“In science fiction, the dynamics of preservation and access to the archive involve entropy and amnesia. The question of the…
Magical Thinking
There is something acutely self-justifying in the rhetoric that supports major exhibitions, a kind of magical thinking that claims causality between the artwork and the reaction of the viewer which, if you’re not on-side with what the work is trying to do, seems more like evidence of abject failure than of unqualified success.
A way of responding to life
“The science-fictional (sometimes contracted into the usefully awkward term ‘SFnal’) is ‘neither a belief nor a model, but rather a mood…
A Rum Go
There is something of this will to greatness underlying TV Moore’s Rum Jungle at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Accumulated Surplus
“A new study sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse…
Your Mind Is Exactly That Line
“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important part of the work.”
Constructed Situations
That the kids doing the dance at the press preview had a little trouble pronouncing the word “contemporary” – instead saying con-tem-pree – is the least of the work’s problems.
Disaster Capitalists
“The wealthy and powerful may in fact take climate change seriously: not as a demand to modify their behaviour or…
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