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together<>apart
11-14 July 2012
Held in the third week of the Biennale of Sydney, Together<>Apart will highlight major debates and issues raised by the Biennale’s theme ‘all our relations’. It will focus on how networks of artists, curators, critics, museums, and publics structure art. It will ask: what are the stakes, outcomes, and tensions of collaborations and partnerships between artists and art institutions? This question concerns historians and critics of art of all periods as well as being a live issue for art now and offers a coherent point of intersection for the AAANZ’s diverse constituencies.
call for panel proposals
The emphasis on relations could mean examining aesthetic relations. For example, Mondrian famously announced that “determined relations” would replace the importance of form. What would an aesthetics of relations mean for art history, art criticism, curating and art practice? How does aesthetic autonomy interact or intersect with an aesthetic of relations?
Panels might address the relations between artists and other disciplines: such as collaborations between art and science; art and design; or art and architecture. Interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural and intercultural relations that bear on art and art history could be examined. What is the nature of participation and connection between art and its others? What are the stakes, outcomes, and tensions of collaborations and partnerships?
Panels might examine how art is shaped by the network of relationships between artists, dealers, museums, critics and writers in various societies. How have artists historically imagined their audiences whether in academies, salons, museums or today through digital media? How do such relations inform the meaning of art?
Potential session convenors please send a 300-word session proposal to be sent out to AAANZ members. Alternatively if you want to assemble your own panel send list of participants with 300 word abstracts for each. Panels can be single 3-4 or double 6-7.
Deadline for session proposals: Friday 17 February 2012.
Email: conf@aaanz.info
KEYNOTE LECTURES:
The keynote speakers are renowned art historians and curators.
Professor Thierry de Duve curated the Belgian pavillion of the 2003 Venice Biennale and Look!: 100 Years of Contemporary Art, a ground-breaking reappraisal of the contemporary. His publications include Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx, Revamping Kant, Pictorial Nominalism, Kant after Duchamp, and Clement Greenberg Between the Lines.
Dr Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, previously held positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. She has curated show of Catherine Opie, Luc Tuymans, Andrea Fraser, Paul Chan, Félix González-Torres, Zoe Leonard, and Louise Lawler.