Stories & Ideas

Personal Response

Writers, poets, artists, academics and ACMI staff share thoughts and memories sparked by the objects and artworks featured in our exhibitions.

A still image of fish overlaid onto a still image of plants.
Brandon Liew

Life Cycle – a response to Olivia Koh's Minyak Sawit Keluarga (Palm Oil Family)

Brandon Liew reflects on his journeys through Malaysia and its histories in response to artist Olivia Koh's work.
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closeup - portrait of Sridevi, c. 1990, courtesy Dinodia Photos - Alamy Stock Photo
Pallavi Sharda

The Bombay Veil

Behind the lens, the human forms of Indian cinema’s feminine archetypes were far from their puritanical, unscathed projections.
A finger points at a rodeo rider in Rodeo Baby!, 2022, Jazz Money photo by Phoebe Powell
Alice Bellette

Haunted Constellation: a personal response to Rodeo Baby!

Alice Bellette describes how approaching Jazz Money's artwork "felt like standing at the foot of the archive itself".

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