Monthly Archives: April 2025

Khaled Sabsabi & Michael Dagostino fund raising for Venice Biennale

As has been widely reported, Australia’s entry in the  next Venice Biennale was axed  by Creative Australia after political interference. As the Guardian Australia article explains, this has widespread implications for Khaled, and what sould be argued for all Australian artists and curators. Khaled and Michael have now started a fundraising campaign so that the installation can go ahead without government support. Please see this link to Khaled and Michael‘s fundraising page? A follow up statemnt from AAANZ is forthcoming.

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Call for Sessions | AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Deadline 28 April

The call for sessions for the 2025 AAANZ Conference ‘Unruly Objects’ is now open. Proposal due date: Monday 28 April Enquiries and questions to the conference committee conf@aaanz.info Submit a Proposal Conference Theme | Unruly Objects The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, or brimming with vitality, power or ancestral subjectivity. Panel convenors and formats […]

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Award | The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research

This award, offered by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates the artist Evan Webb (1952-2023) who was a key figure in the research and restoration of the work of Len Lye. The award will be open to any researcher. The sum of NZD$1500 will be given annually to the best original contribution to Lye scholarship from at least one of the following categories: An unpublished research essay on some aspect of Len Lye’s sculpture, film-making, or work in other genres, or his ideas, or his aesthetics; An unpublished research essay which makes an original contribution to knowledge of Lye’s life and […]

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