Monthly Archives: March 2022

2022 ANU Art Collection Scholarship

The ANU Art Collection brings together outstanding Australian modern and contemporary art, including a remarkable diversity of artwork by Australia’s First Nations Peoples. Through its heritage-listed Drill Hall Gallery, ANU delivers a vibrant exhibition program in collaboration with emerging and established artists, curators and collectors. The 2022 ANU Art Collection Scholarship is supported by Andrew Dyer & Donna-Marie Kelly The Gallery presents exhibitions drawn from the ANU Art Collection, as well as diverse national and international loans. Internship students, under the supervision of leading academics from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS), make a vital contribution to […]

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New Zealand Pavilion announces further details of Yuki Kihara’s exhibition for Biennale Arte 2022

Yuki Kihara is the first artist to represent New Zealand at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia who is Pasifika, Asian and Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s third gender) Kihara’s project Paradise Camp, explores ongoing Sāmoa-New Zealand relations from a Fa’afafine perspective and will be shown in the Arsenale Ahead of the Biennale Arte 2022 opening on 23 April, Creative New Zealand announces further details of the New Zealand Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Small island ecologies, queer rights, intersectionality and decolonisation are all explored by artist Yuki Kihara in her Biennale Arte […]

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Submissions Open │ Hunar Symposia Conference: An exploration of art and conflict

Submissions are now open for Hunar Symposia’s inaugural conference on 16 -18 November 2022  Hunar believes that art, in all its forms, functions in a similar way, serving as a bridge between our utopic desires and the concrete possibilities for change. In this sense, it makes visible what has been deemed invisible, and speakable what has been deemed unspeakable, opening new paths to understand and overcome our social and political challenges. Hunar seeks to foreground the importance of creative work in producing imaginative, humorous, provocative, and unpredictable responses to conflicts both past and present. In this context, we challenge researchers […]

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Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │Deadline Friday 22 April

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of three monographs. The series will be divided into two rounds with proposals for the first two monographs selected in the first round in 2022. A Committee comprising of senior and early career art historians will select two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three […]

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Power Institute Public Programs 2022 now launched

 Registration is now open for the Power Institute Public Programs 2022 The Power Institute is delighted to launch our public programs schedule for 2022.  Registration for all our talks, lectures and roundtables is now open! Our program this year is divided into three discrete series, and our speakers include MCKENZIE WARK on queer raves, THY PHU on socialist futurity in Vietnam, LISA NAKAMURA on the new metaverse and women of colour, TINA CAMPT, CHRISTOPHER PINNEY and many others. We also have a new series, “Ways of Being”, that will delve into the knowledge systems of four different Aboriginal communities. All […]

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Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of three monographs. The series will be divided into two rounds with proposals for the first two monographs selected in the first round in 2022. A Committee comprising of senior and early career art historians will select two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three […]

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EVENT │ In and Beyond Academia: A Conversation with Ananda Cohen-Aponte │The James Gallery

In and Beyond Academia: A Conversation with Ananda Cohen-Aponte When Friday, 18 March 4:00pm (EDT) Where This event will take place online via Zoom Register here Join The James Gallery for “In and Beyond Academia” a discussion with Ananda Cohen-Aponte. The scholarship and advocacy of Ananda Cohen-Aponte (Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY) examine and expose critical issues in art history as both a humanistic discipline and a profession. Beyond her research on colonial painting from the Andes, which focuses on racial, political, and social questions, she has also published about issues of diversity and inclusion in art history as well as on […]

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Call for manuscript proposals │Research / Art / Writing, a new series with Brill

Research / Art / Writing (RAW) aims to promote critical, discursive, and creative engagement with global contemporary art and visual cultures. RAW understands art as an expanded field of practice, supporting experimental and interdisciplinary writing. We wish to provide a home for exciting, necessary, progressive work. We encourage personal approaches combined with articulated methodologies. We are interested in experimental art research: texts that account for positionality, pursuing art’s socio-political effects, while proposing rigorous answers to the question of matching form and content. RAW invites scholarly and artistic researchers to pursue insights into art’s multiple, including indirect, efficacies. The book series […]

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