AUSTRALIA
Regarding Fear and Hope
Monash University
Monash University
Wille Doherty, Closure 2005 DVD still courtesy of the artist,
Alexander and Bonin, New York and Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid
Regarding Fear and Hope examines two abiding emotions that are dominating the contemporary political and cultural landscape. Exploring the ways in which artists form connections with this milieu, the exhibition includes works that consider current issues of immigration, diverse identities, conflict, surveillance, and the challenging economic and political environments in which we live. Regarding Fear and Hope features the work of international artists: Yael Bartana (Israel), Willie Doherty (Northern Ireland), Lucia Madriz (Costa Rica), Lázaro A.
Saavedra-Gonzalez (Cuba), Sriwhana Spong (New Zealand) and from
Australia: Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamely, David Griggs, Tom Nicholson, r e a and Lynette Wallworth.
There is an increasing and pervading sense of ‘fear’ in our midst, made manifest in some of the more extreme attitudes to immigrants and asylum seekers, but also in responses to the abstract notions of change, risk and difference. It is perhaps not so much that we are actually fearful, but that fear itself is more present today, as a concept, a justification, an irritant and a political concern.
A counterpoint to fear is hope – and one of the urgent questions of our time is whether we can hope or not. Hope is an emotion that many of us have experienced at one time or another. But a sense of hope in the wake of fear is altogether different. It requires faith in human behaviour.
Regarding Fear and Hope
Part One: Faculty Gallery, Caulfield Campus
5 July – 28 July 2007
Part Two: Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus
4 July – 25 August 2007
Guest Curator: Victoria Lynn
www.monash.edu.au/muma
Saavedra-Gonzalez (Cuba), Sriwhana Spong (New Zealand) and from
Australia: Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamely, David Griggs, Tom Nicholson, r e a and Lynette Wallworth.
There is an increasing and pervading sense of ‘fear’ in our midst, made manifest in some of the more extreme attitudes to immigrants and asylum seekers, but also in responses to the abstract notions of change, risk and difference. It is perhaps not so much that we are actually fearful, but that fear itself is more present today, as a concept, a justification, an irritant and a political concern.
A counterpoint to fear is hope – and one of the urgent questions of our time is whether we can hope or not. Hope is an emotion that many of us have experienced at one time or another. But a sense of hope in the wake of fear is altogether different. It requires faith in human behaviour.
Regarding Fear and Hope
Part One: Faculty Gallery, Caulfield Campus
5 July – 28 July 2007
Part Two: Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton Campus
4 July – 25 August 2007
Guest Curator: Victoria Lynn
www.monash.edu.au/muma
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