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Conceptual Beauty: Perspectives on Australian Contemporary Art
Jacqueline Millner
Published by Artspace Visual Arts Centre
2010
208 pages
ISBN 9781920781415
RRP $25 (inc GST)
Conceptual Beauty is a collection of essays that are in some way representative of a particular moment in contemporary Australian art: a moment marked by the enduring belief in the social power of art but also by cognizance of the largely illusory nature of individual agency; a moment energised by the lively debates of post-structuralist theory and the politics of representation (in particular feminist perspectives), but one also marked by a sense of loss, namely the loss of the aesthetic dimension of art in the wake of conceptualism. Many of the essays are about works that seek to connect art with wider social and political questions in full awareness of its limitations; works that grapple with the apparent dichotomy between critical idea and beautiful object; works that are drawn equally to conceptual approaches that engage in meta-analysis of language and institutions - including the figure of the artist him/herself - and to the well-crafted piece, the affectively joyful. Conceptual Beauty includes essays on the work of Robyn Backen, Barbara Campbell, Maria Cruz, Anne Ferran, Adam Geczy, Bronia Iwanczak, Vanila Netto, David Noonan, Mike Parr, Sue Pedley, Patricia Piccinini, Ben Quilty, Julie Rrap, Robyn Stacey, Monika Tichacek and Ruth Watson amongst others.
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Mutant Media: Essays on Cinema, Video Art and New Media
John Conomos
Published by Artspace in association with Power Publications
2007
208 pages
ISBN 978 1 920781 32 3
RRP $42.95 (inc GST)
Mutant Media gathers together a selection of John Conomos' essays across the years, tracking the trajectory of his cinephilia since the 1960s, his ongoing interests in film criticism and theory, as well as his deep involvement in video art and new media since the 1980s. On one hand a major contribution to the realm of moving image and new media theory, Mutant Media is also a kind of autobiography of someone whose eclectic life as an artist, writer and educator centres around cinema's grand, unpredictable adventure spanning three centuries.
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Knowledge + Dialogue + Exchange: Remapping Cultural Globalisms from the South
Nicholas Tsoutas (editor)
Ien Ang, Ghassan Hage, Manray Hsu, Lu Jie, Anna Labrador, Marcia Langton, Lee Weng Choy, Marco Marcon, Scott McQuire, Nikos Papastergiadis
Published by Artspace
2005
180 pages
ISBN 1 920781 17 X
RRP $22.00 (inc GST)
Documents the international conference of the same title convened in Australia for the 9th general meeting of Res Artis, the International Association of Residential Arts Centres.
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Metaphor and Tension: On Collaboration and its Discontent
Nikos Papastergiadis
Published by Artspace
2004
68 pages
ISBN 1 920781 09 9
RRP $16.50 (inc GST)
Metaphor and Tension is a detailed and strikingly candid examination of the processes of artistic collaboration across cultures as a complex, discursive, challenging process.
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Complex Entanglements:
Art, Globalisation and Cultural Difference
Nikos Papastergiadis (editor)
Ien Ang, Rasheed Araeen, Carlos Capelan, Paul Carter, John Conomos, Ricardo Dominguez, Jean Fisher, Coco Fusco, Sneja Gunew, Ghassan Hage, Marcia Langton, Gerardo Mosquera Hetti Perkins, Fazal Rizvi
Published by Rivers Oram Press
2003
224 pages
ISBN 1 85489 153 7
RRP $46.00 (inc GST)
This is a major anthology of texts based on the Globalisation + Art + Cultural Difference - On the Edge of Change conference convened by Artspace in 2001. Complex Entanglements explores the legacies and futures of multicultural discourses for the arts, situating debates on art, culture and theory within the context of globalisation.
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Republics of Ideas: Republicanism Culture Visual Arts
Brad Buckley, John Conomos (editors)
Larissa Behrendt, Tim Bonyhady, Rex Butler, James Button, John Conomos, Mary Kalantzis, Joan Kerr, Jason Yet-sen Li, Humphrey McQueen, Jaqueline Millner, Catriona Moore, Peter Myers, Nikos Papastergiadis
Published by Pluto Press & Artspace
2001
226 pages
ISBN 1 86403 185 9
RRP $29.95 (inc GST)
Republics of Ideas examines the social, political and cultural implications of an Australian republic in the context of the visual arts and new global economy. An expanded collection of essays based on two Artspace symposiums held in the lead-up to the Australian republican referendum.
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100 Years of Cruelty - Essays on Artaud
Edward Scheer (editor)
Rex Butler, Alan Cholodenko, Frances Dyson, Patrick Fuery, Douglas Kahn, Julia Kristeva, Sylvere Lotringer, Mike Parr, Bill Schaffer,
Edward Scheer, Lesley Stern, Lisabeth During, Samuel Weber, Allen S. Weiss
Published by Power Publications & Artspace
2000
334 pages
ISBN 1 86487 291 8
RRP $22.00 (inc GST)
Based on a major conference convened by Artspace 100 Years of Cruelty brings together a range of responses to 'The Artaud Question' from leading contemporary scholars. The essays cover a wide variety of topics in opening 'The Artaud Question' to humanities disciplines and questioning the demarcations upon which so much knowledge and art practice is defined.
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After The Revolution: On Kristeva
John Lechte, Mary Zournazi (editors)
John Lechte, Mary Zournazi. Nicholas Tsoutas, Julia Kristeva, Juliana de Nooy, Kelly Oliver, Anna Smith, Joan Kirkby, Robyn Ferrell, Angela Tidmarsh, Anna Gibbs, Kristen Campbell
Published by Artspace
1998
178 pages
ISBN 1 876017 37 6
RRP $22.00 (inc GST)
After the Revolution: On Kristeva is a distinctive collection of essays on the significance of Julia Kristeva's work in contemporary culture internationally.
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An Uncertain Smile: Australian Art in the '90s
Rex Butler
Published by Artspace
1996
136 pages
ISBN 1 876017 15 5
RRP $16.50 (inc GST)
An Uncertain Smile is a highly influential interpretation of Australian Art of the 1980s as an art of the real. Based on a series of Artspace seminars given by the author.
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