Ocula Feature Art in Melbourne: Nine Online Programmes By Tessa Moldan, Melbourne Connect with Melbourne via nine online programmes ahead of Melbourne Art Fair's Online Viewing Rooms.
Ocula Feature TarraWarra International 2019: Tracing Tangible Shadows By Natalie King, Melbourne Everyone I encounter along my journey asks: 'Where are you based?' 'On my feet,' I answer. 'Where are your feet based then?' 'Feet are never based,' I say. This haunting voiceover from Hiwa K 's video, Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue) (2017), follows the artist retracing a journey that he made when he was 25 years old, fleeing Iraq...
Ocula Conversation | In collaboration with TarraWarra Museum of Art Patricia Piccinini & Victoria Lynn By TarraWarra Museum of Art, Australia Patricia Piccinini & Joy Hester: Through love... at TarraWarra Museum of Art (24 November 2018–11 March 2019) is an exhibition that reveals shared explorations of love, intimacy, and relationships in the work of two of Australia's leading artists. This is the first exhibition to explore the conceptual links between the works of Patricia...
Ocula Feature Ocula Report: TarraWarra Biennial 2016 By Zara Sigglekow, TarraWarra A noticeable trend has emerged on the biennale circuit of curatorial collaborations between publications and exhibition makers. Take for example Okwui Enwezor’s 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, which included a newsletter project by e-flux titled ‘Supercommunity’, and the appointment of the collective behind DIS Magazine...
Ocula Conversation Natalie King And Djon Mundine By Anna Dickie, TarraWarra With the aim of providing an experimental curatorial platform, the TarraWarra Biennial was inaugurated in 2006 to identify new developments in contemporary Australian art. This year the event is co-curated by independent leading Australian curators—one of Aboriginal descent and the other of non-indigenous descent—Djon Mundine and...
Ocula Feature The Poetic Politics Of ‘Whisper In My Mask’ By Zara Sigglekow, TarraWarra Whisper In My Mask is a contemporary Australian exhibition which mixes the political with the poetic. Through a diverse range of medium, the biennial, now in its fourth iteration, includes Indigenous and non-Indigenous bound by the rich theme of ‘masking’. The strength of this exhibition lies in the careful balance that it...
