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Chris Saines, Director, Jason Smith, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, and Bruce McLean, Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art are joined in conversation by Justin Bishop, Director, KickArts Contemporary Arts, and Sally Butler, Lecturer, Art History, The University of Queensland to discuss some of the issues and considerations around the current state of art in Queensland.
Channon Goodwin, Director of BUS Projects, Melbourne and former Founding Co-Director and Chair of the board of Boxcopy, Brisbane hosts a panel of young and emerging 'GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art' artists, discussing their works in the exhibition as well as their experience of being an emerging artists currently in Queensland. Artists include Clark Beaumont, Sam Cranstoun, Dale Harding, Naomi Hobson and Anita Holtsclaw.
'GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art' is at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until 11 October with the exhibition profiling 31 emerging, mid-career and senior artists working across drawing, painting, photography, video, installation, performance, ceramics and sculpture — Vernon Ah Kee; Davida Allen; Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan; Paul Bai; Clark Beaumont; Antoinette J Citizen; Sam Cranstoun; Julie Fragar; Chantal Fraser; Ian Friend; Kim Guthrie; Dale Harding; Jennifer Herd; Naomi Hobson; Pat Hoffie; Anita Holtsclaw; Madeleine Kelly; Moe Louanjli; Ross Manning; Mavis Ngallametta; Liam O'Brien; Lawrence Omeenyo; Brian Robinson; Monica Rohan; Teho Ropeyarn; Gordon Shepherdson; Grant Stevens; Tyza Stewart; David M Thomas; Tim Woodward; and Michael Zavros.
The accompanying exhibition publication GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art also features a roundtable discussion with some of the state's leaders in the arts, GOMA Q touches on many different aspects of the Queensland experience.
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The Gallery presents a long-awaited major exhibition by Robert MacPherson, one of Australia's most respected and senior artists. MacPherson has a 40-year exhibition history, including several Sydney Biennales and many international exhibitions. Guest curated by Ingrid Periz — a former Harkness Fellow and a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and New York University — 'Robert MacPherson: The Painter's Reach' at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until 18 October 2015 includes works from the broad scope of four decades of the artist's practice.
Robert MacPherson has long examined the role of the artist in the art-making process, through both modernist and conceptual forms, and his practice combines wide-ranging contemplations on the act of painting with a reverence for the local and the everyday. 'The Painter's Reach' looks at how these relate within his practice. The Gallery has significant holdings of works by MacPherson, and the recent acquisition of 1000 FROG POEMS: 1000 BOSS DROVERS ("YELLOW LEAF FALLING") FOR H.S. 1996–2014 has greatly enhanced the Collection.
The exhibition begins with MacPherson's 1970s works, in which he explores painting as process using sets of rules and limits with gestures and marks to the scale of his own body. While resembling high-modernist painting, the artist's early works are better described as conceptual and process-based. The text accompanying MacPherson's 1975 exhibition at the IMA read as follows:
An awareness of modern art history, a belief that all good art comes from previous art, my rules are formed within this context.
An awareness of the means. I have no wish to subvert the means, the rectangle or negate the object.
Juxtapositioning of means (surface, handling and ground) is content.
My work makes no assumption beyond itself — then you have response, and that's another story.
An awareness of formal principles remains. Things happen in process and are left; I am surprised.1
This use of a polemical typewritten page became of primary importance to MacPherson's practice, but here it sets out a manifesto-like position, explaining his motivations. The act of shaping the canvas to his own body size and conventions was of key significance within this series of MacPherson's work and the corporeal relationship of the artist to the work, and the corresponding physical relationship to the viewer continue to be important throughout his practice.
In 1993, MacPherson himself articulated his interrogative practice as a 'search for a container':
. . . about 1973 I hit on the idea that I was confronted by the container all the time in the canvas rectangle, this rectangle was shape and container and all I needed to do was to cover this rectangle container in some manner or another.2
By 1982, MacPherson had moved to the point of musing on the ubiquity of painted surfaces throughout everyday life. Bending to polish his shoes with a brush, he realised "My Shoes Are Paintings!!!" This epiphany resulted in MacPherson's ongoing 'Frog Poems' series, structured around naming and categorisation. Often taking the form of an object — perhaps a chainsaw, shovel or beehive — paired with a Latin species name, the 'Frog Poems' use a feature of the object somehow implicated by the name. For example, the 17 canvas stretcher beds of the Gallery's "17 FROG POEMS (FOR G. N. & A. W. (WHO BY EXAMPLE) TAUGHT THE KINDER WAY)" 1987–1989 are paired with the names of 17 burrowing or hibernating or 'summer sleeping' frogs.
Soon after showing the first 'Frog Poems', MacPherson showed some drawings (also called 'Frog Poems') created by his alter ego, Robert Pene — a grade 4 student at Saint Joseph's Convent, Nambour, in 1947 — which later enabled his magnificent work 1000 FROG POEMS: 1000 BOSS DROVERS ("YELLOW LEAF FALLING") FOR H.S. 1996–2014. Completed over two decades, it takes up the large wall of the Long Gallery. This work also forms the core of the commissioned interactive project for the Children's Art Centre, 'Swags and Swamp Rats', where children can go on a journey through the exhibition, learning about the people, places and objects that inspire the artist.
Through many serial works, MacPherson's practice has evolved idiosyncratically, from painting to object-based 'Frog Poems' musing on denotative meanings, to poetic painted texts such as the 'Mayfair' series, investigating the formal and connotative qualities of language. MacPherson's text piece 'I ALWAYS BUY MY LUNCH AT THE MAYFAIR BAR' underpins his roadside signage works, which could be seen as landscape paintings in situ. Instead of trying to capture something of the Australian landscape into one image, they are sited 'in' the landscape, often offering local produce or activities local to their situation and season — Bethonga Gold pineapples, Lebanese cucumbers, kebabs, fishing gear — employing evocative slang and vernacular language. These works introduce a lightness and playfulness; playing with language and meaning while still exploring painterly concerns such as colour relationships, formal interactions and surface 'incident'. MacPherson often returns to concerns and subjects identified earlier in his works. His most recent series, "MAYFAIR BAR REVISITED", returns to the Mayfair Bar text in series of colorful monochromes and abstract paintings relating to the various routines, rituals and productions of the sandwich shop.
Similarly, MacPherson's 'PEERLESS' series returns to the scale of his own body. Peerless Dry Cleaners is MacPherson's local drycleaner in Brisbane. The artist's shirt widths determined the size of the canvas stretchers, and MacPherson takes the drycleaner's list of colours on his receipt to determine the colour of the canvas. As Ingrid Periz notes:
If the 70s paintings can be understood as process-oriented — how the paint fell from the brush — these works can be understood as procedurally driven, with MacPherson using the cleaner's procedure for handling laundry as the means of generating work while distancing, if not removing, the role of artistic choice.3
IN "MAYFAIR: (PEERLESS) 3RD GROUP 4 S.F." 2002–2007, MacPherson acknowledges Brisbane colorist Sam Fullbrook in his dedication, and hangs a group of short-sleeved men's shirts with a weeping breast pocket, the swathes of colour fall as if created by a leaking pen.
Discussed and exhibited in a multitude of artistic contexts, Robert MacPherson continues to inspire and influence successive generations of Australian artists with his highly intelligent and rigorous yet expansive and inclusive practice, which invites us all contemplate the processes by which art is made, and the ways we create meaning.
1 Robert MacPherson, artist's statement from Bulletin, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, vol.1, no.1, 1975, unpaginated.
2 Robert MacPherson, A Proposition to Draw [exhibition catalogue], University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 1993, unpaginated.
3 Ingrid Periz, 'The painter's reach', in Robert MacPherson: The Painter's Reach, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2015, pp.15–49.
A generous gift to the Collection from James C Sourris, AM, this jazz-titled, lozenge-shaped canvas by Australian artist Dick Watkins 'oozes 1960s cool and vitality'.
In the 1968 catalogue for the landmark exhibition 'The Field', Royston Harpur identified The Mooche 1968 by Dick Watkins as 'the outstanding painting' in the exhibition.1 Curator Brian Finemore and exhibition officer John Stringer brought together the latest in Colour Field and hard-edge abstract painting and sculpture for 'The Field', which was held at the newly built National Gallery of Victoria on St Kilda Road in Melbourne. The exhibition attracted huge publicity and attendances, with around 100 000 visitors in its first weekend.2 Critics at the time were particularly harsh, but today 'The Field' is acclaimed as one of the most important exhibitions in Australian art history. Testaments to this are the generous amount of literature on it and numerous exhibitions revisiting the theme since the 1980s. Early in his career, Watkins looked to the work of North American abstract expressionists and Pop artists working in a narrative manner, and in 1968 attended lectures given by visiting influential art critic Clement Greenberg. Watkins's travels between 1959 and 1961 played a key role in shaping his practice: he lived in London, visited continental Europe and stopped off in New York before returning to Australia. The Mooche hints at lyrical abstraction, at what was to come. Indeed, in his catalogue essay for 'The Field', Patrick McCaughey (then art critic for The Age) predicted that with The Mooche, '. . . the opening of the field and the loosening of the paint promise a view of the future. . .'3
With undercurrents of Cubism and early Russian Constructivism, The Mooche is a vibrant mix of Pop meets Colour Field and hard-edge abstraction. With soft-edged forms and a rhythmic movement of shapes traversing the picture plane, this jazz-titled work oozes 1960s cool and vitality. Its lozenge-shaped canvas4 adds to the work's dynamism and alludes to Piet Mondrian's losangiques, first painted in 1918.
The Mooche has passed through some significant collections. Until 1988 it was owned by mining engineer Jeremy Caddy before entering the prestigious Laverty Collection (Dr Colin and Elizabeth Laverty) of Indigenous and non-Indigenous art. Gifted to QAGOMA by Brisbane collector and QAGOMA Foundation Committee member James C Sourris, AM, it strengthens our existing holdings of mid-twentieth-century paintings and early Australian abstraction. The Mooche joins three other works in the Collection that were exhibited in 'The Field': the large, modular Colour Field painting Arbitrator 1968 by Central Street frontman Tony McGillick, Dale Hickey's Untitled 1967, and Nigel Lendon's Slab construction 11 1968. Along with these are examples in the Collection that closely relate to other works in 'The Field', such as the influential American James Doolin's Artificial landscape 1967, Robert Rooney's Kind-hearted kitchen-garden I 1967, and two untitled white/off-white paintings by Robert Hunter, both from 1968.
Many of the artists in 'The Field', including Watkins, lived or travelled overseas in the years preceding the exhibition, and this undoubtedly helped to shape its content. A time of huge political and cultural change, North American popular culture was rapidly filtering into Australian life. The Mooche emphatically represents a period when many Australian artists abandoned traditional motifs, such as the landscape, and embraced a new internationalism.
1 Royston Harpur, then curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, artist and former manager of Sydney's Central Street Gallery, in The Field [exhibition catalogue], National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and The Aldine Press, 1968, p.93.
2 The Sun, Victoria, 26 August 1968.
3 Patrick McCaughey in The Field, p.90.
4 This was also a format used by Kenneth Noland for his paintings Go 1964 and Stand 1966, which were exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and the Art Gallery of New South wales, Sydney, as part of the hugely popular and influential 1967 exhibition 'Two Decades of American Painting' from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The 50-year career of one of Australia's most important conceptual artists will be celebrated with the major survey 'Robert MacPherson: The Painter's Reach', opening at GOMA from 25 July to 18 October 2015.
Deceptively simple black and white paintings defined by the limits of the artist's outstretched arm and paintings based on the language of roadside signs are just some of the key works assembled for the exhibition.
Director Chris Saines CNZM said the exhibition, curated by New York-based author and curator Ingrid Periz, includes over 65 works in a much-deserved celebration of the artist and his career.
'As one of Australia's most important and resilient artists, MacPherson's practice expands on the conceptual possibilities of the act of painting and revels in the multitude of languages, systems and processes that art can make visible.'
Exhibition curator Ingrid Periz said MacPherson's work is concerned with the practice of art making.
'MacPherson's work is fuelled by a series of questions around the artist's role, as well as the function and effect of naming. These questions, combined with an innate sense of material that is to hand – a paintbrush, a printed packet, a painted roadside sign – ensures a reach that begins with the particular and extends far beyond.'
'The Painter's Reach' includes works from the 1970s including SCALE FROM THE TOOL 1976, MacPherson's elegant series of black and white paintings of simple wide paint strokes made by the artist standing at arm's length from the canvas.
Using industrial house painting brushes, MacPherson examines his literal and figurative reach as a painter. The result is a bold and dramatic installation of 19 panels that acts as the introduction to the themes of the exhibition.
MacPherson's interest in language and the Australian vernacular is illustrated in a series of paintings including MAYFAIR: LAMINGTON DRIVE, FOR IGOR MULLER-GRABINSKY 1995–2005 a large four-panel painting incorporating MacPherson's idiosyncratic truncation of everyday language.
Presented alongside the survey is the recently-acquired work 1000 FROG POEMS: 1000 BOSS DROVERS ("YELLOW LEAF FALLING") FOR H.S. 1996–2014. The 2400 individually numbered drawings of this project, each including a portrait and a name, were created over a 20 year period in the guise of the artist's alter ego 'Robert Pene', a ten-year-old primary school student from St Joseph's Convent, Nambour.
The 'Boss Drovers' stands among the most significant contemporary Australian artworks acquired by the Gallery, its purchase made possible through the QAGOMA Foundation and the particular generosity of members Paul and Susan Taylor, Donald and Christine McDonald, and other generous donors.'
'Robert MacPherson: The Painter's Reach' Opening Weekend
To celebrate the opening of 'The Painter's Reach', QAGOMA will host a program of lectures and discussions on Saturday 25 July including a keynote curator's talk by Ingrid Periz at 11.30am.
Angela Goddard, Director, Griffith Artworks will be joined by Daniel Thomas AM, Emeritus Director, Art Gallery of South Australia for an in-conversation at 1.30pm and Jason Smith, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, will lead a tour of the exhibition with artists Peter Cripps and Peter Tyndall at 3.30pm.
Angela Goddard will also host a writer's discussion at 2.30pm with 'The Painter's Reach' publication contributors Ingrid Periz, Ewen McDonald, curator and writer, and Trevor Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art at Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, offering insights into the artist's work and his processes.
'Robert MacPherson: Swags and Swamp Rats'
Coinciding with 'The Painter's Reach', QAGOMA has worked closely with the artist to develop a new interactive project for children. 'Swags and Swamp Rats' is showing at the Children's Art Centre, GOMA until early October and is a chance to introduce younger audiences to the artist's work.
Robert MacPherson's immense body of work is often informed by history, language and rural Australia, and 'Swags and Swamp Rats' introduces young visitors to the ideas, places and people who have inspired MacPherson in an environment evocative of the Australian outback.
Visitors are guided through the exhibition by MacPherson's ten-year-old alter ego 'Robert Pene' as they learn about drovers, the Southern Cross constellation and the sounds of outback Australia as heard along the Birdsville stock route.
About the artist
MacPherson first showed his work in 1974 in Brisbane. A long-time resident of Brisbane, his presence was instrumental in the establishment of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) in 1975.
In the 1970s MacPherson was awarded several Visual Arts Board (VAB) grants enabling him to further his artistic education by travelling to Europe and working in the Greene Street studio in New York City. MacPherson was awarded a Visual Arts/Crafts Board Artist's Fellowship in 1991 and in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the artistic culture and ecology of Australia was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Griffith University the following year.
Earlier this year, MacPherson was named a Queensland Great by the Premier of Queensland, recognising his remarkable talent and career over five decades, his significant contribution to Australian art, and his role as benefactor to Australian art museums.
Publication: Robert MacPherson: The Painter's Reach
Robert MacPherson: The Painter's Reach accompanies the artist's first major exhibition at QAGOMA and the first major exhibition of his work since 2001. This publication explores MacPherson's distinct and multifaceted career, and conceptualises his recent practice in broader philosophical, political and art historical terms. Contributors include the exhibition's curator, US-based writer and curator, Ingrid Periz, Angela Goddard and Trevor Smith as well as an interview with the artist and Ewen McDonald. An illustrated chronology, selected bibliography and exhibition history also feature.
Visit the QAGOMA Research Library on Level 3 of GOMA or its online catalogue to learn more about Robert MacPherson.
Are you an emerging arts writer? As part of 'GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art' you have the opportunity to enter our Emerging Writers competition, and win the chance to be published on our blog.
We're looking for talented writers who have something interesting to say about the work on display in 'GOMA Q', particularly the younger or more emerging artists in the exhibition. Stuck for ideas? Think about the curatorial concept, a particular artist or artwork, emerging artists in Queensland more generally, or the exhibition design.
Submissions close Monday 3 August. Simply visit the exhibition, and email your blog to email@example.com. Make sure you include a 500 – 700 word blog post pitched to our online audience; a current CV; and your social media contact details.
'GOMA Q' attends to something of a wicked problem for art museums everywhere: how to engage with the local; to specify what it is without circumventing the national and global contexts in which it functions. While we didn't conceive of 'GOMA Q' to argue for or to locate the essential nature of contemporary Queensland art, the Queensland experience – in some form – irreducibly lives inside it. It does so through the lived experience of those who hold ancestral ties to this country; as much as the recently or newly arrived; and it does so through the difficult-to-divine effects of upbringing and education.
There was no requirement for an artist to have been born here; and nor was their length of residency measured along a sliding scale – only that Queensland played a role in their lives. Ian Fairweather was not born here; nor was Jon Molvig or Sam Fullbrook or Lawrence Daws; but the story of modern Queensland art is incomplete without them. They are 'of here', regardless of their birthright or continuity of residence, as are the artists in this exhibition.
'GOMA Q' includes those who were born here and still live here; those from here, who perhaps trained here but now live and work elsewhere; and those not from here who have now made Queensland their home. It includes artists of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent; and non-Indigenous Australian artists from culturally diverse backgrounds. This is who, and what, 'Queensland' is today.
Beginning in early 2014, curators Peter McKay, Bruce McLean and I began visiting some 200 artists and gallerists to gain a deeper understanding of their work and to begin shaping an exhibition of their current practice. We set out with no overarching conceit, travelling widely, listening intently; meeting with emerging, mid- and late-career artists working in and across a vast range of media. Nothing was off-limits. We argued for and against, making difficult decisions along the way; but ultimately we sought to identify artists who, in our collective opinions, had arrived at a moment of potency and timeliness in their practice. We looked for work that represented a point of departure for established artists – a moment of shift, synthesis or resolution; and a point of arrival for emerging artists – of unexpected impact, agency or currency.
'GOMA Q' is the most ambitious contemporary Queensland project we have ever presented. Our hope is that our efforts have caught something that ultimately adds up, something that delineates the current condition. We felt that the exhibition needed to speak to the expanse of the field of art in Queensland, and the disparate and dispersed nature of local practice in this decentralised state. Its strength, I think, lies in its multiplicity.
'GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art' is at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) until 11 October 2015.
Participating Artists: Vernon Ah Kee; Davida Allen; Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan; Paul Bai; Clark Beaumont; Antoinette J Citizen; Sam Cranstoun; Julie Fragar; Chantal Fraser; Ian Friend; Kim Guthrie; Dale Harding; Jennifer Herd; Naomi Hobson; Pat Hoffie; Anita Holtsclaw; Madeleine Kelly; Moe Louanjli; Ross Manning; Mavis Ngallametta; Liam O'Brien; Lawrence Omeenyo; Brian Robinson; Monica Rohan; Teho Ropeyarn; Gordon Shepherdson; Grant Stevens; Tyza Stewart; David M Thomas; Tim Woodward; Michael Zavros
The exhibition publication GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art includes the work of all generations — emerging, mid-career and senior artists — working across drawing, painting, photography, video, installation, performance, ceramics and sculpture. Also featuring a roundtable discussion with some of the state's leaders in the arts, GOMA Q touches on many different aspects of the Queensland experience.
Visit QAGOMA TV to view the opening weekend 'State Of Play Panel Discussion' and the 'Emerging Artist Panel Discussion'
Gain a comprehensive understanding of how Australia has been shaped by photography. At the opening weekend for 'The Photograph and Australia', exhibition curator Judy Annear, Senior curator, Photographs, Art Gallery of New South Wales, shares insights into the development of the exhibition and gives an introduction to the works on display. The exhibition on display until 11 October 2015 is the largest of its type since 1988, and traces the evolution of photography in Australia since the 1840s.
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Two vintage gelatin silver photographic prints, Girl Sweeping, 'Little Charwoman', London 1934 and London Amusements c.1935 made by Emil Otto Hoppé (1878–1972) capture undoctored views of life in the British capital between the wars.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, EO Hoppé was one of the most successful and widely recognised photographers working out of Britain. Born in Munich, Germany, Hoppé moved to London in 1900, eventually establishing a fashionable photographic studio where he became known as a society portraitist. On assignment in New York in 1921, Hoppé began a series of topographical photographs of the city that altered radically the style and scope of his photographic practice. Between 1921 and 1938, he travelled the world — including coming to Australia in 1931 — photographing cities, industrial architecture, landscapes and people with a reportage-like authenticity that saw documentary photography take precedence over the staged glamour found in studio portraiture.
Between the first and second world wars, photography in Britain was, as elsewhere, shaped by both cultural and economic forces. While professional portrait photographers were faced with a contracting market, thanks largely to the rise of mass media, the demand for reportage and documentary photography expanded. Like the vast majority of photographers working in the 1920s and 30s, the purpose of much of Hoppé's work and travel was to compile material for publication in illustrated books and pictorial magazines. An astute businessman, he created an extensive inventory of images explicitly designed for commercial purposes, which he subsequently managed through the Dorien Leigh Photographic Agency, tellingly located at 30 Fleet Street. In doing so, he not only demonstrated his aptitude for adapting to the new economic realities of the period but also became a part of a pioneering generation of British social documentary photographers and filmmakers, which included John Grierson (1898–1972), and was followed a decade later by Humphrey Jennings (1907–50) and Bill Brandt (1904–83). Appearing in the monographs London Types Taken from Life (1926), The Image of London (1935) and A Camera on Unknown London (1935), the photographs Hoppé took of London in the 1920s and 30s are among the most comprehensive, candid and empathetic he created.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Hoppé recorded the unpolished and unspectacular aspects of everyday life in the capital, without any apparent political conviction. Although remaining objective in his approach to subject matter, he shared in the development of a style of image production that became recognised as inherently English. Less concerned than their French and American counterparts with the junction between documentary photography and the formalist aspects of modern art, photographers in Britain established an unassuming style that was enormously influential on successive generations of photographers, filmmakers, artists and writers. With their gaze almost always fixed on the 'ordinariness' of the working classes, photographers such as Nigel Henderson (1917–85), playwright John Osborne (1929–94) and filmmakers led by Lindsay Anderson (1923–94) adopted an aesthetic and an implicit attitude towards art-making in the 1950s and 60s, one that emphatically championed the idea of undoctored authenticity over staged reality. They were echoing the English documentary style established decades earlier by influential figures, such EO Hoppé.
'Island Currents: Art from Bentinck Island and the Torres Strait' in the Queensland Art Gallery's Watermall until 1 November celebrates the art and culture of some of the state's remote island communities.
Large, vivid paintings by women artists from Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria appear alongside masks, headdresses, handheld objects and sculptures — all with performative qualities — by artists from five islands of the Torres Strait, in this vibrant Collection display.
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda (Mrs Gabori) (c.1924–2015), who lived on Mornington Island until her recent death, affirms her emotional and spiritual connection with her husband's country on nearby Bentinck Island. Her vivid landscape, Dibirdibi Country 2008, though seemingly abstract, charts the creative journey of the Rock Cod ancestor along the Bentinck coastline; defines Warnbuli, a swampy site rich in damuru (water nut); and describes in prominent black forms the ancient stone-walled fish traps used by the Kaiadilt people.
Performance is vital in Torres Strait life, and Islanders express their culture and identity through singing and dancing, both at ceremonies and for entertainment. Group dances mark significant events such as family tombstone unveilings, the annual 'Coming of the Light' ceremony, commemorating the arrival in 1871 of the first missionaries on Erub (Darnley Island), and Anzac Day commemorations.
Ephemeral Torres Strait dances are made tangible through objects that embody island affiliations in their design. These feature significantly in 'Island Currents'. Well known for his innovative dance accoutrements, leading choreographer and performer Ken Thaiday simulates the graceful movements of Beizam (hammerhead shark) in dramatic performances, manipulating the strings and pulleys of his intricate mechanical devices. His Beizam headdress (Black bamboo triple hammerhead shark) 1999–2000 holds all the menace and drama of the awe-inspiring 'king of the sea'.
Allson Edrick Tabuai's spectacular Wene-Wenel/Gauguau Mawa (very powerful witchdoctor's mask) 2001 reproduces ritual regalia worn by the legendary Mabaig — a man chosen to be a witchdoctor in times of war. The central carved wooden sagaia (white heron feather), which extends from an arc of cassowary feathers, sways vigorously with the dancer's movements, while the brightly coloured psychedelic eyes and prominent nose and tongue are intended to instil fear.
The ubiquitous feathered headdress — dhoeri in the western islands and dari in the east — still holds considerable status in the Torres Strait. Its presence on the flag symbolises the Torres Strait people and its image is widely used to signify cultural ownership and pride. George Nona from Badu Island makes dhoeri using designs and techniques unseen for almost a century. As well as local pigments, shells, feathers and fibres, he includes cassowary feathers sourced from New Guinea through customary trade practices. Nona's dhoeri depict rich narratives, as in Koewbuw (War) dhoeri 2008, in which the red and orange ochres coating the cane framework refer to rituals involving warriors mixing their blood with earth pigments to gain spiritual power in battle.
In a departure from normal practice, the Gallery collaborated with Patrick Thaiday in 2011 to faithfully reproduce 20 of his Zugub zamiyakal (articulated dance machines) in its workshop. Zugubal spirits lived with humans but now inhabit the celestial world, controlling winds, tides and other elemental forces from their home in the Southern Cross constellation, whose stars are shown here emerging in a rainbow-like arc from a cloud.
In embracing the Gallery's iconic Watermall, 'Island Currents' evokes the environment in which these artists live and work. Remote island communities can be isolated by distance and geography, but here we gain some insights into their unique cultures through their art.
Bold and sassy, this vibrant video work explores the intersection between urban and traditional lifestyles, as well as the artist's Papuan and Australian heritage.
Over a career spanning decades, Julia Mage'au Gray has creatively responded to her Pacific heritage and culture. Inspired by its performance traditions Gray revives and adapts customary forms, working across dance, photography, tattoo and video to create compelling multimedia works. A characteristic choreographed work by Gray for her company Sunameke Productions, for example, brings dance together with photography and highly polished video projections.
In the 2011 production Who Born You?, to which Best foot forward contributes, Gray explores ideas of cultural heritage and belonging. As a performance piece, Who Born You? draws on an extensive repertoire of Pacific dance traditions to structure and develop a narrative about contemporary Pacific identity. The video components of the work provide a parallel thread, intersecting at times with the performers movements, at other times providing an expanded view of contemporary Pacific culture.
Central to the work is the exploration of Gray's own sense of 'Nesian identity'. Gray deliberately uses the term 'Nesian' to challenge the colonial imposition of 'Melanesian', 'Polynesian' and 'Micronesian' labels and to articulate the long standing connections between all peoples of the Pacific. Born in Papua New Guinea to a Papuan mother and Australian father and now living in Australia with a Māori husband, Gray's work refuses the idea of essential 'identities' exploring the movement across and between.
The spectacular golden grass skirts worn by women in her mother's Mekeo culture for performance often provide a metaphor for this movement. A close shot of a swaying Mekeo skirt worn by Gray's sister Yola opens the video segment and dance passage for Best foot forward. As the camera pans out from this, the music tones up and a fully clothed woman in high heels strides away from the viewer, along a bitumen road. Without turning to face the camera Yola stages a dramatic performance centred on the shedding and retrieval of the heels. A seductive tension is created between the ways in which the skirt extends the performers body, its organic fibres fluidly moving in unison with her movement, and the spiky, restricting impact of the shoes which are desired, discarded and then picked up again.
An exploration of the intersection between urban and traditional lifestyles and the artist's dual Papuan and Australian heritage, Best foot forward also responds to the huge archive of colonial video and photography of Papuan women in traditional bilas. The opening shots of Gray's Best foot forward more or less replicate the pose and adornments of this plethora of archival material, with Yola pictured as a set of seductively swinging hips. A sense of life, power and identity is however restored to Yola as she takes control of the scene, and the choices made around the markers of her identity and sexuality. Best foot forward strongly asserts a sense of a Papuan bodily inheritance as well as acknowledging the historical agency of photography and film — the very mediums that Gray now employs — in the colonial administration of her people. Gray thus retrieves the power over representation that many of her anonymous female ancestors were denied and, by copying their stance and dress, asserts the continuation of Mekeo womanhood.
Bold, sassy and deeply layered, Best foot forward packs a punch. The work provides a strong statement on contemporary Papuan culture, life and identity in the face of urbanisation and a history of cross cultural interactions.


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The uprisings in the Arab world in the last three months represent an opportunity for a fundamental paradigm shift in the study of the Middle East in the United States. These events challenge all of the conventional wisdom about the region, notably concerning the durability of authoritarianism, the bankruptcy of pan-Arab solidarity, the centrality of non-Arab players (Israel, Iran, Turkey), the quiescence of Arab civil society and the alleged ascendance of political Islam as the only idiom of opposition. In some instances, the uprisings will usher in moments of change that will require new approaches; elsewhere repression should not be mistaken for "continuity." There, too, the fundamental equation of state legitimacy will have been called into question and altered in ways that require careful study. Themes that should be the focus of study in the coming period include the importance of social movements, new modes of organizing and the role of counter-revolution and risks of new consolidations of power in the region.
What are the implications of these movements for the (study of the) region, for your discipline, for your research topic(s)/agenda(s)?
I study the comparative law of the Middle East and the implications are very wide-ranging, from new constitution-writing or reform exercises to calls for accountability for corruption to the employment of legal discourses to structure both forms of political opposition and the responses of defensive regimes. This is also an occasion – once again – to query the role of the American academe in seeking to shape outcomes in the region (particularly as law schools imagine themselves as appropriate sources for constitutional advice, as has been the case with respect to the Egyptian and Bahraini regimes). Finally, as a scholar of international human rights, I also believe a new model of grassroots, transnational human rights solidarity has emerged in the Arab world that should be incorporated into the study of the international human rights movement in law as well as the social sciences.
What opportunities do you see today in terms of setting a pedagogic agenda that goes beyond old paradigms? Or that goes beyond assessing dominant paradigms? (and is any of this necessary in the first place?)
While it is too soon to definitively identify a new pedagogical agenda, there is no question the dominant paradigms no longer hold. This semester I have drawn on examples from the Arab world for every lecture I have given in my law school course International Human Rights, to illustrate the meaning and application of core international law instruments in a region that had previously been all but excluded from study on the grounds that there was no regional human rights regime. Events in the Arab world have illustrated that the insistence on formal regional human rights institutions to study the efficacy of human rights instruments and discourses is misguided. I have also drawn examples from the Libya intervention in the Laws of War course I teach at the law school throughout the second half of the semester. I believe Libya represents a new model of (s)elective use of force for human-rights-based regime change that is an important and dangerous precedent. The Libyan intervention also represents a transformation of arguments concerning humanitarian intervention. I plan to revise my own teaching of the following three courses based on the events of this spring: International Human Rights, Laws of War and Comparative Law of the Middle East.
Even if you're not teaching the Middle East, how did the emergence of these movements influence what you are (or will be) teaching? Could the study of the revolutionary movements in the Middle East constitute a critical contribution to the disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences?
[See my answer to 3]
Finally, in light of the recent developments, are there new questions, subjects, historic periods, and themes that are important to examine in the study of the region, and might they be replacing other subjects of inquiry?
Some of the new questions (or perhaps old questions that need to be posed anew) that I believe we have to ask in the comparative law of the Middle East include the following: (1) what is the appropriate measure of "change" or "continuity" in the region – how do we distinguish fundamental shifts in underlying distributions of authority from regime survival strategies (i.e., preservation through transformation)? (2) what are the bases for regime "legitimacy" and how might that be defined? (3) what accounts for variation (if any) of opposition methods and outcomes in the context of monarchical versus republican authoritarian institutions? (4) what are the structural forces promoting or inhibiting change? (5) what is the role of legacies of authoritarianism in transitional processes and how might such legacies undercut consolidation? (6) what is the significance of patronage networks in triggering demands for reform and how do anti-corruption priorities shape opposition demands? (7) is constitutional reform central to transition and/or should it be?
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 84, Issue 4, pages 290–293, April 1977
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Arterial blood gases, physiological dead space and percentage pulmonary venous admixture (physiological shunt) were measured in 31 patients with proteinuric pre-eclampsia. There was no difference in pulmonary function in 22 patients with moderate pre-eclampsia when compared with normal pregnancy, but in 9 patients with severe pre-eclampsia, there was a significant increase in alveolar-to-arterial Po2 difference and physiological shunt, indicating a degree of pulmonary ventilation/perfusion imbalance. There was no accompanying hypoxaemia, suggesting that the impairment was of no clinical importance.


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Detroit and Minnesota go back-to-back
Two teams in the thick of their respective playoff chases will square off twice this weekend — the Wings will take on the Wild in Minnesota on Saturday, then host 'em at the Joe on Sunday (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN).
Improbably, Detroit has rallied to win three of its last four and move within one point of the Rangers for the final wild card spot in the East. The rally is improbable given their rash of injuries — in Thursday's 5-4 OT victory over Pittsburgh, the Wings were without the services of (deep breath) Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg, Stephen Weiss, Justin Abdelkader, Joakim Andersson, Dan Cleary, Jonathan Ericsson, Tomas Jurco, Darren Helm and Mikael Samuelsson (phew).
Minnesota, meanwhile, is trending in the opposite direction — the Wild have lost six of eight, though did manage to accumulate eight points over that stretch. That's left them with 83 going into the weekend, good enough to hold the first of two wild card spots in the Western Conference.
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ur a detroit fan and a blues fan, obviously your whole view on the world is out of whack.
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