Tag: Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

Bittersweet

curated by Shivanjani Lal

By Suzanne Claridge — 18 September, 2020

‘The ancestors curl and dry to scrolls of parchment. They lie like texts waiting to be written by the children’ David Dabydeen, Coolie Odyssey (1988)    How deep into these pixelated geographies can I possibly go? I ask myself this as I bury the cursor into Google Earth’s digital dirt, until the screen is an assemblage…

Hear No Evil / See No Evil

Locust Jones

By Naomi Riddle — 9 March, 2018

Fragmented text referencing news and current affairs recurs across Locust Jones’ work for his solo exhibition Hear No Evil / See No Evil at Casula Powerhouse. Much of this text has been overlaid with depictions of crowded scenes: in one there’s a mass of congregated figures, in another, a towering metropolis with a patterned background…