vol 36 no 2





Editor Alan Cruickshank


Editorial Assistant Wendy Walker


Advertising Manager Karen Vance


Designer Alan Cruickshank





COVER SUSAN NORRIE HAVOC (video still) 2006





Courtesy the artist, Mori Gallery Sydney, and the Australia Council


Susan Norrie will represent Australia at the 2007 Venice Biennale


Exhibiting the video installation Havoc at the Fondazione Levi











Contents


Alan Cruickshank Australia too Far Away


Daniel Palmer The Object of Things


Anna MacDonald Havoc


Andrew Mackenzie Broken Homes


Alex Gawronski Did Someone Say 'Politically Correct'?


Alan Cruickshank Cultural Faultlines


Mercedes Vicente Turbulent Realities


Ian McLean Against the Grain: Towards a Natural History of Art and Taste


Donald Brook For Art, Against Aesthetics


Kevin Chua The Tiger and the Theodolite: George Coleman's Dream of Extinction


Ho Tzu Nyen Every Cat in History is I


Natasha Conland The Oedipus Compost


Robert Cook Unmade Work


Reuben Keehan The Beautiful Language of My Century


Anthony Gardner (and Huw Hallam) Conversing with a Constructed World


Tanya Petersen Working Backwards