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3 editorial 5 Peter Daverington: Shapeshifter

KIRSTEN RANN 10 Time out – A Different Temporality, Monash University Museum of Art

VIRGINIA FRASER 14 Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre: reinvigorating rainforest traditions

KATRINA CHAPMAN 18 The new National Cultural Policy – will the artist be the focal point?

RUPERT MYER 21 Double Dutch: Fluiten in het Donker (Whistling in the Dark), Amsterdam

RACHAEL WATTS 24 Gao Brothers: The Utopia of Hugging for 20 Minutes

NAIMA MORELLI 26 Time and Space, Space and Time

ANDREW FROST 29 Changchun: the Sculpture Capital of China

KEN SCARLETT 32 Equator’s Heat: Biennale Jogja XI 2011

RIFKY EFFENDY 36 Chance and Design: the 4th India Art Fair

MAURICE O'RIORDAN 38 Fieldnotes: Mumbai

GENEVIEVE O’CALLAGHAN 40 A trompe-l’espirit – Picasso: Masterpieces from the

Musée National Picasso, Paris PATRICK HUTCHINGS 44 Adam Knott: the artist a.k.a ...

CHRISTINE WESTWOOD 48 books: Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975

ERICA SECCOMBE 50 opps 52 artnotes

Pat Brassington, A heartbeat away (detail), 2011–12,

pigment prints installation, dimensions variable; courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney; Arc One Gallery, Melbourne; and Bett Gallery, Hobart.

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.

Currently showing in Parallel Collisions: the 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, curated by Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2 March to 29 April 2012:

www.artgallery.sa.gov.au advertisers

Back cover Perc Tucker Gallery Inside front Griffith University Museum of Art Inside back TarraWarra Museum of Art

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) 17 ANCA Gallery 28 ANU School of Art 35 Araluen Arts Centre, NT 35 Art Almanac 43 Art Gallery of Ballarat 47

Art Gallery of South Australia 4 Benalla Art Gallery 40 Bendigo Art Gallery 2 Blacktown Arts Centre 37 Campbelltown Arts Centre 46 City of Hobart Art Prize 9 Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet 25 Flinders University City Gallery 34 Geelong Gallery 23 Gippsland Art Gallery 25 Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 25 McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park 47 Monash University Museum of Art 17 National Assoc for Visual Arts (NAVA) 49

National Exhibitions Touring Support (Vic) (NETS) 20 National Museum of Australia 9 Peter Hill @ Margaret Lawrence Gallery 4 Red Gate Gallery 53 Shepparton Art Museum 31 Tamworth Regional Gallery 47 Tweed River Art Gallery 43 University of Melbourne 36 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 15 + 27 Wollongong City Gallery 17 Women's Art Register 13

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