Monthly Archives: June 2017

Call for Applications/Nominations | Field Director, Hue – Site and Space in Southeast Asia

The organisers of Site and Space in Southeast Asia are seeking applications and nominations for the role of Field Director, Hue, for a multi-year research initiative led by the Power Institute and its partners. ABOUT THE INITIATIVESite and Space in Southeast Asia is a new research initiative exploring intersections of urban space and artistic cultures through site-based, collaborative research. Engaging with cities as sites that generate social and cultural narratives, research teams will explore spaces of memory, interaction, and cultural production across national and regional boundaries, from the early modern to the contemporary. Running from 2018-2020, the project will support teams […]

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Symposium: The Arts and Imagination – Art Gallery of SA – July 3

Outreach Session of the Australasian Association of Philosophy 2017, jointly organised with the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice (JMCCCP), the Art Gallery of South Australia, and partly sponsored by the Australian Research Council and the American Society for Aesthetics. Date: Monday afternoon July 3rd Time: 2.00-5.00 Venue: Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of SA (AGSA) Title: Myths, metaphors and tropes: the narratives which guide studio practice Cost: Free and all welcome. Tea and coffee will be provided. No registration required. The session is a component of a workshop on the Arts and Imagination which runs as part of the […]

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Call for Papers for AAANZ 2017 ‘Art and its Directions’ now open

The Conference Committee would like to invite proposals for papers for the AAANZ 2017 Conference to be held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, from 6 to 8 December 2017.  The deadline for proposals is Monday 14 August 2017 Please see the submission instructions below and follow the links for the Call for Papers – Abstracts and Guidelines and the Participation Proposal Form Session Format Conference sessions are each timetabled for 90 minutes; consisting of three 20 minute papers plus 10 minutes of questions, discussion, and commentary per paper (except where noted otherwise in the session abstract) Session Convenors manage […]

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CFP: The Transnational in Asian Art, Graduate Workshop, September 28 2017, ANU

Call for Papers: Intensive Graduate PhD students Workshop The Transnational in Asian Art: Historical and Contemporary Contexts around Migration, Diaspora, Mobility and Cultural Flows Date: 28 September 2017 Location: Centre for European Studies, Australian National University and National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Conveners: Caroline Turner, Jacqueline Lo, Elly Kent, Alex Burchmore (ANU) Lead speaker: Emeritus Professor Margo Machida (University of Connecticut) The Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University Canberra is issuing a call to PhD scholars who would like to participate and present short papers on their thesis research, in an intensive one day Workshop on 28 September 2017 […]

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Residency for NZ artist to work in Rome for 3 months

The BSR Wallace New Zealand Residence Award will be made as part of the 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2017 and be granted to an outstanding New Zealand visual artist to undertake a three month residency at The British School at Rome [BSR]. Deadline: 25th July 2017 This Award is valued at 26,000 Euro and includes: 1. Three Months Residency at The British School at Rome – January 2018 – March 2018 The residency includes accommodation in a residential studio, board (except dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday), group exhibition, inclusion in the annual Fine Arts catalogue, staff support […]

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Academia and Bohemia: New Perspectives on the National Gallery School – Wednesday June 21 – VCA

*updated The full program for the free one-day symposium Academia and Bohemia: new perspectives on the National Gallery School, including abstracts and biographies, is now available on the VCA events website:  http://vca-mcm.unimelb.edu.au/events?id=1486 Date: Wednesday 21 June 2017 Venue: Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Grant Street, Southbank. Registration: http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/news/details?event=8791 Enquiries: Alison Inglis: asi@unimelb.edu.au Summary of Symposium Program 10.15 am Registration   10.30 am-12.15 pm Session One Professor Su Baker (Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne) Introduction Assoc. Professor Alison Inglis (University of Melbourne) and Fiona Moore (University of Melbourne) The National Gallery School from 1867 to World War One – collection, creativity […]

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The Art of Attribution: The Catalogue Raisonne in the 21st Century

Date: Saturday, 15th July 2017 Venue: National Gallery of Australia FREE | Registration essential: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-art-of-attribution-the-catalogue-raisonne-in-the-21st-century-tickets-34786859433 The NGA and the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne are co-hosting a one-day symposium on the significance and challenges of compiling a catalogue raisonné. The catalogue raisonné is a comprehensive listing of the known works by an artist or group, and may be limited in its scope to a particular medium or date range. In Australia, a number of key catalogues raisonnés have been published on artists such as Tom Roberts, George Lambert, Margaret Preston, Bea Maddock, John Brack, and […]

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A Letter from the Sydney College of the Arts

An update on the Sydney College of the Arts situation from Professor Stephen Garton, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney. Dear Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Thank you for your previous interest in SCA. As a representative of the Visual Arts community who provided feedback on the developments at SCA, we wanted to share key details of the final change plan with you. Today we released the Final Change Plan (FCP) to staff. In this document we outline the following changes: The high-level plan for relocation in 2019 to the Camperdown/Darlington Campus (the Old Teachers […]

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