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Pamela Brown
Cocabola's Funny Picture Book  1974
side-stitched, offset lithograph on coloured paper
26.5 x 21.5 x 1.2 cm
Publisher: Pamela J.B. Brown, Glebe, Sydney
Collection the artist
Destiny Deacon
Adoption  1993–2000
light jet print from Polaroid
Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased 2005
Image courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney © the artist
Rosalie Gascoigne
Tiger Tiger  1987
retro-reflective road signs on plywood
Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of Loti and Victor Smorgon, 1995 © the artist
Image courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney © the artist’s estate
Ruark Lewis
False Narratives (detail)  2001
offset lithographs on card, edition 8/50, 152 cards
Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Archive, purchased 2005
Image courtesy Die Schachtel, Milan and NMA Publications, Melbourne © the artist
Robert Macpherson
EATING, SLEEPING, LYING, SITTING, STANDING, WALKING, RUNNING, LAUGHING, WEEPING, BREATHING, PROCREATING  1981
offset lithographs
10 parts, each 10.3 x 15.5 cm 
Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of John Nixon 1991
Image courtesy Yuill | Crowley, Sydney © the artist
Ken Bolton, Anna Couani and Sal Brereton (eds)
Magic Sam #5  1979
side-stitched, typewritten photocopied pages and inserts, screenprinted dustjacket and inserts on card
Publisher: Absolutely Furious Productions
Mike Parr
Black Box of Word Situations, variation 3: Function 1—The Surface is only Skin Deep  1971–91
colour photocopies of typewritten text and adhesive on paper inside cardboard box
Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of the artist, 1991
Image courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney © the artist
Sandra Selig
surface of change  2007
cut magazine pages, acrylic
15 parts, each 35 x 25 cm 
Collection the artist
Image courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane © the artist
Richard Tipping
The Sydney Morning, volume I  (detail) 1989
Austerica (1979/88)
screenprint on rag paper in portfolios
50 sheets
Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of the artist, 1998
Image courtesy Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, Australian Galleries, Sydney and Melbourne © the artist

VIDEO & AUDIO GALLERY

Creative Dissent Panel Discussion - Zine Fair (Introduction)

Running Time: 4:20

77% of Australians are racist, but a fair few of them listened, danced to and sang along with The Herd's hit '77%'. Creative Dissent looks at the way in which artistic communities ? satirists, bloggers, musicians and performers ? challenge the status quo. It asks: Can a hip hop track, blog post or joke change the world for the better, or are they just more info-tainment adding to our collective media-overload?

Featuring Ozi Batla (The Herd), Antony Loewenstein, Charles Firth, Alecia Simmonds and Amy Corderoy.

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Creative Dissent Panel Discussion - Zine Fair (Introduction)

Running Time: 4:20

77% of Australians are racist, but a fair few of them listened, danced to and sang along with The Herd's hit '77%'. Creative Dissent looks at the way in which artistic communities ? satirists, bloggers, musicians and performers ? challenge the status quo. It asks: Can a hip hop track, blog post or joke change the world for the better, or are they just more info-tainment adding to our collective media-overload?

Featuring Ozi Batla (The Herd), Antony Loewenstein, Charles Firth, Alecia Simmonds and Amy Corderoy.

Creative Dissent Panel Discussion - Zine Fair (Part 1)

Running Time: 41:29

77% of Australians are racist, but a fair few of them listened, danced to and sang along with The Herd's hit '77%'. Creative Dissent looks at the way in which artistic communities ? satirists, bloggers, musicians and performers ? challenge the status quo. It asks: Can a hip hop track, blog post or joke change the world for the better, or are they just more info-tainment adding to our collective media-overload?

Featuring Ozi Batla (The Herd), Antony Loewenstein, Charles Firth, Alecia Simmonds and Amy Corderoy.

> LISTEN

Creative Dissent Panel Discussion - Zine Fair (Part 1)

Running Time: 41:29

77% of Australians are racist, but a fair few of them listened, danced to and sang along with The Herd's hit '77%'. Creative Dissent looks at the way in which artistic communities ? satirists, bloggers, musicians and performers ? challenge the status quo. It asks: Can a hip hop track, blog post or joke change the world for the better, or are they just more info-tainment adding to our collective media-overload?

Featuring Ozi Batla (The Herd), Antony Loewenstein, Charles Firth, Alecia Simmonds and Amy Corderoy.

Creative Dissent Panel Discussion - Zine Fair (Part 2)

Running Time: 32:50

77% of Australians are racist, but a fair few of them listened, danced to and sang along with The Herd's hit '77%'. Creative Dissent looks at the way in which artistic communities ? satirists, bloggers, musicians and performers ? challenge the status quo. It asks: Can a hip hop track, blog post or joke change the world for the better, or are they just more info-tainment adding to our collective media-overload?

Featuring Ozi Batla (The Herd), Antony Loewenstein, Charles Firth, Alecia Simmonds and Amy Corderoy.

> LISTEN

Creative Dissent Panel Discussion - Zine Fair (Part 2)

Running Time: 32:50

77% of Australians are racist, but a fair few of them listened, danced to and sang along with The Herd's hit '77%'. Creative Dissent looks at the way in which artistic communities ? satirists, bloggers, musicians and performers ? challenge the status quo. It asks: Can a hip hop track, blog post or joke change the world for the better, or are they just more info-tainment adding to our collective media-overload?

Featuring Ozi Batla (The Herd), Antony Loewenstein, Charles Firth, Alecia Simmonds and Amy Corderoy.

avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the Literary world



7 April - 12 July 2009

avoiding myth & message is primarily an MCA collection based project featuring artists whose works have been informed by Australian literature. The exhibition looks at some of the major themes within both the literary and visual traditions and considers where the two streams of creativity overlap thematically: the landscape/interior, text and image,
urban life, politics and the personal. The exhibition also includes ephemera, publications and media-based works produced by artists and publishers from 1968 onwards. MCA collection works will be augmented by selected loans from artists and local collections.

Public programs are an integral part of the exhibition. The project comprises readings, performance and d.i.y publishing and production including a repeat of the successful MCA zine fair.





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