The volume accompanies the largest exhibition of contemporary art from Australia to be presented outside the continent. An artistic and cultural journey in a distant reality – located at our antipodes - characterized by a surprising richness and variety, a fertile contamination of personal stories, languages, ethnic origins, religions and traditions: from the artists belonging to the many Aboriginal cultures and ‘First Nations’, to those who arrived from the Pacific, Europe, Asian countries and America.
Curated by Eugenio Viola, this project encompasses a broad constellation of cultural, political and social practices and perspectives, and takes into consideration different means of expression such as painting, performance, installation, sculpture, video, drawings and photography.

Milan, PAC, December 2019 - February 2020

Contents

ESSAYS

Australia: Antipodean Stories. Record of a Personal Experience
Eugenio Viola

Here We Are! Regarding Australian Contemporary Art
Judith Blackall

The Edge Is the Place Where We Jump
Clothilde Bullen

Ending the Australian Silence: Australian Art and the Dialectics of the In-between
Dunja Rmandić

WORKS

Vernon Ah Kee
Tony Albert
Khadim Ali
Brook Andrew
Richard Bell
Daniel Boyd
María Fernanda Cardoso
Barbara Cleveland
Destiny Deacon
Hayden Fowler
Marco Fusinato
Agatha Gothe-Snape
Julie Gough
Fiona Hall
Dale Harding
Nicholas Mangan
Angelica Mesiti
Archie Moore
Callum Morton
Tom Nicholson (with Greg Lehman)
Jill Orr
Mike Parr
Patricia Piccinini
Stuart Ringholt
Khaled Sabsabi
Yhonnie Scarce
Soda_Jerk
Dr Christian Thompson AO
James Tylor
Judy Watson
Jason Wing
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu

APPENDIX

Biographies of the Artists

Works on display