Monthly Archives: August 2012

challenging the humanities

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AAH 43rd Annual Symposium 15-16 November University of Western Sydney, Parramatta campus Convened by Professor Tony Bennett FAHA and hosted by the Institute for Culture and Society, the theme for this year’s symposium is Challenging (the) Humanities. more information, programme and registration is available on the Symposium website: http://www.humanities.org.au/Events/AnnualSymposium.aspx The humanities are currently presented with a rare combination of intellectual challenges: changing policy environments and priorities necessitate new styles of thought and intervention; the still-unfolding financial crises urges a rethink of the economy and the interdisciplinary issues at stake in its investigation; there is increasing emphasis on the role played […]

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action. painting. now

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A Symposium on Abstract Expressionism 24-25 August National Gallery of Australia Single day: $90 full; $80 student / member / concession Both days: $160 full; $150 student / member / concession The remarkable impact of Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis and their contemporaries is still felt today. Leading American scholars Branden Joseph, Ellen Landau, Michael Leja and Richard Shiff join Australian experts to explore the development, reach and influence of Abstract Expressionism. Presented in association with the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney. Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art . To register email: eventbookings@nga.gov.au

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sense of planet: the arts and ecology at earth magnitude

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A NIEA Symposium 25 August 2012 Saturday UNSW CBD Campus, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Standard $80, Student $60, Flat rate w/o lunch $40 Speakers: Ursula Heise (Stanford University), Jennifer Gabrys (University of London),Timothy Morton (Rice University), Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Marko Peljhan (University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, University of California at Santa Barbara) The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises, enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists and scholars […]

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art and food symposium

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The University of Otago and Dunedin School of Art are hosting an Art and Food Symposium. Friday August 24 from 8 am until late. The day is open to all and there is no charge. There will be sixteen papers by academics, artists and foodies from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Italy together with an exhibition highlighting the work of Chee Wang Ng ‘Rice Amidst the Cloud’. For further details see http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz/schools-departments/art/seminars-and-events/art-food-symposium-2012.html or contact peter.stupples@op.ac.nz

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2012 AAANZ annual conference report

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It was great to see so many members and students at this year’s conference in Sydney. It was held earlier than usual to coincide with this year’s Sydney Biennale , and was also linked to it thematically by the title  TOGETHER<>APART. APT etc Many papers focused on the network of relations that structure art and its practices, between artists, curators, critics, art museums and their publics. The two key notes invited to Australia, Thierry de Duve and Helen Molesworth, both renowned art historians and curators were most generous in also conducting master classes for some 60 postgraduate students in Sydney. […]

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