Resources

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    Watch Song Dong exhibition interviews

    Song Dong and curators, Aaron Seeto and Lisa Havilah were recently interviewed about the exhibitions, Dad and Mum, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well presented at 4A and Waste Not presented at Carriageworks. With thanks to Das Platforms.           Presented by     More…

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    Installing Song Dong: Waste Not Timelapse Video

    5 January 2013

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  • Ken + Julia

    Ken + Julia Yonetani on What the Birds Knew

    Ken + Julia Yonetani talk about their latest artworks in 4A’s exhibition, What the Birds Knew (3 August – 3 November 2012) and how the use of Uranium Glass as a material in these works relate to our sense of allure to the power of electricity and technology. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster More…

  • John Choi – Paper for a New Century Garden

    This is an edited transcript of John Choi’s talk that was accompanied by a slideshow presentation given at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art on 21 October 2011 for the forum New Century Garden: Talking About Public Art in Chinatown, produced by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in partnership with City of Sydney. Copyright More…

  • Dr Xing Ruan

    Garden as Public Sphere – A Historical Lesson?

    Garden as Public Sphere – A Historical Lesson? This is an edited transcript of Dr Xing Ruan’s talk that was accompanied by a slideshow presentation given at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art on 21 October 2011 for the forum New Century Garden: Talking About Public Art in Chinatown, produced by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian More…

  • Nicholas Jose

    What is a (Chinese) Garden?

    What is a (Chinese) Garden? This is an edited transcript of Nicholas Jose’s talk that was accompanied by a slideshow presentation given at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art on 21 October 2011 for the forum New Century Garden: Talking About Public Art in Chinatown, produced by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in partnership with More…

  • Gina Fairley

    Exotic Species

    Tracy Luff

    “There are many elements in all, each an individual but also a member of the group, sharing common characteristics that define it and its heritage. Regardless of where it faces, it dances and greets – that’s what each must do – a responsibility to itself and to the group. The fragility of the entire system More…

  • Daniel Mudie Cunningham

    One Death, One Minute, Four Takes

    Sumugan Sivanesan

    BlogdelNarco.com is a narcocultura blog that insalubriously reports on drug-related violence in Mexico. Anonymous bloggers established the site in 2010 after several journalists had been murdered for reporting on narco activities, thereby attracting global notoriety by sensationalising an inordinate number of gruesome drug war crimes gripping the country. Torture and public executions are commonplace in More…

  • Susan Gibb

    Back to the Future

    David Lawery and Jaki Middleton

    When the lights come up the cinematic illusion is broken. The viewer is thrust back into an awareness of their immediate reality. All red chairs and stale popcorn. In front of them the screen sits like an empty canvas, waiting for electric shadows to yet again grace its surface, providing another audience with a window More…

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    Performance: Dadang Christanto, Litsus

    Performance: August 12, 2009 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney The title of this performance refers to the repressive and anti-democratic legislation enacted by the Suharto regime in 1990, ‘Litsus’ required all prospective members of parliament to undergo a test to determine whether or not they held ‘communist sympathies’. Christanto performed Litsus underneath his 2009 installation, More…