Stephen Haley: The Future Photos
byScience Fiction, from H.G. Wells’ Time Machine to William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy, is awash with technologies gone awry, usually with startling and dystopian results….
The Year of The Plague
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The Year of The Plague
byIt is, admittedly, highly unusual for one magazine/journal to feature another. However in the case of the latest issue of A+a an exception must…
Not all Heroes wear Speedos
byJonathan McBurnie’s current survey show, Dread Sovereign, is a compelling, if not overwhelming experience. On display at Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville, North Queensland until…
The Meticulous Hand of Mali Moir
byThe greatest flower artists have been those who have found beauty in truth; who have understood plants scientifically, but who have yet seen and…
The Universe is my Laboratory
by“Making art is like exhaling: it expels the demons from within,” Chris Henschke says. There is something of the mad scientist about Henschke. He…
I’m So Sorry if I’m Alienating Some of You
by‘YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR BACK. You irresponsible, man-oppressor.’ With comments such as these, it’s no wonder that people, particularly young women, are seeking an…
Review: Telaesthesia @ Hillsmith Gallery
byA few years ago the Belgian painter Stephan Balleux undertook a residency in Melbourne. While he was here we had several conversations about the…
TECHNO GHOUL
byIn 1995, Nintendo released a failed virtual reality console called The Virtual Boy. This doomed apparatus was meant to be experienced through a Virtual…
A Fossilised Future
byCataclysmic events, all but wiping life from the earth, occur again and again over billions of years. At the end of the 18th century…
Virtual Disturbing Reality
byThe 2017 Venice Biennale saw a series of sprawling exhibitions with a big focus on materiality. This was certainly the case in the massive…
Irene Wellm’s Apocalyptical Harbinger
byHave you ever wondered what your dreams are, where they come from? Do they mirror your personality, beautiful, vague and ugly wishes? Can we…
Linsey Gosper’s Magickal Femininity
byIn a generation when the world is becoming more and more digitised, Melbourne-based photographic artist, Linsey Gosper, chooses to return to the magic of…
Ron Francis – Metaphorically Speaking
bySurrealism per se in Australia has seemed out of favour for decades. That’s not to say it hasn’t continued a strange, almost underground, presence…
All that is bad 2.0
byThe status of the Avant Garde has now been systematised into what Dave Hickey calls the ‘therapeutic institution’ – a self-propagating structure of academics,…
Rus Kitchin: Harbinger of Hallucination
byRus Kitchin is a cartographer of chaos, a librarian of lunacy, a harbinger of hallucination a translator of turmoil and a linguist of labyrinths….
Tribulations and Western hallucinations
byThe Lines in Between by Triple F at Seventh Gallery is an exhibition dealing with the impact of cultural identity on female subjectivity. Triple…
Deep Surfaces
byOver the last decade, Jason Moad’s driving thematic interest has been the singular human subject in the environment. Alienated figures set against profoundly silent…
The Digital Abstract
byImagine we are living late in the 13th Century. Our leader and spiritual authority is the Bishop of Lincoln. Let’s call him Robert Fathead….
As Long as the Night is Dark: Hysteria and Apocalypse
byIt was indeed a dark night, an all encompassing, velvety, stygian blackness that captured the Melbourne Gothic in its latest, potent iteration. When Wagga…
Jordan Wood: Beautiful Wreckage
byThat the world is unfolding as it should is not a foregone conclusion. While occasional signs indicate that some unseen master-plan is in operation,…
The Ghosts in the Machines: Morbis Artis
byIn Chris Henschke’s Song of the Phenomena, a bowl of decaying fruit is the focus of a retired linear particle accelerator. As the viewers…
Jason Waterhouse – Tides
byHave you ever wondered what exists in those tiniest of fragments of space and time that exist in between oscillations and waves and binary…
Growing Up: Ronnie van Hout’s Tumultuous Year
byThere can be little doubt that it is a momentous year for Ronnie van Hout. He is currently showing at Station Gallery in Melbourne,…
The Optics of Emergency: Simon Finn’s Catastrophic Formalism
byCOLDNESS. At a certain point Theo Angelopolous’ 1995 drama Ulysees Gaze presents us with a snowbound landscape littered with the stillness of frozen figures,…
