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lecture: digging the earth – collaborative prospects between the mining industry and the arts
join dominika’s lecture on artecoindustry, existent models for the revitaliziation of former industrial areas and artecoindustry’s objectives on the collaboration between the mining industry and the arts! “digging the earth: collaborative prospects between the mining industry and the arts” @ college of fine arts (cofa) the university of new south wales cnr of oxford st…
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down the rabbit hole – white rabbit gallery sydney
taking the last opportunity to see down the rabbit hole, i went to the white rabbit gallery in sydney this sunday. the white rabbit gallery is a private art collection of the greater chinese area that opened not until 2009. ‘intuitive,’ would circumscribe the selection criteria for acquisition, presentation and hanging. the latter mirror the…
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humanizing technology through art within a planetary society
dominika presented parts of her doctoral thesis on japanese-american artist isamu noguchi (1904-1988) and his approach to science and technology after world war II at this years’ AAANZ conference together <> apart in andrew mcnamara‘s panel modernism, everyday life and collective creativity. humanizing technology through art within a planetary society complicates one-sided narratives on noguchi’s…
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publication: embodied nature
meanings of abstract art is out! a wonderful publication (eds. isabel wünsche and paul crowther, routledge publishers) with insights on modernism, post-war abstraction and postmodern developments follow dominika’s contribution “embodied nature: isamu noguchi’s intetra fountain” that reveals artist isamu noguchi’s stainless steel, “tetrahedral internal mist fountain” of 1976 in the context of the technology-dominated american…
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un terrain pour un musée
dominika attended anna paini’s survey of her anthropological fieldwork on kanak women from lifou, loyality islands, at the musée de nouvelle-caledonie. dr. anna maria paini, who works at the university of verona, gave an insight into the (vanishing) know-how of plaited mats made of pandanus (ixoe). anna’s talk initiates a series of lectures being part…
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strolling through sydney
impressions from the stopover to nouméa