Justin Clemens
Art
Neon Statements: Joseph Kosuth and Conceptual Art
Justin Clemens
At the beginning of the 1960s, the New York art scene was going wild. World War II had created the conditions for the city to become the...
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'Inherent Vice' by Thomas Pynchon
Justin Clemens
Thomas Pynchon is one of the most extraordinary novelists writing today. This isn’t due to his genius alone, though there’s no doubting his...
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Key Thinkers: Justin Clemens on Alain Badiou
Justin Clemens
Part 1 | Part 2In this stimulating lecture for the University of Melbourne's Key Thinkers series, Justin Clemens gives a skilled and...
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‘Poe: A Life Cut Short’ by Peter Ackroyd
Justin Clemens
Born into poverty, sickness and vagabondage, Edgar Allan Poe was doomed from the beginning. His parents were actors, a déclassé profession...
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‘Linda Marrinon: Let Her Try’ by Chris McAuliffe
Justin Clemens
Chris McAuliffe's governing image for Linda Marrinon's career is that of Voltaire's Candide, tending carefully to the garden...
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'Show Court 3' by Louise Paramor, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, 20 April
Justin Clemens
In a world overburdened by museums and monuments, by the claims of the past and the injunction to protect and save, what should we preserve...
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‘Australian Impressionism’, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Justin Clemens
This is an impressive corporate exercise, bringing together more than 240 works from the heroic era of Australian art, from an...
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A Law That Cannot Be Enforced: The Politics of Art in Australia
Justin Clemens
Last year, in the mid-afternoon of 1 August, I snuck into the Melbourne Art Fair before it officially opened. I wanted to poke around, see...
More ...Haranguing the nation: 'Juan Davila'
Justin Clemens
You can't miss Juan Davila's assault on the human body. In the work [sic.], a one-eyed Grim Reaper, intestines still festering behind the...
More ...‘The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis’ By Jacques Lacan, trans. Russell Grigg: ‘Being and Event’ By Alain Badiou, trans. Oliver Feltham
Justin Clemens
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the philosophical waters, two large French warships turn up off our coastline, aided and...
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