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01: Markets at Liquiça and Gleno District: Liquiça District: Ermera This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	02: Market at Gleno District: Ermera This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


03: Alberto De Cruz, Albertina Da Cruz, Terezinha Da Cruz, Domingas Soares District: Bobonaro Sub District: Marobo Village: Atuabe Celina Pinto (Por Timor) Carmelite Convent Sub District: Bobonar District: Maliana This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	04: Suai Loro Community District: Covalima Village: Holbelis This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


05: Emilea Orzinda Amaral, Francisco Neto Amaral, Ferninia Da Conceição, Cecilia Barros, Ana Flora District: Covalima Village: Suai Loro This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	06: Cristina Da Costa with school children District: Ainaro Sub District: Hatu Builico Village: Hau Tio Uma Lulik (Sacred House): Mau Ulo This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


07: Paulina Amaral, Maria Ximenes; Eugenia Lopes dancing with Rozantino Cristiano Amaral District: Baucau Sub District: Venilale Village: Fatulia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	08: Koperativa Girasol Alfayate I.T.N District: Viqueque Village: Beloi Paulina Amaral This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


09: Anastacia Gama District: Baucau Sub District: Laga Village: Nunira This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	10: Girls playing Elastics Uma Lulik Buscaulari District: Baucau Sub District: Laga Village: Nunira This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Fiona MacDonald, Maria Madeira, Narelle Jubelin, Victor De Sousa

Elastics / Borracha / Elástico (2012 Timor-Leste Mobile Residency Archive). Offset Lithographic Set printed by the artists with Big Fag Press, Sydney in 2014. Installed double hung two rows of five -1240 cm h x 230 cm h each print 62.5 x 46.5 cm, unframed. Document of informal meetings with weavers, builders and school children. Thanks to Paulina Amaral, Maria Ximenes, Alberto De Cruz, Albertina Da Cruz, Terezinha Da Cruz, Domingas Soares, Emilea Orzinda Amaral, Francisco Neto Amaral, Ferninia Da Conceição, Cecilia Baros, Anna Flora, Agusta De Fatima, Filomena De Santos, Celina Pinto, Koperativa Girasol Alfayate I.T.N Beloi and Cristina Da Costa with school children. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Statement: Elastics / Borracha / Elástico witnesses Timor Leste’s reconstruction through the eyes of four artists (two Timorese, two Australian) who travelled to eleven of the thirteen districts in a mobile residency in late 2012. The artists recorded everyday life and the inspirational work of women weavers and traditional builders whose resilient cultural upkeep subversively aided the forty-year liberation struggle. Their innovative work gives spirit and form to the challenges of rebuilding in a new democracy and one of the world’s poorest countries.

The title is taken from the universal collaborative children’s jumping game of Elastics / Borracha / Elástico and refers in English, Tetum and Portuguese to the ground-up rebuilding from scorched earth. It also refers to the zigzagging historical records, contesting geo-political points of view and the different generational experiences of the brutal four decades following Portugal’s decolonisation of Timor Leste. Many truths have been told; many will remain untold.

Download Elastics Colophon for information > Download pdf

'Elastic Cultural Activism' by Jo Holder, first published in Imprint Winter 2015 Vol 50 No 2. > Download pdf

Australian Studies Print Set: Fiona Macdonald and Spiros Panigirakis, 2014.
Printed by Negative Press, Melbourne.

Australian Studies is a collaborative project that continues the turn to publication in the work of Fiona Macdonald and Spiros Panigirakis. The limited edition publication Australian Studies is the first of a series that reconsiders the histories and signatures of art practice in Australia since 1977. The Cross Art Projects is used as a site for the layout of this unique publication. The print set and the publication take, as a point of emphasis, Davila’s painting, Stupid as a Painter, which was seized by police on grounds of obscenity at the 4th Biennale of Sydney, Vision in Disbelief, from the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1982.  The circumstances that surround censorship and related questions of power and visibility inform the publication, print set and the exhibition. The events of 1982 have a direct bearing on subsequent suppression actions.

Link to Australian Studies exhibition - http://crossart.com.au/home/index.php/archive/260-australian-studies-fiona-macdonald-and-spiros-panigirakis