For the After the Missionaries issue of Artlink, a number of artists responded to the hypothetical scenario where a local council was seeking proposals for developing a project with its sister city in the Third World. How might a project bridge the global divide?
Claudio Torres is a Chilean artist/architect/musician who for the last four [...]
Posts Tagged ‘south’
Public Competition For a Painted Mural on a Rented Ghetto Wall
On the one hand Spring, and on the other, Autumn
Today in the South our calendars tell us that this is the beginning of spring. But as trees come into blossom here, the leaves will begin to wither and die in the North.
In his novel Rasselas, Samuel Johnson attempted to discover the secret of happiness. After many adventures, he concluded that any happiness is [...]
Magicians of the South
A paper presented to the Craft in the 21st Century conference in Edinburgh (2002)
It seems these days we are blessed, or cursed, by long-term incumbent governments. Yet despite their seeming inexorable hold on power, we know that eventually, as night follows day, the UK will eventually be Tory and Australia will be Labor.
For Hegel, the [...]
