The AAANZ 2022 Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS

Monash University and The University of Melbourne
1 – 3 December 2022

Conference Information

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The conference organisers acknowledge the people of the Kulin Nations who have been custodians of this land for thousands of years. We acknowledge the First Peoples deep and ongoing cultural practices, stories and knowledge of Country and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The AAANZ Annual Conference for 2022 is prompted by the idea of ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’.

For some this might raise the idea of political advocacy in relation to Indigenous land rights, the global pandemic, climate crisis, and social injustice. For others it might provoke questioning of traditional demonstrations of art history: the exhibition, the catalogue, the curator, and physical artworks. For yet others it may evoke the idea of thinking through making and its connection to conceiving artistic practice as research. How might we re-conceive our disciplines in light of these concerns, and demonstrate our disciplinary role as advocates for re-thinking our histories, and engagement with communities, institutions, and other spaces?

Conference Format

The 2022 AAANZ Conference ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’ is co-hosted by the Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne and the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University.

Please note that the conference will be online this year, with a number of on-site / in-real-life keynotes that will take place at the National Gallery of Victoria and Monash University, alongside publication launches and workshops hosted in Melbourne.

For all enquiries please contact: conf@aaanz.info

Key Dates

• Call for Panels announced  28th March
• Call for Panels deadline  EXTENDED until 9 May
• Panel Convenors notified  late May
• Call for Papers opens 3 June
• Call for Papers closes 29 July
• Panel Convenors confirm all speakers 8 August
• Program Schedule announced/Registrations open 16 September
• Early Bird registrations close 31 October 2022
• Registrations close 1 December 2022
• Online Conference Portal goes live 1 November 2022
• Conference dates 1-3 December 2022

Image: Richard Bell, Embassy, 2013-ongoing. Installation view, 20th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2016. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Tate.
Photo: Document Photography. Image courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.