In Brief: The Future of Art Schools etc.
There are two principal challenges facing art schools today. Both pertain to the decades-long impact of neoliberalism.
Another Place After Another
The exhibition ‘Transplant’ was conceived as a collaboration between the independent artist space KNULP in Sydney and Sydney College of the Arts gallery at the University of Sydney. Part of the underlying though not explicit mandate of the exhibition, was to highlight the seminal role independent art spaces play in the creation and critique of contemporary culture locally and around the world.
From Pillar to Post
This exhibition addressed the unique physical peculiarities of the ageing colonial-era architecture in which it occurred. Its title, ‘Pillar to Post’ suggested the degree to which contemporary life is evermore at the whim of external forces that propel us from one space to another. We move more frequently than ever from one place to another, from one situation to another, willingly or not.
Art and the Politics of Withdrawal
The controversy surrounding founding Biennale of Sydney corporate sponsor Transfield, and its simultaneous operation of refugee detention centres, raises much broader issues. At first glance, could there be anything more diametrically opposed than a multi-national corporation capitalising on human suffering and a mass cultural event implicitly believed to democratically celebrate global difference?
To produce value under Capital is a misfortune because it means producing value for somebody else.