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The April-June 2019 issue of Arts Features International is the artists protest issue.
RUTH SKILBECK
Letter from the editor 7
First Artists Announcement: NIRIN Biennale of Sydney text & photos 13
DR. CHRISTINE EVERINGHAM
Creating Community Protest opinion editorial 20
CHRISTINE EVERINGHAM and THERESE DOYLE
Book extract Wrong Track: What Drove Supercars to Newcastle Introduction; Chapter one: Heritage neighbourhood or racing circuit? Photographs by Newcastle Residents Community Group (NERG) 22
RUTH SKILBECK
Newcastle Heritage Policy? Kerb Your Enthusiasm 48 Destruction (cracked wall and floor, falling tiles) photograph 51
NAVA (National Association of Visual Arts) Invest in Artistic Courage 2019 Statement 52
NATASHA WILLIAMS
The Budget lino print cartoon 54
DR. RUTH SKILBECK
Book extract The Writer’s Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and
Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity (2nd ed.) From Chapter one: Exiled Writers’ Human Rights and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis 55
RUTH SKILBECK
Off the Road: Photographs of the Biennale of Sydney Boycott, 2014 81 Biennale Artists Responses to Cutting Ties with ‘Detention Camps’ 84
SUELLEN SYMONS Portrait of Bob Brown 88
RUTH SKILBECK Adani Mine Emergency 89
SUELLEN SYMONS
Stop Adani Protest Easter Sunday with Bob Brown 92
RUTH SKILBECK and SUELLEN SYMONS Artists and Local Community against Adani Mine 94
SUELLEN SYMONS and RUTH SKILBECK The Big Rev-Up: Stop Adani Benefit Auction 96
RUTH SKILBECK
Suellen Symons’ Strange Paradise 100
SUELLEN SYMONS
Strange Paradise (Redfern Then and Now) Head On Photo Festival 105
SILVIA PEASE
Book Review: Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency by Santiago Zabala 108
WANG ZHIYUAN
From Painting to Wall-sculpture the case of Wang Zhiyuan
Translated by Jin Hua and Mabel Lee 111 RUTH SKILBECK
Cafe Life in the Antipodes Novel extract 123 JEREMY GLUCK
Manifesto of Nonceptual Art: This is the ant’s language 128 JEREMY GLUCK and DON TYLER
Phase47/Nonceptualism: Sound and Vision 132
JEREMY GLUCK with photographs by RUTH SKILBECK
Andy Warhol and Gustav Metzger: Before the Flood 134 ROSEMARY OSBORNE with JEREMY GLUCK
How Memes Can Shift the Educational Landscape 141 JEREMY GLUCK with ROSEMARY OSBORNE
thestudentbeings: Eltham Hill School Collaboration 145
RUTH SKILBECK
Under Twenty-Seven-Ella Dreyfus’ Exhibition at Watt Space Gallery.
Head On Photo Festival. On site photography 154-155; 163-165 RUTH SKILBECK
Under a Maternal Feminist Gaze-Ella Dreyfus’ Under Twenty-Seven 156 DR. ELLA DREYFUS
Picturing Masculinity, with artworks 159 PROFESSOR CATHARINE LUMBY
Under Twenty-Seven 161
DR. DEBORAH VAN HEEKEREN
Disruption at Grossman House Exhibition and statement On site photography Lizz Mackenzie 166
LUCIANO PRISCO
Unter Asche mixed media artwork 186
VEE MALNAR
Moonage Daydream short play 187
BAND GIGS, TOURS & RELEASES
ANA KEY AND THE UNDERDOGS 195 PAULA PUNCH 196-197
BUSH GOTHIC 198
DATSON HUGHES 19
