Nic Savage “Australia is famous for having impure MDMA… People don’t realise if you take pills wrong, you can die.” In September of last year, the ACT Government approved the inclusion of a free pill-testing trial at the Spilt Milk festival in Canberra. However, three weeks later, the festival organisers pulled out of the trial, […]
Known for the controversy of Piss Christ, artist provocateur Andres Serrano returns to Australia twenty years later to a different reception, reports STEPHEN HILL. Having depicted everything from morgue bodies to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in urine, veteran visual artist Andres Serrano has turned his attention to portraying the discomforting reality of the […]
By Chrissy Chon With an ever-growing support for diverse characters within films, the film industry is given the opportunity to explore stories of people of colour. “Opportunities in Australia were so scarce, it was almost like I was starving. But after being sent to America, it was like somebody had sent me to a buffet.” […]
