Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

Submissions Open │ Hunar Symposia Conference: An exploration of art and conflict

March 28, 2022Call for Papers

Submissions are now open for Hunar Symposia’s inaugural conference on 16 -18 November 2022 Hunar believes that art, in all its forms, functions in a similar way, serving as a bridge between our utopic desires and the concrete possibilities for change. In this sense, it makes visible what has been deemed invisible, and speakable what has been deemed unspeakable, opening new paths to understand and overcome our social and political challenges. Hunar seeks to foreground the importance of creative work in producing imaginative, humorous, provocative, and unpredictable responses to conflicts both past and present. In this context, we challenge researchers […]

Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │Deadline Friday 22 April

March 28, 2022Call for Papers

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of three monographs. The series will be divided into two rounds with proposals for the first two monographs selected in the first round in 2022. A Committee comprising of senior and early career art historians will select two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three […]

Special offer for AAANZ subscribers │Publication Discount for “The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions”

March 14, 2022Publication

Routledge are offering a special discount code in celebration of “The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Institutions” winning Best Anthology in the 2021 AWAPAs. CLICK HERE for details on how to receive your 20% discount

Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM

March 14, 2022Call for Papers

EVENT │ In and Beyond Academia: A Conversation with Ananda Cohen-Aponte │The James Gallery

March 14, 2022Events

In and Beyond Academia: A Conversation with Ananda Cohen-Aponte When Friday, 18 March 4:00pm (EDT) Where This event will take place online via Zoom Register here Join The James Gallery for “In and Beyond Academia” a discussion with Ananda Cohen-Aponte. The scholarship and advocacy of Ananda Cohen-Aponte (Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY) examine and expose critical issues in art history as both a humanistic discipline and a profession. Beyond her research on colonial painting from the Andes, which focuses on racial, political, and social questions, she has also published about issues of diversity and inclusion in art history as well as on […]

Call for manuscript proposals │Research / Art / Writing, a new series with Brill

March 7, 2022Call for Papers

Research / Art / Writing (RAW) aims to promote critical, discursive, and creative engagement with global contemporary art and visual cultures. RAW understands art as an expanded field of practice, supporting experimental and interdisciplinary writing. We wish to provide a home for exciting, necessary, progressive work. We encourage personal approaches combined with articulated methodologies. We are interested in experimental art research: texts that account for positionality, pursuing art’s socio-political effects, while proposing rigorous answers to the question of matching form and content. RAW invites scholarly and artistic researchers to pursue insights into art’s multiple, including indirect, efficacies. The book series […]

Call for Proposals │ Unlikely – Journal for Creative Arts Issue 9: RESISTANCE

February 28, 2022Call for Papers

Unlikely – Journal for Creative Arts Issue 9: RESISTANCE Call for Proposals: Proposals due 1 May 2022 Guest Editors: Melody Ellis (RMIT University) Kim Munro (University of South Australia) ABOUT Foucault writes, “Where there is power, there is resistance” (1990, 95). To resist—from its most modest quotidian expression to large-scale community action—implies action. To resist might be to stand one’s ground and refuse to act as one is being told one must. Or to be unruly, to break the rules, to experiment and to push the boundaries. We might characterise resistance as that revolutionary impulse that Audre Lorde writes about, […]

CALL FOR PAPERS │ EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS’ SYMPOSIUM │ APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING AND CURATING WOMEN ARTISTS

February 28, 2022Call for Papers

EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS’ SYMPOSIUM │ APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING AND CURATING WOMEN ARTISTS National Gallery of Victoria, Thursday 23 Jun 2022, 10am (AEDT) The National Gallery of Victoria has recently launched Observations, a year-long online seminar series that examines the contributions of women in art and design history. The program will feature lectures and panels with leading historians, writers, and curators from Australia and internationally. Especially for career researchers, this symposium invites responses to the question: What does it mean to study the work of women artists at this time? Fifty years ago, art historian Linda Nochlin’s provocation, ‘Why have there been no […]

Job │Assistant Curator │ Northern Centre for Contemporary Art

February 28, 2022Jobs

NCCA is one of the most exciting contemporary art centres in Australia. Established in Darwin in 1989, it is the Northern Territory’s premier public institution for presenting local, national and international contemporary art. The Centre contributes to the life and well-being of the city by operating a nationally recognised art space, with strong community engagement based on experimental, ambitious and innovative exhibitions that foster a creative environment for artists and positive experiences for our visitors. The Position The Assistant Curator role is made for a dynamic all-rounder, operating both independently and in a collaborative team environment. No two days will […]

Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM

February 28, 2022Call for Papers