Khadim Ali: Landlock
Khadim Ali is currently featured in the exhibition Landlock at Casula Powerhouse, Sydney. The exhibition explores a parallel geographrical relationship between Afghanistan and Australia – one being surrounded entirely by sea and the other by land mass – and the resulting shared political dialogues about the environment occurring between the two regions. The exhibition runs 30 March - 12 May 2013.
More information: http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/exhibitions/landlock.aspx
Richard Bell: Imagining Victory
Richard Bell has a significant solo exhibition, Imagining Victory, upcoming at Artspace, Sydney. The exhibition will include two major video works, Scratch an Aussie (2008) and Broken English (2009), as well as the premiere of Bell’s trilogy-culminating new work The Dinner Party (2013).
More information: http://www.artspace.org.au/gallery_project.php?i=184
The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds
A new book surveying contemporary art's 'new worlds', with the rise of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East, as well as the global biennial circuit, includes Milani artist Richard Bell within an essay discussing postcolonial theory and the notion of the 'curiosity cabinet'.
Khaled Sabsabi: Sharjah Biennial 11
Khaled Sabsabi's work is currently being shown at the Sharjah Biennial 11. The Sharjah Biennial 11 runs from 13 March - 13 April 2013.
http://www.sharjahart.org/press1/2012/saf-announces-new-details-of-sb111
http://www.sharjahart.org/biennial/sharjah-biennial-11/welcome
Eugene Carchesio & Ross Manning: Foundation's Edge
Eugene Carchesio and Ross Manning have works in the exhibiton Foundation's Edge: Artists and Technology at QUT from 16 March - 26 May 2013. The exhibition takes a look at the exploitation, deconstruction, and reworking of commercial technologies to their own creative ends. Both artists performed at the opening of the exhibiton on Friday, 15 March.
More information: http://www.artmuseum.qut.edu.au/exhibit/2013/foundations.jsp
Judy Watson: experimental beds
Henry Wiencek, expert on Thomas Jefferson, discusses Judy Watson's work experimental beds, which she made during a residency at Monticello in 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkj7hfHiVsk&list=ECE389058E455D6AEB
Tom Nicholson in Palestine at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
Tom Nicholson's work is considered the catalyst of the upcoming exhibition Palestine at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. The exhibition encompasses video and installation that posits allegorical echoes between the collapse and the breakdown of political negotiations across a Middle East that once dreamed of uniting under the banner of Pan-Arabism with alternative readings of a current ongoing regional political conflict.
Palestine, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Vernon Ah Kee and Richard Bell: Sakahàn: 1st International Quinquennial of New Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada.
Vernon Ah Kee and Richard Bell have both been selected as artist in Sakahàn: 1st International Quinquennial of New Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Ah Kee and Bell's work will stand amongst some of their most important global contemporaries including Jimmie Durham and Teresa Margolles.
Christian Capurro: IS at Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna.
An exhibition of recent video work by Christian Capurro will open Thursday 14th of February 6pm at the Sammlung Lenikus in Vienna.
The show will include three projection ensembles and will run from 13 - 19 February 2013.
For more information: http://www.sammlunglenikus.at/journey.php#!/inhalt/4040
Richard Bell: The Age Newspaper
Richard Bell appeared in The Age on Wednesday Feb 6 in regard to his show at the Monash University Museum of Art, Richard Bell: Lessons on Etiquette and Manners.