Monthly Archives: October 2020

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Register | ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead | November 2020

Events

ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead 5, 12, 19 & 26 November 2020 In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the devastation of recent Australian bushfires, the 2020 ACUADS Conference will explore the theme of crisis and resilience. With the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic yet to be realised and a recent Australian defence report warning of Australia’s vulnerabilities to overlapping ‘crises as diverse as cyberwar, climate-induced catastrophe and a pandemic,’ is our sector prepared for an unpredictable future? In this time of unprecedented global uncertainty, what can be learned from the impacts of […]

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Talks | Reading Bennett: The Artist in his own Words | Power Institute

Events

A morning of readings and reflections to mark the launch of a landmark new survey of writings by the artist Gordon Bennett (1955-2014). About this Event Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings brings together nearly forty published and unpublished essays, artist’s statements, letters, and interviews from across Bennett’s three-decade career. Selected Writings profiles the importance of the written word within the artist’s art and broader intellectual practice. To launch the volume, and coinciding with QAGOMA’s major Gordon Bennett retrospective, four speakers will select pieces from Bennett’s archive to read, and will then respond to his words in the context of their own practice and/or scholarship: […]

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Call for Submissions | Context and Meaning XX: Art and Crime | Queen’s University

Call for Papers, Conference

Call for Submissions | Context and Meaning XX: Art and Crime | Graduate Visual Culture Association | Queen’s University Extended submission deadline | 1 November 2020 The Graduate Visual Culture Association (GVCA) at Queen’s University is seeking submissions for a graduate research conference exploring the intersections of art and crime.  Hosted by the Department of Art History and Art Conservation and the GVCA, this year’s conference will take place from 22 January  2021 to 23 January 2021. Details about format and keynote speaker will be announced in the coming weeks. Call for papers and further details about the conference themes […]

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Call for Papers | INDEX Journal Issue No. 3 ‘Monument’

Call for Papers

~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~ ISSUE No. 3 MONUMENT If colonial monuments can be understood as ruins, in the sense that they symbolise the destructive force of conquest, what can be salvaged from the framework of monumentalism? INDEX JOURNAL invites papers that contemplate the relation between public monuments and ruin. Papers addressing monuments in the context of materiality, environment, image, emotion, revenge, authority, colonial expansion, white supremacy, and state propaganda are all encouraged and considered. Issue No. 3 MONUMENT is guest edited by Tristen Harwood, a Darwin-based Indigenous writer and critic. Papers should be no more than 7,500 words and […]

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AAANZ 2020 ECR and PhD Prize – Research in Focus

AWAPA, News

As the 2020 AAANZ conference is not running this year, the AAANZ executive committee has proposed to run the annual PhD prize in a different mode. This is also in response to feedback on the prize format in previous years. This year’s prize will be based upon a video presentation of research and will be open to all current PhDs and recent graduates. The winner will receive $1,000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis. Deadline – Thursday November 12th, 2020. AAANZ Research in Focus – Online Online format – entrants submit a video (see website for details). Videos should be based […]

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Symposium | At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – Australian Academy of Humanities

Events

16-21 November. Daily free webinars. The arrival of COVID-19, on the heels of a summer of natural disasters, has led to profound disruptions to cultural life in Australia, propelling our artists, creators, researchers and cultural institutions into survival mode, and throwing into stark relief the dramatic pre-pandemic shifts in cultural production, consumption and distribution. Yet the events of 2020 have also highlighted how deeply culture and creativity are embedded in the daily lives of Australians, giving claim to culture’s status as a public good. The 51st Academy Symposium –  At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – will explore Australia’s cultural terrain in light of recent […]

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