Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture
Issue 3 (2009)
ART GOES ON
We'll always be eager to find or create a new experience, a new source of exhilaration. But whatever you arrive at will very soon no longer be there. And so you will need to move on, or you will need to move up. And this will have to be your perpetual practice.
Ai Weiwei (Artforum, May 2008)
What is the relation between the contemporary artist's desire to move on and the appetite of the market for newness? Where does this leave the project of historical reckoning that has traditionally been the task of the critic or art historian? If artists are caught in the effervescence of the now, how do they negotiate the historical legacies within which they are embedded? Is perpetual motion an antidote to history and its teleological ambitions or an impossible fantasy that is itself historically conditioned? Is such optimism a product of a buoyant and expanding art world or a symptom of its amnesia-inducing effects?
CONTENTS
| .05 | Introduction Christina Barton |
| .06 | Round Table: The State of Art and Discourse in New Zealand
Coordinated and edited by Christina Barton |
| .30 | Divine Violence Imagined by Contemporary Artists
Terry Smith |
| .48 | Ruinous Sequels Adrian Martin |
| .72 | The Long Arrival: an interview with Donna Ong
Lee Weng Choy |
| .88 | Opening a Closing Door: Feminist and Queer Artists as
Historians Helena Reckitt |
| .104 | Work-Life Balance: Recent Exhibitions by Dan Arps
Jon Bywater |
| .120 | Wastage of Effect: Newness, Expendibility and Memory in 1960s
Art Anthony White |
ARCHIVE
| .137 | Documentation Through Drawing: Demolition at the Auckland Art
Gallery Fiona Connor |
| .153 | The Peter r Tomory Archive Mary Kisler |
| .162 | Kieran Lyons: Welder's Weakness
Wystan Curnow |
| .172 | FAN Memories: Feminist Art Networkers' Archive 1982-88
Elizabeth Eastmond |
| .180 | Staff Research, Presentations and Publications: 2008 |
| .182 | Contributors |
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