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