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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
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off to new caledonia
dominika is traveling to the pacific on may 18th, initiating artEC/Oindustry’s first project digging the earth in new caledonia / news and visualizations to follow… wall decoration facing baie de la moselle/ nouméa – may 23, 2012