The mysterious closure of the Iraq Airline office in regional Switzerland…the bizarre dementia of those caught up in the Jerusalem syndrome…the ill wind that sweeps its way through the indigenous Tent City in Canberra…messages about the perils of everyday life in Iraq…
The Unquiet World was an exhibition of art from the world’s trouble spots. International artists reflected upon current and past disasters created by human intervention, and sometimes nature, to seek a sense of understanding during these unsettled times. Artists from Afghanistan to Belfast, the USA to Pakistan, from Australia to the world and back, delivered profound, moving and sometimes ironic insights on pressing contemporary issues.
Exhibiting Artists: Nathan Coley (Scotland), Jenny Holzer (USA), Lida Abdul (Afghanistan), Salam Pax (Iraq), Kamal Aljafari (Palestine), Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), Sandra Johnston (Belfast), Mutlu Çerkez, Marco Fusinato, Callum Morton, Susan Norrie, George Gittoes, Peter Tyndall, Louisa Bufardeci, Simon Perry, Michael Leunig, Marianne Baillieu
Commissioning Curator: Juliana Engberg
Coordinating Curator: Anna MacDonald
Publication
The Unquiet World
In the Press
May, Art Monthly, Hope in white ruins
31 May, The Age, This terrible beauty
20 June, theprogram.net.au, The Unquiet World
July, Art Monthly, The disquieting impact of the unquiet world in Melbourne
19 July, The Age, Blasted by the noise of conflict
