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Are You There?
Are You There? is a comprehensive overview of Daniel Mudie Cunningham's artistic practice over the last three decades with new and reworked essays by some of Australia's most esteemed writers, curators and academics. Published by Brown Paper following Cunningham's 2023 survey exhibition Are You There?, this richly illustrated monograph charts his lifelong practice of self-invention, documentation, and memorialisation as a form of durational queer self-portraiture.By drawing upon art history, queer politics, pop culture, performance and music, Cunningham's work grapples with personal experiences of love, loss and becoming as a queer person coming of age in the late twentieth century. Are You There? charts a practice that employs enactment and reenactment to relay the developing psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of identity through performance, video, photography and text.Contributors: Judy Annear, James Gatt, Fiona Kelly McGregor, Ann Finegan, Anna Gibbs, Carrie Miller, Helen Grace, Gary Carsley, José Da Silva, Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Mop
An illustrated history of one of Australia?s great contemporary art galleries.0For over 13 years, Sydney-based MOP Projects was an essential and active player in Australia?s lively network of artist-run-initiatives. Presenting the works of over 800 artists, curators and writers, this volume mops-up the dynamism of a time and place on the brink of great change. A launchpad for the careers of so many of Australia?s leading artists, MOP championed experimentation, risk and play?its legacy as relevant now as it was then.0'MOP Projects: 2003?2016' is a beautifully dense and tactile paperback edition, foil-stamped in holographic patterns and custom typography. The volume presents a curated selection of work from the time, illustrated by over 1,000 images and accompanied by texts by some of Australia?s foremost arts writers including Alex Bowen, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Ann Finegan, Naomi Riddle and Michael Rolfe.
Boytown
Catalogue accompanying an exhibition of work by Daniel Mudie Cunningham & Stephen Allkins, exhibited at Screen Space (Melbourne Australia). Boytown explores the shared pain and confusion of growing up gay in the suburbs and the desire to get away.
Going Nowhere
Catalogue accompanying 'Going Nowhere', an exhibition held at Boxcopy (Brisbane, Australia). This Exhibition was made possible with the help of Screen Space Gallery (Melbourne, Australia).
Queer Popular Culture
Articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of queer representations of blackness. This accessible volume offers useful analytical tools that will help readers make sense of the problems and promise of queer pop culture.
Murders and Acquisitions
The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. Murders and Acqusitions explores the social and political implications of this cultural figure. The collection argues that the often blood-chilling representations of the serial killer and serial killing offered in TV series, films, novels and fan productions function to address contemporary concerns and preoccupations. Focusing on well-known popular culture texts, such as The Wire, Kiss the Girls, Monster, the Saw series, American Psycho, The Strangers, CSI and Dexter, this electic anthology engages with a broad spectrum of cultural theory and performs critical textual analysis to examine the sophisticated ways the serial killer is deployed to mediate and/or work through cultural anxieties and fears.
Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen
With essays ranging in topic from the films of Neil LaBute to the sexual politics of Major League Baseball, this diverse collection of essays examines the multi-faceted media images of contemporary masculinity from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. The book's first half focuses on the issue of racialized masculinity and its various manifestations, with essays covering, among other topics, the re-imagining of Asian American masculinity in Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow and the ever-present image of black male buffoonery in the neo-minstrel performances of VH1's Flavor of Love. The book's second half explores the issue of contemporary mediated performance and the cultural politics of masculinity, with essays focusing on popular media representations of men in a variety of gendered roles, from homemakers and househusbands to valorous war heroes and athletic demigods.
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's English History Plays
Shakespeare's history plays make up nearly a third of his corpus and feature iconic characters like Falstaff, the young Prince Hal, and Richard III--as well as unforgettable scenes like the storming of Harfleur. But these plays also present challenges for teachers, who need to help students understand shifting dynastic feuds, manifold concepts of political power, and early modern ideas of the body politic, kingship, and nationhood. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," introduces instructors to the many editions of the plays, the wealth of contextual and critical writings available, and other resources. Part 2, "Approaches," contains essays on topics as various as masculinity and gender, using the plays in the composition classroom, and teaching the plays through Shakespeare's own sources, film, television, and the Web. The essays help instructors teach works that are poetically and emotionally rich as well as fascinating in how they depict Shakespeare's vision of his nation's past and present.
Climates. Habitats. Environments.
Artists and writers go beyond disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to address the fight for environmental justice, uniting the Asia-Pacific vantage point with international discourse. Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, Climates. Habitats. Environments. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse...
Scaled for Success
“This wonderful book asks us to consider the mermaid . . . across regions, nations, diasporas, and contemporary socio-cultural configurations.” —Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University Emerging from the confluence of Greco-Roman mythology and regional folklore, the mermaid has been an enduring motif in Western culture since the medieval period. It has also been disseminated more widely, initially through Western trade and colonization and, more recently, through the increasing globalization of media products and outlets. Scaled for Success offers the first detailed overview of the mermaid’s dispersal outside Europe. Complementing previou...
