Monthly Archives: May 2025

Special General Meeting 28 May 2025

Membership

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will hold a Special General Meeting as follows: Date: Wednesday 28 May 2025 Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm (NZST), 1.00 – 2.00 pm (AEST), 12.30 – 1.30 pm (ACST), 11.00 am – 12.00 pm (AWST) Zoom link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88966509028 AAANZ requires a quorum for this meeting please register if you are attending here Documents: Agenda Proxy Form Notification of agenda items for actioning: Item: 5 In accordance with Section 24 of the Associations Incorporation Act 1985 (SA) the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand alters its rules to include changes to section 23, Winding Up, to include a […]

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Renew your AAANZ membership for one or two years before 31 May to receive your discount

Membership

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) is the peak professional body for art writers, academics, curators, and artists providing a platform for advocacy, critical thinking and the sharing of knowledge. In recognition of the ongoing financial pressures felt within the arts and cultural sector, AAANZ is offering discounted membership for the month of May. Current and lapsed members are encouraged to renew their memberships and support AAANZ to continue the vital role it plays in the sector. Renew your AAANZ membership for one or two years before 31 May to receive your discount. Current members are eligible […]

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AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

AWAPA, Award, Book, Prizes

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. […]

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Call for Papers | After Post Photography Conference | Yerevan, Armenia, November 2025

Call for Papers

After Post-Photography 10: What is photography becoming? Yerevan (Armenia), 5-8 November 2025 Yerevan Center for International Education Hamlet’s observation that the world is out of joint has been quoted so often that it became a truism long ago. Although the phrase thus may appear to be hollowed out by overuse, it still holds a morsel worthy of reflection: a world out of joint is not a world in chaos. Its pieces – people, society, economy, ecology – remain, but the fabric holding them together is weak, crumbling, torn. A similar observation can be made concerning photography. Its pieces – image, […]

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Publication | The Ecology of the Performance Art Process

Book

The Ecology of the Performance Art Process: Fragmentation, Union, Reconfiguration by Angel Viora This book offers a new, dynamic and ecological perspective to analyse the process of performance art, namely, what occurs during the unfolding of a piece, exploring the essence of its happening through the forces at play. The author’s aim is to provide a deeper understanding of performance art, which the existing scholarship acknowledges as an art form that actively engages with the world. Much work has been done on the transformative effects of performance art on the artists and the audiences, and its impact on society over time. […]

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AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

AWAPA, Award, Prizes

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. […]

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Renew your AAANZ membership for one or two years before 31 May to receive your discount

Membership

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) is the peak professional body for art writers, academics, curators, and artists providing a platform for advocacy, critical thinking and the sharing of knowledge. In recognition of the ongoing financial pressures felt within the arts and cultural sector, AAANZ is offering discounted membership for the month of May. Current and lapsed members are encouraged to renew their memberships and support AAANZ to continue the vital role it plays in the sector. Renew your AAANZ membership for one or two years before 31 May to receive your discount. Current members are eligible […]

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Renew your AAANZ membership for one or two years before 31 May to receive your discount

Membership

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) is the peak professional body for art writers, academics, curators, and artists providing a platform for advocacy, critical thinking and the sharing of knowledge. In recognition of the ongoing financial pressures felt within the arts and cultural sector, AAANZ is offering discounted membership for the month of May. Current and lapsed members are encouraged to renew their memberships and support AAANZ to continue the vital role it plays in the sector. Renew your AAANZ membership for one or two years before 31 May to receive your discount. Individual                                     $160 $140 (one […]

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Call for Sessions | AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Close Monday 5 May

AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels

The call for sessions for the 2025 AAANZ Conference ‘Unruly Objects’ is now open. Proposal due date extended: Monday 28 April  Monday 5 May 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 […]

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Call for Papers | The Avant-Garde, Affectively | Deadline 1 September

Call for Papers

Call for Papers:  THE AVANT-GARDE, AFFECTIVELY Symposium hosted by the MDRN Lab of the University of Leuven, Belgium Conference dates: 2 – 4 February 2026 Convened by Zanë Hadri (University of Leuven) & Susan Best (Griffith University), with Sascha Bru (University of Leuven). Keynote: Prof Thierry de Duve This interdisciplinary symposium aims to explore how the avant-garde (be it historical, neo or contemporary) intersects with affect. Adopting a methodologically inclusive approach to affect, feeling and emotion, we seek (i) to investigate if and how the artistic experimentation of the avant-garde throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has given aesthetic shape […]

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