Category Archives: AAANZ Conference

Dr Melissa Chiu announced as Keynote Speaker for 2016 AAANZ Conference

The conference committee is delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Dr Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. AAANZ 2016 Conference | The Work of Art Dr Melissa Chiu How has the work of art changed in the 21st century? Keynote Speaker for AAANZ 2016 December 1, National Gallery of Australia Dr. Melissa Chiu is Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the national museum of modern art, a Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She was previously Museum Director and Senior Vice President, Global Art Programs at Asia Society […]

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Past Conferences

Conference information and conference programs from past conferences are available below. listings since 1997 are available online. Published conference proceedings for the 2013 conference are available here. Our online archive of past conferences includes information about keynotes and you can download past session and paper abstracts. 2022: DEMONSTRATIONS | Melbourne 2021: IMPACT | Sydney 2020: Postponed due to COVID-19 2019: Ngā […]

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2016 Conference

AAANZ 2016 Conference The Work of Art School of Art, Australian National University Canberra, December 1-3 2016 The 2016 conference was held at the School of Art at the Australian National University, Canberra from Thursday, December 1 to Saturday, December 3, 2016, 9-5 pm. You can download the program timetable and the conference e-booklet of abstracts and biographies (pdf 3.4M). Conference report […]

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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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