Visual Arts
"Virtual Embodiment, Real Empathy," RealTime 137, Feb-March 2017
Coverage of the VR+ Day at the 2017 Australian Documentary Conference in Melbourne, featuring VR pioneers such as Navid Khonsari, Austrlaian artist Lynette Wallworth, and Oscar Raby and Katy Morrison of the Melbourne-based VR production company VRTOV.
Anatomy of a Successful Arts Doco Series, RealTime, 115, June-July 2013
Sword swallowers, bio chemists and video artists - a look at the innovative Anatomy arts documentary series screened on the ABC.
Hope and Survival in the Back of a Van, RealTime, 113, February-March 2013
An interview with Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah) about his new installation, Mother Courage, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
Dreaming in Motion: Australian New Media Art Comes to Sanlitun, theBeijinger.com, September 2, 2010
Interview with Melinda Rackham, curator of the DreamWorlds showcase of Australia video art, playing at the Sanlitun Village in Beijing.
Moving on From Mao - Karen Smith on Liu Heung Shing's Images of Change, The Beijinger, 31 Aug, 2009
Liu Heung Shing is a living legend in Chinese photography circles. The Hong Kong-born photographer took his first professional images in China following Mao's death in 1976, and over the following seven years produced an extraordinary body of work capturing daily life in a rapidly transforming nation. A collection of Liu’s images from 1976-83 have been selected by another legend of the Chinese art scene, British art critic and curator Karen Smith, for the Seek Truth from Facts exhibition currently on at the Three Shadows Photography Art Center. Dan Edwards spoke to Karen about the special qualities of Liu’s work, and what his images tell us about contemporary China.
Man and Sheep, 2006, by Chinese Photographer Adou, who won the inaugural Three Shadows Photography Award in 2009. Dan wrote about the Three Shadows Photography Art Center and the award for RealTime.
Chinese Photography: Out of the Shadows, RealTime 92, Aug-Sept, 2009
Dan Edwards talks to Chinese Photographer Rong Rong about his Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, and the inaugural Three Shadows Photography Award.
Surreal Realities from the Other Side, RealTime 89, Feb-March 2009
An article looking at Iranian artist Shirin Neshat's video series Women Without Men, which was exhibited at Faurschou gallery in Beijing. The article also discusses Neshat's forthcoming feature film based on the same story. Dan's previously unpublished interview with Shirin Neshat can be found here.
Horror, Hope and History, The Beijinger, Jan 2009
An article looking at Iranian artist Shirin Neshat's video series Women Without Men, currently being exhibited at Faurschou gallery in Beijing. Dan's previously unpublished interview with Shirin Neshat can be found here.
New Media, New to China, RealTime 87, Oct-Nov 2008
A review of Synthetic Times, a major overview of contemporary new media art practice at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing. Includes comments from curator Zhang Ga. The complete interview with Zhang Ga can be read here.
798 at the Crossroads, RealTime 85, June-July 2008
Beijing's famous 798 art zone is undergoing some dramatic changes in the lead up to the Beijing Olympics.
Every Moment Lived, a Moment Lost, RealTime 84, April-May 2008
Iranian Abbas Kiarostami is most famous as a film director, but his artistic oeuvre extends far beyond the screen. He has also worked extensively in both video and photography. The Beijing Art Museum of the Imperial City hosted an extensive exhibition of his landscape photography, which revealed some intriguing links with the concerns of his cinema.
Modern Art, Ancient Setting, Time Out Beijing, April 2008
Dan Edwards talks to curator Shi Li-Sanderson about the new contemporary wing of the Beijing Art Museum of the Imperial City.
Modern Art in an Ancient Setting – Beijing's Red Gate Gallery, China Today, April 2008
When Australian Brian Wallace opened Red Gate, the first commercial gallery owned by a foreigner on China's mainland, you could count the number of galleries in Beijing on one had. Seventeen years later, Red Gate is still going strong.
Still Life in a Dying World, RealTime 82, Dec 2007-Jan 2008
A review of Glance Back—Environmental Pollution, an unusual exhibition of industrial landscape sculptures by Beijing-based Korean artist Na Mo.
Michael Riley: Photographer & Filmmaker - part 1: spirit, land, image, RealTime 76, Dec-Jan 2006
In 2007 the National Gallery of Australia staged a retrospective of the work of Indigenous Australian filmmaker and photographer Michael Riley. This is the first section of a two-part article on the exhibition, focusing on Riley's photography. Part two, focusing on Riley's films, can be found here.
Yves Netzhammer, Die Subjektivierung der Wiederholung/The Subjectivisation of Repetition, Project C, one of the works Dan Edwards wrote about at Synthetic
Times at the National Art Museum of China.