By Claire Cao — 13 November, 2019
I. PANG Communicating with ghosts is simple in theory. Dying is like stepping off a tarmac and on to foreign soil, my parents said in Mandarin. You’ll be severed from your bed, the grocery shops you know best, the people you love—no landmark in sight, save the cloudy bulk of winter sky….
By Rima Martens — 22 October, 2019
train rides out become a train ride home i stepped inside the tall ceilings and found not an exhibition house but a breathing body here she rests the rowing woman this meeting house is her womb my lover and i take off our shoes found…
By Hannah Jenkins — 11 October, 2019
This is an interactive exploration of the themes and concepts presented in Andrew Yip’s solo exhibition Cloud Chamber at Jerico Contemporary. Please hover your mouse over (or tap, if you’re on mobile) the words to see more text appear in the galaxy.
By Laura La Rosa — 9 October, 2019
Laura La Rosa is Running Dog’s inaugural First Nations Emerging Critic—this is the first of three pieces to be published over the next four months. • • • As feminists, radicals included, we are not exempt from the system of western capitalism. We are as much its vulgar subjects as we are its elite, a…
By Hannah Jenkins — 13 September, 2019
Seven short stories on light and time, in response to Yvette Hamilton’s Luminous Capture at Wellington St Projects. i. Looking at light Light alone is often unobservable. It is a conduit for illuminating a subject, or otherwise it is a field of white. But light can be a message beaming out, and so light…
By Chloe Watfern — 16 August, 2019
‘Why cover the same ground again?…It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.’ Homer, The Odyssey ‘It is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it.’ Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller, (1936) I’m not going to tell you about the…
By Hannah Jenkins — 26 July, 2019
There is nothing as invisible as a monument. A statue casts the dead into oblivion. Memory fails and the ritual of building a statue for the sake of having a statue takes over. Drift past these anonymous soldiers, instead, crawl inside soft monuments and remember—remember…
By Genevieve Trail — 12 July, 2019
This is the final instalment in Running Dog’s feature series responding to individual works in The National 2019: New Australian Art—on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art, and curated by Isobel Parker Philip (AGNSW), Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Carriageworks), Clothilde Bullen and Anna Davis (MCA). …
By Eleanor Zurowski — 28 June, 2019
This is a sonic response to the exhibition Memory Betrays Everybody, presented in the Black Box at UNSW Art and Design. Curated by Anthony Bautovich, the exhibition featured the work of two artists—Dragana Jurišić and Biljana Jančić. To listen to this response, press play at the top of the page. The piece is best listened…
By Kathleen Linn — 25 June, 2019
This is the fourth instalment of Running Dog’s feature series responding to individual works in The National 2019: New Australian Art—on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art, and curated by Isobel Parker Philip (AGNSW), Daniel Mudie Cunningham (Carriageworks), Clothilde Bullen and Anna Davis (MCA). Tuesday…