The Adelaide Festival kicks off on February 28 and is set to be a highlight of the art year. This year, three major events ensure the city’s galleries are filled with exciting works from local, national and international contemporary artists, and the festival’s Artists’ Week presents an exciting line up of events.
‘Worlds in Collision: Adelaide International 2014’, curated by Richard Grayson, features works that re-imagine ways of modeling and mapping the world: not only what is known, but what may lie beyond. They use technological, political, psychological and psychedelic approaches to suggest diverse and otherworldly understandings of life as we know it. ‘Worlds in Collision’ is shown across SASA Gallery, the Contemporary Art Centre of SA, the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum, and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation.
At the Art Gallery of South Australia, ‘Dark Heart: 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’, curated by Nick Mitzevich, presents emotive and immersive experiences by a selection of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. The works explore the personal, political, and psychological elements of current issues, capturing a contemporary sensibility of contemporary Australian identity. ‘Four Rooms’, curated by Troy Anthony Baylis’ presents collaborative work by leading Indigenous artists, creating a series of ‘room environments’ which feature diverse and alternative responses to the themes of space, time and authorship. The Artists’ Week presents an exciting line up of speakers in a symposium from February 28 to March 2. Exploring themes of the festival with a focus on alternative readings and radical views of the world, other events include film screenings, workshops, and a reading room.
Adelaide Festival, No. 29
28 February to 16 March, 2014
www.adelaidefestival.com.au
Tony Garifalakis, Mob Rule (detail), 2013, enamel on offset print, 27 x 19.5cm
Courtesy the artists and Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
