Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2274906
Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Josh Tengan
Published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于澳大利亚和新西兰艺术杂志(印刷前,2023年)
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Published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于澳大利亚和新西兰艺术杂志(印刷前,2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-26DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2276323
Hana Pera Aoake
Published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于澳大利亚和新西兰艺术杂志(印刷前,2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2273927
Jocelyn Flynn
Published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于澳大利亚和新西兰艺术杂志(印刷前,2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2272874
Mique’l Dangeli, Tammi Gissell
Published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Ahead of Print, 2023)
发表于澳大利亚和新西兰艺术杂志(印刷前,2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2288398
Ngarino Ellis, Heather Igloliorte
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2225737
Verónica Tello
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art will be hosted by UNSW Art & Design until 2027 under the direction of an editorial collective comprising myself, Diana Baker-Smith, Jennifer Biddle, Jaye Early, Bianca Hester, Anastasia Murney, Astrid Lorange, and Jos e Da Silva. The current issue is our first publication. We thank our colleagues at the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne, particularly Jeremy Eaton, for facilitating a seamless transition. Approximately every four years, the Journal transfers to a new university so that it can distribute its financial and editorial responsibility among various academic institutions in the long term. It is customary for a new journal editor to declare a new vision over multiple pages in the first editorial. I will continue this custom, but I will keep it brief. The journal will implement an anti-gatekeeping method for scholarly publishing in the coming years. Working as a dedicated editorial collective, we are establishing a structure to expose the Journal to new voices through mentorship and collegiality. On this note, I would like to thank my colleague, Astrid Lorange, for leading a workshop in April of this year in collaboration with un Magazine focused on emerging authors and the expanded modes of writing the Journal can support (the recording is available online via the Un Projects website). As the current issue shows, we intend to support authors new to academic publishing by providing editorial feedback before peer-review, assisting authors in responding to peer-review reports, and generally demystifying scholarly publishing. By demystifying the Journal, we can also address colonial predispositions in art history. Historically, the Journal has not placed a foremost priority on Indigenous sovereignty. However, we are developing protocols for publishing Indigenous scholarship in collaboration with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. In December 2023 and July 2025, the Journal will publish its inaugural special issues led by Indigenous intellectuals. M aori art historian Ngarino Ellis and Inuk art historian and curator Heather Igloliorte are the editors of the December 2023 issue, bringing together border-crossing and emerging Ng a Rauru, M aori, K anaka' Oiwi, Murruwarri, Wiradjuri, Alutiiq, Sugpiaq, Tsimshian, Bundjulung and Ngapuhi Indigenous knowledge on medicine, dance, museum
《澳大利亚和新西兰艺术杂志》将由新南威尔士大学艺术与设计学院主办,直至2027年,由我本人、戴安娜·贝克·史密斯、珍妮弗·比德尔、Jaye Early、比安卡·赫斯特、阿纳斯塔西亚·穆尔尼、阿斯特丽德·洛兰热和乔斯·达席尔瓦组成的编辑集体指导。本期是我们的第一期出版物。我们感谢墨尔本大学视觉艺术中心的同事,特别是Jeremy Eaton,为无缝过渡提供了便利。大约每四年,《华尔街日报》就会转到一所新的大学,以便从长远来看,将其财务和编辑责任分配给各个学术机构。按照惯例,一位新的期刊编辑在第一篇社论中会在多个页面上宣布一个新的愿景。我会继续这个习惯,但我会保持简短。该杂志将在未来几年对学术出版实施反把关的方法。作为一个专门的编辑集体,我们正在建立一个结构,通过导师制和合作关系,让《华尔街日报》接触到新的声音。在这一点上,我要感谢我的同事Astrid Lorange在今年4月与《联合国杂志》合作领导了一个研讨会,重点讨论新兴作者和《联合国期刊》可以支持的扩展写作模式(录音可通过联合国项目网站在线获取)。正如本期所示,我们打算通过在同行评审前提供编辑反馈,帮助作者对同行评审报告做出回应,并普遍揭开学术出版的神秘面纱,来支持新进入学术出版领域的作者。通过揭开《华尔街日报》的神秘面纱,我们还可以解决艺术史上的殖民倾向。从历史上看,《日刊》并没有把土著主权放在首位。然而,我们正在与澳大利亚和新西兰艺术协会合作,制定出版土著奖学金的协议。2023年12月和2025年7月,《华尔街日报》将出版由土著知识分子领导的创刊特刊。毛利人艺术历史学家Ngarino Ellis和因纽特人艺术历史学家兼策展人Heather Igloliort是2023年12月号的编辑,汇集了过境和新兴的Ng a Rauru、毛利人、K anaka’Oiwi、Murruwarri、Wiradjuri、Alutiiq、Sugpiaq、Tsimshian、Bundjulung和Ngapuhi土著医学、舞蹈、博物馆知识
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2218895
R. Butler
In the last room of the Queensland Art Gallery’s 2020 exhibition Unfinished Business—The Art of Gordon Bennett, just before the spectator exited the show, was a page from one of Bennett’s notebooks, blown up and applied to the wall. Unfinished Business was a survey exhibition of Bennett’s work, one of several that have so far taken place since his death, this time with an emphasis on works on paper. These were framed and mounted on walls throughout the exhibition, along with a selection of paintings from throughout Bennett’s career. But this particular page from the notebook was enlarged and applied directly to the wall of the final room, as though to serve as something of an artist’s signature in relation to what had come before—indeed, at the very bottom of the the wall were Bennett’s initials, GB, along with the date on which he originally made the entry, 25 August 1990 (Fig. 1). What we have on that last wall of the gallery is testament to the ongoing importance of language in Bennett’s work. Words enter Bennett’s practice at least as early as 1987 with The Persistence of Language and continue virtually all the way to the end. Indeed, critics would later come up with the evocative term ‘word stack’ to describe a similar run of words in Bennett’s Notes to Basquiat series (1998–2002), which this notebook page is clearly a forerunner to. Earlier in the show, in fact, there was another page from Bennett’s notebook, very similar to the one in the last room, although it was actually framed and mounted on the wall. Its series of statements reads ‘I am Australian’, ‘I am Aboriginal’, ‘I am Human Being’, ‘I am Spiritual Being’, ‘I am Body’ and ‘I am Spirit’, followed by a final ‘I am’, Bennett’s initials and the date on which he made the entry, which is the same as the other page, 25 August 1990. In that version on the final wall, we have in slightly more abbreviated form ‘I am Gordon Bennett’, ‘I am Australian’, ‘I am Human Being’ and ‘I am Spirit’, again followed by a final ‘I am’, Bennett’s initials and the date. But although the two versions have the same date, we might say that the version on the wall comes later, insofar as we do not have that same crossed-out ‘a’ before ‘Human Being’, as though by now Bennett had made up his mind as to its proper formulation (Fig. 2). As we read this series or sequence of categories, just to consider the earlier version mounted on the wall for a moment—Australian, Aboriginal, Human
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2218903
Frankie Barrett, Peter Johnson, M. Ratliff
This article seeks to contribute to the burgeoning
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2222384
Giles Fielke
ed as ‘videodeath’, Smith wends his way only partly towards the images of executions for dissemination via video, like those used by Islamic terror organisations to shock and instil fear in their audience-enemies. The 17-year-old woman who filmed the police killing of Floyd, for nine unflinching minutes, was perhaps unwittingly participating in the structure of our spectacle culture that not only incites but in some sense always produces more violence. George Holliday, who used his Handycam to video LAPD officers beating Rodney King in 1991, and who died of COVID-19 on 21 September 2021, was in some ways responsible—or perhaps more pointedly, the video camcorder he used was responsible— for the 63 deaths that followed the trial of the officers, in the rioting that occurred when they were acquitted of wrongdoing in their arrest of King. (King himself died tragically in 2012 at age 47 after years of addiction and violence following the 1991 event that made him a globally famous victim of police brutality.) Yet even as Smith considers these possibilities (113–17), he skirts the existing arguments about media and violence already made so well by contemporary commentators such as Groys (‘we all know bin Laden as a video artist first and foremost’), in preference for the vague idea of ambient images as the more suitable vector for establishing the effectiveness of these recorded killings within the iconomy. The reader is left asking: why? This incongruence leads to a question that Smith seems reluctant to ask: what is it that mediates what he has gathered here in the section titled ‘Iconoclash’? As the central part of the text, there remains a very demanding debate to be had about the so-called ‘image-complex’ attributed to Meg McLagan and Yates McKee (61)—one that recapitulates the arguments against the medieval bans on the use of images made by the iconophile Nikephoros (via Mondzain’s thesis arguing for its contemporary significance). Is the answer to the question of iconoclash too much for Smith to bear? When the French philosopher Alain Badiou intervened into this question of the clash of contemporary images in a lecture from 2013 titled ‘Images of the Present Time’ (translated and published as The Pornographic Age), he argued, typically provocative, that ‘the emblem of the present age, its fetish, which covers with a false image naked power without image, is the word “democracy”’. What we have in reality is the unsolicited distribution of images by market-based, algorithmic, and visual regimes. In revealing the political contents Smith is aiming at, the anarchic solution that appears seems too difficult to fathom. Enter Donald Trump, the eventually successful presidential candidate announcing his campaign in 2015, initially as an independent, and initially distinct from the GOP. Trump’s interest in, and most often successful interventions into the media-sphere as a montage of attractions is closer to Soviet-style propaganda than the d eclass e li
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