Civic Actions: Artists’ practices beyond the museum
Edited by Blair French and Anne Loxley
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
“There’s a war on this planet; it’s not un-germane to the arts”, says Nato Thompson, Artistic Director of Creative Time. This research-focused book expands on the conference of the same name, investigating the intersections of social and public strategies of contemporary art within a global context. Highlighting Australia and the MCA’s C3West program, ‘Civic Actions’ considers local issues of identity, ethics, gentrification, memory, narrative and documentation across Greater and Western Sydney.
Essays, reviews and conversations from notable artists, curators, academics and cultural practitioners such as Brook Andrews, Hetti Perkins and Elizabeth Ann Macgregor discuss work by artists including Tony Albert, Angelica Mesiti and Lara Thoms.
