Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde? 2

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Event Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde? 2
Venue The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW
First Date 29 April 2005
Opening Date 28 April 2005
Last Date 21 May 2005
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description Installation of two works: ICOLS Strategy Defense and Arms Fair and Permission to Narrate by Zehra Ahmed.
ICOLS: presents a model trade fair of defence strategies and weaponry development as refigured within the conceptual and representational models of contemporary art and theory. Permission to Narrate: Ahmed's video installation posits a vibrant, upbeat and assertive Islamic presence a the heart of contemporary Australian youth culture.
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Installation
Exhibition
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Blair French Curator
Bronia Iwanczak Director ICOLS
Suzanne Treister Director ICOLS
Zehra Ahmed Video Artist
Further Information Produced by ICOLS: The International Corporation of Lost Structures (ICOLS), founded in 2000, is an artist-driven, international cross-cultural collaborative organisation whose members/contributors include artists, writers, filmmakers, scientists, poets, anthropologists, theorists, activists and art historians. www.icols.org
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 141333