From Zygmunt Baumann's 'liquid modernity' to Epeli Hau‛ofa's
'ocean within us' to Allan Sekula's 'ocean swimmer', there is
another way of thinking the present that treats liquidity as our
current condition.
Overview
Issue 4 of Reading Room invites contributions
that address our liquid state, whether as a tool to rethink nation,
or as a means to envisage new notions of connectivity and mobility,
or as a metaphor for being, or quite literally as a focus for
thinking about water as both medium and essential resource.
CONTENTS
.04 Foreword
.05 Introduction
.06 JULIAN DASHPER, 1960-2009. A Tribute.
Edited by Simon Ingram with Wystan Curnow
LIQUID STATE
.42 Acquiescence: Fluid Realities and Planned
Retreat
Nigel Clark
.60 Allan Sekula's The Lottery of the Sea
Mercedes Vicente
.72 He Korowai o te Wai - the Mantle of Water
Ian Wedde
.82 Roundtable: Thinking Through Oceania Now
Coordinated and edited by Peter Brunt
.112 The Truth of Waters
Stephen Turner
.124 Waterfall
Jan Bryant
.144 The Ordering of Worlds: Two Recent Video Works by Stella
Brennan
Sean Cubitt
.156 Membranism, Wet Gaps, Archipelago Poetics
Lisa Samuels
.168 Into the Mystic: Maddie Leach's (im-) Material
World
Martin Patrick
ARCHIVE
.177 Loss of the Adventure
Maddie Leach
.194 From a Cupboard Under the Stairs: the Bruce Barber
Archive
Stella Brennan
.206 Documentation from the First Pan Pacific Biennale
(1976)
Compiled by Catherine Hammond
.220 Staff Research, Presentations and Publications:
2009
.222 Contributors