Artworks
Amanda Smith converses with people in the visual and performing arts and presents features on artists' lives and work. An edgy new look at the arts in relation to history, society and ideas.
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Artworks 2009-11-15
Published: 2009-11-14 09:00:00Art and Alzheimer's As our population ages the incidence of Alzheimer's is on the increase, and now major public art galleries, one in New York and one in Canberra, are acknowledging this by developing special programs for people with dementia. A Kick In the Arts A few weeks ago in Artworks we ran the first of a series of public conversations held as part of this year's Brisbane Festival under the title A Kick In The Arts. As the name suggests, these conversations were deliberately designed to be provocative. This is the second one, and it's called In the Absence of Criticism. Meet Sally Burton Richard Burton's most famous wife was of course Elizabeth Taylor, but did you know that his fourth and final wife, Sally Burton, is currently living in Perth? In 2005, she decided to leave London and settle in WA, having visited her brother and his Perth-born wife over many years. Artworks Feature: Cairns Indigenous Art Fair For a long time there's been concern about how Australian Indigenous artists, especially in remote parts of the country, are open to exploitation by unscrupulous art dealers. Similarly people who buy Indigenous art can't always be sure they're getting what they think they're paying for. Well, last month at the Cultural Ministers Council, the government endorsed an Indigenous Australian Art Code of Conduct. It's a voluntary code that hopes to regulate the industry, and is expected to come into operation by the end of the year.
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Artworks 2009-11-08
Published: 2009-11-07 09:00:00Art and the Australian Synchrotron The Australian Synchrotron is a gigantic machine that squirts electrons to produce extremely bright light -- and in medical research it's used to show the structure of things like proteins and viruses. But it's also being put to another purpose: art conservation. John Gage: the evolution of colour. John Gage is an art historian and a Fellow of the British Academy, and his special subject is the meaning of colour. He was a keynote speaker at the Eleventh Congress of the International Colour Association held recently in Sydney, which ranged across everything from colour theory and psychology to colour physics and chemistry. John Gage is interested in our notions of good and bad colours -- and why, in certain cultures at certain times, some colours are preferred over others. La Fura Dels Baus La Fura Dels Baus is a performing company based in Barcelona. For thirty years, La Fura Dels Baus has been doing a kind of out-there performance -- first in the streets of Barcelona, now all around the world -- to ever bigger crowds. Berlin Wall: 20 years on This week marks the 20t anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. All around the world this is largely a cause for celebration. But for Berliners, the anniversary highlights the complex relationship they have with the past and with what the wall represents. Tale of two composers Ben Frost is Australian, these days based in Iceland, in Reykjavik. As well as composing and recording music for its own sake, he's also worked on compositions for contemporary dance companies: for Chunky Move in Australia and for the Icelandic Dance Company.
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Artworks 2009-11-01
Published: 2009-10-31 10:00:00Wayfarer v2 - Urban Agents Wayfarer v2 - Urban Agents is a hybrid of a live and an on-line event created by Kate Richards and Martin Coutts. It's the second part of their Wayfarer series - this one under the auspices of the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne. Strict Rules Peter Garrett said recently on this program that he was never the same again after Midnight Oil's Black Fella White Fella tour of the Northern Territory. The Dame on the Ten Dollar Note Twenty-five years ago, well-known actor Beverley Dunn created a memorable portrait of the dame on the ten-dollar note: Dame Mary Gilmore. She was a gifted teacher, a pioneer journalist, poet, and social reformer and she was also an idealist who sailed to Paraguay in 1895 to join William Lane, the leader of the New Australia Movement, on his mission to set up a utopian society Artworks Feature: Theatre Royal 2009 marks the 175th anniversary of the laying of the Foundation Stone for Hobart's Theatre Royal, Australia's oldest working theatre, an iconic landmark in the city of Hobart and an important cultural icon of Australia's theatrical history.
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Artworks 2009-10-25
Published: 2009-10-24 10:00:00I Blame Duchamp Edmund Capon is the long-standing director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the author of a collection of essays with the deliciously provocative title: I Blame Duchamp. Peter Greenaway: Nine Classic Paintings Revisited Leonardo's Last Supper, the recreation in light and sound and space by the film-maker Peter Greenaway of this painting, is part of a project of Greenaway's to re-vision nine classic paintings. During the Melbourne Festival, Peter Greenaway gave a public talk about his project. Soda Jerk Have you ever wanted to travel back in time? Course you have. As have Dominique and Dan Angeloro, two sisters based in Sydney who are also known as Soda Jerk. They're re-mix artists, and for them, the video store is a Tardis, and a video cassette is a teleporting device that can bring fragments of the past to the present. Artworks Feature: Reuse, Recycle, Reclaim Can artists make a regular income out of their art? And can they support themselves through economic downturns, government funding cut-backs and the ever increasing cost of living?
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