The Theatricality Of The Everyday: A Question Of Absorption In Contemporary Photography
By Annie Curtis
In the interest of portraying the utmost naturalism, immersion has long been employed by artists to suggest the unique quality of ‘being-in-the-world’ that defines our very existence. Indeed Heidegger explains his conception of ‘dasein,’ or human beings, as inseparable from the sphere in which they live, permanently ‘in pursuit’ of meaning rather than simply ‘being present’ as mere ‘entities’ or objects…
Contemporary Art and the Archive
By Emily James.
The archive exists as a site of power and subordination. This essay will argue that the contemporary art of Fred Wilson and Ingrid Berthon-Moine embark on processes of collection and engage archive concepts of the challenge, the question, and the discovery to delve directly into the power dynamics that dictate the original archives they critique…
Looking At Frances Hodgkins
By Mirabelle Field.
Frances Hodgkins is widely considered to be one of the most important and well known New Zealand-born expatriate artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hodgkins travelled to England in 1901, in search of a fresh modernist perspective for her art and to gain insight into the cultural roots that Europe held for her…
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