David Hansen La mort apprivoisée
CURATORIAL WRITING FOR JASON PHU
WHAT IS PASSED DOWN TEXT BY LAUREN CARROLL HARRIS Jason Phu, ‘The fruit was sweeter then. The fish were more plentiful.’ at Alaska Projects, commissioned and curated by Antidote Projects An energetic amalgam of video, installation and sculpture, Sydney...
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Aggregate Icon (Black and White)(Center to periphery, reading down L to R)Protester in support of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, 27th April 2017, West Bank (smile), Anti-government protester in Manila, 23rd July 2018, Philippines (tears), Anti-fascist...
ANTIDOTE PRESENTS: THE TRACE – CURATORIAL WRITING BY GRACE PARTRIDGE WITH INPUT FROM ANTHEA MENTZALIS.
Image: Zanny Begg with Elise McLeod, 'The City of Ladies', 2017, still from single-channel durational video - looped variation.Historically, across the broad oeuvre of contemporary conceptual art, an ever-present notion of crisis—and crisis in representation—has...
ARTISTS WE LOVE: JOHN YUYI
Taiwanese born, New-York based John Yuyi infuses her contemporary photography practice with subversive temporary tattoos to reflect her cultural identity and being a child of diaspora. With a mass internet following, a background in fashion design, some seriously...
CURATORIAL WRITING FOR ENGENDER
ANTIDOTE PRESENTS: ENGENDER - CURATORIAL STATEMENT GRACE PARTRIDGE AND EMMA SIZE. Image Credit: GET TO WORK - Tracy Quan, Georgia Taia and Paris Taia, a.l.o.t.o (a league of their own) 2017, three-channel digital video, sound, 3:16 minutes, 3:20 minutes, 3:15...
ANTIDOTE FESTIVAL AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
The Sydney Opera House has launched their inaugural event Antidote - A Festival of ideas, art & action. WHAT IS ANTIDOTE? Worried about the world? You’re not alone. Politics. Climate change. Money. It’s exhausting – even facts can be alternative now....
REALTIME FEATURE
Image Credit: PETER MORGAN Thank you to RealTime for featuring our latest exhibition Moving Nations. Check it out here.
MOVING NATIONS, MOVING SUBJECTS
Image Credit: Alex Ryan. Penny Ryan - Open Hearts, an installation of the Confined Hearts Project BY GRACE PARTRIDGE We live in a world built on forced, mass displacement; likewise, the logic of colonised, convict Australia is one of violence,...
THE EARTH ISSUE
IMAGE CREDIT: ZAN WIMBERLEY Our friends at the Earth Issue featured our latest exhibition Anthropocene. Check it out here.
PROJECTS WE LOVE: STORIES ABOUT HOPE
WRITTEN BY RENEE DIXSON It took several years for Stories about Hope to come to its current form. My very first impulse to do something was after an exhibition my partner and I attended back in 2013. The exhibition featured art works drawn by people in an immigration...
STANISLAVA PINCHUK: MISO – EXHIBITION AND BOOK LAUNCH
As Antidote's vision is to present work from artists who are exceptionally talented and tell important stories - we cannot pass up Stanislava Pinchuk and her exquisitely detailed, topographic prints. She has just landed from Los Angeles and has a big week in Sydney...
ARTISTS WE LOVE: ELENA CREMONA
When Antidote stumbled across the newly launched The Earth Issue, we knew we needed to speak to them. A beautifully curated print magazine, The Earth Issue is dedicated to using art and image as a driving force for environmental activism; as such, is the epitome...
CURATORIAL STATEMENT ON ANTHROPOCENE
BY GRACE PARTRIDGE My personal engagement with the Anthropocene began by considering the historical traces hidden within the recently coined neologism: anthropo comes from the Greek for man, while cene is the suffix for geological periods. The realisation...
CREEPS, CRITICISM AND GENDER AT THE OSCARS
BY ISABELLE HORE-THORBURN It’s been a big year (already) for bad people making good films, and the most recent Oscars was the locus of that tension. The sad poetics of Brie Larson awarding Casey Affleck his Oscar award jarringly articulated the strange hypocrisy...
HOW ART AND ACTIVISM COULD SAVE THE WORLD
Image Credit: Elizabeth Farrell BY MAILE SHANTI This year has already seen dramatic weather events and even more damning scientific evidence that humanity’s impact on the earth is far more devastating than what most of us might think. The issue itself seems too...
WHY ANTHROPOCENE?
EXIT, 2008. Diller Scofodio + Renfro, Laura Kurgan and Mark Hansen. BY GRACE PARTRIDGE WITH INPUT FROM EMMA SIZE Considering the geological, biochemical or hydrologic elements of the Earth feels like an endeavour beyond my realm of expertise as someone whose...
ACTIVISM, FEMINISM AND WAYS OF REMEMBERING
Image by Kevin Banatte: https://www.instagram.com/p/BPiqb6ihm0c/ BY KATIE WINTEN AND ISABELLE HORE-THORBURN OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS It’s been a big start to the year for political upheaval, activism and feminism. It feels like we’re in a singular and...