvas, 41.8 x 99.3cm

Iso Rae 1860 -1940
Australian War Museum

A Devil, Étaples (1915) 42.4 x 26.7cm
L: charcoal and pastel on grey paper.
R:coloured chalks and watercolour on brown paper

Dinosaur prints

Huge dinosaur footprints found near Broome
Ben Collins, ABC Kimberley 27 March 2017

• A number of 1.7m-long dinosaur footprints have been found north of Broome
• The dinosaur that left the prints was the largest member of the sauropods, which includes dinosaurs such as the brontosaurus
• The area was a large river delta 130 million years ago, with dinosaurs crossing wet sandy areas

Richard Hunter lies next to a 1.7m dinosaur footprint belonging to a sauropod.

(Supplied: Steve Salisbury)

Katherine Routledge

Links
The Mystery of Easter Island
https://archive.org/details/mysteryofeaster00rout

Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Ph.D.
Writing Routledge: Her Field Notes and Their Value to Science

 http://www.eisp.org/818/

Ilana Halperin

Geological Intimacy (Yo no hana)

'This project marks the first time Halperin has exhibited in Japan and Aberdeen and continues a historical narrative between Kyushu and Aberdeen which began with the 19th Century ‘Scottish Samurai’ merchant Thomas Blake Glover.
For 20 years, Ilana Halperin dreamt about Beppu. In 1995, back in the urban geology of New York City, she found a book on the street about volcanoes. A chapter on Beppu featured – with photographs of children cooking eggs on the streets, steam coming through every crack in the sidewalk, and a pool as red as blood. In New York, steam vents erupted at every corner, but these were industrial rather than natural. She imagined a correlation between her home city and Beppu, a place with steaming vents and boiling springs, where daily life was lived and informed by a direct relationship with geothermal phenomena.'

Opening: Thursday 30th March, 6-8pm.
Exhibition runs: 31st March – 29th April 2017
Location: Peacock Visual Arts
21 Castle Street
Aberdeen
AB11 5BQ
Curator’s tour: 22nd April 2017, 3pm

Martu story of nuclear test

Lynette Wallworth and Martu elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan

VR filmwork

Collisions 

at PICA

Nyarri reclining. Photo Credit: Piers Mussared.

Collection point for nuclear testing in Australia

Film Australian Atomic Confessions
(c) Gregory Young, Katherine Aigner, New South Wales Film & Television Office, 2005



Living with the legacy of British Atomic testing: Bobby Brown

 Silent Storm

Liz Tynan, Sixty Years on, the Maralinga bomb tests remind us not to put security over safety, The Conversation

Liz Tynan, Dig for secrets: the lesson of Maralinga's Vixen B, The Conversation

The poison crown, the charcoal ground. National Archives of Australia

Women art historians

Artsy's list of 8 historians of note:
Lucy R. Lippard - papers / 2009 Tate Papers
Kellie Jones - Art does change things
Hayden Herrera - Frida
Deborah Willis - website
Linda Nochlin - biog
Svetlana Alpers - biog
Nada Shabout - biog
Tanía Caragol - interview
Eileen Chanin - book review of Awakening: Four lives in art, with Steve Miller
Anna Gray  - biog

John Shuttleworth

Link to youtube radio The Shuttleworths 1997 ( Graham Fellows)
Follow John Shuttleworth and Ken Worthington through their day to day adventures in Sheffield and beyond ( not far beyond) with occasional appearance by Mary Shuttleworth.

L'internationale Europe

Constellation of European museums
with publications
Decolonising museums

Decolonising archives

Kate Tempest

Kate Tempest

YouTube channel

Soundcloud

Jimmie Durham

Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World
Showing a the Hammer Museum Los Angeles
Review here

You got here when..?

Link to Australian Geographic 8 March 2017 Gemma Conroy
on more proof of connection to country... 50,000 years proven through DNA of hair samples


“These findings confirm what the Aboriginal community have known all along - that their deep ties with country stretch back thousands of years,” said study co-author Raymond Tobler, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

Link to Australian Geographic 23 Sept 2011
'researchers found that the ancestors of Australian Aboriginals had split from the first modern human populations to leave Africa, 64,000 to 75,000 years ago. Dr Joe Dortch, a scientist at UWA, says the discovery turns on its head the existing theory that Aboriginals arrived here less than 50,000 years ago. The findings are detailed today in the journal Science.'

Map of field stations visited from 1921 to 1965. (From South Australian Museum Archives Norman Tindale Collection)

The Right to Offend is Sacred

Brook Andrew at National Gallery Victoria,
3 March - 4 June 2017
NGV Australia at Federation Square
The Right to Offend is Scared

NGV Screen grab of Key Works

The work of Australian Painters, 1960's - Film 1551

Tracey Moffatt: Venice 2017

John McDonald interview / article on Moffatt:
“I always say there is not one wrong reading. Nothing can be wrong. My work can be read as Australian, but I think the reason it’s travelled and crossed borders is because it can be appreciated by a vast audience. I know it’s clichéd but it has a universal aspect. It deals with the human condition, and so resonates with many cultures,”

Adam Curtis

HyperNormalisation
reviews Guardian 
YouTube trailer

Bitter Lake
review Guardian

interviews

Louisiana Channel

documenta 14

Learning from Athens

How to write painting
Link documenta 14

How to Write Painting: A Conversation about History Painting, Language, and Colonialism with Gordon Hookey, Hendrik Folkerts, and Vivian Ziherl


Walks
http://www.documenta14.de/en/walks

http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/documenta-14/#.WO0vGCUtdVo.twitter

Art Agenda article by Ben Eastham

April 10, 2017
The fourteenth edition of Documenta takes place, for the first time in the institution’s history, across two locations. By staging it in Germany and Greece, and expressing the hope that an exhibition bankrolled by the former might effectively critique the infrastructures of power that have immiserated the latter, curator Adam Szymczyk signalled that this would be a Documenta defined by its internal contradictions. The embrace of paradox continued in the press conference for the Athens opening, during which Szymczyk spoke about the possibility of “learning from Athens” through a process of “unlearning what we know.”

Gordon Hookey, Solidarity, 2017. Athens photo ©Stathis Mamalakis

Sidney Nolan Centenary

 Portraits/self-portraits

"The paintings are really more about myself and my emotional state, than Kelly," Nolan told writer Janet Hawley during the 1980s.

Sidney Nolan Trust

Centenary Programme

"Widely considered Australia’s finest painter, Sidney Nolan lived for most of his career in England. The ancient manor, The Rodd near Presteigne on the borders of Wales, was his home for the last nine years of his life and it was here that he founded the charitable trust in his name. The ancient landscape of its valley setting reminded him of the timeless and monumental wild places that he had visited in Australia and elsewhere throughout his career. His ambition was to create an inspirational gathering place for artists, scholars, students and others to meet, to exchange and develop their practise, and above all to create and to share widely their artistic endeavour."

Sidney Nolan, four abstracts, 1986,
enamel spray on canvas, 305x457cm,
Collection of the Sidney Nolan Trust, © Sidney Nolan Trust

Accomodation nearby Rough Acre 

Pallant House 

Chichester
Sidney Nolan exhibition from Feb 18


A major exhibition marking the centenary of the birth of Australian-born artist Sir Sidney Nolan (1917 – 1992), a leading figure of international 20th century art whose diverse oeuvre saw experimentation with a wide range of materials. Focussing on the artist’s time living and working in Britain, it brings together works that reveal recurring themes such as Australian history and literature, mythology, and the tragic hero/anti-hero. Iconic works from the 50s and 60s including paintings of the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly and the unfortunate explorers Burke and Wills are shown alongside Nolan’s sets and costumes from the 1962 Royal Ballet production of The Rite of Spring.

IKON Gallery 

Birmingham
Sidney Nolan exhibition from June 2017 

Sidney Nolan (1917 – 1992), one of the most important Australian artists of the twentieth century, lived his last years on the Welsh-Midlands border. To mark the centenary of his birth, in collaboration with The Sidney Nolan Trust, Ikon brings to light a selection of extraordinary paintings dating from the 1980s.
Fugitive portraits

Sir Sidney Nolan, Illuminations (1982).
Spray on canvas. © Sidney Nolan Trust.

Preparations: the Education team visit to Sidney Nolan Trust

Press The Australian
Telegraph Alistair Sooke
Art UK listings of works held in UK
On Desert Island Discs in 1962
On Front Row 17 Feb 2017 9'45-14'40: Richard Cork reviews
Transferences: Sidney Nolan in Britain is at the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex from 18 February - 04 June 2017.

Marking the Infinite

 Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
 at Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, University of Florida, 28 Jan  - 7 May 2017.


Women artists in exhibition in Florida 
Marking the Infinite curated by Henry Skerritt from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl

The exhibition will continue to travel throughout North America for the next two years, to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The exhibition originated at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno under the guidance of William Fox, Director of the Center for Art and Environment, and Henry Skerritt, Curator of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Collection of the University of Virginia. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition features essays with some of the world’s leading experts in Aboriginal art, including Hetti Perkins, Tina Baum, Cara Pinchbeck, Howard Morphy, John Carty, and Henry Skerritt.

Horn 1894

Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia 1894
link to google edocs here
https://archive.org/details/reportonworkhor02horngoog

AAMU to close in June 2017

So sorry to hear that the AAMU in Utrecht has to close its doors.

Dr Georges Petitjean has been curator for 12 years, following founding curator Annette van Ham.

Dr Georges Petitjean. This photograph was taken during the 'Breaking with tradition' exhibition (2010/2011) (Photographer: Thijs Rooimans)

collecting links to residencies/ fellowships

State Library Victoria

Overland pitch to write 600 - 1000 wds

Not an Animal or a Plant

Vernon Ah Kee
Not an Animal or a Plant
showing at National Art School, Sydney during the Sydney Festival

He comments: that in this fiftieth year since the 1967 referendum which decided to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people in the census count:
"We are going backwards as a country, especially in the last 15 years with Palm Island, the Cronulla riots, the re-election of Pauline Hanson, the intervention policies in northern communities, and the latest developments with asylum seeker policies. Anyone can see we are moving backwards. Quite a bit. Australia is no shining star in the human rights arena."

 Andrew Frost in Guardian review: notes that Ah Kee was not counted as a human when he was born in 1967; and wonders if one work ( Born in this skin) distances the viewer from the racism of the artworld, and the viewers' own racism, by siting it in the ready-made doors taken from a toilet block on Cockatoo Island - far away.

Language

Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke 'The contronyn conundrum', March 2016
see here the Insider

Vale John Berger

To hear of John Berger's death this morning, before dawn in an already grieving household in Shropshire, brings the heavy sky closer. With our guides departing, we look to each other to expand, consciously, into the spaces made, to find a way to be in relation with the person who has gone. To hold their voices in a shell, to lift it to your ear. To listen. To heed. To act.

5 November 1926 -  2 January 2017

Watch 'Ways of Seeing' on UbuWeb 

'Play Me Something' (1989) on BFI 

John Berger & Susan Sontag 1983 To Tell a Story

Read On 'Play Me Something' and 'Walk Me Home' here

Michael McNay Obituary in Guardian Books

Robert Minto LA Review of Books

Jacob Brogan in the New Yorker

Philip Maughan in New Statesman

Adrian Searle in the Guardian

Colin McCabe Nov 2016 Prospect magazine