Category: Essay
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On the Spiritual in Contemporary Art
Phenomenal exhibition 28 October – 9 December 2024 Andy BestAdam BirchmoreMatt HuppatzMonika MorgensternHenry WolffMin Wong In a puckish gesture, the philosopher and psychologist Ullin T. Place donated his brain to the University of Adelaide, stipulating that it be placed on display accompanied by a label reading: “Did this brain contain the consciousness of U. T. Place?”…
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DICTIONARY OF MIKMAK
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome See Micropsia and Macropsia Body The exhibition includes forms relating to bodies of plants, animals and people. In no cases are they the idealised bodies of traditional art, or the ‘perfect’ bodies of contemporary mass culture. They are boneless agglomerations of flesh, skin, hair, organs. They are vulnerable, lumpen, disordered –…
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Instructions for a catalogue essay
How did it all start? The space in Regent Arcade that The Little Machine (TLM) occupies needed very little doing to it when we moved in at the start of 2023. One thing it did need was a wall to divide the space into a gallery at the front, and a small storage space at…
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Paint thing… I think I love you… But I want to know for sure
Essay written for Paint Thing… You Make my Heart Sing
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Varieties of Love
Essay written for Love Object Object Love