Category Archives: Events

A kind of future: the theme of the ninth edition of the Graphic DaysⓇ festival | 17 and 18 May – 25 and 26 May

March 18, 2024Events

A kind of future: the theme of the ninth edition of the Graphic DaysⓇ festival The ninth edition of the international visual and social design festival Graphic DaysⓇ will take place from 16 to 26 May at the Flashback Habitat spaces in Turin. An exhibition itinerary, a permanent work space and a calendar of events including conferences, workshops, live performances, DJ sets and activities for children, in the main headquarters and spread throughout the city, will interpret the title “A kind of future”. The Graphic DaysⓇ festival is an initiative dedicated to Italian and international visual design promoted in Turin […]

Symposium | Louise Bourgeois: Tides and currents | 10 -12 March AGNSW

March 4, 2024Events

Symposium Louise Bourgeois: Tides and currents When: 10, 11, 12 March 2024 Where: Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales Join artists, writers, curators and scholars over three days of talks, performances and screenings as they dive into the work of Louise Bourgeois, one of the most influential artists of the past century. This symposium will explore the ebbs and flows of Bourgeois’s career, which encompassed many themes, practices and mediums, and discuss the circulation and reception of her work in Australia and beyond. Day 1, ‘Sound Waves’, includes a performance and talk by British artist Satch Hoyt on the […]

REBUILDING THE NOH STAGE Thursday 1 – Sun 4 February 2024

January 15, 2024Events

The Cowra Japanese Garden currently holds the only authentic Japanese noh stage that exists in Australasia. The stage was originally built for the 1988 Adelaide Festival, used in performances by the Kanze theatre troupe from Japan. Thereafter, it was kept and occasionally used by the University of Sydney drama department for student performances, before its transfer to Cowra in 2016. Supported by The Japan Foundation’s Sydney office, Dr Tets Kimura (Flinders University, Adelaide) and Associate Professor Richard Bullen (University of Canterbury, NZ) will visit the Cowra Japanese Garden to rebuild the noh stage from Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 February […]

Symposium | Faith, Emotion & The Body in the Baroque

December 4, 2023Events

“Emerging From Darkness: Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque” is an internationally significant exhibition featuring world-renowned baroque masters including Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana and Sofonisba Anguissola, and contemporary artists working in the Baroque style. Showcasing rare, historically important works, Emerging From Darkness is an unprecedented first for Hamilton Gallery and regional Australia. Drawn from partnerships with and loans from the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia and private lenders across the country, the exhibition brings together powerful, emotive and unapologetic works that changed the course of art at the beginning of the 17th century. https://darkness.hamiltongallery.org/ Faith, Emotion & […]

Event | Perceiving life beyond the colonial Anthropocene: A Dialogue | Art Gallery of New South Wales

December 4, 2023Events

Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University) in Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Wednesday 13 December, 6.30pm Perceiving life beyond the colonial Anthropocene: A Dialogue Presented at the AGNSW with UNSW Art & Design and the Power Institute In this event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, writer and theorist Macarena Gómez-Barris will offer a short reading and then join filmmaker Juan Francisco Salazar in conversation. Gómez-Barris will discuss what is at stake in grappling with the colonial gaze, land and environmental extraction in relation to art and media. She will speak to various examples in the […]

More Than a Tarrang (tree) symposium

October 30, 2023Events

More Than a Tarrang (tree) symposium Presented by Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous research lab, Monash University Melbourne Museum 2 and 3 November 2023 Registrations and full program: https://www.monash.edu/mada/events/2023/more-than-a-tarrang-symposium Register to attend by 26 October KEYNOTE TULLEI, GNIRIGOMINDALA KARULBO – RESPECTFUL DESIGN AND CULTURES OF REPAIR Professor Norm Sheehan RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS TUYLINI (STRINGY BARK GUM TREES), TRUKANINI AND CANOES Zoe Rimmer WANYARRA (ACTIVE) CODE-SWITCHING Moorina Bonini WIRRA – KAURNA CULTURAL CONNECTION TO EUCALYPTUS TREES James Tylor MURRUP (GHOST) WEAVING WITH AND FOR COUNTRY Dr Paola Balla WHARE TIPUNA – THE CARVED ANCESTRAL HOUSE Israel Tangaroa Birch THE DUNGHUTTI CANOE – POWER OF […]

Forthcoming ANU Event Series: Critical AI in the Art Museum

October 30, 2023Events

Artist Hito Steyerl will be giving the first Keynote at 7pm (AEST) on Tuesday to launch ‘Critical AI in the Art Museum’ – a series of discursive events happening over the next month; artist and writer James Bridle will be closing the event. The series will address questions of politics and praxis in contemporary art relating to the current “AI Spring” at a time of political, economic and environmental crisis. Further panels address the future of the commons in an age of extractive AI; on the limits of curatorial knowledge/education; and a final session (TBC) on ‘Bodies, Data, Models, Publics’ that will address the […]

Book Launch | Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art | 17 October, 1-3pm

October 2, 2023Events

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. Please RSVP to Book Launch: Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten and Anthony White | Humanitix Enquiries to: cast@rmit.edu.au Read more about Variations here This is an important new publication that positions […]

EVENT | The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies | 5.30 – 7.30pm, Wednesday 4 October

September 18, 2023Events

The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies This exhibition brings together eminent and emerging artists and designers to show how creative applications of data technology are crucial for a vital, inclusive and sustainable future. ARTIST DISCUSSION & EXHIBITION OPENING 5.30 – 7.30pm, Wednesday 4 October Register to attend The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies brings together eminent and emerging artists and designers to show how creative applications of data technology are crucial for a vital, inclusive and sustainable future. The exhibition includes artworks and designs that engage audiences in critical, playful and agentic reflections on data and creative technologies. Through the […]

SYMPOSIUM | More Than a Tarrang (tree) | Melbourne Museum | Save the Date 2 November

September 11, 2023Events

Event Details Date: 2 November 2023 at 9:00 am – 3 November 2023 at 5:00 pm Venue: Theatre, Melbourne Museum Categories: Fine Art; Design; Architecture; Research: Wominjeka Djeemban Description More Than a Tarrang (tree) is a research symposium presented by Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, Monash Art Design and Architecture. Tarrang is the Boonwurrung word for tree shared by N’Arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which this event will take place, the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. Responding to the exhibition More Than a Tarrang: Memory, Material and Cultural Agency at Bunjilaka […]