avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the literary world

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)

Duration

07 Apr 2009 to 12 Jul 2009

Curator: Glenn Barkley

Please note: The MCA is currently working through its exhibition archive to provide rich documentation of past exhibitions, including a full listing of artists exhibited. This page currently only features artists and works that are in the MCA’s online collection. Please check back soon, or email artisticprograms@mca.com.au if you have any concerns or queries

Featuring

Vernon Ah Kee

  • Whitefellanormal/blackfellame

Gordon Bennett

Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser

  • Adoption
  • Axed
  • Meloncholy
  • Whitey's Watching

Rosalie Gascoigne

Shaun Gladwell

  • Portrait of Michael Dransfield

Patrick Hartigan

Tim Johnson

  • Alienation
  • Poem
  • Spare parts

Ruark Lewis

  • FALSE NARRATIVES

Colin Little

  • Preliminary for cover for a package deal assembly book [A book of sixty poets and artists co-edited by Nigel Roberts, Tim Burns and Amanda Stewart with publisher Dave Morrissey] (green trees on blue)

Robert MacPherson

  • All English Literature - unwritten [Art Projects]
  • EATING, SLEEPING, LYING, SITTING, STANDING, WALKING, RUNNING, LAUGHING, WEEPING, BREATHING, PROCREATING
  • I see a can of paint as a painting unpainted
  • Little Pictures for the Poor

Rose Nolan

  • Homework
  • Homework

Mike Parr

  • Black Box of Word situations, variation 3
  • Box containing Possibilities (3) 1971, Poem event 1971, and Manuscript 1993
  • Various Ideas

Imants Tillers

  • Rendezvous with configuration p

Richard Kelly Tipping

  • The Sydney Morning volumes 1-4

Peter Tyndall

  • detail A Person Looks At A Work Of Art someone looks at something
  • The literature club