AAANZ Conference 2018 Schedule and Artistic Program Announced
The conference committee look forward to welcoming delegates next week to the 2018 AAANZ Conference – Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art at RMIT University School of Art city campus.
The schedule and artistic program are now available to view and download at the following links:
https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AAANZ_Schedule_Final.pdf
https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/APH_Artistic_Program_EDM.pdf
The final conference booklet, with all the panel and artistic program details and abstracts, will be available early next week.
David Teh’s AAANZ Keynote Abstract
The 2018 AAANZ Conference Committee are delighted to announce the keynote lecture that David Teh will present at this years conference:
Festivity and the Contemporary: worldly affinities in Southeast Asian art
David Teh, curator and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore
What is the place of the festival in the global system of contemporary art, and in that system’s history? Can the large, recurring surveys that are its most prominent exhibitions today even be considered festivals? Such questions become more pressing as sites newly embraced by that system take their place on a global event calendar, and as the events increasingly resemble those held elsewhere, or merge with the market in the form of art fairs. What becomes of community and locality, of spontaneity and participation, as that market – and art history – take up the uncommodified fringes and untold stories of contemporary art’s ever widening geography? This paper stems from my research for a recent volume entitled Artist-to-Artist (Afterall, 2018), concerning a series of artist-initiated festivals held in Thailand during the 1990s known as the ‘Chiang Mai Social Installation.’ These gatherings, and others like them, suggest that while national representation was the usual ticket to participation on a global art circuit, the agencies and currencies of national representation weren’t essential determinants of contemporaneity; and that it was localism, rather than any internationalism, that underpinned the worldly affinities discovered amongst artists in Southeast Asia at that time.The sites of this becoming contemporary were mostly festive, sites of celebration and expenditure rather than work and accumulation. What does this mean for contemporary art’s history and theory, and how might it change our understanding of the region’s art and its international currency today?
David Teh’s Public Lecture
In addition to David Teh’s keynote presentation at AAANZ, Monash University’s Department of Fine Art, in collaboration with NGV, will present a special public lecture by the visiting curator and academic.
MISFITS: Pages from a Loose-leaf Modernity
Lecture: Friday 7 December, 2–3.30pm
Entry: Free, all welcome
Venue: NGV Australia, Federation Square, Theatre, Ground Level
Further details here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/misfits-pages-from-a-loose-leaf-modernity-tickets-51863351681
Griselda Pollock’s AAANZ keynote
RMIT is pleased to present art historian Professor Griselda Pollock’s AAANZ keynote as a free public lecture. Capacity is limited and registration is essential to attend. Follow this link to register (note: AAANZ conference delegates are already registered for this event):
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