Past Programs
Visual Art - 2008
ISMs:Optimism Read Transcript
23/11/2008
To coincide with 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism', the exhibition currently on at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, this week's ISM is from Julie Ewington, the show's curator. And the exhibition is on through to February next year.
Art At The Heart
05/10/2008
Art At The Heart is the huge regional arts conference currently underway in Alice Springs. There are big topics to talk about. For example, arts projects that are designed to deliver some kind of social outcome, to reduce disadvantage, and improve people's lives in some way. How do you know whether they work or not? It's always been hard to measure tangible outcomes from arts projects and it's something that's often resisted by artists anyway.
Kim McConville is one of the keynote speakers at this conference. She's a co-founder and executive director of an organisation based in northern New South Wales called Beyond Empathy which can and does measure the results of its arts projects.
Lyn Gallacher spoke to Kim McConville.
Portraits of Modern Evil
31/08/2008
Why do ordinary people do horrific things? This is the underlying question posed in a new surreal play called Portraits of Modern Evil, by Robert Reid.
It's based on the true story of Melbourne's brown-out strangler. And in case you don't know, a brown-out is this: during the second world war, rather than a full blackout, Australian cities like Melbourne were subjected to brown-out conditions, where the lights were dimmed and car headlight covers had slits in them. This was both to conserve energy and to hide the city from night-time bombing raids. But because we weren't a major target, a full blackout wasn't considered necessary.
This play also features one of the great names of Australian painting, Albert Tucker. Indeed he's a major protagonist in the drama, and descriptions of his paintings become a recurring motif.
The Black Swan theatre company along with the HotBed Ensemble has taken on the challenge of this production. It's playing at PICA from 5 to 20 September.
Artworks Feature: EH Gombrich - Changing the Way We See Read Transcript
06/07/2008
Today the first of a series of features about influential art books that have changed the way we see. We're starting with a big classic that tells a big story: The Story Of Art by EH Gombrich. Julie Copeland talks to James Elkins, from the Chicago Art Institute, who is the author of Stories of Art.
