InReview
In Untitled (death song), part of the Art Gallery of SA’s 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres, Indigenous artist Megan Cope has created an ugly but necessary song of ruin – and now you can hear it played.
InReview
The yellow and black banners that have cloaked the Art Gallery of SA’s façade in recent months are part of a Monster Theatres art installation that curator Leigh Robb says can now be seen as extraordinarily prophetic in light of COVID-19.
The role of art in society has never been clearer, writes Art Gallery of SA director Rhana Devenport, as the gallery releases a video teaser for a new virtual exhibition series on the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres.
With a giant walking Duchamp ‘Fountain’, a balaclava-clad Captain Cook, and ‘Piss Christ’, Howl is a celebration of censored, maligned or misunderstood artworks from modern history.
The 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art showcases the work of 23 cutting-edge contemporary artists, with a line-up of live performances and interactive experiences that bring their monsters to life.
A rare longcase clock crafted exactly 200 years ago by a British convict is today marking the end of time at the Art Gallery of SA, and will help contextualise a six-day durational reading by performance artist Mike Parr.
