Category Archives: AAANZ Conference

Report | AAANZ 2015 Conference ‘Image, Space, Body’ Brisbane

The AAANZ 2015 conference was recently held in Brisbane. The conference was a great success and from a participants point-of-view it all ran very smoothly, our thanks to the organisers for doing such a great job. Sessions ranged from Artist’s choreography of the Body en masse to Early Modern Art and Design to Revisionism in Australian art history. The range of topics and speakers (drawn from universities, museums and galleries as well as independent artists and researchers) was an indication of the diverse range of art history, theory and curatorial research being carried out across Australia and New Zealand. You […]

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Image Space Body | AAANZ Conference 2015 | Call for Papers

Deadline: 28th August 2015 The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will be held in Brisbane, Queensland, 24-25 November 2015. The conference venue will be Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and is hosted by The Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts (a collaboration between art history/theory departments at The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and QAGOMA). Sessions will run for one and a half hours, and will generally include three twenty-minute papers, each followed by ten minutes of questions and discussion. Session convenors will tailor the session to best address the concerns set out in the session […]

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2015 Conference

AAANZ 2015 Conference Image Space Body Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art and the State Library of Queensland Brisbane, November 24th-25th 2015 After the many ends of art history, we begin again. The conjunction of the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art’s 8th Asia-Pacific Triennial (APT 8) and the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand annual […]

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Call for Panels | Image Space Body | AAANZ Conference 2015 Brisbane

The Call for Panels for the AAANZ 2015 Conference in Brisbane is now open. For details of the conference see the conference webpage. Image Space Body After the many ends of art history, we begin again. The conjunction of the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art’s 8th Asia-Pacific Triennial (APT 8) and the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand annual conference presents opportunities to re-examine art history and generate innovative perspectives on histories and cultural traditions. APT 8 prompts us to challenge assumptions and reconsider the relations between images, bodies, and spaces. We invite discussion on traditions and legacies of art practices and of art histories. We […]

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2013 conference

AAANZ 2013 Conference Inter-discipline Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, RMIT Design Hub Melbourne, December 7-9, 2013 The 2013 AAANZ annual conference took place in Melbourne, December 7-9. It was hosted by the University of Melbourne (VCA and Art History), National Gallery of Victoria and RMIT. It included […]

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2012 Conference

AAANZ 2012 Conference Together <> Apart University of Sydney, National Art School, Art Gallery of NSW Sydney,  12-14 July 2012 The AAANZ 2012 conference took place at the same time as the 2012 Sydney Biennial. Together<>Apart highlighted major debates and issues raised by the Biennale’s theme ‘all our relations’.  It focused on how networks of artists, […]

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Conference 2006 | Reinventing the Medium | Melbourne

Reinventing the Medium 7-9 December 2006 Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University The 2006 AAANZ Conference addressed the state of the art medium in art history. With one eye on Rosalind Krauss’ recent critique of the ‘post-medium condition’ – in which the medium is ‘outmoded, cashiered, washed-up, finished’ – and another on the extravaganza […]

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conference 2011: CONTACT

AAANZ 2011 Conference Contact Art History, Victoria University of Wellington, Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus Wellington, New Zealand and Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington, 7-9 December 2011 The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2011 Annual conference focused on a single overarching theme: Contact.  ‘Contact’ evokes encounters between cultures, peoples and objects and […]

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Annual Conference

The annual AAANZ conference takes place in either Australia or New Zealand. The conference brings together scholars from Australia, New Zealand, and further afield. The conference attracts around 500 delegates for a two-to-three day program, which typically includes over 150 papers, keynote lectures, graduate masterclasses, networking, round-tables on publishing, funding and other events. The annual […]

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