In Conversation: Chris Kraus & Declan Fry

Bridging memory work and the uncanny, Tieu’s exhibition confronts Germany’s buried xenophobia through slippery visual and sonic signifiers that elude any stable index.

As Melbourne’s art institutions blur the line between art and design, a corporate logic of spectacle, lifestyle, and marketability takes hold. Is the NGV’s embrace of design a progressive expansion—or just kitsch in highbrow drag? And if public museums have abandoned art, who’s left to protect it?

Whether collaboration has a “future” raises a deeper question as to how collaboration can stake a claim on the future as such.