Word: ets
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...world, and I cannot shake this sense of despair that our own generation might fade having lingered too long brooding in the shadow of their failure. Too often, we fight for our ideals in our parents’ same tired tradition—sit-ins, teach-ins, walk-outs, et cetera. It seems right, and yet sometimes I wonder whether they are staged more for our own peace-of-mind than for the effectiveness of their persuasion...
...sake in the song Evreux. Critics dismiss his style as precious, and ridicule his distinctive enunciation - drawn-out syllables and unexpected, oddly placed, upward inflections - as affected. But there's a certain quirky charm in his words and the way he sings them. Fanny Ardant et Moi, a rare up-tempo number, recounts Delerm's imagined relationship with the French actress 27 years his senior. "We are listening to Gregorian chant," he sings. "She barely speaks and me I say nothing/ We have a relationship like that/ Fanny Ardant and me." Delerm deftly turns an implausible conceit into a finely...
...With an exhibition budget of $A1.4 million, triple that of New Zealand, Australia can afford to be more relaxed. Which suits the artist. While et al.'s installations often feature cyclone fencing and cacophonous sound loops, Swallow's pale wood carvings of skulls and suburban beanbags speak more softly. "The Biennale is about this explosion of shows, and you've got such little time to look at everything," Swallow says. "So the idea I want is almost like a cool room away from that experience." Not that Australia is resting on its laurels. As well as the usual bags...
...biennales the Australia Council targets to position its artists internationally: "it's part of a much bigger strategy and matrix of events and approaches," says Brown. But for New Zealand's Burke, it is the be-all and end-all; a one-stop shop for contemporary art. So when et al.'s "the fundamental practice" opens next Thursday, it will be the climax of a near-military campaign since the artists were chosen in July last year...
...Refusing to identify their members (though believed to be the brainchild of Auckland artist Merylyn Tweedie), et al. have courted controversy. Their 2004 installation of Portaloos, rapture, was labeled "crap" by conservative M.P. Deborah Coddington, and their studied anonymity enraged TV presenter Paul Holmes. Even Prime Minister Helen Clark weighed in, saying the country's representative artists should "be able to articulate what this work is about." But all was forgiven in October, when et al. took out the nation's top art award for restricted access, an installation that included footage of Holmes chastising the artists. The Walters Prize...