The old ways lie buried but we still take them with us when we move ahead.
—John Mawurndjul, in a video interview in his truly fantastic solo exhibition at the MCA, John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new.
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—Wall text in Sun Xun solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. “Making animated films for me is like piloting a spaceship. Unlike most pilots, who would avoid black holes, I look for black holes to steer my way directly into them. This is how you can discover new things.” Which reminds me of Daniel Crooks‘ comment.
Who the bloody hell are we
Published in Art Collector, Issue 79, Jan-Mar 2017
Jane O’Sullivan previews the multi-venue exhibition that the Australian contemporary art world has been waiting for.
The National. Another gumtree exhibition about what it means to be Australian? “Absolutely not,” says the MCA’s curatorial & digital director Blair French with a laugh. He admits it’s a provocative title but says that’s part of the point. “What it does is throws up the question, if you’re not creating a nationalist show or trying to work at ideas of nationhood, which we’re not, then how can you use that title to problematise those ideas?”
