The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) is one of Australia's leading contemporary art spaces and publishers, having an historical role presenting an annual program of commissioned gallery and offsite exhibitions and projects, public seminars, lecture series and artist talks; CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet magazine, artist's monographs and anthologies - as CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART PROJECTS SA - with the view to promote and develop contemporary visual art practice, critical analysis, debate and writing, both nationally and internationally.

CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART PROJECTS SA has established in recent years a significant regional (Australasia and Southeast Asia) profile for the organisation and for its programs. These publications further determine the CACSA's ongoing commitment to the publication of contemporary critical analysis and debate.
 
 
BROADSHEET



ANTHOLOGIES + MONOGRAPHS 		 
 
VISUAL ANIMALS: CROSSOVERS, EVOLUTION AND NEW AESTHETICS


Bringing together a number of key researchers in disciplines usually working at a tangent to each other - notably art history, analytic philosophy and bioaesthetics - to discuss new or revised concepts of art that may influence current approaches to the writing of global art history

Contributors include Brian Boyd, Marcello Costa, Ian North, Ian Mclean, Denis Dutton, Jennifer Mcmahon, Donald Brook, Linda Williams, Rex Butler, Jill Bennett, Peter James Smith, Rod Taylor, Stephen Loo, Ihab Hassan



ISBN 978-1-875751-31-3
RRP: $35
SOFT COVER, 190 PAGES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2007


 
 
CULTURAL FAULTLINES
2005 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE OF SA LECTURE SERIES


As a major presentation of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia's program CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART PROJECTS SA 2005, the 2005 Lecture Series was presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 26-28 May, in partnership with The Substation Arts Centre, Singapore, and in conjunction with the Helpmann Academy, the University of Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

CULTURAL FAULTLINES is an anthology of texts (taken from the Lecture Series) - by Indonesian poet, critic and journalist Goenawan Mohamad; Malaysian social historian Sumit K. Mandal; Sydney lecturer in Anthropology Yao Souchou; University of NSW lecturer David McNeill and University of Queensland lecturer Rex Butler.



ISBN 978-1-875751-30-3
RRP: $25
SOFT COVER, 102 PAGES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
PUBLISHED APRIL 2007


 


  OUT OF TIME: ESSAYS BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART
BLAIR FRENCH


Published by the Contemporary Art Centre of SA, OUT OF TIME: ESSAYS BETWEEN PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART presents fifteen essays by Australian arts critic and writer Blair French, articulating and teasing out broader tendencies, issues and concerns relating to the recent history of contemporary photographic practice within australian art, as well as broader contexts of cultural representation both regionally and globally.

Written between 1998 and 2005, these essays locate the overwhelming presence of photography across all spheres of life and cultural activity, responding to and questioning the ultimate success of photography as the dominant structure within mass visual culture.





ISBN 0-9750239-4-2
RRP: $25
SOFT COVER, 120 PAGES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 2006


 


  JACKY REDGATE 1980 - 2003
MONOGRAPH


Complementing the three-exhibition Jacky Redgate Survey 1980-2003 in 2004, the CACSA has published the monograph Jacky Redgate 1980-2003 to coincide with the Survey's exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, November 2005 - the first CACSA-initiated exhibition to show at such a major national institution and the first such outcome for a non-Sydney contemporary art space.

The monograph comprises 120 pages, 52 colour images and with a major text by ex-Powerhouse Museum (Sydney) curator Michael Desmond. This publication is the first artist monograph published by the CACSA - a significant undertaking as part of our future vision to become a major contemporary visual art publisher.

Director of the CACSA and designer of the monograph Alan Cruickshank says in his Foreword: Michael Desmond writes... about Jacky Redgate, "Given the relationship she has brokered between photography and sculpture, Redgate occupies a unique position in Australian art. Her work critiques the genres within photography and deconstructs the conceptual systems that support it... With a mixture of innate sensuality and stylistic intelligence, Redgate guides the eye to the perceptual fissure separating mind and matter, object and subject". It is in recognition of these qualities that this monograph has been conceived - a natural progression from and complement to the Jacky Redgate Survey 1980-2003 exhibitions organised by the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia [CACSA] in 2004.

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, writes in her Foreword: Jacky Redgate's elegant and considered works demonstrate a sustained analysis of form and structure within the disciplines of photography and sculpture. From her early work, which refigured snapshot and portrait photography, to her more recent series such as STRAIGHTCUT, Redgate's interest has been in how photographs represent reality and order the world. The spatial dimension of the photographic image has been extended by the artist into sculptural works that investigate perception, colour, volume and mass. By shuttling between the two disciplines, Redgate has developed a singular practice that poses fundamental questions about art and life, and the systems that underpin them.

This monograph has been sponsored by the Gordon Darling Foundation, Melbourne and the University of Wollongong, NSW

ISBN 0-9750239-2-6
RRP: $49.55
SOFT COVER, 120 PAGES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2005



 


  BLAZE: Visual Art and Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1990 - 2002

Editors: Alan Cruickshank, Michael Newall, Ian North


BLAZE is an anthology spanning the years 1990-2002, drawn from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia's exhibition and publishing programs - both exhibition catalogues and its arts and cultural magazine, CONTEMPORARY VISUAL+CULTURE Broadsheet.

'blaze', verb [t], 'to make known, proclaim, publish, to exhibit vividly' - is a succinct articulation of the CACSA's desire to reveal the quality and breadth of its creative output during this period - not only to record this collective endeavour, but also to serve as a partial record of South Australia's developing contemporary visual arts culture.

The anthology's contents reflect both the substantial archives of the CACSA and a desire to encompass as much as possible the essence and scope of visual art culture as demonstrated by the organisation's activities.

The artist pages illustrate a selection of works created in a multiplicity of media, styles and visions, representing just over half the exhibitions produced in the CACSA's gallery and externally sited projects during the period. The catalogue and Broadsheet texts reproduced, demonstrating a substantial diversity in writing and writers, represent only ten per cent of commissioned writing over the same period.

The images and texts are ordered chronologically, delineating the shifting concerns, developments and trends of the artworld - locally, nationally and internationally - over the period, from a perspective distinctive to the CACSA.

The texts range from the informal to the academic in style, highlighting the diversity of literary expression encompassed by both Broadsheet and other CACSA publications. Some of the artworks and texts reproduced here may take on the air of classics and period pieces, while others seem prescient of emerging trends.

These texts are not limited to CACSA activities, but also report on South Australian exhibitions and events outside the organisation. They embrace both major and minor undertakings, from Adelaide Festival of Arts exhibitions and all Adelaide Biennials of Australian Art [excluding 1998] at one end of the spectrum - to one night ventures in informal spaces at the other.

Their selection though, is weighted towards local artists and exhibitions held at the CACSA - establishing a further reference to exhibitions illustrated in the artist pages. South Australian art and artists have always been the predominant focus of the CACSA - the organisation having as its primary missions the development and support of South Australian contemporary visual art and to raise the profile of South Australian artists and arts writers nationally and internationally.

'blaze' verb [i], 'to burn with flame'. This collection demonstrates something of the remarkable passion, commitment and energy demonstrated in the South Australian visual art community. These qualities are more often than not taken for granted by participants, while being insufficiently known to others. This situation BLAZE will help redress.



ISBN 0-9750239-0-X
RRP: $15
SOFT COVER, 120 PAGES WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 2003