Ken + Julia Yonetani, Still Life - The Food Bowl, (detail) image courtesy of the artists Artereal Gallery, Sydney
'Scroll' by Chris Frazer and Anne McMaster
Mildura
Palimpsest #8
Collaborators and Saboteurs
9-11 September 2011
For Tickets and Artist
information please visit the website
A weekend of art, talk, convivial dinners, an art science symposium and
site-specific art created in historic buildings, shop fronts, a sixties
motel and a Service Station. With over 50 international and Australian
artists represented, Palimpsest # 8 is truly the ‘Biennale of the Bush’.
Mildura Palimpsest #8 is curated by Helen Vivian and Kristian Haggblom who
along with the committee, aim at giving opportunities to both local and
national artists, in addition to showcasing international projects and
artists from Australia, Tibet, Finland, UK, China and Japan.
The theme ‘Collaborators and Saboteurs’ explores the idea that we are all
collaborators and saboteurs in the created worlds we inhabit.
Inaugurated in 1998 Mildura Palimpsest is a biennial site-specific visual
arts exposition and cross-disciplinary symposium. Palimpsest is significant
for its direct engagement with issues of environmental and social
sustainability and its remarkable regional location; near the border of
three states (Vic, NSW and SA), the junction of the Murray and Darling
Rivers, one of Australia’s most important cultural sites - Lake Mungo
National Park, and set in the intersecting terrain of desert and irrigated
horticulture.
Palimpsest, meaning a parchment which has been partly erased and
re-inscribed, evokes the marks made by human settlement on the land, the
passage of time, presence and absence, and the web of inter-dependence
connecting the natural and the cultural, the material and the immaterial,
spheres of existence.
Artists include: Ken + Julia Yonetani, Paul Carter, Tracey Moffat, Jonathan
Kimberley + Jim Everett, Sara Oscar, John Vella, Jill Orr, Brendan Lee,
Keith Armstrong and Japanese guerilla art group Chim↑Pom. Beijing
based curator Tim Crowley will introduce the Australian premier screening of
28 Reasons why we still need superman, featuring video art by some of the
world’s most celebrated artists (including Jake and Dinos Chapman and Paul
McCarthy).
