Future Primitive
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781921330322
Category
Publication Year
2013
Publisher
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia
Abstract
Catalogue for the exhibition Future Primitive, curated by Linda Michael, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 23 November 2013 - 2 March 2014.
Some turn the table on modernist primitivism and explore its specific local histories, reworking the legacies of colonialism; some make reparative gestures, attracted to what joins cultures or communities rather than what divides; while others sidestep the usual decorum around the subject and provoke questions about how we relate to cultures outside our own.Within today's relentless focus on the `now', many of the works in 'Future Primitive' move forward and back between past and future, going back to origins, whether ancestral, animal, or cultural, in an attempt to find out how to live better in a world in crisis or to question its values.Participating artists: Daniel Boyd, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Sarah Contos, Mikala Dwyer, Graham Fletcher, David Griggs, Fiona Hall, Newell Harry, Siri Hayes, Brendan Huntley, Jess Johnson, Narelle Jubelin, Dylan Martorell, Alasdair McLuckie, Sanne Mestrom, TV Moore, Michelle Nikou, Ricky Swallow, Rohan Wealleans.
Some turn the table on modernist primitivism and explore its specific local histories, reworking the legacies of colonialism; some make reparative gestures, attracted to what joins cultures or communities rather than what divides; while others sidestep the usual decorum around the subject and provoke questions about how we relate to cultures outside our own.Within today's relentless focus on the `now', many of the works in 'Future Primitive' move forward and back between past and future, going back to origins, whether ancestral, animal, or cultural, in an attempt to find out how to live better in a world in crisis or to question its values.Participating artists: Daniel Boyd, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Sarah Contos, Mikala Dwyer, Graham Fletcher, David Griggs, Fiona Hall, Newell Harry, Siri Hayes, Brendan Huntley, Jess Johnson, Narelle Jubelin, Dylan Martorell, Alasdair McLuckie, Sanne Mestrom, TV Moore, Michelle Nikou, Ricky Swallow, Rohan Wealleans.
Description
Future Primitive by Linda Michael
The Double Risk of Primitivism by Andrew McNamara & Ann Stephen
Plates: Artists A-Z
The Future, Presently by Helen Hughes
Exhibited Works
Exhibiting Artists
Acknolwedgements
The Double Risk of Primitivism by Andrew McNamara & Ann Stephen
Plates: Artists A-Z
The Future, Presently by Helen Hughes
Exhibited Works
Exhibiting Artists
Acknolwedgements
Number of Copies
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