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“The Artist as…”
In 2012, together with m’colleague Brogan Bunt, I had the pleasure of creating and teaching a new subject at UOW called “Social Intersections“: This subject examines how creative practice can engage...
View Article“Experimental Art” is a Tautology
In the process of putting together a grant application on behalf of the Big Fag Press, I’ve been thinking a little about the notion of experimentation in art. This has been prompted by a new category...
View ArticleLucas Ihlein – Philosophy of Teaching
The following text was written up for two reasons. First, I was invited to be an external “Artist-Teacher” for Carrie Ramig, an MFA student from Vermont College of Art in USA. The college required me...
View ArticleMy work with re-enactment…
Precursors: I’ve been working on re-enactments in one way or another since about 1996, when I did a performance work called Cornflakes in Perth. It was, in some way, about the daily re-enactment of...
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New website: lucasihlein.net
I’ve put up a new simple website as a sort of portfolio of projects I’ve done over the years. Of course it’s unfinished, incomplete, still needs work, blah blah. But it is more comprehensive than what...
View ArticlePersonal Narrative in the Digital Age
Yesterday I participated in an online discussion with Anna Poletti, as part of the 2014 Digital Writers Festival. Our discussion panel was entitled “Personal Narrative in the Digital Age”, and was...
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Reconciling Values
Recently I posted these brief thoughts on the issue of Transfield’s sponsorship of the Sydney Biennale, over at the Open Engagement blog: http://openengagement.info/home/archives/5200. The blog post is...
View Article‘Socially Engaged Artists’ are people who…
‘Socially engaged artists’ are people who get to count as artists be virtue of their usual or self-defining artwork-making role within the artworld. They then make use of this status (exploit it, if...
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Socially Engaged Art in a Venn Diagram
…first used in a presentation to the Mackay Local Marine Advisory Committee (LMAC) meeting, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, September 2014.
View ArticleDoes postgraduate study make for better art?
At the ACUADS conference a few weeks back, the final panel discussion tackled this question: “What impact are higher degree research programs having on emerging trends and themes in contemporary art?”...
View ArticleServile Youth by Lisa Kelly
Way back in September 2002, Lisa Kelly wrote a long, detailed, wide ranging, muckraking essay about artist run galleries, art writing, and careerism… The essay, entitled “Servile Youth” was originally...
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Workplace Relations: The Allan Kaprow Papers
Allan Kaprow – University lecture notebook from the 1940s (Getty Archive) I’m in Vancouver right now. Recently Lizzie, Albie and I visited L.A., San Diego, San Francisco, and Portland. I’m pursuing the...
View ArticleProductive Anonymity
The ability to experiment without much at stake except your own process of discovery… time to think and to not think; to look at art; to waste on dead-end art projects that no one will ever see again...
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Keep on….
In San Diego, I went with Alex to visit the Centro Cultural de la Raza. There was an exhibition themed around the bending and remix of pop culture imagery for Chicano politix. At the back of the...
View ArticleWord and Image
The following are some notes for guest lecture for UOW subject “Word and Image”, September 16 2015. Well-known works of experimental film and sound art: Michael Snow, So is This – film consisting...
View ArticleHaiku and Socially Engaged Art
This week I was invited to participate in a one day public forum entitled “Live Art, Social & Community Engagement: Methodologies of Practice” at UNSW, convened by Stephanie Springger and Lenine...
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Baking Dirt: Soil and the Carbon Economy
The Gold Coast, where Allan Yeomans works, is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise. See this map for a scenario based on a conservative rise of 110cm. I’ve come from Wollongong to visit Allan...
View ArticleEnvironmental Audit – artists book
Here’s a link to the Environmental Audit artist book. An artist book drawn from the Environmental Audit project by Lucas Ihlein, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010. This artist book was...
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Socially Engaged Art in a Venn Diagram
…first used in a presentation to the Mackay Local Marine Advisory Committee (LMAC) meeting, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, September 2014.
View ArticleDoes postgraduate study make for better art?
At the ACUADS conference a few weeks back, the final panel discussion tackled this question: “What impact are higher degree research programs having on emerging trends and themes in contemporary art?”...
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