Monthly Archives: September 2021

Entries now open for the 2021 Research in Focus Prize for PhDs and ECRs

Prizes

The AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for current and recently-completed PhD students to share their research and to be considered for the $1000 prize supported by Taylor and Francis. This prize ran in 2020 and the winner and shortlist can be viewed here: Research in Focus Winner and  Highly Commended 2020 The prize will be announced along with the AWAPAs in December 2021. About the Prize Would you like the opportunity to reach fellow researchers in art history, curatorship and art practice? Want to present your exciting research in a timely fashion and raise your profile? Due to […]

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PhD Project at UTAS | Posthumanism at the edge of the world

News

Posthumanism at the edge of the world Closing date: 29 October 2021 Location: Hobart Citizenship requirement: Domestic/International Onshore About the research project How might we image and imagine the posthuman on an island that sits on the 42nd southern parallel? Posthumanism at the edge of the world is a visual arts research area that seeks to expand knowledge of the posthuman through critical engagements with interdisciplinary creative speculations, experimental practice-led enquiries, and new discursivities of the more-than-human/human-to-come. This project explores practice-led and practice-based capacities to map and imagine new geographies, developing new possibilities that build on existing relations (e.g. with Antarctica and its […]

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Dr Fiona Foley wins 2021 Queensland Literary Awards

Prizes

Winner, 2021 Queensland Literary Awards – Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance Dr Fiona Foley has been awarded the Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance for her groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship that addresses the inherent silences, errors and injustices from the perspective of her people, the Badtjala of K’gari (Fraser Island). Foley shines a critical light on the little-known colonial-era practice of paying Indigenous workers in opium and the ‘solution’ of then displacing them to K’gari. Biting the Clouds – a euphemism for being stoned on opium – combines historical, personal and cultural […]

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AAANZ CONFERENCE | Early Bird Registrations Now Open

AAANZ Conference

Early Bird registrations are now open for the 2021 AAANZ Conference IMPACT The conference will be held online from Wednesday 8 December to Friday 10 December through The University of Sydney. If you are attending the conference as a Panel Convenor, a speaker or an audience member, you must register. One of our goals for AAANZ21 is to make the conference as accessible as possible. As such, we’ve done all we can to make registration prices as low as possible. Registration Costs To register for the conference, you must be a AAANZ member. You can join or renew your membership here All prices are […]

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AAANZ | INDIGENISATION VALUES STATEMENT

Advocacy

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and tangata whenua (Indigenous peoples) of Aotearoa New Zealand and all those who seek racial equality and justice. We recognise that systemic racism extends to people of colour across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, as Australia’s border policies and exclusion of non-white bodies continues across its detention centres and beyond. We abhor state-sanctioned violence that has occurred through the generations and resulted in inequities across all aspects of contemporary life. We see the effects in art galleries and museums, universities and […]

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AAANZ CONFERENCE | Early Bird Registrations Now Open

AAANZ Conference

Early Bird registrations are now open for the 2021 AAANZ Conference IMPACT The conference will be held online from Wednesday 8 December to Friday 10 December through The University of Sydney. If you are attending the conference as a Panel Convenor, a speaker or an audience member, you must register. One of our goals for AAANZ21 is to make the conference as accessible as possible. As such, we’ve done all we can to make registration prices as low as possible. Registration Costs To register for the conference, you must be a AAANZ member. You can join or renew your membership here All prices are […]

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CALL FOR WORKS | 1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale

News

Executive curators with the support of the Contemporary Art Institute, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University,  are honored to present to you the 1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale. They are proposing constructing the theoretical basis of the exhibition with the philosophical vision of materials, new materials, and new materialism. In the context of contemporary art, the emphasis on the text and dematerialization, along with the supremacy of concepts, not only exploit and mechanize materials and the materialization process but also gradually formed a kind of artistic discourse in the context of contemporary art. Reconstruction and perception of contemporary […]

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