MIKE PARR

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011
Timothy Morrell, 'Therapy Session', Australian Art Collector, issue 56, April-June

2010
Edward Scheer, The Infinity Machine, Mike Parr's Performance Art 1971-2005, Schwartz City

2008
Mike Parr: Performances 1971 – 2008, Schwartz City

2007
Edward Scheer, ‘It’s OK if you  weren’t there: Mike Parr and performance documentation as remediation’, Brought to Light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006, ed. Lynne Seear and Julia Ewington, Queensland Art Gallery Publishing 2007
Goeffrey Wallis, Eye to “I”: The Self in Recent Art, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery Ballarat, Victoria
 
2006
Nichola Tsoutas, ‘Performance/Parr’, Mike Parr: Blood Box, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney,
Adam Geczy, ‘Here, There, Nowhere, Dead: Performance Art and the Cybernetic Involution,’ Mike Parr: Blood Box, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney
Edward Scheer, ‘Mike Parr: Blood Box 6/9/98’, Mike Parr: Blood Box, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney
Sebastian Smee, ‘Identity Crisis’ in ‘Review’, Weekend Australian, April 8-9
Justin Clemens, ‘I Advance Masked: Volte Face: Mike Parr Prints & Pre-Prints 1970-2005’, The Monthly, April
Tony Bond, ‘Performing Bodies, Self Portraits’, Art and Australia, Vol. 43, #3, Autumn
Rosalie Higson, ‘Raw ideas written on the body’, The Australian, February 24
Rachel Kent, ‘Volte Face: Mike Parr Prints & Pre-Prints 1970-2005’, MCA: Art Matters: Newsletter, Melbourne
Rachel Kent, Masquerade: Representation and the self in contemporary art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2005
Megan Backhouse, 'Mike Parr', The Age (Melbourne) Magazine, Issue No.8, June 2005
Jacqueline Millner, ‘Mike Parr: Kingdom Come and/or Punch Holes in the Body Politic’, Broadsheet, vol 34, no. 2, June-August,
Richard Kalina, 'Report from Australia: Down Under No More', Art in America, April

2004
Edward Scheer, “A Vast Field of Lyrical Aggression: Politics and Ethical Spectatorship in Recent Durational Art by Mike Parr”, Broadsheet: Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture, Volume 33, No.2, June - August
2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Contemporary Photo-Media, exhibiiton catalogue, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Anne Ryan, Contemporary Australian Prints from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2003
Russell Storer, Bleed Bled Said, essay and interview, Power Publications
Alan Cruickshank (ed.), Blaze: Visual Art + Writing from the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Parkside
David Teh, “Art and Politics Estranged”, Broadsheet: Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture, Volume 32 No.2, June, July / August
Adam Geczy, “Focusing the mind through the body: an interview with Mike Parr”, Artlink, Volume 23 No.1
Benjamin Genocchio, “Accenting the minimal”, The Weekend Australian, 1-2 February

2002
Jason Smith & Charles Green, Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne

2001
David Bromfield, Migrations, catalogue, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
Ashley Crawford, A Person Looks At A Work of Art…, Museum of Modern Art at Heide
Juliana Engberg, “Overview”, low down recent acquisitions, Monash University Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
Peter Hill, Anxiety: The Drawn Figure, catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Cathy Leahy, “A New Mike Parr for the Collection”, Gallery Members Magazine, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Andrew Sayers, Australian Art: Oxford History of Art, Oxford University Press
E.A Scheer, “The Veil of the Liminal: Mike Parr's Brides”, Parkett, 62
Terry Smith, “What is Contemporary Art? Contemporary Art, Contemporaneity and Art to Come”, Critical Issue Series, Sydney
B. Stipancic (ed.), Veczoennections: Contemporary Artists from Australia, House of Croatian Artists, Zagreb

2000
Ashley Crawford, “Contemporary Art In Australia: An Odd Creature from Down Under”, ARCO 2000, Art and Australia, Sydney
Cathy Leahy, On the Art of Collaboration, (catalogue), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

2000
Bernice Murphy, Zeitgenoessische Fotokunst aus Australien (Contemporary Photographic Art from Australia), NBK BRAUS
Sonia Pelletier, “Mike Parr Performance”, Recontre Internationale D'Art Performance
Francois Pluchart, Risk as the Practise of Thought, The Artist's Body, Phaidon Press Ltd
E Scheer and N. Tsoutas, “Breaking through Language: Interview with Mike Parr”, 100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud, Power Institute, Centre for Art & VisualCulture and ARTSPACE

1999
Catrin Lundqvist, Mike Parr catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

1998
Jackie Dunn, Telling Tales catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

1997
Robyn McKenzie, “The Emetics: Primary Vomit, I am Sick of Art (Red, Yellow and Blue), interview with Mike Parr, Like, 3
J. Mendelssohn, “Body of Work the Cat's Whiskers”, The Australian, September
Joyce Morgan, “Yen for the Big League”, The Sydney Morning Herald, October
H. Murphy & D. Elliot, In Place (Out of Time): Contemporary Art In Australia, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Jason Smith, In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Lino, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Nick Waterlow, Spirit and Place: Art in Australia 1861 - 1996, catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1996
Patrick Flores, “Mike Parr in the Philippines: The Perils of Performance”, Art Asia Pacific, Volume 3 No.1
Bruce James, “No Exit”, Art and Australia, Volume 34, No.2
Victoria Lynn, “Tixw On”, The Guinness Contemporary Art Project, catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1995
Ben Curnow, “Closer Up: Into the Sunset”, Artlink, Volume 15, No's 2 and 3
Miriam Cosic, “To all foreigners: we have Art as well as Outback”, The Sydney Morning Herald, October
David Hansen, “My dog, your car, out art collection”, Art Monthly Australia, No. 81, July
Pepe Karmel, “Antidotes for a Cartoonish Image”, The New York Times, June
J. Mendelssohn, “Kedumba Drawing Award”, The Australian, October

1994
Graham Coulter Smith, Mike Parr The Self Portrait Project, Schwartz City, Melbourne
Ashley Crawford, “Rememberance of Things Parr”, World Art Magazine of Contemporary Visual Arts, November
Jonathan Holmes, Introduction, Portage, Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney & Fine Arts Committee, University of Tasmania
Julia Robinson (ed.), Antipodean Currents, Australian Art Promotions, Sydney

1993
Deborah Hart, Identities: Art from Australia, catalogue, Taipei Fine Arts Museum

1992
Evelyn Juers, “Mike Parr”, Art + Text, 41 Summer
Anne Marsh, “Techno Bodies: Spectacles, Dreams and Desires”, Binocular: Focusing, Time, Lapses

1991
David Bromfield, Identities: Critical Study of the work of Mike Parr 1970 - 1990, University of Western Australia Press
Graham Coulter Smith, “Mike Parr, Language and Chaos II”, Colin Naylor (ed), Contemporary Masterworks, St James Press, London
Merryn Gates, “Gramattica Jocosa”, catalogue Mike Parr: Artist in Residence 1990 - 1991, The University of Melbourne
Jennifer Phipps, Off the Wall / In the Air: A Seventies Selection, catalogue, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

1990
David Bromfield, Mike Parr, catalogue, Cologne Art Fair, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Roger Butler, “I think of drypoint in terms of Braille and excavation”, Prints of Mike Parr, catalogue, Drill Hall, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Ashley Crawford, “Inland”, Tension 24, December
Charles Green, “Mike Parr at City Gallery”, Artforum International, February
Jane Magon, “Mike Parr and Antonin Artaud”, Themes, 'text' and disintegration in the work of Mike Parr, from 1970-1983 with specific reference to the installation “A-Artaud (Against the Light) Self Portrait at 65”, unpublished masters thesis, School of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland

1989
John Young and John Nixon, (eds.) Kerb Your Dog, Number 6, Sydney, supplement to Art Text, No.35, Sydney, Summer / Winter
Nicholas Zurbrugg, “Inhibodress”, Art Text, No.35, Sydney, Summer

1989
Sue Cramer, “Inhibodress 1970-72”, Inhibodress 1970-72, catalogue, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Jacques Delaruelle, “Parr and Rrap”, Art Monthly Australia, No. 24, September
Mike Parr & Sue Cramer, “Interview with Mike Parr”, Inhibodress 1970-72, (catalogue), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

1988
Andrew Bogle, Advance Australian Painting, catalogue, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Graham Coulter Smith & Jane Magon, “Mike Parr's Self Portraits: Unma(s)king the Self”, Eyeline, June
Anne Marsh, “Body Art, in and against itself: A Psychoanalytic Reading on Narcissism and Aggressivity”, Agenda Volume 1 No.3, August
George Petelin, “Australia: Beyond and Mundane”, Contemporary Australian Art to China, catalogue, Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education
Andrew Sayers, “Australian Drawings”, Australian Drawings and Watercolours, A Souvenir Book from the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
John Young and John Nixon, (eds.) Kerb Your Dog, Number 3, Sydney, Australia
Daniel Thomas, “Twentieth-Century Art: The Individual”, Creating Australia, 200 Years of Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bruce Adams, “Life after Death (Battery Man)” and “The History of Photography”, Australian Biennale From the Southern Cross (A View of World Art C. 1940-1988), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1987
Rex Butler, “Light of Day”, Light of Day/ between Lindy Lee and Mike Parr, catalogue, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Eleanor Heartney, “Mike Parr at Rught Siegel”, Art in America, January Victoria Lynn, “Introduction”, British International Print Biennale, catalogue, Bradford Museum, UK
John MacDonald, “Is there No Serious Criticism Here?”, Australian &International Art Monthly, No.1, June
Bernice Murphy, “Babel/Nuremberg (The Photographic Winter) In the Wings of the Oedipal Theatre Part 4”, The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Gary Sangster, Parallaxis, (catalogue), Artspace, Sydney Gary Sangster, “The Isolation of Fruit & Vegetable (Half-Life)”, Parallaxis, catalogue, Artspace, Sydney

1986
Anthony Bond, “Mike Parr's Drawings”, The Satellites of Death, catalogue, Michael Milburn Galleries, Brisbane
Ellen Lee Klein, “Mike Parr”, Arts Magazine, December
Bernice Murphy, “The Installation Works of Mike Parr”, Prospect 86, catalogue, eine internationale Ausstelling aktueller Kunst des Frankfurter Kunstvereins im Steinernen Haus und der Schirn am Roemerberg Frankfurt am Main
Nick Waterlow, “Origins Originality + Beyond”, Origins, Originality + Beyond: The Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

1985
David Bromfield, “An Australian Accent in Perth”, Art Network, Summer
Bernice Murphy, Australian Perspecta 1985, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1984
Robert Atkins, “Australians Arrive at PS1”, Newsday, May 11
Anthony Bond, “Introduction”, 5/5 Fuenf vom Fuenften, DAAD galerie, Berlin
Jonathan Fineberg, “A Critical Examination of the Artists' Current Work from an International Perspective”, An Australian Accent, P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc., John Kaldor Art Project 7
Benjamin Forgey, “The Edge of Night”, Washington Post, July 22
Eric Gibson, “An Australian Accent?”, New Criterion, September
Kay Larson, “Seeing Australia”, New York Magazine, May
Kim Levin, “PS1's Report Card”, Village Voice, May 1
Thomas McEvilley, “An Australian Accent”, Artforum, October
Bernice Murphy, “Mike Parr: in extremis/in parenthesis“, 5/5: Fuenf Vom Fuenften, DAAD galerie, Berlin
John Russell, “Three Vigorous Artists from Down Under”, New York Times, April 20
Paul Taylor, “A Culture of Temporary Culture”, Australia: Nine Contemporary Artists, catalogue, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
Daniel Thomas, “The Artists and Their Australian Context”, An Australian Accent, P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc., John Kaldor Art Project 7

1983
Bruce Adams, “Presence & Absence: The Gallery as Other Place”, Art Text, No.10, June
Sue Cramer, “Masterpieces and Tall Poppies”, Art Network, Winter, Sydney, June
Terence Maloon, “Recent Australian Art and its background”, Tetsuo Kogawa, “Urban Culture in Australia”, & other essays, Continuum '83, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Meaghan Morris, Suzanne Page, Leon Paroissien, D'un autre continent: L'Australie, Le rêve et le reel, Paris, ARC/Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, (Includes: “On Going Overboard” and “Contra Mensurability”, by Mike Parr, April, 1983)

Bernice Murphy, “Mike Parr: A gear-shift in the 'Diabolus ex Machina'”, Mike Parr, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Bernice Murphy & Janet Parfenovics, Australian Perspecta 1983: A Biennale Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Leon Paroissien, “Australia”, World Art Trends 82
Leon Paroissien, Australian Art Review 2, Warner Associates, Sydney and Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Leon Paroissien, “Report from Sydney: The Fourth Biennale”, Art in America, February
Paul Taylor, “Art News: Artists in Paris”, Vogue Australia, October, Australia: Art, Musique, Literature, Pointure, Aborigene”, Art Press, No.74, Paris, October (includes Catherine Millet interview, “Mike Parr, le moi createur et l'Autre”, Paul Taylor, “From Deserts the Profits Come”)
Paul Taylor, “Australian Art: Beyond the Cringe”, Studio International, Volume 196 No.1002, London, October
Paul Taylor, Tall Poppies, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne

1982
Nancy Underhill, Ian Burn, Paul Taylor, Eureka! Artists from Australia, I.C.A./Arts Council, London
Nancy Underhill, Ian Burn, Paul Taylor, 4th Biennale of Sydney: Vision of Disbelief, The Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

1981
Suzi Gablik, “Report from Australia”, Art in America, Volume 69 No.1, January (Also in Art and Australia, Volume 18 No.4, Winter Sydney
Suzi Gablik, First Australian Sculpture Triennale, Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Bernice Murphy, Australian Perspecta 1981: A Biennale Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1980
Janine Burke, “Taken At Face Value: Self Portraits and Self Images”, Self Portrait/Self Image, catalogue, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney and Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Jennifer Phipps, “Films by Artists”, Art and Australia, Volume 18 No.1, Spring, September, Sydney

1979
Nick Waterlow, “European Dialogue”, Flash Art, 90-91

1978
Elwyn Lynn, “Letter from Australia”, Art International, Volume 22 No.5-6, September
Paul McGillick, “Performance Art: Some Sceptical Reflections”, Act 1 An Exhibition of Performance and Participatory Art, Arts Council of Australia, ACT Division, Canberra
Michael Nicholson, “Status Quo”, Aspect, Volume 3 No.3, July
Terry Smith, “Private Art and public work”, in Act 1 An Exhibition of Performance and Participatory Art, Canberra, Arts Council of Australia, ACT Division
Graeme Sturgeon, The Development of Australian Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London

1977
Tommaso Trini, “Domani L'Australia (Australia Next)”, Data, No.26 April

1974
Terry Smith, “The Provincialism Problem”, Artforum, September

1975
Patrick McCaughey, “Art and Sanctuary”, Aspect, Spring

1973
Donald Brook, “Idea Demonstrations: Body Art and 'Video Freaks' in Sydney”, Studio International, Vol. 185 No.956, June
Lucy Lippard, (ed.), Six Years; The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, Praeger, New York

1971
Terry Smith, Donald Brook, Mike Parr & Peter Kennedy, exhibition introductions, in The Situation Now: Object or Post-Object Art?, Sydney, Contemporary Art Society, One Central Street