Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Mar 23, 13 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics • 1 Comment »
I support myself as a professional artist and I recently left my gallery representation in Melbourne when I realised they had begun representing a white artist whose work has appropriated Indigenous Australian art. I’m not going to discuss that...
Mar 4, 13 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics, Uncategorised • 3 Comments »
I had the opportunity to speak at the first ever multicultural media forum at NSW Parliament last week. The Multicultural Media At A Crossroads conference was jointly organised by the Multicultural Media Awards, the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social...
Feb 12, 13 • Culture, Food • 1 Comment »
Have you ever wondered why you can go pretty much anywhere in Australia and find Italian food, Chinese food, and probably Thai and Indian as well? Yet if you were looking for Filipino food, Serbian food or Tanzanian food you would have a hard time...
Dec 12, 12 • Culture, Featured • 15 Comments »
My partner’s sister recently married. She opted to change her surname and take on her husband’s name, as per tradition…Anglo-Celtic tradition, that is. It’s largely Anglo-Celtic tradition that acts as the main reference...
Dec 6, 12 • Arts, Culture, Headline • No Comments »
PERIL: Can you describe some of the artworks you are exhibiting at APT7? HAHAN: My work in APT7 is part my ideas talking about the young artist position in Indonesia. Like one of the works ‘the journey’ is talking about effort some of...
Dec 6, 12 • Arts, Culture, Headline • No Comments »
PERIL: Can you describe some of the artworks you are exhibiting at APT7? GREG: Essentially I am exhibiting a selection of photographs, 4 to be precise. They represent a snap shot survey of thematic work I have been developing from 2007 to 2010 with...
Dec 3, 12 • Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline • 2 Comments »
PERIL: Can you describe some of the artworks you are exhibiting at APT7? EDWIN: Green Hypermarket is my escapade in catching a sight of the simple yet real practices found among Indonesians of utilizing used packaging of instant food and beverages...
Nov 13, 12 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics • 2 Comments »
Iwan Wojono is an acclaimed Indonesian performance artist and political activist, who is currently artist-in-residence at the Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane. Ten Failed Doomsday Prophecies… and the End of the World is a collaboration between Iwan...
Oct 28, 12 • Arts, Culture, Reviews • 1 Comment »
It’s a Sunday but Dad is still in his Jim’s Mowing greens. His pants have been reinforced around the knees with squares salvaged from old uniforms. What was formerly the colour of park benches and lush tropical foliage is now a mottled...
Jul 6, 12 • Culture • No Comments »
So this friend of mine is from Zimbabwe, and he has one of those names which is easy enough to pronounce, but unusual enough to confound some people who are uncomfortable with the unfamiliar. I once heard someone ask him, “Have you ever thought...
