Art/Conflict is the inaugural three-day conference and month-long art-exhibition organised by Hunar Symposia taking place in Sydney and online in November 2022.
The conference will focus on the intersections between art, war, and conflict through questions of creative resistance and sovereignty. We seek your support in promoting the symposium and more especially the current call for papers.
Abstracts due 22 July
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
- Badtjala artist, curator, writer, academic and founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative, Fiona Foley
- Buenos Aires-based human rights activist, photographer, and visual artist, Marcelo Brodsky
- Professor of Sociology, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, John Clammer
- Quandamooka (North Stradbroke Island) artist and member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW, Megan Cope
Hunar Symposia seek traditional academic papers as well as practice-led research from academics and non-academics working in and around spaces of conflict which address:
- Publics and counter-publics, participatory art, and emerging modes of artistic dissemination and engagement
- Practice-based knowledge production and alternative epistemologies around arts and art theory
- Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to arts and aesthetics
- Curatorship, transforming institutions, and organisational challenges in the GLAM sector
- Trauma-informed aesthetic theory and arts practice
- The ethics of artistic and/or media representations around violence and conflict
- Feminist approaches to arts and aesthetics
See attached and the full Call for Papers at