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Visual Arts
Fatima Mazmouz, Super Oum – Aventureland (2009), Video Still; courtesy the artist
There is a collective consciousness that impacts our language surrounding ideas.
Back in the 1990s it was about the notion of ‘peripatetic’ – that fashionable flow between locations.Then, with the rise of the global refugee crisis words such as detention, disenfranchised, and displaced emerged in our vernacular; and more recently, we have embraced the notion of ‘disruptors’ – the few who push back against systems and silos.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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