The Brisbane Sound
Posted by admin on September 3rd, 2009 filed in Art and Culture, Education, Technology, Travel
There are many wonderful reasons to come and visit Queensland’s capital, and our five-star Brisbane hotels are certainly a fantastic place to star. We offer the finest in luxury accommodations, blending old-world traditions of hospitality and service with the best of new technology and convenience, to help refresh a weary soul. Our offerings meet the highest standards of the industry, with sumptuousness and elegance abounding in every nook and cranny. There are the standard features that one expects from a five-star hotel, along with a host of extras that will keep you wondering how life could be so good. After a lovely night’s rest, you’ll be ready to enjoy one of our delicious gourmet meals before setting out to see the city.
Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia, and also one of its most culturally forward-thinking. It has attracted a large number of artists for the past few decades, gathering here to make work individually and collectively. There is a great alternative music scene, and the visual arts culture is extremely lively and very cutting edge. There have been periods where art and music folded together quite seamlessly, and one period of its recent history, on the cusp of the early 1980s, was particularly exciting. Visitors here can find traces of this by doing a little digging around, but it won’t be very difficult, and it has left a fine and lasting impression. A good place to begin the search would be at the Institute of Modern Art, where there was recently a major exhibition remembering the Brisbane Sound.
The Brisbane Sound refers to the post-punk years, which were particularly fertile artistic years here and in other major urban centers. Some of the more famous players here were Ed Kuepper, John Nixon, Robert Forster, and Jenny Watson, who were instrumental in taking advantage of a particular cultural moment. Some of their contributions to the Brisbane Sound involved making connections and putting mechanisms into place that would allow the contemporary currents in music and in visual art to come together. Deeply steeped in post-70s conceptualism, there was a very deep mistrust of the standard systems of art production and reproduction. New schools of thought revolving around ways of making work came from following a persistent dissatisfaction, and finding links in other artists and their ideas.
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