Monthly Archives: October 2026

ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE 2026: Our Forests in Danger | Winners Announced

News, Prizes

Culture Plus presents the 2026 winners of the: ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE Mohamed Khadra, National art School AAANZ PRIZE Hamish Adams, University of Melbourne AUDIENCE PRIZE Henry Wolff, University of New South Wales VAULT PRIZE Tina Agic, University of Queensland ISFAR PRIZE Lilah Gillam, University of Western Australia DISCOVER THEIR TALKS all videos and summary papers Cultureplus.com.au DISCOVER THE STORY behind THE ELOQUENCE ART PRIZE SBS FRENCH PODCAST

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Call for Proposals | Expanded Documentary | Deadline extended 9 October

Call for Panels

  Expanded Documentary in Aotearoa brings together scholars, artists, practitioners and creative researchers to explore what documentary might be—or become—in Aotearoa New Zealand today. Inspired by Jihoon Kim’s concept of documentary’s “expanded fields,” the conference moves beyond conventional cinematic forms and frames to consider expanded, hybrid, Indigenous, experimental and practice-led approaches to documenting and storytelling. Aotearoa provides a particularly generative context for this exploration. From installation, photography and animation to embodied, digital and mixed-media practices, the conference invites dialogue between contemporary documentary practices and Māori forms of storytelling and knowledge transmission, while reconsidering the histories and assumptions that have shaped […]

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AIAH Event Series in October with Macgeorge visiting speaker Professor Terry Smith

Events

You are invited to two special lectures with Macgeorge visiting speaker Professor Terry Smith in early October, co-presented by the University of Melbourne and the NGV, and as part of the AIAH event series. The Parkville lecture on Wednesday 7 October at 6.30 pm will examine the influence of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave on art from the pre-modern to the contemporary period. The NGV lecture on Saturday 10 October at 3 pm will look at visual frameworks that contemporary artists deploy to intervene critically against authoritarianism. Terry Smith is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Sydney and Andrew […]

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Publication | Undisciplined: Of Architectural Nomadism and the Rebellious Practice

Book

Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. This concern is addressed through the critical examination of a hybrid body of practice-based work, which, although founded on the discipline of architecture, results from its contingent amalgamation with other fields, including contemporary art, politics, and theory. The book reflects on projects developed in contexts of profound sociopolitical instability (i.e., corruption, violence, poverty, and exile), including informal settlements in Venezuela that provide the background to the discussion of projects undertaken elsewhere. In this process, the book interrogates the volatility of the crisis refrain, articulating […]

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Curatorial scholarship | Documenta16 | Deadline 31 October

Opportunity, Scholarship

Stipend for a visual arts professional to work at documenta16 in 2027 documenta in Kassel, Germany, is one of the largest and most important contemporary art exhibitions in the world. The exhibition takes place every five years, with each edition led by a different internationally recognised Artistic Director. documenta16 will take place from June 12 until September 19, 2027 and will be curated by Naomi Beckwith, currently Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Through its activities as a registered Australian not-for-profit organisation, The Friends of Goethe Australia complement the work of the Goethe-Institut by […]

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