Adelaide Festival
The north-eastern concourse at Adelaide Railway Station is the unusual ‘gallery’ space for a pair of immersive screen-based works – one of which draws inspiration from an unrecognised principality on a platform in the middle of the North Sea.
InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Samstag scholars win life-changing opportunity to study overseas, funding boost for small to medium arts organisations, Fringe director recognised in leadership awards, new role for Guildhouse’s CEO, and a screen festival serving up ‘something a little bit different’.
Three disparate worlds are currently contained within Samstag Museum’s walls: two compelling audio-visual installations by eminent British artist Isaac Julien, and a realm of uncanny, biomorphic entities created by Australian ceramicist Helen Fuller.
Stories of heroism, mateship, discrimination and heartbreak are shared in an exhibition that uses family histories, photos, objects and art to highlight the war experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
A major exhibition in Adelaide showcasing more than 280 film stills, costumes and casting books testifies to the dramatic transformations that have taken place in Australian society over the past century, writes Christine Judith Nicholls.
Among the diverse artworks exploring Divided Worlds in the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, the largest invites gallery visitors into a fantasy underworld – a maze-like structure celebrating Dungeons & Dragons.
From Singapore – the city-state some think of as a utopia – comes a visual art exhibition exploring how far or close we are to social perfection.
