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Chris Fortescue

Exhibition

Chris Fortescue: Gentle Hour Unsung

A site-specific installation by this Adelaide-based artist which responded to the architecture and history of ACCA as well as using domestic objects in unexpected ways, blurring the distinction between the home and the gallery.PublicationChris Fortescue: Gentle Hour Unsung...
Exhibition

The Object of Existence

...the next millennium. The exhibition sought to capture a sense of humanness, volume and form in a post-human and highly technologised world.Curated by Clare WilliamsonExhibiting Artists: Amanda Ahmed, Lauren Berkowitz, Chris Fortescue, Sione Francis, Fiona Hall, Jason Hartcup...
Publication

Chris Fortescue: Gentle Hour Unsung

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Events

Leone and Jennifer MacDonald discussed identity.DATE: 24 February 1997    ARTIST TALK: Chris Fortescue and Shaun KirbyDATE: 6 March 1997...
ACCA acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people as sovereign custodians of the land on which we work and welcome visitors, along with the neighbouring Boonwurrung, Bunurong, and wider Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their longstanding and continuing care for Country and we recognise First Peoples art and cultural practice has been thriving here for millennia. We extend our respect to ancestors and Elders past and present, and to all First Nations people.
Glimpse into the archive—

The artist stood before two piles of white paper arranged side by side on a table. As Robert Douglas’s radiophonic tape composition Alpha Solstice began to be heard, Lewis began to scribble on the top sheet of the left-hand pile…

Ruark Lewis: Transcription Drawings 1988-1992 (1992)

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