Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2222390
Susan Best
As the title indicates, Erin Brannigan’s new book Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s is a history of the relationship between dance and the visual arts across three decades. Typically, this relationship has been presented as dance following trends in the visual arts. For example, American dance practitioner Yvonne Rainer is frequently classified as a minimalist; the assumption being that she followed the precepts of the visual arts movement, minimalism. Rainer, of course, contributed to this way of thinking about her work through her much-cited essay of 1968 ‘A Quasi Survey of Some “Minimalist” Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A’. Brannigan’s book is a radical repositioning of dance discourse and practice, proposing that dance is central to the changes that took place in the visual art scene of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s in the United States. In other words, she very convincingly reverses the art historical assumption that the visual arts were in the lead of major artistic innovations, with dance simply following in its wake. I was surprised to find that some of the evidence for the importance of dance is already in the art historical literature but strangely has not been properly acknowledged or digested. For example, Brannigan cites prominent art historian Thomas Crow on this issue. In his book The Rise of the Sixties (1996), he provides a list of visual art borrowings from the dance style of Judson Church: ‘serial repetition, equality of parts, anonymous surfaces, suspicion of self-aggrandizing emotion’. These and other de-subjectifying impulses of the 1960s and ’70s are often used to characterise minimalism in the visual arts. Brannigan demonstrates that they are inventions of dance in the first instance. For example, amplifying Crow’s point about the suspicion of emotion, Brannigan examines in depth how choreographer Anna Halprin pioneers the inexpressive task-based work that is such a strong feature of visual arts in this period. In this vein, I was particularly struck by the revelation that the famous adage of minimalist artist Donald Judd to describe a mundane approach to composition, ‘one thing after another’, from 1965, is preceded by dancer and choreographer Simone Forti’s ‘one thing followed another’ from 1960. And that the box form, which is so important for minimalist Robert Morris’s sculpture, begins when he makes dance props for Forti. Moreover, the book makes a major contribution to dance literature of this period, which has tended to focus on the Judson Dance Theater as the key point
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2214588
C. Hurst
Cultural studies scholar Jeremy Gilbert has argued for analysis of ‘the long 1990s’—a post-End of History period of technological advancement, cultural stagnation, and increasingly entrenched neoliberalism. According to Gilbert, the long 1990s are now—hopefully—over. This article argues that the Australian cyberfeminist artists VNS Matrix are, like the decade, overdue for comprehensive critical reassessment. As a starting point for this project, I set out three propositions for considering VNS Matrix’s artworks in light of current discourses at the intersection of art, technology, and feminism. Firstly, VNS Matrix wanted to abolish the family computer (meaning change the patriarchal structures of emotional attachment that shaped how women and queer people approached new technology). Secondly, VNS Matrix’s playful exploration of queer cyborgian sexuality pre-empted the ways in which sex, gender, and technology have become entwined in our ‘pharmacopornographic’ age, to quote Paul Preciado. Thirdly, decolonial critiques of art history mean that a technomaterialist approach is crucial for analysis of net art works; all that is digital begins in the physical. In the case of VNS Matrix, this framework means situating digital artworks in relation to the land that underpinned their genesis—Tartanya/Adelaide.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2225258
Mark Ledbury, Terry Smith, Janet Laurence, M. Roberts, Chiara O’Reilly
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2212005
L. Chandler
Castaways and Cross-Cultural Interactions Prominent British maritime artist John Wilson Carmichael’s (1799–1868) two paintings, The Rescue of William D’Oyly, by the Isabella, from Murray Island, Torres Strait, 1836 (1839, fig. 1), and The Rescue of William D’Oyly (1841, fig. 2), depict a dramatic and once widely known episode in colonial Australian history. In 1834, whilst en route from Sydney to India, the barque Charles Eaton was destroyed in rough seas on a reef near the eastern tip of Cape York in northern Australia. It was unknown if there were survivors, although contradictory reports suggested that there might yet be hope. Almost two years later, in June 1836, the Government Schooner Isabella arrived at Mer (Murray Island) where Captain Lewis and his crew found two of the survivors, William D’Oyly (aged four) and John Ireland (aged seventeen), who were living with the Meriam people. Struggling to recall English, Ireland related his memories of events that ensued following the Charles Eaton’s demise, including the killing of all the adult survivors and John and William’s subsequent adoption into a Meriam family. John Ireland’s tale, which encompassed violence that fed colonial fears, as well as expressions of great compassion involving the adoption and care of the boys, captured public attention in Australia and abroad. Written accounts of the shipwreck and its aftermath included Ireland’s testimony (published as a children’s book), reports from rescue ship personnel, newspaper articles, pamphlets and other publications. There do not appear to be any publicly available paintings of the event apart from those by Carmichael, which are examined here. Like the written accounts, Carmichael’s works envisaged these encounters from a European worldview, and there is little documentary material revealing Islander perspectives of the events, although some information is conveyed through the European accounts, albeit in a mediated way. The artworks dramatically depict
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2215830
Christopher R. Marshall
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsAn early version of the article was presented at the AAANZ 2022 Conference for the session ‘Museums and Risk’. I would like to thank the other participants for their contributions as well as the anonymous readers for their most helpful suggestions. Thanks are also due to David Hurlston and to Ivan Durrant for generously responding to my questions.Notes1 For the historical significance of the Modern Masters exhibition, see Understanding Museums: Australian Museums and Museology (2011), ed. Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien, National Museum of Australia, https://nma.gov.au/research/understanding-museums/Issues_museology_introduction.html; especially Daniel Thomas, ‘Art Museums in Australia: A Personal Account’, https://nma.gov.au/research/understanding-museums/DThomas_2011.html; and Caroline Turner, ‘International Exhibitions’, https://nma.gov.au/research/understanding-museums/CTurner_2011.html; Joanna Mendelssohn, Catherine de Lorenzo, Alison Inglis and Catherine Speck, Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening Our Eyes (Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 2018), 95.2 ‘Notes for the Prime Minister for the opening of the exhibition, Modern Masters: Manet to Matisse at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 April 1975’, available at https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/original/00003691.pdf3 For the Australian Government’s role in indemnifying international loan exhibitions, see Jim Berryman, ‘Art and National Interest: The Diplomatic Origins of the “Blockbuster Exhibition” in Australia’, Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 2 (2013): 163–66.4 For the Whitlam Government’s arts policy, see ibid., 163–64; and Mendelssohn et al., Australian Art Exhibitions, 46–52. For the 1973 acquisition of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles, see Lindsay Barrett, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of the Metropolitan Dailies’, in The Prime Minister’s Christmas Card: ‘Blue Poles’ and Cultural Politics in the Whitlam Era (Sydney: Power Publications, 2001), 13–44; and Terry Smith, ‘Putting Painting at Stake: Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles’, in Jackson Pollock’s ‘Blue Poles’, ed. Anthony White, exhibition catalogue (Canberra: The National Gallery of Australia, 2002), 59–62.5 Maureen Gilchrist, ‘Great Day in Our History of Art’, The Age, Tuesday 27 May 1975; no author, ‘The Night the Modern Masters Came to Melbourne’, The Herald, May 27, 1975.6 Ibid.7 ‘And the Queue just goes on … and on … and on …’, The Herald, June 21, 1975.8 Greg McKenzie, ‘I’ll Kill the Cow on the Stage: Artist’, The Sun, May 25, 1975.9 ‘MONASH COW, TX 28/5/75, EX FILM NTV1639, 1.58’, ABC Research Archives; ‘Monash University Cancels Ivan Durrant Happening Planned for Alexander Theatre’, ABC Research Archives.10 A version of the footage is available online. The description reads: ‘Unedited version cow being slaughtered in paddock (actual shooting not included on ‘Current Affair’) cow being dumped on steps’. ‘Australia: Cow Killing an A
本文的早期版本已在AAANZ 2022年会议的“博物馆与风险”会议上发布。我要感谢其他与会者的贡献，以及匿名读者提供的最有帮助的建议。还要感谢David Hurlston和Ivan Durrant慷慨地回答了我的问题。注1“现代大师”展览的历史意义，见《了解博物馆:澳大利亚博物馆与博物馆学》(2011)，Des Griffin和Leon Paroissien主编，澳大利亚国家博物馆，https://nma.gov.au/research/understanding-museums/Issues_museology_introduction.html;尤其是丹尼尔·托马斯，“澳大利亚艺术博物馆:个人账户”，https://nma.gov.au/research/understanding-museums/DThomas_2011.html;卡罗琳·特纳，“国际展览”，https://nma.gov.au/research/understanding-museums/CTurner_2011.html;乔安娜·门德尔松、凯瑟琳·德·洛伦佐、艾莉森·英格利斯和凯瑟琳·斯佩克，澳大利亚艺术展:打开我们的眼睛(墨尔本:泰晤士和哈德逊，2018)，95.2《总理开幕致辞》，《现代大师:《马奈到马蒂斯，在新南威尔士美术馆，悉尼，1975年4月9日》，可在https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/original/00003691.pdf3上查阅。关于澳大利亚政府在保护国际出借展览方面的作用，见Jim Berryman，《艺术与国家利益:澳大利亚“轰动展览”的外交起源》，《澳大利亚研究杂志》第37期。惠特拉姆政府的艺术政策，见同上，163-64;和门德尔松等人，澳大利亚艺术展览，46-52。关于1973年获得的杰克逊·波洛克的《蓝柱》，见《总理的圣诞贺卡:惠特拉姆时代的“蓝柱”和文化政治》(悉尼:Power Publications, 2001)， 13-44页，林赛·巴雷特，“大都会日报时代的艺术作品”;和特里·史密斯，“将绘画置于危险之中:杰克逊·波洛克的蓝杆”，杰克逊·波洛克的“蓝杆”，安东尼·怀特编辑，展览目录(堪培拉:澳大利亚国家美术馆，2002年)，59-62.5莫林·吉尔克里斯特，“我们艺术史上伟大的一天”，时代杂志，1975年5月27日星期二;无作者，“现代大师来到墨尔本的夜晚”，《先驱报》，1975.6，同上7，《先驱报》，1975.6,6月21日，格雷格·麦肯齐，“我要在舞台上杀死那头牛:艺术家”，《太阳报》，1975.9，“莫纳什牛，德克萨斯州28/5/75,EX FILM NTV1639, 1.58”，ABC研究档案馆;“莫纳什大学取消了原定在亚历山大剧院上演的伊万·达兰特的演出”，ABC研究档案。描述是这样写的:“未经编辑的版本，奶牛在围场被屠杀(真实的枪击事件没有出现在《时事》中)，奶牛被扔在台阶上。”澳大利亚:牛杀死一个愤怒的抗议浪潮(1975)“英国代,https://www.britishpathe.com/video/VLVA2GG9QNTKLPWC7HSJ0KE5O0BMR-AUSTRALIA-COW-KILLING-AN-ANGRY-WAVE-OF-PROTEST/query/durrant.11艺术家引用的100美元的罚款,倾销死牛”,年龄,7月24日,1975.12“Dead-Cow“艺术”在画廊”,太阳,星期二,5月27日1975.13维多利亚国家美术馆,受托人委员会,1975年6月3日,导演的报告,V (b)的下降的死牛的画廊”,肖研究图书馆,NGV.14裁判法院，墨尔本。1975年6月9日，《关于立即应受惩罚的罪行的资料和传票》，艺术家收藏关于1975年6月伊万·杜兰特的断手，见展览目录，大卫·赫尔斯顿与罗德尼·詹姆斯和巴里·迪金斯合著，澳大利亚维多利亚国家美术馆，2020年5月1日至10月25日(墨尔本:NGV出版社，2020年)，24-25页;68-69.16 Eva Dodd，“艺术新闻”，Toorak Times, 1975年6月10日。17“倾倒一头死牛罚款100美元”尼尔·豪，平行现实:澳大利亚行为艺术的发展(伦敦:泰晤士和哈德逊，2017)，275-76.19格雷姆·斯特金，“公共场合的私人仪式”，《澳大利亚人报》，1975年8月2日。20杰弗里·马金，“重症护理艺术:病了”，《太阳报》，1975年6月30日。查尔斯·格林，《周边视觉:当代澳大利亚艺术1970-1994》(墨尔本:Craftsman House, 1995)， 12-13;凯瑟琳·路易斯·格雷戈里，《艺术家和博物馆:1975-2002年澳大利亚艺术和博物馆学中有争议的历史和扩展叙事》(博士论文)。，墨尔本大学，2004)，18-24;和门德尔松等人，澳大利亚艺术展览，78-80.22星期四1975年8月21日-“抗议维多利亚国家美术馆”，肖研究图书馆，NGV。 23莫滕森1975年的熟食店装置和表演，见安妮·马什，《身体与自我:澳大利亚的行为艺术，1969-92》(墨尔本:澳大利亚视频艺术档案馆，莫纳什大学，1993)，8，以及对里士满Pinacotheca画廊的评论，这是这一时期行为艺术的另一个重要的早期背景卡尔多公共艺术项目，项目03:吉尔伯特和乔治，https://archive.kaldorartprojects.org.au/index.php/Detail/objects/26。关于讨论，见Sophie Forbat主编，Kaldor公共艺术项目，展览目录(悉尼:John Kaldor, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2009)， 86-99.25，表演，文献，电影，录像，展览目录，维多利亚国家美术馆，墨尔本，1975年8月28日至9月28日。参见Stephen Jones，“维多利亚国家美术馆的录像艺术，1973-78”，Art Journal 52 (2013)， https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/video-art-at-the-national-gallery-of-victoria-1973-78/;和Mendelssohn等人，澳大利亚艺术展览，78-79.26丹尼尔·托马斯指出“它暗示了对美国文化帝国主义的抗议，也可能是由于当时越南战争的泥潭而更广泛的反美主义”。丹尼尔·托马斯，“肉体的道德:墨尔本的伊万·杜兰特”，澳大利亚艺术月刊172(2004年8月):33.27这位艺术家在2023年2月13日对作者的采访中也强调，死牛的发生“与反美主义无关”。这位艺术家引用于吉尔·鲍恩，“伊凡雷帝:他又来了”，克莱奥，1976年8月，26.29。，见亚历山大·阿尔伯罗和布莱克·斯廷森主编。，《制度批判:艺术家作品选集》(马萨诸塞州剑桥:麻省理工学院出版社，2009)，第20-42页。关于与更当代实践相关的制度批判，见Janet Marstine，批判实践:艺术家，博物馆，伦理(Routledge: London, 2017)， 6
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2216745
James Nguyen
For more than five years, I have been working with collaborator Victoria Pham on a project titled Re:Sounding. As artist-researchers, our work continues to bring together collaborators, organisations, and very different communities to reinvigorate, reclaim, and rematriate the sounds and musical culture of instruments held in museum and private collections. Our work began with the Dông Sơn drums, a group of Bronze Age instruments that were primarily excavated from the Red River Delta in the north of Vietnam during French occupation and collected from various tribes and cultures throughout Southeast Asia. As the children of boat people, Victoria and I regularly heard stories about these mythical bronze drums. Instead of focusing on the traumas of the war, our families told us stories about fantastical instruments that carried the sound of thunder from the ancient times of the Da: i Viê: t, ancestors to the Vietnamese Kinh majority three thousand years ago. These drums could summon thunderstorms and lightning, simultaneously bringing harvest rains and releasing wild torrents capable of washing away enemy invaders. Despite these stories, our parents had only ever seen archaeological and ethnographic photographs of Dông Sơn drums in old schoolbooks. In the aftermath of decolonial ruptures during the 1950s and 1960s, these drums had by then been largely looted or systematically ‘rescued’ for ethnographic and scientific study elsewhere. It was not until 2016, whilst visiting me during a funded travelling fellowship (from the Samstag Museum of Art and the University of South Australia) that my parents had their first encounter with a Dông Sơn drum. As tourists marking off the must dos of New York City, we happened on a small example of this mythical drum, displayed in the Florence and Herbert Irving Southeast Asian Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. My parents were unlikely to be motivated enough to visit similar museums back in Australia, but in this instance, visiting me during my arts research residency, they were willing to participate in popular high art and culture. Spot lit and arranged alongside other Bronze Age artefacts, this Dông Sơn drum was silently displayed behind thick museum glass. Contradicting the
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2022.2143766
S. Albl
The novelty of Angelo Lo Conte’s book lies in its approach to the study of the Procaccini brothers’ careers which are analysed for the very first time through a socio-economic framework, interconnecting Camillo (1551-1629), Carlo Antonio (1555-1630) and Giulio Cesare’s (1574-1625) individual stories and understanding their success as the combination of family strategy, workshop practice and business organisation. The book investigates the practical reasons that prompted the Procaccini to leave Bologna between the end of 1587 and beginning of 1588 and relocate to Milan as well as the strategies enacted by the family members to settle in the new city. In doing so, the volume moves away from a focus on the individual brothers (especially Giulio Cesare, the most talented and widely collected artist of the three brothers) that appear in previous studies on the Procaccini and encloses Camillo, Carlo Antonio, and Giulio Cesare’s careers in a narrative that emphasises their achievements as painters and entrepreneurs. Such an approach allows for an investigation of the choices made by the Procaccini brothers at different times in their careers, the commissions they received, as well as the structure and the geographic focus they assigned to their family workshop. While art historical studies informed by a socio-economic approach have been devoted to cities such as Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Bologna, this has never been done for Milan. This fact alone reveals the ambitious, bold and innovative approach chosen by the author. The book is divided into six chapters. Chapter One “Old and New Approaches to the Procaccini” gives full credit to Carlo Cesare Malvasia who provides in his Felsina Pittrice (1678) the most complete source on the lives of the Procaccini brothers. Malvasia visited Milan in 1667 where he learned about the Procaccini from Ercole the Younger, Carlo Antonio’s son and the only remaining member of this dynasty of painters. Malvasia’s account on the Procaccini, as pointed out by Lo Conte, is an essay on a family story (p. 15). Before focusing on their individual achievements, Malvasia speaks about the connections between the brothers and states that the family members mutually agreed to leave Bologna. Malvasia also includes several excerpts from treatises written by seventeenth-century authors, such as Francesco Scanelli, Raffaello Soprani, Marco Boschini and Giambattista Marino, that document the fame and status the artists had gained during their lifetimes. Lo Conte draws attention to Girolamo Borsieri’s comments about Giulio Cesare’s excellence in sculpture and his stylistic closeness to Parmigianino as well Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2022, vol. 22, no. 2, 234–236 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143766
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2022.2143759
Ngarino Ellis
Art history courses have the capacity and responsibility to engage students with materials, ideas, frameworks, and people to help them understand the multi-vocal and diverse world in which we all now live. The days of the ‘ sage on the stage ’ style of lecturing was never inspiring, instead reinforcing a generations-old power dynamic. This created silence and passivity on the part of students, and often reflected the world outside the classroom, where the perspectives of Indigenous women were often belittled and sidelined. Many art history curricula have been interrogated over the past twenty years, as part of a wider questioning of the canon — and the discipline. Globally, many teachers have pivoted their pedagogy towards a more nuanced and, frankly, more interesting way of teaching, quite apart from the material which they cover in their courses. At the University of Auckland, the discipline of art history has offered a diverse range of courses for many years, due in no small part to the broad range of lecturers. We are (remarkably in 2022) the only art history department that has one full-time permanent M (cid:1) aori teacher and one Pasifika. This has shaped the offerings to encompass M (cid:1) aori and Pacific material, from stage one through to Honours and PhD supervisions. Due to our modest number of FTEs (four), we only offer one course on gender specifically, though gender is an important aspect of other courses, from the Renaissance through to contempor-ary practice. This short article focuses on four key aspects of a stage two and three course, ‘ Gender, Ethnicity and Visual Culture ’ . The goal here is to shed light on how the course is shaped, in an effort to encourage other teachers to broaden not only their content but also, and equally important, the way in which the material is pre-sented. Teaching from a te ao M (cid:1) aori (M (cid:1) aori worldview) perspective
艺术史课程有能力也有责任让学生参与到材料、思想、框架和人员中来，帮助他们理解我们现在生活的这个多声音、多样化的世界。“舞台上的圣人”式演讲的日子从来都不鼓舞人心，反而强化了几代人以来的权力动态。这造成了学生的沉默和被动，并经常反映出课堂之外的世界，在那里，土著妇女的观点经常被贬低和边缘化。在过去的二十年里，许多艺术史课程都受到了质疑，这是对经典和学科更广泛质疑的一部分。在全球范围内，许多教师将他们的教学方法转向了一种更微妙、坦率地说更有趣的教学方式，与他们在课程中涵盖的材料截然不同。在奥克兰大学，艺术史学科多年来提供了各种各样的课程，这在很大程度上要归功于广泛的讲师。我们是（值得注意的是，2022年）唯一一个拥有一名全职M（cid:1）aori老师和一名Pasifika老师的艺术史系。这使得课程涵盖了从第一阶段到荣誉和博士生导师的M（cid:1）aori和Pacific材料。由于我们的全职员工数量不多（四名），我们只提供一门专门针对性别的课程，尽管从文艺复兴到当代实践，性别是其他课程的一个重要方面。这篇短文聚焦于第二阶段和第三阶段课程“性别、种族和视觉文化”的四个关键方面。这里的目标是阐明课程是如何形成的，以鼓励其他教师不仅拓宽他们的内容，而且同样重要的是，拓宽材料的呈现方式。从te ao M（cid:1）aori（M（cid:1）aoli世界观）的角度进行教学
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2022.2143761
C. Hurst
Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia (2021) is Anne Marsh’s ambitious national survey of art and writing about and alongside feminism. The book begins with the 1960s pre-rumblings of the second wave and ends in the 2010s—bypassing the first half of the twentieth century in favour of the extended period when feminism as a concerted theoretical, political and artistic project has been most impactful in Australia. The publication is comprehensive, featuring over 220 artists, and is lavishly illustrated, with hundreds of colour plates filling its glossy pages. If read as a politically chic coffee table book, Doing Feminism excels. It has a stylish, large-format design with a distinctive highlighteryellow cover. Rather than slowly working through dense theory, readers can flick open to short (around 300 word) essays and enough feminist artworks to animate a thousand consciousness-raising circles. As a scholarly resource, the book is valuable—it will serve as a good starting point for finding under-researched artists and as a handy compendium of key Australian feminist art texts, many of which are difficult to locate online. However, Doing Feminism has limitations. It suffers from a meagre offering of critical feminist texts from the past two decades. More significantly, the book relies heavily on a framework of the “avant-garde”, which, to this reviewer, was a methodological distraction from the central project at hand. Try as one may to distance or repurpose the term away from European modernism, avant-garde is inseparable from its theoretical origins. The term struggles in the context of a twenty first century Australian artworld attempting to decolonise. Doing Feminism already had to contend with the unwieldy categories of ‘Australian’, ‘women’s art’ and ‘feminist criticism’. Did the book really need the added challenge of avant-garde? Doing Feminism could be seen as a monograph bookending the Australian era of the feminist blockbuster exhibition. Hilary Robinson identified this international trend of large-scale multi-artist museum shows dedicated to relations between art and feminism beginning around 2005. Notable examples were WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Years of Art and Feminism (2007) at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum and elles@centrepompidou (2009) in Paris. In Australia, Susan Best tracked a continuation of the trend with Contemporary Australia: Women (2012) at QAGOMA. The trend continued with Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism (2017-18) at ACCA, Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, Part
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2022.2149383
V. McInnes
As Ver onica Tello notes in her introduction to this issue, following the Know My Name conference in November 2020, several participants began conversations around ‘continuing the work of critiquing the gendered discrimination at the centre of Australian art institutions’. In fact, these conversations were already ongoing at that point, and they will no doubt continue. During one of the conference panel discussions, Janine Burke spoke to her frustration at the institutional amnesia and systemic resistance to feminist discourses she has encountered during a career in the visual arts that has spanned half a century. The discussion that follows was initiated to address this sense of despondency, not to provide a neat rationale but to continue picking at—or as Tello would have it, ‘unsettling’—the problems. It also provides an opportunity to bring into focus a series of personal and embodied Australian feminist art exhibition histories. During the course of our conversation, Burke proposes a ‘double gaze’ for feminism, positing that we must look back not only so that it is possible to move forwards but also so that we might understand and frame our present moment. Vikki McInnes (VM): Know My Name is a gender-equity initiative launched by the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in 2019 that has comprised numerous exhibitions and events, a conference, and a major publication to date. The project is self-described as ‘a celebration, a commitment and a call to action’. In her review, in this journal, of the Know My Name exhibition, Jeanette Hoorn pointed out that you, in fact, had curated the first ‘know my name’ exhibition in 1975, with Australian Women Artists, 100 Years: 1840 to 1940, which opened at the Ewing and George Paton Galleries, University of Melbourne, and toured nationally. Janine, you have been at the forefront of feminist pedagogies and exhibitionmaking in Australia since that time. I’m interested in unpacking some of the histories of feminism, and feminism’s relationship to institutions in Australia, particularly by looking at women’s art exhibitions and the history and trajectory of
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