Anne Wallace: Strange Ways
⬤ Art Gallery of Ballarat 1 Jul - 20 Sep 2020
Over the decades, progressive politics has believed in continuing social improvement and change without end. Its neglect of the human need for belonging … has created a bourgeois left that is deracinated … (and) poorly equipped to address the questions now confronting its own children about the nature of adulthood, and the meaning and purpose of life …
—Jonathan Rutherford, “How the decline of the working class made Labour a party of the bourgeois left”, New Statesman (2018).
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Tara Heffernan is a PhD candidate (Art History) in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis concerns the work of post-war Italian artist Piero Manzoni—specifically, the political and cultural dimensions of his employment of humour and transgression in relation to capitalist aesthetics. Heffernan’s broader research interests include politics, feminism and the lineages of modernism and the avant-gardes in contemporaneity. She has published in Third Text Online and regularly contributes to Australasian art publications such as Eyeline and Artlink.
In the interests of full transparency, Rex Butler, one of Memo Review’s founding fathers, is married to Anne Wallace. Rex had no knowledge or involvement in the commissioning, writing or editing of this review!
