MAJOR SPONSOR Five days of debate, presentations and DAY 2: Wednesday February 23 DAY 3: Thursday February 24 j screenings about installations, Aboriginal art, performance, and art ABORIGINALITY IN ART ABORIGINALITY IN ART/ and technology. Each day is curated A project of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists ADELAIDE INSTALLATIONS separately by Australian arts Co-operative. Curated by Hetti Perkins NSW Curated by Hetti Perkins NSW and practitioners and curators. and Brenda Croft A/SW Brenda Croft/VSWJohn Barrett-Lennard WA Elder Hall except where otherwise indicated and Alison Carroll Vic Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide, Elder Hall except where otherwise indicated North Terrace, and various sites. 9-9.15am Welcome and program outline 9-11am Forum DAY 1: Tuesday February 22 Garnet Wilson 0AM SA Chair of Tandanya Working in Black Arts Aboriginal Cultural Institute Speakers: Jimmy Wululu Ramlngining, NT ADELAIDE INSTALLATIONS Daphne Wallace ACT, Joy Murphy Vic 9.15-11.15am Forum From 10am Adelaide Installations Doreen Mellor SA Njarrindjeri Artists exhibitions open at various sites Aboriginal art from the 11.15-12.45pm Interactive Performance 11am Performance Co-ordinated by Kerry Giles SA with audience participation Nyirripi dancers SA Speakers: Ian Abdulla SA Richard Bell Old, Harry Wedge NSW Gerard & Goodman Building Yvonne Koolmatrie SA 1.15-2.45pm Forum Tavistock Lane, Adelaide 11.30-12.30pm Film Unstable Ground: the politics of 1.30-3pm Forum Welcome to my World position and Adelaide Installations (2j Unstable Ground: the politics of Introduced by the director. Destiny Deacon Vic Discussion with artists from Adelaide position and Adelaide Installations (1) Bienniei of Australian Art 1.30-3.30pm Forum Discussion with Australian artists and Women's Art 3-4.30pm Forum curator John Barrett-Lennard Elder Hall Speakers: Ellen Jose Vic, Rea NSVl/ Beyond the Material World; the View of the Artists from North Asia 3.45-4.30pm Film 3.30-5pm Forum Speakers: Kim Soun-gui Korea From Little Things... Beyond the Material World; the View of Shim Moon-Seup Korea Produced by Rachel Perkins NSW the Artists from South East Asia Lij Shengzhong China Introduced by Michael Riley WSIV Speakers: Santiago Bose Philippines Toshlkatsu Endo Japan Montien Boonma Thailand 4.30-5pm Film Commentator: Caroline Turner Qld Marl Dono Indonesia Quest for Country Commentator: Julie Ewington ACT 4.45-5.45pm Curators' Forum Introduced by the director, Michael Riley NSW Chair: Max Bourke/VSW Adelaide Installations Elder Hall 5-6pm John Barrett-Lennard WA, Alison Carroll Vic Frames-Tudawali Award Launch Doreen Mellor SA A new award for Australian indigenous 5.45-7pm Magazine Launch film-making. ABT and AsiaPacific Goodman Crescent Lawns (adj. Elder Hall) Goodman Crescent lawns (adj. Elder Hall) Adelaide Installations: Satellite events 6.15pm Artists' Talk 5 30-8pm Exhibition opening Dolly Nampiginpa Daniels and Anne Mosey Biodata At the opening of ngurra (campl Fiona Hall S/l/Simryn Gill Singapore home/country) Contemporary Art Centre of SA University of South Art Museum, 14 Porter St, Parkside Holbrooks Rd, Underdale

9.30pm Paper Adelaide Installations: Satellite events In the Flesh 5.30-7.30pm Exhibition opening Lyndal Jones, Margarita de Ferranti Fathers II A paper on the evolution of sexuality, with Mike Pan NSW translation by Anna Schwartz. Experimental Art Foundation Gerard & Goodman building Cnr. Morphett St and North Tee, Adelaide (Limited capacity; free admission. Entrance by ticket only, available from 9.30pm Paper Elder Hall on the day) In the Flesh

from top: Rict)ard Bell, detail from Look at Me, 7993; Lyndal Jones, Margarita de Ferranti Toshlkatsu Endo, Untitled, 1987; Denis Del Fai/era, A paper on the evolution of sexuality, with Linea di Fucoo, 7987. translation by Anna Schwartz. Gerard & Goodman building (Limited capacity, free admission. Entrance by ticket only, available from Elder Hall on the day)

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FUTURE LANGUAGES International and Australian artists, writers and theorists question the impact of new DAY 4: Friday February 25 technologies on art and culture. MIXED RELATIONS: BLOODLINES, Curated by VNS Matrix: Josephine Starrs CULTURAL TRAJECTORIES AND HOTSPOTS SA, Francesca da Rimini SA, Julianne Pierce NSW, Virginia BarrattWSW Visual and performance artists explore Elder Hall (except where otherwise indicated) cross-cultural exchange and hybridisation. Curated by Sarah Miller/VSW 9.15-IOam Elder Hall except where otherwise indicated Briefing by curators VNS Matrix 9-9.15am Welcome and program outline Telepresence welcome by Simon Penny Sarah Miller WSI/V First Associate Professor in Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, 9.15-10.1 Sam Presentation Pittsburgh, USA. The Best Breeds in Town 10-11.30am Forum Franchesca Cubillo Alberts SA Visceral Morph 10.30-Noon Forum Speakers: Paula Dawson NSW, Norie Neumark Dangerous Relations: the family as NSW, Allucquere Rosanne Stone USA interdisciplinary practice 11.45-1.15pm Forum Speakers: William Yang NSW Big Daddy Mainframe Noelle Janaczewska NSW Brenda Croft NSW Speakers: Fernandez USA, Rich Gold Chair: Hetti Perkins NSW USA, Ian Howard Qld 1.15-2.15pm Vector 2 12.15-1 pm Artist Presentation Mouse-sexy hyperware tech tour Rose English UK A journey through the datascape of Adelaide Chair: Noelle Janaczewska with real-time guide Monski Mouse SA Biographies of curators see page 102. 1 45 3pm Presentation (Limited capacity) Hbominabie Relations: The Artist as Familiar A full Artists' Week program and map of 2.15-3.45pm Forum Spoken paper: Jane Goodall NSW Adelaide Installations sites can be collected Burning Foam Visual essay: Emil Goh NSW from Elder Hall, the Art Gallery of SA or the Speakers: Ken Wark NSW, Chris Mann Vic, Festival Centre. 3.15-4.15pm Performance Sally PryorWSW The Voice of the Masked Other Artists's Weelf co-ordinated by Julianne Pierce. 4-5.30pm Forum Intermedia performance by Yuji Sone NSW Th/s project is supported by the Commonwealth Cyborg Surgery Government through the Australia Council, its arts 4.30-5.45pm Forum Speakers: Glenda Nalder Qld, Dr Sadie Plant UK, funding and advisory body, Video as Open Forum Dr Zoe Sofoulis WA Speakers: Philip Hayward NSW 5.45-6.30pm Performance Titus Tilley PNG Techno Digesto Fetishism 6.30-7.30pm Performance Cyberdada Vic Aboriginality in Art is supported by Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Co-operative NSW and Aboriginal Photoplay Multi-flavoured erotic consumption and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSICj. Open City NSW for electronic couples Writer-performers: Mixed Relations: Bloodlines, Cultural Trajectories Continuous throughout Day 5 Virginia Baxter and Keith Gallasch and Hotspots is supported by Air Niug/ni, Tbe Cultural Relations Program, Public Affairs Section of Projections: Sandy Edwards Interactive computer workshop the Australian High Commission, Port Uloresby, PNG. Design: NRG (Michael Geissler & Stefan Kahn) Cyberflesh Girlmonster Music: Robert Lloyd In the tradition of Mary Shelley, Identikit Future Languages is supported by Apple Computer Australia. Supported by The Australia Council and NSW and Helene Cixous, Linda Dement NSW Department for the Arts. Artists' Weel< has been assisted by Art Research and Video compilation Development Fund of the Australian Network for Art & Adelaide Installations: Satellite event Australian computer and video artists Technology, Filmsouth, Murdoch University, Noon-2pm Performance Online sound installation University of Birmingham, Tektronix, Xerox PARC (Palo Alto, California), CoMed/a (an Adelaide based 100 Songs from (ALPHABET/ Colony HAEMORRHAGE) Black Box of 100 Self organisation with a social justice brief. CoMedia has Installation comprising computers, modems supported Future Languages by assisting the Portrait Etchings, 5 and phone lines. participation of Linda Dement and Norie Neumark). Performer: John Breheney An Australian/Canadian collaboration Mike Parr NSW produced in Adelaide by Artsnet Art Gallery of , Elder Wing

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north Queensland and has a that she was Director of The now Australia's longest standing, ADELAIDE background in management, Performance Space in , full-time professional quartet with INSTALLATIONS educational administration, art where for neady five years, she a busy career of teaching, ALISON CARROLL (Curator Beyond teaching and visual arts practice. fostered the growth and expansion pertorming, touring, broadcasting the Materia! World){BA Hons, MA) Tandanya's extensive Visual Arts of highly innovative performing and and recording. Based in Adelaide, has enjoyed a distinguished career, Program includes the presentation visual arts practices with a it is the quartet-in-residence at the as a teacher {Fine Arts, University of tounng exhibitions, and particular focus on interdisciplinary University of Adelaide's Elder exhibitions curated from within projects. Her own practice of Melbourne), a curator of more Conservatorlum, where three of its Tandanya as well as collaborations encompasses pertormance-making members hold teaching positions. than 50 exhibitions, a writer on with organizations such as and critical writing. Throughout the The Quartet's repertoire reflects its visual arts and as a board member Boomalli Aboriginal Artists' Eighties she worked with the passion for the finest music of of several visual arts Institutions Cooperative. Mellor chairs the performance group. Told by an every penod, and it is a regular and advisory bodies, including the South Australian Visual Arts Idiot (with Adrlenne Gaha and commissioner of Australian Visual Arts Board of the Australia Committee, and sits on a number Derek Kreckler), performing composers. In addition to its Council. She has had a long of Boards including those of Arts throughout Australia and the UK. In annual concert series In Adelaide association with Asia, having lived Training SA and Jumbuck Youth 1993 she collaborated on the all- and regular performances in major in Japan in the early Seventies and Theatre Company. woman performance project. Australian cities and regional having travelled extensively through Stages of Terror, at the centres, the Quartet has the region. Major exhibitions she ARTISTS' WEEK Performance Space. undertaken eight International tours has created since 1985 include since 1987. East and West, the meeting of JOHN BARRETT-LENNARD VNS MATRIX (Curators) Francesca Asian and European Art, Out of Asia (Curator). See biographies for da Rimini, Josephine Starrs, and Art from Australia, Eight Adelaide Installations. Virginia Barratt, Julianne Pierce Penny Arcade Contemporary Views, the last of ALISON CARROLL (Curator). VNS Matrix is a group of four BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! which toured through South East See biographies lor Adelaide Australian artists committed to WHORE! Asia. Alison Carroll is currently Installations. redefining the role and image of PENNY ARCADE See p.22 for Visual Arts Manager for Asialink. women in art and technology. They BRENDA CROFT (Curator) is a formed in Adelaide in 1991 and biographical Information. Gurindji artist, based in Sydney. JOHN BARREH-LENNARD their first project was a 6m x 3m JAMES FERGUSON (Dancer) is an Her father's people are from Wave (Curator/Icfe/a/de Biennial of billboard (A Cyberfeminist actor/writer/dancer/director with Hill (NT) with many family Australian Art) is working on a PhD Manifesto for the 21st Century) for Tiny Mythic Theatre Company, members now living in Darwin. in Fine Arts, having gained his the Tin Sheds Watch This Space Hard Place Theatre and other She retains strong links with her Masters degree in 1983. He was public art project (University of interested parties. He last family, who play an important role director of Western Australia's Sydney). VNS Matrix has exhibited appeared in An Untitled Ecstatic in the impetus for her work. premier contemporary art in Australia and overseas, and has Pain Ritual. His favourite pursuits Brenda is one of the founding organization. Praxis, from 1985 to been included In international are knowledge and pleasure. members of Boomalli Abonginal 1989, when he made a major computer events SIggraph Artists Co-operative. She has been ALICIA HOPKINS (Dancer) is a contribution to the development of (Chicago, USA) and Third its Co-ordinator since 1990 and a dancer/model, who studied at the ARX (the Australian and Regions International Symposium on practising artist since 1986. Her Pauline Goddard School of Artists Exchange) and the Electronic Art (TISEA, Sydney, favoured medium is photography, European Dance. She dances on establishment of the Perth Institute 1992). Their first major solo and she also writes for arts circuit and modelled for Universal of Contemporary Art. He is a exhibition All New Gen was In 1993 publications. Croft also lectures, Casting Studios. She would like to freelance curator (exhibitions at the Experimental Art Foundation works as a consultant, and is a thank all those who showed her include installations projects/4 In Adelaide. This multi-media freelance radio journalist. She is how! Alicia dedicates this and all Spacious Central Location, a 1990 exhibition compnsed of lightboxes, completing a Master of Art shows to her brother! Festival of Perth project, and video, soundworks, billboard and Administration at the College of Worldng In Public for Artspace, interactive (art) computer game, Fine Arts, University of NSW. LORI E. SEID (Company Stage Sydney, in 1992), writer for MS and will tour In 1994. VNS Matrix Manager) is a freelance stage Text and Art in Australia, author of HETTI PERKINS (Curator) Is are cyberfeminlsts with attitude. manager and lighting designer who numerous essays and a much curator for Boomalli Aboriginal Their ironic and witty arf injects a works with artists such as Karen sought-after speaker on visual arts Artists' Co-operative in Sydney and critical edge into the arena of art Finely, DANCENOISE, Diamanda issues and practices. Barrett- part-time curator of Aboriginal and and new technologies, imagining Galas, David Rousseve, Holly Lennard has contributed to a Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art and imaging alternative future Hughes, John Kelly, Ann Cadson, number of national and West Gallery of NSW. She has travelled worlds. The 5 Lesbian Brothers and Australian visual arts advisory and widely and was a delegate with the Meredith Monk. She is the management committees. Dreamlngs exhibition to New York. recipient of an Obie Award, a She curated the Aboriginal AUSTRALIAN STRING Bessie Award and an International DOREEN MELLOR (Curator Mowng Women's Art Exhibition in 1991 for QUARTET Theatre Craft Award for overall Sands: Forward Mometum) (MBA, the Art Gallery of NSW, which William Hennessy violin; Elinor Lea sustained excellence in stage incorporating Grad Dip Arts toured to the National Gallery of violin; Keith Crellin viola; Janis managing. She has worked with Admin) manages the Visual Arts and Tandanya, Adelaide. Penny Arcade since 1985. Program at Tandanya National Laurs cello. Aboriginal Cultural Institute and is SARAH MILLER (Curator) has Celebrating its tenth year, the DAVID SUMRAK (Dancer) began also its Curator. She is a recently taken up the position of Australian Stnng Quartet has come his theatncal career In high school descendant of the Aboriginal Director of the Perth Institute of of age as a leading ensemble of as stage manager of Man of La peoples from the rainforests of far Contemporary Arts (PICA). Pnorto International status. The Quartet is Mancha. Between jobs in

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