Published March 2010
Materiality, Embodiment and Exchange.
This time of year always reminds me of going back to high school after the long summer holidays and sitting suddenly at a desk in a classroom with a sticky, sweaty school uniform and big heavy school shoes. It all felt so unnatural, to hold a pen again and the February Sydney heat threatening to put me to sleep in the science labs. This issue of DSP hopes to combat those drowsy, late-summer meanderings and refresh you like a bucket of water over the head.
Issue 11 welcomes you all ‘back to school’ by investigating and celebrating five thought-provoking emerging and contemporary artists. There’s a lot of talk about process and we take a sincere look at materiality, exchange and embodiment across installation, video and performance works in both Australian and international contexts.
In conversation we have emerging Australian artists Sarah-Jane Norman and Sam Icklow who discuss life as Berliners, while artists Chloe Hughes and Amy Craig engage in discussion of Craig’s first major residency on the French island of Reunion, participating in the biennale program there. From the menu of more established artists we have Daniel Templeman, Alex Kershaw and Kate Murphy sharing their insights on the process of art making and the business of being an artist.
Thank you to all the contributing artists, writers and readers for presenting their words, works and worlds to us to share.
—Bronwyn Bailey Charteris