CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet Volume 40.1 March 2011
Available online: www.cacsa.org.au
Celebrating CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet magazine’s 40th anniversary, Volume 40.1 focuses on the 2011 Singapore Biennale: Open House, as The Official Art Magazine to the Singapore Biennale.
CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet, published quarterly by the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA), Adelaide, and edited by CACSA Executive Director Alan Cruickshank, remains the only free critical visual art journal in Australia that presents a critically engaged analysis of contemporary visual art and cultural developments in the Australasian and Southeast Asian region. Informed by an International Editorial Advisory Board of recognised curators, critics, academics and artists, CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet has focused in recent years on major art developments presented by international biennales and equivalent events—the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Brisbane), the 2010 Biennale of Sydney: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age (Sydney), 2010 SCAPE Biennial (Christchurch, New Zealand), and with this latest issue, the 2011 Singapore Biennale: Open House curated by Artistic Director Matthew Ngui and curators Russell Storer and Trevor Smith.
Following recent similar discussions between Asian cultural commentators and critics Colin Chinnery, Christopher Moore and Jim Supangkat with Editor Alan Cruickshank concerning the nexus of global and regional issues, tradition and the marketplace, Broadsheet engages in a further discussion between Singapore Biennale‘s curators Ngui, Storer and Smith, and Joselina Cruz, co-curator of the 2008 Singapore Biennale: Wonder, and Eva McGovern, Head of Regional Programmes, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, concentrating upon Open House‘s objective to bring together artworks that offer multiple perspectives and myriad creative approaches to questions of how we move across borders, see other points of view, and form connections with others.
This extended exchange is complimented by a series of texts that highlight surrounding issues presented by the Singapore Biennale and its “open house” directive—a second discussion ‘curated’ by art historian Tony Godfrey on the ethics and politics of curating in Southeast Asia with some of the region’s emerging curators—Sharon Chin, Tessa Guazon, Agung Hujatnikajennong, Alan Oei and Alia Swastika; an essay by Singapore based critic Lee Weng Choy articulating ‘target audiences and biennale publics’; and Adele Tan‘s ‘Der Unheimlich and Other Historical Revelations in Southeast Asia’, a critical look at the Singapore Art Museum’s parallel and concurrent exhibition Negotiating Home, History and Nation Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011.
Open House artists Tiffany Chung, Phil Collins, Louie Cordero, Mark Salvatus, Teppei Kaneuji, Charles Lim, John Low, Robert MacPherson, Stuart Ringholt and Arin Runjjang are profiled by writers Patrick Flores, David Teh, Rex Butler, Reuben Keehan, Victoria Lynn and Tony Godfrey amongst others, while Sydney academic Adam Geczy in ‘Art Apartheid in the South Pacific’, reviews art historian John Clark‘s recent book Asian Modernities: Chinese and Thai Art Compared, 1980–1999, contextualised by recent regional biennales in Sydney and Singapore.
CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet magazine, as a major component of the CACSA’s aim to promote and develop debate and critical analysis of national and regional cultural development, is distributed throughout the Australasian and Southeast Asian regions, and is available online.
CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet Volume 40.1
The Official Art Magazine to the 2011 SINGAPORE BIENNALE–OPEN HOUSE
To be launched during the Singapore Biennale vernissage 11 March 2011
Editor Alan Cruickshank
ISSN 0819 677X
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