Just an aesthetic hop over to East and South East Asia
The first thing I
noticed in the local newspaper when back in Western Australia was the smallish size of the galleries
advertising exhibitions arts section, it seems a shadow of its former self but the art critic is
doing sterling job over small pickings. And as stated in
the aprior blog The State Art Gallery of Western Australia is steaming full
ahead, despite the fleet appearing to be shrinking behind her, one has to admire AGWA, for it
seems she is dragging that state screaming into uncharted aesthetic horizons and that’s
a very good thing.
There is also some
very hardy individuals who have some great projects on the boil, actually
one of them its seems has the most innovative projects in years I've seen in years, so I
sincerely hopes she pulls it off, it will make a fantastic difference to the
community if it happens.
One wonders what happened
to Perth, gosh it’s a rich State, it has more minerals and gas wealth than most of the
world with a small population to support, so its not money at the moment but there is no surety of it in the future.
The only thing one
can suggest is artists in Western Australia change there strategies and look to
exhibit in groups and start to show internationally in art spaces, make
connections elsewhere, for Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Korea and Japan, all
appear to have very interesting art scenes right now and these are your new local communities.
Arts communities locally
and globally are important and to exhibit in the near and far east should be now considered
local community, even closer than Sydney or Melbourne try and get into small art
fairs, residences with your group and you might surprise yourself what might
happen.
The Internet has
made these art communities and spaces sponsored by various government and
private bodies available at the tips of your fingers, it takes effort and
passion and no small amount of knock backs but if your serious and forfeit life
style, for better praxis in art. Then one might partially get where you think might want to be and when do get there, you will increase your store house of aesthetic remembrances, considerably and afterwards of such aesthetic journeys into unknown horizons hopefully you will bring back
to these memories to Perth that it will enrich the
Western Australian aesthetic community a whole lot more whilst bringing a greater tolerance to the community .
There for it appears the future directions of Perth are changing now and forever, east continues to engage the west aesthetically and sooner or later that cultural collision in Perth, along with Aboriginal culture will make it a very interesting aesthetic place to do praxis if the seeds of this are not already bearing fruit now.
There for it appears the future directions of Perth are changing now and forever, east continues to engage the west aesthetically and sooner or later that cultural collision in Perth, along with Aboriginal culture will make it a very interesting aesthetic place to do praxis if the seeds of this are not already bearing fruit now.
