Arts Features International

The April-June 2019 issue of Arts Features International is the artists protest issue.

RUTH SKILBECK

Letter from the editor 7

First Artists Announcement: NIRIN Biennale of Sydney text & photos 13

DR. CHRISTINE EVERINGHAM

Creating Community Protest opinion editorial 20

CHRISTINE EVERINGHAM and THERESE DOYLE

Book extract Wrong Track: What Drove Supercars to Newcastle Introduction; Chapter one: Heritage neighbourhood or racing circuit? Photographs by Newcastle Residents Community Group (NERG) 22

RUTH SKILBECK

Newcastle Heritage Policy? Kerb Your Enthusiasm 48 Destruction (cracked wall and floor, falling tiles) photograph 51

NAVA (National Association of Visual Arts) Invest in Artistic Courage 2019 Statement 52

NATASHA WILLIAMS

The Budget lino print cartoon 54

DR. RUTH SKILBECK

Book extract The Writer’s Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and

Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity (2nd ed.) From Chapter one: Exiled Writers’ Human Rights and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis 55

RUTH SKILBECK

Off the Road: Photographs of the Biennale of Sydney Boycott, 2014 81 Biennale Artists Responses to Cutting Ties with ‘Detention Camps’ 84

SUELLEN SYMONS Portrait of Bob Brown 88

RUTH SKILBECK Adani Mine Emergency 89

SUELLEN SYMONS

Stop Adani Protest Easter Sunday with Bob Brown 92

RUTH SKILBECK and SUELLEN SYMONS Artists and Local Community against Adani Mine 94

SUELLEN SYMONS and RUTH SKILBECK The Big Rev-Up: Stop Adani Benefit Auction 96

RUTH SKILBECK

Suellen Symons’ Strange Paradise 100

SUELLEN SYMONS

Strange Paradise (Redfern Then and Now) Head On Photo Festival 105

SILVIA PEASE

Book Review: Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency by Santiago Zabala 108

WANG ZHIYUAN

From Painting to Wall-sculpture the case of Wang Zhiyuan

Translated by Jin Hua and Mabel Lee 111 RUTH SKILBECK

Cafe Life in the Antipodes Novel extract 123 JEREMY GLUCK

Manifesto of Nonceptual Art: This is the ant’s language 128 JEREMY GLUCK and DON TYLER

Phase47/Nonceptualism: Sound and Vision 132

JEREMY GLUCK with photographs by RUTH SKILBECK

Andy Warhol and Gustav Metzger: Before the Flood 134 ROSEMARY OSBORNE with JEREMY GLUCK

How Memes Can Shift the Educational Landscape 141 JEREMY GLUCK with ROSEMARY OSBORNE

#thestudentbeings: Eltham Hill School Collaboration 145

RUTH SKILBECK

Under Twenty-Seven–Ella Dreyfus’ Exhibition at Watt Space Gallery.

Head On Photo Festival. On site photography 154-155; 163-165 RUTH SKILBECK

Under a Maternal Feminist ...