Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
New vibrations
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘New vibrations’. IN THE FIRST months of 2020, the vibrations of the Earth...
Create, destroy, reset
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Create, destroy, reset’. WE’RE TERRAFORMING, MY son and me. We’ve done this in...
Samples of gifts and giving
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Samples of gifts and giving’. AT THE END of the first day...
This south and that north
Click here to listen to Ashley Hay reading her introduction ‘This south and that north’. THERE IS A particular ebb and flow in...
Ripped in half?
ON THE HIGHWAY before the turnoff to the tranquil village where my small house sits in the heart of...
The time of our lives
Listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘The time of our lives’. YEARS AGO, I read a book by Douwe Draaisma, a...
Foresight, hindsight and the present day
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read her introduction ‘Foresight, hindsight and the present day’. IN 2013, US-based Chinese visual artist...
In the small hours
Click here to listen to Editor Ashley Hay read ‘In the small hours: Stories from madrugada’. THIS MORNING, I was up at 5...
Retribution, reform, rehabilitation
THE PERIMETER OF the New Gaol on Norfolk Island features imposing walls set with three archways, one high and...
Seeing through the digital haze
THERE IS SOMETHING seductive about aircraft vapour trails, those long streaks – ice, carbon dioxide, soot and metal – that...
On suicide watch?
THE WORLD IS full of beautiful places. Beaches and oceans, cliffs, forests, mountains and valleys, deserts, rivers, islands, harbours...
Symbols, shorthand, signs
IN THE WINTER of 2018, the National Gallery of Victoria’s ground floor was given over to the MoMA at...
