Keynotes

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.

Keynote supported by the ANU Research School of Humanities & the Arts, and The Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture, University of Sydney

Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman from Australia based between Melbourne and London and Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art Tate Modern and Senior Curator at RISING, Melbourne’s international arts festival. Kimberley is a respected creative practitioner in her field through her innovative curatorial and writing practice which has transformed spaces of the historical archive and contemporary curation with a focus on developing new approach to anti-colonial curatorial practice. Dedicated to new methodology, advocacy and First Peoples led research placing community voice and culture and the core of her work, her practice is centred on relationships and critically looking at art and museum histories through a First Peoples perspective. Working with knowledges, histories and futures at the intersection of historical collections, place, community and contemporary practice her work aims to rethink global art histories and extend what exhibitions and research in and out of institutions can be for Indigenous communities. Her recent curatorial projects include the co-curated Tri-nations Triennial Naadohbii: To Draw Water (2021-2023, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) and award winning  More Than A Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material and Cultural Agency (2023), MOVING OBJECTS (2021, RISING) and was the inaugural curator for the First Peoples Art Trams project profiling First Peoples artists in the state’s largest public arts project. Recently she conceived of and curated the ground-breaking exhibition, Shadow Spirit presenting 14 new large-scale commissions at the historic rooms of Flinders Street Station from First Peoples artists across Australia, the first exhibition of its kind. She is a PhD candidate in curatorial practice with the Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab Monash University Melbourne, Deputy Chair of the Board Shepparton Art Museum and Director on the Board for the non-for-profit Adam Briggs Foundation. In 2023 Kimberley was appointed Curator Emeritus at Museums Victoria. In 2025 she will curate TarraWarra Biennial.