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    vol 36 no 2

Editor     Alan Cruickshank
Editorial Assistant     Wendy Walker
Advertising Manager     Karen Vance
Designer     Alan Cruickshank

COVER     SUSAN NORRIE HAVOC (video still) 2006
Courtesy the artist, Mori Gallery Sydney, and the Australia Council
Susan Norrie will represent Australia at the 2007 Venice Biennale
Exhibiting the video installation Havoc at the Fondazione Levi



    Contents
Alan Cruickshank     Australia too Far Away
Daniel Palmer     The Object of Things
Anna MacDonald     Havoc
Andrew Mackenzie     Broken Homes
Alex Gawronski     Did Someone Say 'Politically Correct'?
Alan Cruickshank     Cultural Faultlines
Mercedes Vicente     Turbulent Realities
Ian McLean     Against the Grain: Towards a Natural History of Art and Taste
Donald Brook     For Art, Against Aesthetics
Kevin Chua     The Tiger and the Theodolite: George Coleman's Dream of Extinction
Ho Tzu Nyen     Every Cat in History is I
Natasha Conland     The Oedipus Compost
Robert Cook     Unmade Work
Reuben Keehan     The Beautiful Language of My Century
Anthony Gardner (and Huw Hallam)     Conversing with a Constructed World
Tanya Petersen     Working Backwards