Book Club #1

Acacia Engineering, Engineering Schematic for a Bathtub, 2023

Antonio Gramsci, excerpt from Selection from the Prison Notebooks, trans. and ed. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Lowell Smith, New York International Publishers, 2005, p. 276; Adam Curtis, quote from Bitter Lake [documentary film], BBC, 2015; THIRD REFERENCE MISSING; Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, 1993, Headline Publishing Group, p. 1

Alan Kohler, excerpt from ‘THE GREAT DIVIDE: Australia’s Housing Mess and How to Fix It’, Quarterly Essay 92, 2023

Dr Reknaw, ‘Dodo’, Rektified, 2021

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Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, ‘Little Julien’, Pissing Figures 1280-2014, David Zwirner Books, 2017, pp. 7-11

Maeve Brennan, The Embroiderers – المطرِّزات [youtube video], commissioned for At The Seams by The Palestinian Museum, 2016 retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJiyApe9tqw, 13.44

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Marisa Georgiou, ‘Why is the art world still married to meritocracy?’ [online article], Arts Hub, published under the Amplify Collective, an initiative supported by the Walkley foundation with funding from Meta Australia News Fund, retrieved from https://www.artshub.com.au/news/features/why-is-the-art-world-still-married-to-meritocracy-2688285/ 

Mosab Abu Toha, ‘Sobbing Without Sound’ from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems From Gaza, City Lights Publishers, 2022.

Simone Weil, ‘Gravity and Grace’, Gravity and Grace, Routledge, 1947, pp. 1-4.

Wednesday Holmes [@hellomynameiswednesday], ‘ITS BACK…’ [instagram photo], 29 May, 2024 retrieved from www.instagram.com/p/C7gjxyft8pe/

Conversation Group

2.30–3.30pm, Saturday 14 September
Project Space/Foyer, Contemporary Art Tasmania
Free event

Taking inspiration from the book club circle, Book Club is a recurring event where we can come together to discuss ideas, in response to a curated ‘book club list’. This first conversation group will focus on a list with references offered by the artists of the Absolute Piston Gauges program.

Book Club is a project that provides artists and audience with insights into artistic practice and process outside of the exhibition model, prompting us to consider what ideas, content, and material artists are engaging with as they shape the cultural landscape around us.