Today in our weekly Arts at Home magazine, we partner up with Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia and bring you podcasts with incredible artists, audio tours of their Adelaide//International exhibition and so much more.

Founded in 2007 with the generous bequest of Anne and Gordon Samstag, the Samstag Museum of Art is one of the University of South Australia’s leading creative centres.

Usually the function of this museum is to present a changing exhibition program of contemporary visual art in its beautiful, John Wardle-designed space on North Terrace. But these are not usual times.

What the current global and local pandemic has done though, is encourage art makers, curators, directors and galleries to re-examine the physical nature of art and how audiences can connect with art’s meaning and message.

And the current exhibition, 2020 Adelaide//International is the perfect show to experience at home across podcasts, in-depth publications and audio tours.

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This is the second iteration of the Adelaide//International, a project over three consecutive years which in 2020 ambitiously assembles five exhibitions by Australian and overseas practitioners, comprising different creative disciplines.

The exhibition looks to the ways in which built forms can make us aware of the social, spatial and temporal present.

The centrepiece of the 2020 Adelaide//International is Somewhere Other, created by John Wardle Architects in collaboration with Natasha Johns-Messenger. This intriguing timber structure draws the viewer in to explore its mysterious passageways, only to open up to unexpected vistas. Listen to an audio description of the work here.

Belgian artist David Claerbout’s monumental real-time moving-image work Olympia charts the disintegration of the Berlin Olympic Stadium into ruins over the course of one thousand years, while First Nations artist Brad Darkson’s sound and installation work Hold Me is a critique of antagonistic systems and architectures.

Startling and graceful juxtapositions of architecture with the human form by Zoë Croggon, Helen Grogan and Georgia Saxelby also feature.