Arts Features International: Destruction & Disruption Editor: Ruth Skilbeck

Photojournalist artists feature in the Destruction & Disruption 'artists protest issue' of Arts Features International published before the 2019 election in Australia, which documents that time of social activism by artists and local communities opposed to destruction of the natural and built environment and gentrification by acts of government and big business. And for increasing ways of community healing, engagement, and collaboration through art and generosity. Featured are pieces on local opposition to Destination NSW's approved Supercars motor race in Newcastle, by Dr Christine Everingham, Therese Doyle, and Newcastle East Residents Group. The Big Rev Up Benefit Auction of artworks for the Stop Adani coal mine Protest; Bob Brown's Stop Adani speech, and the residents' opposition to displacement and redevelopment of their homes in Sydney's inner-city Waterloo, Redfern and Alexandria, documented by Suellen Symons. The 'First Artists Announcement' of NIRIN the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, with a healing ceremony at Cell Block Theatre at the National Art School. The (successful) artists boycott of an earlier Sydney Biennale in protest at the contract award to the Board chairman's company (a Biennale sponsor) to profit from refugee detention camps. Exhibitions: Suellen Symons' Strange Paradise (Redfern Then and Now). Dr Ella Dreyfus's Under Twenty-Seven and essay by Professor Catharine Lumby. Dr Deborah van Heekeren's Disruption. Works by Wang Zhiyuan. A review by Silvia Pease. Jeremy Gluck's manifesto and his collaborations with Don Tyler, and Rosemary Osbourne. Artworks by Natasha Williams, and Luciano Prisco. A play by Vee Malnar. Writings and photographs by Ruth Skilbeck.

Exclusive. This double length edition published before the 2019 federal election in ebook, features the transcript of Bob Brown’s speech at the Stop Adani rally, Mullumbimby, Nth NSW on Easter Sunday 2019 to a crowd of 3000-4000 including the Stop Adani convoy- which was pilloried in the Murdoch media at the time. Photographer Suellen Symons was there, and had the permission of Dr Bob Brown, former Senator, founder and Parliamentary Leader of The Australian Greens Party, to transcribe and publish his speech. Also featured: works by and about Dr Ella Dreyfus and her exhibition Under Twenty Seven in Newcastle, NSW including an essay by Professor Catharine Lumby, and a review and photos by Dr Ruth Skilbeck. Special Collectors Edition.

Contents

RUTH SKILBECK

Letter from the editor 7

First Artists Announcement: NIRIN Biennale of Sydney text & photos 13

CHRISTINE EVERINGHAM

Creating Community Protest opinion editorial 20

CHRISTINE EVERINGHAM and THERESE DOYLE

Book extract: Wrong Track: What Drove Supercars to Newcastle

Introduction; Chapter one: Heritage neighbourhood or racing circuit?

Photographs by Newcastle Residents Community Group (NERG) 22

RUTH SKILBECK

Newcastle Heritage Policy? Kerb Your Enthusiasm opinion 48

Destruction (cracked wall and floor, falling tiles) photograph 51

NAVA (National Association for the Visual Arts)

Invest in Artistic Courage 2019 Statement 52

NATASHA WILLIAMS

The Budget lino print cartoon 54

RUTH SKILBECK

Book extract : The Writer’s Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity (2nd ed.) From Chapter one: Exiled Writers’ Human Rights and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis 55

RUTH SKILBECK

Off the Road. Photographs of the Biennale of Sydney Boycott 2014 81

Biennale Artists Responses to Cutting Ties with ‘Detention Camps’ Sponsor 84

SUELLEN SYMONS

Portrait of Bob Brown 88

RUTH SKILBECK

Adani Mine Emergency 89

SUELLEN SYMONS

Stop Adani Protest, Mullumbimby, Easter Sunday with Bob Brown 92

RUTH SKILBECK and SUELLEN SYMONS

Artists and Local Community against Adani Mine 94

SUELLEN SYMONS and RUTH SKILBECK

The Big Rev-Up: Stop Adani Benefit Auction 96

RUTH SKILBECK

Suellen Symons’ Strange Paradise 100

SUELLEN SYMONS

Strange Paradise (Redfern Then and Now) Head On Photo Festival 105

SILVIA PEASE

Book Review: Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency by Santiago Zabala 108

WANG ZHIYUAN

From Painting to Wall-sculpture the case of Wang Zhiyuan

Translated by Jin Hua and Mabel Lee 111

RUTH SKILBECK

Café Life in the Antipodes. Novel extract 123

JEREMY GLUCK

Manifesto of Nonceptual Art: This is the ant’s language 128

JEREMY GLUCK and DON TYLER

Phase47/Nonceptualism: Sound and Vision 132

JEREMY GLUCK with photographs by RUTH SKILBECK

Andy Warhol and Gustav Metzger: Promotion Before the Flood 134

ROSEMARY OSBORNE with JEREMY GLUCK

How Memes Can Shift the Educational Landscape 141

JEREMY GLUCK with ROSEMARY OSBORNE

#thestudentbeings Eltham Hill School Collaboration 145

RUTH SKILBECK

Under Twenty-Seven–Ella Dreyfus’ Exhibition at Watt Space Gallery.

Head On Photo Festival. On site photography 154-155; 163-165

RUTH SKILBECK

Under a Maternal Feminist Gaze–Ella Dreyfus’ Under Twenty-Seven 156

ELLA DREYFUS

Picturing Masculinity, essay and artworks 159

PROFESSOR CATHARINE LUMBY

Under Twenty-Seven, essay 161

DEBORAH VAN HEEKEREN

Disruption at Grossman House Exhibition and statement

On site photography Lizz Mackenzie 166

LUCIANO PRISCO

Unter Asche mixed media artwork 186

VEE MALNAR

Moonage Daydream short play 187

BAND GIGS, TOURS & RELEASES

ANA KEY AND THE UNDERDOGS 195

PAULA PUNCH 196-197

BUSH GOTHIC 198

DATSON HUGHES 199

ISSN: 2209-8933 (print)

ISBN: 9780648580645 (paperback)

202 pages, 123 colour images

Book dimensions: 20.32 x 1.09 x 27.64 cm

Boxed-book weight: 449 g

COVER ART: Ruth Skilbeck, Destruction (cracked wall), 2019