Celebrate the book launch with artists and writers for the publication
Variations
A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art
by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten and Anthony White
When: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023; 1-3pm
Where: Conference Rooms 1 & 2, Level 7, Storey Hall, Building 16, RMIT University, 336–348 Swanston Street (near the corner of Latrobe Street), Melbourne
To be launched with short readings from artists and writers featured in the book.
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Enquiries to: cast@rmit.edu.au
Read more about Variations here
This is an important new publication that positions social and cultural difference at the heart of contemporary art discourses.
Variation is a term that embraces difference and is core to the excitement and uniqueness of art practice. This book, produced by Monash University Publishing, gives much-deserved attention to the work of artists with exceptional and varied lived experiences – including neurodiversity, diverse mental health, incarceration, and refugee, migrant and Muslim backgrounds – to transform how we understand contemporary visual art.
The book’s goal is recognising, appreciating and analysing artistic variation – a process in which artists’ voices are central to their stories, including how their lives and works are presented, discussed, framed and theorised. The essays, profiles and images in this hardback, lavishly illustrated volume have been co-produced, and in many cases co-authored, with artists and writers who have direct lived experience of social and cultural variation.
To understand artmaking in Australia, it is essential to listen to the voices of artists who live complex forms of social diversity. Engagingly written and beautifully produced, this book introduces readers to a new picture of contemporary Australian art.
The book features co-authorship and contributions from Safdar Ahmed & Izabella Antoniou, Samantha Ashdown, Thelma Beeton, Michael Camakaris, Frances Castles, Dewi Cooke, Simon Crosbie, Joy Bulanjdjan Garlbin & Janet Kalidjan Marawarr, Charles Green, Jenny Hickinbotham, Christopher Hummell, Zeina Iaali, Javier Lara-Gomez, Anthony Mannix, Thomas ‘Marksey’ Marks, Brian McKinnon, Anna Parlane, Meagan Pelham, Hamed Rayat, Lisa Reid, Miream Salameh, Skye Saxon, Helen Sheferaw, Nur Shkembi, Patricia Stewart, Muhubo Sulieman, Tabz, Shireen Taweel, Wart and A Qasim Zada.
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