Memo Review Issue 3 takes Maria Kozic's decades-long subversion of pop culture as its centrepiece, pairing three sustained critical essays on her work with a special Art & Crime focus that connects stolen wages, incarceration, and colonial violence to the fabric of Australian art.
About This Book
This third issue of Memo Review refuses the safe consensus of mainstream art criticism. Kozic's practice — irreverent, graphically confrontational, and resistant to easy categorisation — anchors the issue, but the surrounding material is equally unsparing. Catherine Liu dismantles the moral posturing that passes for political art; Slavoj Žižek reads Trump's AI-generated Gaza video as cultural symptom; Dale Frank's autistic mythos comes under scrutiny; and a surprising formal link is drawn between Apple's design language and the ancient Laocoön sculpture. The Art & Crime focus brings together critics and artists examining how colonial violence and incarceration continue to shape Australian visual culture. Fiction, film criticism, and reviews from across Australia round out a journal committed to genuine critical thought.
Key Features
- 196 pages of critical essays, fiction, film criticism, and art reviews
- Contributors include Catherine Liu and Slavoj Žižek
- Subject coverage includes Maria Kozic, Dale Frank, D Harding, Mark Rothko, Madonna Staunton, Sidney Nolan, and Wang Bing
- Published by Memo Review
What You'll Discover
- Three in-depth essays unpacking Maria Kozic's practice and its relationship to pop culture, darkness, and refusal of categorisation
- A special Art & Crime focus examining how stolen wages, incarceration, and colonial violence are embedded in Australian art history
- Catherine Liu's critique of virtue-signalling in politically coded art, and Žižek's analysis of Trump's AI-generated "Trump Gaza" video
- An unexpected formal argument connecting Apple's smooth aesthetic design empire to the writhing figures of the ancient sculpture Laocoön and His Sons
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 196
- Dimensions: 166 x 230 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780645106077
- Publisher: Memo Review
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Artists, curators, critics, and engaged readers who follow contemporary Australian art discourse and want criticism that resists institutional consensus.