By: Alex Wisser

• Damian Dillon's Jailbreak
  August 18, 2010

   

  It offers us only public housing estates, these habitats of poverty, fear, and extreme despair and yet, within that world, as a native to it, hope and a wilfully creative urge dwell as the impulse of running water in a frozen place.

• Review of the 17th Biennale of Sydney
  August 14, 2010
• Decorating Loos 3- 20 June 2010 @ At The Vanishing Point Gallery in Newtown
  May 28, 2010

  Decorating Loos explores the aesthetic impulse through the prism of one of its most basic forms – the desire to embellish the lavatory walls with the mark of our distracted fancy.  It does this quite literally through the construction of 15 toilet cubicles in the gallery, each of which is given to an artist to “decorate” according to their practice. 

• Merlin Carpenter - The Opening
  May 22, 2010

  This was a paper I wrote at university on Merlin Carpenter.  While I never saw the show in person, having read a short review of it in Art Forum I couldn't get it out of my head until I wrote about it.  

• EMERGENCY DISPLAY
  May 18, 2010

  This text was written for a survey exhibition of contemporary art from emerging artists in Sydney's Inner West.

• NO PEOPLE CURATORIAL STATEMENT
  May 16, 2010

  The idea for a show of photomedia that excluded the human form came out of two related frustrations I have with this medium.  The first is the dominance of the human figure within the commercial and popular photographic industry and the second is the self-congratulations with which much contemporary theory and some of the art based in it reach unthinking, almost absolute conclusions on the anthropomorphic nature of photomedia.

• NAS II
  January 23, 2010

   Where will we bury our guilty conscience now?

• Management by Gallows at The National Art School
  January 15, 2010

   The silence is deafening.

• OLAFUR ELIASSON TOOK MY TIME
  January 10, 2010

  and I want it back... 

• PICASSO WAS CRAP
  December 27, 2009

  The hard task of achieving nothing. The intrinsic value of beer. Oh my god what happened to all my metaphysical certainties. 

• SHOVELLING MONEY AT THE VANISHING POINT.
  December 23, 2009

  Spending the last of my fortune taking advantage of my friends buying their art at stupid prices all under the principle of NEVER SPEND YOUR LAST DOLLAR PAYING BILLS, BUY AN ICE CREAM (and other justifications for the making of art)