Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome Is Certain - AAANZ | The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand

Publication Details Softcover, 29.7 x 23.5 cm, 1 kg, 172 pages, 116 image plates, ISBN: 978-0-6486801-3-0

Author and/or Editor name/s Editors: Hannah Mathews and Melissa Ratliff. Authors: Julie Ewington, Anneke Jaspers, Erik Jensen, Jenn Joy, Hannah Mathews and Gemma Weston

Author and/or Editor bio/s Hannah Mathews is Senior Curator at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. With a particular interest in contemporary art and performance, she has worked independently and held roles at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) and the Biennale of Sydney, among others. Melissa Ratliff is Curator Research at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. Previously she held roles with the Biennale of Sydney, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, and Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, working across public programming, education, publishing and exhibition projects.

Year of publication 2020

Publisher Co-published by Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, and Perimeter Editions, Melbourne

Abstract The Outcome Is Certain is the first monograph to trace the work of Sydney-based artist Agatha Gothe-Snape. Published with Perimeter Editions to coincide with the major survey exhibition of the same title at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), the book has been designed by Sydney-based designer and artist Ella Sutherland and features newly commissioned texts by Julie Ewington, Erik Jensen, Jenn Joy and Gemma Weston, and an interview between Anneke Jaspers and Gothe-Snape.

The Outcome Is Certain stays close to Gothe-Snape’s prolific practice through its idiosyncratic use of colour and text. Six A4 sections conceived as manila folders enclose notation, drawings, diagrams, letters and scores, revealing aspects of her working processes. Essays by Australian and international curators and writers reflect on core ideas and influences—among others: art history, text and language, collaboration, choreographic thinking and the role of chance and intuition.