More SmartArts

This week on my show, I spoke with:

• Kevin Brennan, from the Arts Industry Council of Victoria, about a campaign to encourage the reptilian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock to accept the Australian Law reform Commission's recommendations regarding Australia's badly conceived Sedition Act 2005.
• Nick Jumura, a New Yorker, about his Fringe production Atriptick for Ghosts.
• Simmone Howell, author of the new Young Adult novel Notes from the Teenage Underground.
• Di Fleming, director of lab.3000, about State of Design, on now until October 14.
• We found out all about Contention or Consensus, a national symposium about public art hosted by Gasworks Arts Park.
• Next up was Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing, the subject of a major survey by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, called Living Proof. Pictured above is an image from her 1992-93 series Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say, and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say.
  
• Jo Case, deputy editor of Australian Book Review, joined us for our monthly segment about the world of letters, and praised Cate Kennedy's short story collection Dark Roots.
• Tai Snaith turned her critical eye to two Fringe visual art exhibtions in this fortnight's Art Attack segment: Map 44 (a walking tour around specially installed shopfront artworks in Fitzroy) and Van Rudd's The Carriers.
  
• And finally, Cerise Howard joined us for Fistful of Celluloid, but I have completely forgotten what film she reviewed this fortnight!