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Melinda
Rackham
artist ~ curator ~ writer
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2015
award:
I'm
delighted to be chosen to write the 2016 SALA Monograph on the iconic
Catherine Truman. Although enduringly fond of intricately carving
English Lime and Mother-of-Pearl, her oeuvre extends into
performance, choreography, public sculpture, installation, photograph,
poetry and moving image. I'm particularly interrested in drawing out the
intersubjectivity of working immersively with
scientists of many persuasions for 17 years, which has taken her
makings into the sensate and anatomically unfamiliar – probing
thresholds of human being. To
be launched in August 2016!
 Catherine Truman, Bone in the Bag, Detail, 2002
local:
WIMP: Windows, Icons, Menus
& Pointers
Five sweet 20 second stories in the
language of computer and mobile screen
icons. I've really
enjoyed making these playful low resolution works: the
nostalgia of an #earlyApple desktop contrasts with
#lateWindows working day parade; #mobMe texts in icons of social
media; #screenFever flushes out the graphical creatures
inhabiting our interface jungles; while #playTime points to pure
entertainment.
You
can watch them online or tweet them to the big Rundle
Lantern screen.
global:
Art of
the Networked Practice | Online Symposium
Speaking with Ken Wark and Charlotte Frost on a panel at an
international gathering exploring emergent
forms of networked research, artistic production, and teaching in the
arts. Intended as a global and inclusive gathering, without
registration fees, this Symposium unites local and remote speakers and
audiences via Web-conferencing to discuss a range
of topics, including: distributed teaching and studio models,
collective research, peer-to-peer cultural production, networked
performance, big data cultural analytics, and a broad range of issues
in Internet art & culture.
local :
Theatre of
Detail
Here's my catalogue essay for the wonderful Theatre of Detail exhibition -
new work by Gray Street workshop partners Jess Dare, Sue Lorraine and
Catherine
Truman, set to tour nationailly and internationally in 2015 and
2016. Launched
at Gray Street
Gallery on 5 March 2015.
global :
-empyre-
Its great revisting -empyre- [soft-skinned space], the forum created
as part of my PhD in 2002, to contribute to the February
2015 discussion New Year/ New Tools and Technologies.
2014
national:
Bundanon Trust
Artist In Residence
my residency at Bundanon enables research and writing time for my first
novel Attachment. This highly
intimate memoir deals with issues of identity, loss and grief brought
about by the traumatic separation at birth from my mother and my
subsequent adoption, then the removal of my only child when I was
15, also through forced adoption.
home away from home - the Musicians Cottage at Bundanon
global :
see my 1996 net art work
tunnel (exploring the slimey arena of cybersex)
in the VAGINA 2.0, show at Vagina Museum, Vienna,
Austria,
from May 2014.
local:
visit The Microscope Project
at Flinders Art Museum & City Gallery at the State Library,
Adelaide,
Australia and read my catalogue essay Manifest De Stillare
Artists Nicholas Folland, Ian
Gibbins, Deb Jones, Catherine Truman, and Angela
Valamanesh reconstruct wonderful, surprising and intelligent artworks
from decomissioned analogue microscopes.
Exhibition dates: 26 July - 21 September 2014
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