For many contemporary artists, taboos and prohibitions are the sweetest things to explore and play with. Abjection in arts goes beyond a call for an attention. It is the reflection of ego that can be found in the traces of body.
When Andres Serrono’s Piss Christ stirred up National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and caused [...]
To explore the impact of globalisation on arts, we need to understand the difference between ‘globalisation’ and ‘globalism’. Globalisation is mechanism that tries to chain and connect to planet together whereas globalism is an attempt to make sense of it or even counteract it such as José Bové in France. Since the last decade, artists [...]
To satisfy my obsession and to deal with the flood of photo shots of junk on the streets of Sydney, I make another work to send in Video Art at CoFA for the loop project. It is about a year when I first one of the series in the workshop with Metro Screen, Anywhere Chairs [...]
One of my works gets short listed for this year Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize. The work is the final version of one of the Bangkok travel series.
4-21 September2008
The Vanishing Point Contemporary Art (ATVP)
565 King Street, Newtown
I’ll see you there.
Opening night and presentation
Thursday 11 September 2008, 6-9 pm
(For work not short listed for main category awards)
11-28 [...]
One of the hi lights of Biennale of Sydney on Cockatoo Island is Mike Parr video installations in one of the abandoned office building. It is a collection of 30 years of his artist career. He uses his body to explore pain and violence as a part of human being. It is not pretty. It [...]
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