The 2019 conference will be hosted by the University of Auckland from the 3rd to 6th December.

The AAANZ Conference 2019 is supported by the Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae, and the School of Architecture, Unitec Institute of Technology, Waipapa Marae, Elam School of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, ST PAUL St Gallery and the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at Auckland University of Technology, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, the Auckland Art Gallery and the Chartwell Trust.

The AAANZ Conference Venues are:

Owen G. Glenn Building, The University of Auckland 12 Grafton Road, Auckland 1010 MAP

Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae, Unitec Institute of Technology 139 Carrington Road, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 MAP

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Corner Kitchener and Wellesley Streets, Auckland 1010 MAP

Contact: Please address all correspondence to the Conference Administrator conf@aaanz.info

Staying in Auckland after the conference? There are several guided tour on Saturday and Sunday, note that some have limited numbers and bookings are required. There is also a list of self-guided tours. See details here – Post-conference tours (pdf).

Key dates

Call for Sessions – closed

Session convenors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposed session on or before 14th June 2019.

Postgraduate students are welcome to submit papers and sessions as part of the conference call for sessions and papers.

Details of the Masterclasses, including keynote and invited guest speakers are available here. Pre-registration closes 27th September. Places are limited and only open to postgraduates and early career researchers. Closed.

Call for papers is now open and will close on 2nd August 2019. Call for Papers extended until August 16th 2019. Call for Papers is now closed.

Ngā Tūtaki – Encounter/s: Agency, Embodiment, Exchange, Ecologies

An unexpected meeting or a purposeful exchange? What is gained and what is lost? How do we understand encounter/s in 2019?

For some, encounters manifest as social, cultural and global provocations, whilst for others, encounters represent the history of exchange and colonial settlement.

Recent events, both locally and globally, have highlighted the urgency for wider conversations regarding encounter. For this year’s conference we encourage presentations that re-consider disciplinary boundaries in order to counter dominant narratives, and offer decolonising strategies and alternative viewpoints within the arts and cultural sectors. In this way, encounters have the power to be transformative.

The 2019 AAANZ conference will take place at the University of Auckland

Themes

The conference will have four major themes:

Agency               Embodiment               Exchange            Ecologies

The themes are deliberately non-prescriptive to allow for multiple readings and understandings and there will be an additional open stream for papers.

The dynamics of Agency are contextual, and are often influenced by hierarchies that determine who speaks and when, whose voices are heard, listened to and valued, and which histories are written and passed on. Embodiment explores how a diversity of cultural traditions and historical encounters are written into and onto the body. In this sense encounters are embodied with the body potentially becoming a battleground for contesting normative, gendered and colonial models of what a body is, or can be. Exchange often describes the art of giving one thing and receiving another, sometimes at the expense of balances in power, gender, and mātauranga/knowledges. Ecologies are characterised by relationships within complex networks of natural, social and cultural systems. The cultural properties of land are determined by the specifics of worldviews that produce ways of engaging with and caring for the environment. In what ways can whenua/landscape be considered as medium rather than genre, and can be used as a stimulant for conversations about ecological crises?