The disruptiveness of Art (APTNo.8@GOMA)

This eighth edition emphasises the role of performance in recent art, with live actions, video, kinetic art, figurative painting and sculpture exploring the use of the human form 

to express cultural, social and political ideas, and the central role of artists in articulating experiences specific to their localities.

Besides the exciting and comprehensive array of artistic, innovative and disruptive art works, Queensland Art Gallery has reinvented the environment in which 

their permanent collection is presented. 

The series of galleries are full of the leading creative, innovative, artistic minds and their end results from the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

Engaging a pattern that is deeply influenced from indigenous art and an inspired colour palette, the galleries take your breath and mind away to a place where all you see and feel 

is the product of exciting and successful disruptive thinking.

A most restful colour

"Absolute green is the most restful colour, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion.

On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.” —Wassily Kandinsky

A recipe for a 'good life' moment

The notion of the good life comes in many forms. (We are lucky enough to even have that option.)

As Summer finally rolls out in front of us (in the great Southern land), relaxed thoughts about the little things or moments that brings joy to one's life surface.

Here are the ingredients for a shiftazine 'good life' moment : 

A bottle of Tanqueray Gin,

a fresh lemon and a lime,

a bucket of ice cubes,

some chilled tonic,

simple but well designed glasses,

a friend,

a great conversation,

a sunny late afternoon,

some bossa nova playing,

and that’s about it.

That was that

2015 is done and dusted.  2016 is beginning to unfurl.
Here is to a shift in how we see the world and gain some new insights and inspirations.