The AAANZ 2024 conference convenors are delighted to announce international keynote David J. Getsy.
David J. Getsy is a historian of art and performance whose research focuses on queer and transgender themes in modern and contemporary art. His books have charted modern sculpture’s relationship to the human body: Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877–1905 (Yale University Press, 2004); Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (Yale University Press, 2010); Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale University Press, 2015/2023); and Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts. He has edited four books, including the widely-read anthology of artists’ writings, Queer (MIT Press, 2016). He was the curator of the retrospective exhibition Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble for the Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York. The research for that exhibition informs his current book project, preliminarily titled Street Addresses: Performing the Queer Life of the Street in 1970s New York. He teaches at the University of Virginia, U.S.A., where he is the Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History.
AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT and POSSIBLE FUTURES will be hosted by the Australian National University, Canberra, Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 December
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