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...Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, he spun trash-game-show king Chuck Barris' tales of CIA sleuthing and assassination into a deconstruction of the spy-movie and biopic genres. He threw himself (and a fake twin brother) into Adaptation, a film about, among other things, the impossibility of one medium's being true to another...
...artists she has brought together in Adelaide explode the idea of what photography can be. There are the type-C seascapes wrapped round beach balls in Derek Kreckler's Holey 1, 2, 3, 2003, which cleverly shows up the medium's two-dimensional shortcomings. Then there's the anti-war imagery scanned from the Internet and drawn over 4,000 Post-It notes in Silvia V?lez's Not In My Name, 2004. Above all, the show attempts to free up the frozen image, capturing the shift in contemporary art from photography to video and back again. Exhibit A is Patricia...
While the show highlights the inherent restlessness of the medium - in Craig Walsh's video Cross-Reference, 2004, distracted crowds filmed at a music festival peer through one of the gallery's fire doors - some of the best work in the Biennial is as still as a painting. Indeed, Rosemary Laing's latest suite of photographs, One Dozen Unnatural Disasters in the Australian Landscape, sits charmingly alongside a new exhibition of the colonial painter John Glover. If his A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England...
...number, and can talk confidently about mere acquaintances, acquaintances of acquaintances and even those people that you don’t know at all save for an eerily accurate stored set of vital statistics garnered via the osmosis of names and faces which occurs organically at such a happy-medium-sized college...
...more likely to earn their contempt. If France and Germany were to refuse to join the U.S. again and the rest of the continent remembered his rhetoric during the campaign, Kerry’s administration could find itself without friends among Spain, Italy and Poland, Europe’s medium-sized powers...