ANZJA ARTICLE IN FOCUS | Artists, Institutions, Publics: Contemporary Responses to Conflict

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 20.1, Special Issue: War, Art and Visual Culture

Edited by Professor Kit Messham-Muir  and Dr Uroš Čvoro

This Special Issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art follows a year after the symposium titled War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney (2019).  The project aims to consider the politics of addressing war in contemporary art and visual culture, particularly the potential for conflicts, compromises and complicity.

This weeks article in focus is:

Artists, Institutions, Publics: Contemporary Responses to Conflict, Kate Warren, Anthea Gunn and Mikala Tai

Kate Warren, Anthea Gunn and Mikala Tai consider how different institutional contexts affect the creation and exhibition of contemporary art that approaches topics of war, conflict, and political violence.

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Tom Nicholson, Comparative Monument (Palestine), 2012, 9 stacks of 1000 two-sided offset printed posters, each 50 × 50 cm, for visitors to take away, and also pasted up around Ramallah. Courtesy of the artist.

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