In Conversation // KATE VASSALLO

Listen to the full interview here Below is a quick-glance text of the interview: What are you currently working on? A series of drawings, which are extending on a previous body of work – exploring an outsider’s perspective of colour, light and scientific theory. Focusing on spending time developing a systematic process with a visual …

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Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship // A Conversation with Claire Bishop

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as “social practice.” …

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Hobart gets Touchy Feely

Thinking of going to MONA FOMA in January? Well you might also like to catch Touchy Feely. Touchy Feely will be five days from January 25 to 29 packed full of artist-led talks, workshops, performances and presentations held at Inflight ARI, Hobart, Tasmania. Curated by Amy Spiers and Pip Stafford, it will bring together a …

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Kelly Doley – The Learning Centre

  Returning the Gift: Art in Exchange for Knowledge Kelly Doley is a Sydney based artist who likes to confuse the boundaries between painting and performance and, increasingly between art and life. The two of us met in 2004, while studying at The College of Fine Arts (Sydney) and have been collaborating in one way …

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Bedding down with Charlie Sofo

Charlie Sofo is a visual artist based in Melbourne, however his recent B.E.D. project, a project that has people sharing their bed with Charlie for a night, moved into the realm of live and participatory art practice. I recently wrote an article that discussed B.E.D., and Jason Maling’s project The Vorticist, for un magazine 4.2 …

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