Review & Interview: Ordinary Ascension – A Hope
Ordinary Ascension – A Hope by Khaled SabsabiReview and Interview by Adam Phillip Anderson Community affects our lives before we begin to exist. The idea of the self, arises from people and places […]
Visual art
Tracing the Borders
On the wall of my family lounge room in regional NSW was a framed tourist map of Lebanon. The poster was unfolded in 1988 after it was picked up from […]
Artist Spotlight with Liza Moscatelli
Artist spotlight on multidisciplinary artist Liza Moscatelli, by Harpreet Dhillon.
The Keris and the Cannon
My mother’s ancestors lived in Java and Sumatra. My Dad’s ancestors were convicts on the second fleet. Mum met Dad when he visited Java by way of Papua New Guinea […]
An Appropriate Reaction
(First published at Running Dog.) Growing up Black in Australia meant living with subtle, but frequent, acts of discrimination. My white friend’s mother was always glad to have me over. […]
Art Review: Flowers and Fighter Jets
(Originally published in the exhibition booklet.) There’s anger in the eyes of the women Amani Haydar paints. There is strength and sadness as well, which by all accounts, is a reflection […]
Art Review: Terra inFirma
(First pubished by Running Dog.) This year marks 250 years since James Cook invaded Australia and stole Indigenous land with two words: Terra Nullius. In 1770, Australia was declared nobody’s land—although […]
BLEED Festival: Closing
(First pubished as part of the BLEED Echo program, part of the BLEED festival.) BLEED reminds us of the windows we have yet to create, fling open, or completely and irreversibly break down […]
Celine Cheung: Emergence
Annie Brockenhuss-Schack has a lil chat with artist Celine Cheung about artistry, process and the emerging. Music in the video composed and produced by Christine Pan.
Art Review: Motherland – Exile/Refuge – Migration (repeat)
When my mother stepped off the plane at Sydney’s international airport at seventeen, pregnant and sweating from the humid September heat, she cried. Like her first steps in Australia, the […]
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