German Australian Studies

Association for Australian Studies
Link

In Berlin

Showing at me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation

Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia

Curated by Franchesca Cubillo, NGA Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ar

17.11.2017 – 02.04.2018
 

Auguststrasse 68, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Fon +49 30 86 00 85-10
Fax +49 30 86 00 85-120
info[at]me-berlin.com

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