Sally Couacaud b. 1947

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Couacaud was a gallery director at Sydney's Artspace (1988-1992), later curator of public art, City of Sydney where she developed the city's Sydney Open Museum's "Sculpture Walk". She curated a number of other exhibitions internationally and in Australia, later initiating the inaugural Australian International Video Festival. In 2008, she moved to Mauritius, later returning to Sydney near the end of her life.
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curator of
Satellite Cultures
Date
8 December 1989 - 2 April 1990
Description

Group show of Australian video art at the New Museum in New York …

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Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/1046
curator of
Videokunst in Australien — Auf dem Weg zu Teletopologien
Date
1989
Description

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Website
http://scanlines.net/node/795
participated in
The Second Australian Video Festival
Date
4 September 1987 - 10 September 1987
Description

1987 Australian Video Festival
Co-ordinator: Sally Couacaud, Assistant Co-ordinator: Kate Goodnow
Board members:Jill Scott – President, Annmarie Chandler – Vice President, Peter Callas, Michael Hobbs, Eddy Jokovich, Brian Langer, Jeremy Saxton
From the Catalogue:
Introduction: Jill Scott, President, Australian Video Festival
Kinetic Excitement
Welcome to the second annual Australian Video Festival where many answers will be found to explain why Video is growing so rapidly as a medium of expression …

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Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/839
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References [<ExternalResource: Felicity Fenner & Janet Laurence, Sally Couacaud obituary, “Art curator’s sculpture walk shaped the face of Sydney”, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 August 2020, p.34>, <ExternalResource: Vale Sally Couacaud, Artspace newsletter, April 2020>, <ExternalResource: Appointment of Sally Couacaud, Management of public monuments and artworks, City of Sydney 1991>, <ExternalResource: Sally Couacaud, curator. Frames of reference : aspects of feminism and art, 1991>, <ExternalResource: SALLY COUACAUD.OBITUARY OF A CURATOR, Lalit (Mauritius), 26 April 2020. A moving obituary of her life in Mauritius by someone who knew her intimately, concluding with a poem in "Kreol".>] [<ExternalResource: Felicity Fenner & Janet Laurence, Sally Couacaud obituary, “Art curator’s sculpture walk shaped the face of Sydney”, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 August 2020, p.34>, <ExternalResource: Vale Sally Couacaud, Artspace newsletter, April 2020>, <ExternalResource: Appointment of Sally Couacaud, Management of public monuments and artworks, City of Sydney 1991>, <ExternalResource: Sally Couacaud, curator. Frames of reference : aspects of feminism and art, 1991>]