The University of South Australia is proud to be the Presenting Partner of the Adelaide Festival’s Visual Art’s Program, including the Adelaide International 2012 and Artists’ Week.

Restless is presented by Adelaide Festival in collaboration with Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Australia Experimental Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia and Flinders University City Gallery.

The exhibition was assisted by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, Australia India Council and United States of America Consulate.

Samstag Museum will extend its opening hours during the 2012 Adelaide Festival: 2 – 18 March, daily 10am – 5pm.

Image: Anri Sala, Answer Me (detail) 2008, HD video, stereo sound, 4.51 mins, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

 

Past exhibitions

Adelaide International 2012: Restless
2 March - 5 April 2012
Gallery 1-3

This second Adelaide International exhibition, Restless, curated by Victoria Lynn for the 2012 Adelaide Festival includes the work of eighteen artists and features the five works that will premiere in Adelaide. Ten of the eighteen artists will exhibit work at the Samstag Museum.

The exhibition explores the restlessness of our times. The artists seek out threshold experiences and create works that convey an ongoing transition from one condition to another.

By exploring physical force fields, or by negotiating complex cultural sites, the artists create the sensation of being catapulted into the spaces between the extremities of the living ‘heavens’ and ‘hells’ in our contemporary era.

As a collaborator in this major international project, the Samstag Museum is proud to present the remarkable art of: Francis Alÿs (Belgium/Mexico), N.S. Harsha (India), Annika Larsson (Sweden)/ Augustin Maurs (France), Saskia Olde Wolbers (Netherlands/United Kingdom), Lisa Reihana (New Zealand), Anri Sala (Albania/Germany), Socratis Socratous (Cyprus), Nancy Spero (United States of America) and Danae Stratou (Greece)

Restless – Adelaide International 2012 education resource
(PDF file, 5.7mb)

Exhibiton YouTube video

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