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December 15, 2011
One of the sessions at the Melbourne Festival of Ideas 2011 was entitled Contemporary Vision and Critiques of the landscape that was chaired by Max Delany, the Director of the Monash Museum of Art.
Those involved are artist/photographers in the session who talk about their art practice. The blurb for the session says that there has been a return to the landscape by those working within the art institution:
Following a turn away from the artistic representation of landscape with the advent of post-modernism and post-national discourses, artists have again sought to engage with the landscape, with particular reference to indigenous and colonial histories; to the landscape as a site of ecological significance; and as an opportunity for the experience and attachment to place.
Contemporary art has shifted away the self-conscious relationship to the Australian landscape tradition which is conventionally interpreted as collapsing into nationalism. Yet that landscape embodies our history, and so being in a landscape is also being in our history and in a place.
Australia is seen to be continuing with its struggles to develop a clear sense national identity in a globalized world.
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