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Contemporary Australian Drawing #1 by Janet McKenzie, with Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote

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July–August 2012, no. 343

Contemporary Australian Drawing #1 by Janet McKenzie, with Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote

Palgrave Macmillan, $99.95 hb, 240 pp, 9781921394539

Contemporary Australian Drawing #1 by Janet McKenzie, with Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote

by
July–August 2012, no. 343

Just because something is being done right now doesn’t make it contemporary. On the contrary, the predicate ‘contemporary’ in contemporary art is the name for a problem, not a clarified or self-evident state of affairs. As Boris Groys puts it, ‘This is because the contemporary is actually constituted by doubt, hesitation, uncertainty, indecision – by the need for prolonged reflection, for a delay.’ Such experiences, however, are not especially high priorities in the world of corporate rationalisation.

Justin Clemens reviews 'Contemporary Australian Drawing #1' by Janet McKenzie, with Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote

Contemporary Australian Drawing #1

by Janet McKenzie, with Irene Barberis and Christopher Heathcote

Palgrave Macmillan, $99.95 hb, 240 pp, 9781921394539

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