In Real Life

The exhibition In Real Life  invited online art initiatives to participate in a 4-hour residency inside the space of a gallery. The event attempted to explore how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture rapidly are evolving in an online context.

Have a look at www.letsmeetinreallife.com

Messages

Jean Jullien (www.jeanjullian.com)

Kate Newby

(Newby images sourced from the  Gambia Castle website)

CMYK

Popular Standard has quite an interesting portfolio collection I've discovered.

And I just love colour interchanges...Have a look at this page in particular > 

Wikipedia extravaganza!

Rob Matthews 

For free.

Complete publications, online, downloadable in pdf form. Includes the following:

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black

Lloyd Kahn - Domebook 2


The Unforgettable Fire - Pictures Drawn by Atomic Bomb Survivors

Henry Darger and the Vivian Girls

Henry Darger, author and illustrator of the epic 15,145-page The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, lived a modest life working as a hospital janitor in Chicago. His magnum opus, The Story of the Vivian Girls..., was discovered by accident, post-humously. I am awed (and admittedly, a bit baffled) by the thought of a work like this being created without its maker ever seeking an audience.


Some excerpts from Darger's illustrated novel:

A little more on publications.

Bidoun magazine (born 2004) is a refreshing springboard for critical and contemporary ideas about arts and culture from the Middle East. As editor Antonia Carver observes in this Guardian article, artists from the Middle East are perpetually struggling against being read exclusively in terms of their geographic location, religion, and heritage. An internationally distributed publication, with an impressive editing staff based in Cairo, Dubai and New York, Bidoun is one platform that addresses this narrow frame and transcends it. Beautiful work and slick, intelligent writing. I have yet to find a local vendor for Bidoun, but in the meantime there's always subscription...

Meanjin - literary magazine in the truest sense - is a quarterly put out by Melbourne University Publishing. I say truly literary because its content covers interviews, critiques, reviews, fiction, poetry, contemporary concerns and issues - all sorts, and always impeccably put together by current editor, Sophie Cunningham. I am especially fond of their issues themed 'On Translation' (#4, 2005), and 'On Drugs' (#2, 2002). Meanjin is locally housed by the General Library at University and Central City Library has a few copies too.

For those of you that didn't catch the inaugural issue of Matters, the publication Newcall Gallery launched last year, you haven't quite missed it all out - the publication's got CNZ funding, so we should be seeing more issues quite soon.