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14 THE AGE THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 1991 Arts Entertainment Edited by MICHAEL SHMITH A patchy pot-pourri of artists' camera work people for themselves, but for what A puzzling, but priceless devotion TELEVISION BARBARA HOOKS ARTISTS' Portraits of Artists Is a fund-raising show for the VCP; sundry photographers and artists have donated pictures In an exhibition that Is a pot-pourri of styles and techniques illustrating the variety, if not sophistication. In the Melbourne scene. The work is not generally of a very high quality, there are some workmanlike Images by experienced hands but Just as many dull likenesses, or worse, self-portraits, (most cases of wishful thinking). It struck me that most of the artists depicted are not well known, some not really artists at all, and that the photographers don't circulate in lofty artistic circles. Despite these reservations, the show Is lively and worth seeing as a cross-section of local talent.

Jeff Fereday's work Is the most clever, a cruel hatchet Job on this writer, wherein my rather too generous review of the Bill Henson exhibition lines the bottom of a bird cage with Fereday's portrait above replacing the budgie! MAVIS MAIR'S 'Violations' exhibition Is a catalogue of horrors showing invasions and mutilations of a woman's body. In extreme close-up and in sour colors we see for example forceps squeezing a breast, a hand clutch- biology, but also work as a kind of nightmare autobiography of the body. Mair's expressionistic howl Is brave and refreshing but it is all at full pitch, there Is too little modulation of the emotion. Had Images of more subtle power been Included, and had the exhibition been more varied in scale and color it may have had a greater appeal. Having gained our attention, Mair must now decide what the conversation will be about THE Paul Watklns exhibition is comprised equally of portraits and urban landscapes, all In well crafted black and white prints.

It shows somebody well in control of their medium. The portraits are good, if a bit lifeless, with the camera confronting subjects posed against white backdrops. These appear to be homages to US photographer Richard Avedon and his book 'In the American West'. If so, the question arises: is there any point in reiterating the signature style of a famous artist whose technique has already been copied by countless admirers? Watklns, In any case, fails to provide the subjects with the kind of social clues that might give the portraits a wider significance than mere likeness. After all, we are not interested in these PHOTOGRAPHY Portraits of Artists, Victorian Centre for Photography, 671 Rathdowne Street, Carlton, until 17 November; Violations: Photographs by Mavis Mair, Linden Gallery, 2S Acland Street, St Kikta, until 27 October; Postcards and Portraits: Paul Watklns, Terra Australia Gallery, 72 Napier Street, Fitzroy, until 2 November.

Scopic Territories: Roiallnd Drummond, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Dallas Brooks Drive, until 10 November. GREG NEVILLE ing a shard of mirror in which is reflected a naked body, and an eye about to press down on a nail. The tone is deliberately pornographic, a catharsis of anger and hate about the bodily experience of women (childbirth, surgery, menstruation but also about the barbarity of the 20th Century In general. The Impact is strong, but I suspect it will touch a deeper chord with women than men. Mair's pictures are metaphors for the violations inflicted by society and tney can tell us about humanity.

A portrait Is not a Avedon wrote. It is an opinion. Watklns' portraits are sincere and professional but not really strong enough to call opinions. His urban landscapes, the 'Postcards', suffer less from this reticence. They show the industrial city as an arid zone, devoid of humanity.

OCOPIC Territories' is the quintes-O sence of salon art, large In scale but small In meaning. Its message is trendy and unchallenglng, reassuring to the clique it Is made for, and smoothly presented to fill out the gallery with Just that right look of importance. It consists of several large color prints, an interminable video and an impenetrable catalogue essay, and it reiterates familiar ideas about our Image-soaked culture. The pictures have all been shot at night in city locations, the light Is acld-color fluoro and neon, giving the Impression of a synthetic, insubstantial world. Most of the pictures are adequate to good but none are exceptional.

The clearest Impression of 'Scopic Territories' is its lack of passion: It is a cold and overstated exercise. In that at least it is a good example of the current, Post-Modern Academy style. In 'Postcards and Portraits' Paul Watkins pays homage to the style of, Richard Avedon. Nigerian outsider wins prestigious Booker Prize Home-grown productions to dominate Playbox season REPORT Andrewartba and Anthony Wong; director Bruce Myles; designer Judith Cobb (premiere, Beckett, 27 June). KING OF COUNTRY by Tim Gooding; featuring John Wood; director John Ellis; original music by Tim Gooding 4 Mark Callaghan performed by tbe Blue Dogs Band (Merlyn, 25 July).

THE EMPEROR REGRETS by Tberese Radlc; featuring Anthony Wong; director Barrle Kosky; designer Michael Anderson (premiere, Merlyn, I October). GINGER devised by Lois Ellis (director), Lorraine Milne (musical director), actors Tomi Kallnskl ft Evelyn Krape (premiere, Beckett, 11 October). A DICKINS' CHRISTMAS by Barry Dlcklns; director William Gluth; designer John Beckett; original music Faye Bendrups; (premiere, Merlyn, 2S November). THE PLAYBOX 1992 SEASON THE CHRONICLE OF MACBETH adapted from Shakespeare by Tadaihl Suzuki (also director, costumes 4 lighting); featuring Alan Clarke, Matthew Crosby, Peter Curtln, Carrillo Gantner, Joel Markham, Katla Molina, Bruce Naylor, John Nobbs, David Pledger, David Roberts, Olivier Sldore; (Merlyn Theatre, 13 March, following Adelaide Festival premiere). WOLF by Tobsha Learner; director Kim Durban; designer Richard Jezlorny (premiere, Beckett Theatre, 4 April).

MARY LIVES by Frank Hardy; featuring Maryanne F.hey, director Malcolm Robertson; designer Richard Jezlorny (premiere, Merlyn, June). SEX DIARY OF AN INFIDEL by Michael Gurr, featuring Janet IN a surprise win, Britain's top literary award, the Booker Prize, has gone to a relatively little-known Nigerian author, Ben Okrl, for his novel 'The Famished Road'. Okrl, an outsider given odds of 5-1 against winning by the bookmakers, beat five other shortlisted titles, including the favorite, Martin Amis's 'Time's Arrow'. He will receive a prize of $45,000 and instant fame and sales. Okrl has dedicated his prize "to all those who struggle and suffer in silence and In public, and who never stop fighting and always keep on 'The Famished Road' is the story of Azaro, a spirit-child who yearns to return to the spirit-world he left at birth, but decides to stay in the world of Nigeria's civil war.

The Judges' chairman Jeremy Treglown said the book won "because of its vigor, ambition and Ben Okrl's masterly control of the world of fantasy and the Okrl, 31, born in Lagos and now living In London, Is one of an emerging and Innovative generation of Nigerian writers. Critics praised the vividness, distinction and power of his disturbing narratives. His previous books are two short story collections, 'Stars of the New Curfew' and 'Incidents at the Shrine', and two novels, 'Flowers and self Into believing he Is Macbeth, is one of the opening attractions at the '92 Adelaide Festival, where it has Its world premiere on 28 February. It opens here at the Malthouse on 13 March (a Friday, for those who harbor superstitions about the "Scottish and then tours nationally. The Australian-Japanese collaboration typifies Playbox's policy of developing artistic links with the Asia-Pacific region.

Mr Gantner, who launched the new season at the CUB Malthouse yesterday, singled out the regional relationship as one of the main themes In the '92 batch of new plays. This theme is explored more explicitly in 'Sex Diary of an Infidel' by Michael Gurr and Therese Radlc's 'The Emperor Regrets'. Gurr's play, starring Janet Andrewartha as an investigative journalist and Anthony Wong as a transsexual prostitute, exposes Australian management of the Philippines' REPORT MIKE DALY A NOTHER year, another all-Austra- lian Playbox season to look for-L A. ward to well, almost. Seven of the eight plays In the 1992 program are home-grown and all but one are new.

As the Playbox's artistic director Carrillo Gantner points out: "Our primary focus has always been on corn-temporary Australian theatre of quality." The season's highlight, and the only import despite its all-Australian cast, is 'The Chronicle of Macbeth' specially-commissioned from the leading Japanese director, Tadashl Suzuki. The Suzuki Company of Toga are celebrated for their adaptations of the Western classical repertoire, blending traditional Japanese and contemporary stage technique. Melbourne festival-goers will remember their interpretation of Euripides' 'The Bacchae' In 1989. Earlier this year set designer John Beckett and a team of Australian actors Including Mr Gantner (who plays a mother superior) underwent an Intensive training course in Japan with Mr Suzuki is the way Mr Gantner describes the experience. The PlayboxSuzukl 'Macbeth', in which an ordinary man deludes htm- WHEN Cornel Wilde and Merle Oberon got together In 'A Song to Remember' as the consumptive Polish composer Frederic Chopin and the transvestite French novelist George Sand, one of the funniest (unintentionally) films of the 1940s was born.

Now comes 'Impromptu', another celluloid account of the 19th Century's most famous artistic liaison, and the result is a pastel-hued, deli-clously daffy comedy, exquisitely poised between 'A Song to Remember' and a farce that might have been called 'Carry on up the Polonaise'. The new film, an Anglo-French co-production, has no pretensions to historical accuracy, but, like 'Amadeus', TV Worth JANE SULLIVAN mm Shadows' and "Tbe Landscapes Within'. He has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa and the 'Paris Review' Aga Khan Prize for fiction. The judges said they had to make a difficult decision between Okrl's book and 'Reading Turgenev' by the Irish writer William Trevor. Other shortlisted titles were 'The Van' by Roddy Doyle, 'Such a Long Journey' by Rohin-ton Mistry and 'The Redundancy of Courage' by Timothy Mo.

The Booker is notorious for controversy, and this year's award attracted Its usual share. A judge, Nicholas Mos- -ley, walked out complaining that none of the books he particularly admired had reached the short list. Random Century, the hardback publishers of 'The Famished Road' in Australia, hope to have a paperback version In the shops in the next three to four weeks. A volume of Ben Okrl's poetry will also be published this Past prizewinners include Salman Rushdie, Klngsley Amis, Iris Murdoch, Thomas Keneally and Peter Carey. Prelude', the duchess says: "That's very nice, but do you think you could bring some sunshine Into our lives on such a wet day?" These sort of jokes are never given unlimited rein.

Lapine, the script and the excellent ensemble cast, keep nudging the story back to a genuinely romantic mood. The shifts of style and mood may confuse some audiences, but I suspect (from noting reactions at a preview) that Lapine and his colleagues have made a film that will appeal to two distinct audiences: one that enjoys 'Impromptu' as "a lovely story with such nice music" and another that finds its clever originality equally entertaining as a hoot BayCoast 0055 15111 Interstate 0055 33221 BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY Situation at noon yesterday Gallery announces new art award i The director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Mr James Molllson, yesterday! announced new art prize for excellence in Australian Contemporary Art The Joan and Peter Clemenger Award will be presented every three years! for the next 2 years, commencing in February 1H1 The prize will be present-' ed to an artist working In any medium, by a panel of three Judges. An exhibition by 21 contemporary Australian artists, the Clemenger Triennial, will be held In' conjunction with the award. The season also focuses on the Australian entertainer; 'Mary Lives', by Frank Hardy, is a portrait of his fiesty sister, starring Maryanne Fahey of the 'Comedy Company' In her first major stage role; 'Ginger', by the team that brought us 'Back to Bourke Street', depicts the larrikin spirit in words and music; 'A Dlcklns' Christmas', by Barry Dlcklns who else? Is an adult pantomime that transposes Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' to a Melbourne theatrical company in the '50s. 'King of Country', by Tim Gooding, stars John Wood as a country music singer caught between Tamworth and Nashville.

Sydney has seen a different production of this musical play. Summing up the season, Carrillo Gantner says: "Basically it explores, from eight viewpoints, what it means to be an Australian at the end of the 20th Century." Chopin who enjoys posing in front of a mirror as much as on a piano stool. Most of the action takes place at a country house party arranged by a duchess (Emma Thompson in fine madcap form) to give artists time and comforts to get on with their creations. Those in tbe party include Delacroix (Ralph Brown), ever alert for a corpse to sketch; Franz Liszt (Julian Sands) and his fecund spiteful mistress, Marie d'Agoult (Bernadette Peters); and Sand, trailing two lovers she is trying to ditch, tbe poet Alfred de Musset A deliciously daffy 19th-century FOR 21 years. Professor Jiro Klkkawa has been coming to Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef to visit his family all 12.MS of them.

Since 1N4, the professor has been following the progress of the island's silvereye population so Intimately that he has banded every one of the little olive-green birds, mapped all of their nests, and compiled a card indei of their family trees. His system adds up to a priceless history with few equals In the world for either quantity or entirety. What a fascinating fellow! But sadly, that Is all we learn about the professor In 'Sllvereyes in Paradise', tonight's edition of 'Wildscreen' (ABC, 8pm). Not even a few basic sentences about why he has devoted a lifetime to this work, how he was Introduced to the Island, what his position is which Is a shame. As an Influence, albeit a benign one, Professor Klkkawa Is Just as much a part of the sllvereyes' lives as they are of his and therefore a valid subject for study as part of the environmental chain.

Still, there are compensations in this crisply photographed documentary, produced by Richard Campbell. Sixty years ago, Heron Island was the site of a cannery that turned turtles Into soup. Today, this national park and tourist resort trafflcks only in knowledge and relaxation. Under the water and over head, Campbell documents the rich life of the reef: the turtles, whose progress to the sea is now helped, not hindered by enthusiastic tourists; and an abundance of bird and marine life, including 75,000 noddles, who build their nests so close together in neurotic high-rise developments I bet they vandalise each other's branches with graffiti spray cans at night. There are several examples of the species bronze-faced tenys playa, too.

If Professor Klkkawa escaped unhanded, so to speak, at least the stars of the show benefit from personalised treatment. 'Sllvereyes In Paradise' follows the progress of a pair of young birds, who, after mating for life, set about raising their first family. THE mystery of the universe has been solved at last! For years, astronomers have been strenuously exercised by the nature of dark matter In the cosmos. Is It ordinary blonlc material? Is It elementary particles left over from the big bang? Nol It can now be revealed that dark matter Is In fact spool after spool of tonight's 'Discovery' documentary. So dense and turgid Is the BBC's 'Of Big Bangs, Stick Men and Galactic Holes' (ABC, 9.30) that neither telescope nor terrestrial Intelligence can penetrate It.

Pity, because the program asks Intriguing questions, about the big bang theory (which I gather has Just gone bung): what was there before it 15,000 million years ago; why stars don't light up the sky at night; why some galaxies are lumpy; and is the universe expanding like an elastic band that could snap back on Itself? Not so much the big bang as the big ping! The problem Is that writer-director Martin Chllcott and the scientists appearing on the program do such a rotten Job of providing engaging, comprehensible answers that Interested, UVIIUBIIJ iuihiiBgui It .1 ill Bw away thinking there's a black hole where their brains used to be. Whats On 7.00 Children' Program. 10.20 Upper Primary Arts And Crafts. R. 10.40 The Brunei Experience.

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With Michael Pascoe. 7.00 Today. News, sport and entertainment. sex tour Industry "the nasty underbelly of our relationship with Mr Gantner says. Mr Wong also appears In 'The Emperor Regrets', playing a dying.

Emperor Hirohito who, in his morphine-induced guilt-plagued dreams, is haunted by ghosts from the past. The play, which reunites the 'Cafe Fledermaus' team of director Barrle Kosky and designer Michael Anderson; "is also about the rather shaky foundations on which our relationship with Japan are Mr Gantner adds. Sex Is the season's other main theme. The Gurr play obviously fits the bill, but most significant is Tobsha Learner's 'Wolf, about a sensualist called Daniel Lupus. 'Wolf Is one of three plays commissioned from women writers, it Is directed by a woman, Kim Durban, and examines sexual politics via a predatory male's eyes over three decades.

ine who makes her way in a man's world and makes as many men, preferably geniuses, as possible. In the best performance of her career Judy Davis creates a perfectly controlled combination of frustration, feminine tenderness and sly spoofery. Her Sand is, in a way that is also reminiscent of 'Amadeus', a Sailer! to Chopin's Mozart She Is a highly talented artist who feels that close personal and professional contact may cause some of his genius to rub off on her. Hugh Grant is the object of her lust and concern, a pretty, wraith-like missed 6.30 New. 7.00 Good Morning Australia.

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She Is determined to add Chopin to her conquests, but he plays hard to get as well as the piano. American James Lapine, spiritedly directing his first feature, has the advantage of an elegantly nutty script (by his wife, Sarah Kernochan). There are some groan-groan lines and scenes that I found irresistible. "Chopin is eternal," sighs Sand. "The only permanent thing about him," Marie retorts, "is his cough." As Chopin plays 'The Raindrop Melbourne 0055 19800 Victoria 0055 15321 The world Temperatures and conditions Min Max Cond 03 II cloudy 16 24 cloudy 09 20 clear Amittrdam Athens Auckland Bahrain Bangkok Bailing Berlin Cairo Geneva Harare Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Jerusalem Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Manila Mecca Moscow New Delhi New York Paris Rome Singapore Tokyo 34 clear 10 clear 30 clear 26 clear 30 cloudy 27 clear 32 cloudy 27 clear 33 rain 12 cloudy 24 cloudy 27 rain 38 cloudy 08 cloudy 33 clear 14 clear 1 1 cloudy 14 cloudy 32 clear 22 clear The planets TODAY RlS.t 5.24 am 7.53 pm 5,57 am 3.26 am 5.40 am San 6.46 pm 5.18 am 7.53 pm 2.57 pm 7.07 pm 2.26 pm 1.36 am SOS 6.47 pm 5.56 am 7.57 pm 2.58 pm 7.07 pm 2.23 pm 1.32 am MUM MERCURY VENU5 MARS JUPITER 3.20 ai SATURN 11.13 a TOMORROW RlMk IUN 5 23 am MOON 9.03 pm MERCURY 5.57 am VENUS 3.27 am MARS 5.37 am JUPITER 3.17 am SATURN 11.09 am 10 21 .11 27 10 12 16 The tides TOOAV Wffllamstown High Water: 3.24 am, 2.51 pm.

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