Kate Larsen

2 months ago | overland.org.au | Micaela Sahhar |Kate Larsen |Daz Chandler

For five days, the Australian representative to the 2026 Venice Biennale was to be the first ever Arab-Australian artist selected for this honour. The decision to showcase Khaled Sabsabi’s work at this prestigious international art festival was brought to Parliamentary Question Time on February 13, 2025.

Oct 6, 2024 | overland.org.au | Neil Vallelly |Adalya Nash Hussein |Kate Larsen

The standard refrain about Israel is that “it is the only democracy in the Middle East”. Some stand by this claim; others reject it. Many argue that Benjamin Netanyahu has been eroding democratic values in Israel over the last decade; others insist that so-called Israeli democracy is premised on the oppression and killing of Palestinians, which thus undermines the universalist principles of liberal democracy.

Sep 19, 2024 | overland.org.au | Adalya Nash Hussein |Kate Larsen |Alda Balthrop-Lewis

It has been a turbulent time for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. At a solo recital programmed by MSO on August 11, pianist Jayson Gillham introduced his premiere of Connor D’Netto’s Witness, a work dedicated to the journalists of Gaza, by saying:Over the last 10 months, Israel has killed more than one hundred Palestinian journalists. A number of these have been targeted assassinations of prominent journalists as they were travelling in marked press vehicles or wearing their press jackets.

Aug 29, 2024 | overland.org.au | Kate Larsen |Alda Balthrop-Lewis |Jordy Silverstein

As artists, cultural workers and arts organisations, ours is the business of statement-making. I was reminded of this recently by the work of Portuguese artist Tiago Casanova, whose installation Every wall is a Statement is currently part of the A liberdade e só a Liberdade exhibition (‘Freedom and only freedom’) at The Art and Culture Center of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation in Évora.

Aug 23, 2024 | artshub.co.uk | Kate Larsen

We live in polycrisis times. In post Voice referendum “Australia”. In the midst of visible local and international legal and human rights abuses. In a decimated sector impacted by an ongoing pandemic, cost of living, climate and mental health crises, and more. All of which have raised awareness of and reduced tolerance for things we’ve always known. Things we’ve articulated and have been trying to change – if incrementally – through endless research papers, consultations and planning days.