| Dates: | born 1950
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2004)
Born 1950, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Lives and works in Daylesford, Victoria,
Australia
Selected Individual and Collaborative
Exhibitions
2004 SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME
16 – SHHH, GO BACK TO SLEEP (an
un-Australian dob-in mix), Contempora
Fellowship, 2002–2004, The Ian Potter Centre:
NGV Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
Bendigo Art Gallery; Swan Hill Regional
Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME
14/2 – ANYWAY WHATEVER (there
must be something
somewhere?. . .remix), Sutton
Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2003 SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME
14 (there must be something
somewhere?), Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
2001 SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME
12 – WARNING: CARDIAC AT REST
(the Adelaide remix), Contemporary Art
Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA,
Australia
SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 11 –
WARNING: CARDIAC AT REST
(analgesic mix), Gitte Weise Gallery,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 10 –
WARNING: CARDIAC AT REST, Sutton
Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME
9 – UH-OH THE CHINESE ARE COMING
(takeaway mix), Art Gallery of New South
Wales Contemporary Projects, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 MCA Unpacked II, curated by
Joan Grounds, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
This Was the Future. . . Australian
Sculpture of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
and Today, Heide Museum of Modern
Art, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Journey to Now: John Kaldor Art Projects
and Collection, Art Gallery of South
Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Experimenta House of Tomorrow,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 15 –
THE HOUSE THAT JOHN AND WENDY
BUILT (another STOLEN generation mix-
up), Clemenger Award of Contemporary Art,
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2002–2003 SONGS OF AUSTRALIA
VOLUME 13 – WIDE LAWNS AND
NARROW MINDS (the John and Wendy
Headache Mix), Meridian, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Fieldwork – Australian Art 1968–2002,
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia,
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Further Reading
Melissa Chiu, A Red Brick House and
Chinese Takeaway: Aleks Danko’s
Songs of Australia, exh. cat, Songs of
Australia Volume 9: Uh-Oh The Chinese are
Coming (Takeaway Mix), Sydney: Art
Gallery of New South Wales,
Contemporary Project, 2000
Aleks Danko (artist’s
pages), ‘Performance Research’, On
Place and Praxis, 3.2
(Summer 1998), London: Routledge
Juliana Engberg, A History of
Happiness,
exh. cat., Melbourne Festival Visual Arts
Program, Australian Centre of
Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2002
Adam Geczy and Benjamin Genocchio
(eds), What is Installation? An
Anthology of Writings on Australian
Installation Art, Sydney: Power
Publications/University of Sydney, 2001
Charles Green, Peripheral Vision:
Contemporary Australian Art 1970–1994,
Sydney: Craftsman House, 1995
David Thomas, ‘At Home, Aleks Danko,
Born Adelaide 7th April 1950’, Art and
Australia, Olympic Issue, 38.1 (2000)
| | | Source: | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, International 04 Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2004 |
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