Monthly Archives: September 2018

Symposia: Minimalist/Maximalist, National Gallery of Australia, 19-20 October

  This symposium explores a key period in American art to focus on two tendencies generally regarded as polar opposites—minimalism and photo-realism. Minimalism’s impact is traced in works using light, land and installation art, as well as through feminist practice and in architecture, to examine resonances today. The importance of realism, a much-neglected aspect of the period, is also considered. Building on from two highly successful past events—Action. Painting. Now. (NGA 2012) and Minimal. Conceptual. Pop. (AGNSW 2013)—this symposium seeks to expand the dialogue between American and Australian artists, art historians and cultural critics. Keynote speaker James Meyer, National Gallery of Art, Washington […]

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ANU – Professor of Art History and Curatorship

The Centre for Art History and Theory at the Australian National University is hiring a Professor of Art History and Curatorship (open field). This is a rare and exciting opportunity to lead one of the most exciting art history departments in Australia, if not the world!   Please see the position description below. [gview file=”https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SOAD-Prof-Art_History_Curatorship-PD_PEWER-2018.pdf”]

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2018 AAANZ Conference Early Bird Registration extended to October 10

Early bird registration for the 2018 AAANZ Conference has been extended to October 10. To register before the early bird rate closes go to: https://aaanz.info/register-for-the-2018-aaanz-conference/ To help delegates plan their visit to the conference a detailed program, with all panel session and keynote scheduled times, will be available from next week. To stay informed about the conference, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the AAANZ newsletter. https://www.facebook.com/events/193150874673350/ https://twitter.com/ArtAustraliaNZ https://aaanz.info/email-subscribe/ Finally a reminder, postgraduate and early career researchers who wish to participate in Professor Griselda Pollock’s masterclass must apply by 1 October. Full details about the masterclass and how […]

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Graphic Encounters Conference – Arts West, University of Melbourne, 7-9 November 2018

GRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS (MELBOURNE, 7-9 NOV 18) Dr. Liz Conor Arts West, The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia 11/07/2018-11/09/2018, 9am-5pm To be held 7-9 November in Melbourne, the Graphic Encounters conference will be presented by La Trobe’s Department of Archaeology and History and the Centre for the Studies of the Inland. The conference hopes to provide a welcoming, inclusive forum in which conversations can be started, and in some cases continued, on prints depicting Aboriginal Australians. There are many, diverse people interested in this colonial visual archive within and beyond the academy – scholars, librarians, bibliophiles, art historians, curators, artists, collectors, […]

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AAANZ Conference: A Masterclass with Professor Griselda Pollock at RMIT

“To create transgenerational democratic space for the continuing virtuality of feminism, we need historical understanding of feminism itself that is different from the currently fracturing caricature of generations at war and waves of novelty” (Pollock 2016, 57). Griselda Pollock will be presenting a masterclass for interested HDR candidates and early career researchers as part of the AAANZ Annual Conference at RMIT University on Tuesday 4 December 2018. We are seeking applications from postgraduates and early career researchers whose work engages with the themes of trauma, feminism, transgenerational feminism, virtuality and affect. The masterclass will involve critical responses to two recent […]

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Sheridan Palmer – Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods, October 4, Buxton Contemporary

Histories and Theories of Sound Lecture 6pm Thu, 04. Oct Buxton Contemporary Dodds St and Southbank Blvd Southbank, VIC FREE As part of the ongo­ing lec­ture series, His­to­ries and The­o­ries of Sound, Dis­ci­pline and Liquid Archi­tec­ture present Dr Sheri­dan Palmer’s ​‘Dis­e­qui­lib­rium: Presence/​absence in the art of Tony Woods’, fol­lowed by dis­cus­sion with Doug Hall AM. During the 1960s the Tas­man­ian artist TONY WOODS (1940 – 2017) emerged as a rare talent in the Aus­tralian art scene. An advo­cate of modernism’s plu­ral­ism, his bold fig­u­ra­tion, vig­or­ous abstract for­mal­ism, irreg­u­lar shaped can­vases that often incor­po­rated col­lage and the ready­made, was a syn­the­sis of Amer­i­can […]

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Talking Writing: Pasifika – Writing NSW, September 13

September 13 6:30pm–8pm Join Indigenous-Pasifika artists Amrita Hepi, Brian Fuata, Emele Ugavule, Latai Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn for a talanoa about Australian arts and literature, in which race, class, culture, faith, gender and sexuality intersect.   Location: Information and Cultural Exchange 8 Victoria Rd, Parramatta (Corner Villiers St), NSW Pasifika Image credit: Brian Fuata, 2015, photo by Manuela Barczewski, image courtesy of Chisenhale, London

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