Category Archives: Events

FORUM │ VISIONS: THE ART, SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF SEEING │15 – 17 AUGUST

July 15, 2024Events

Visions: The art, science and politics of seeing Co-presented by the Power Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of the Visual Research Program 15 – 17 August at the Museum Contemporary Art Tickets How do our visions shape the world, and how does the visual world shape us? Over the course of three days, this public forum will bring together a group of international and local experts to share their thoughts on the art, science and politics of vision. How do scientists and engineers understand vision today? What is its history? And what utopian or dystopian visual […]

Keynote address for the 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association | Franchesca Cubillo

June 17, 2024Conference, Events

Franchesca Cubillo, Executive Director, First Nations Arts and Culture, Creative Australia, to present the keynote address for the 7th Annual Conference of The International Art Market Studies Association at the University of Melbourne Multiple Art Markets in an Expanding World: Artists, Agents, Networks, Exchange Wednesday 10 July 2024 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm AEST, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne TIAMSA Conference Melbourne 2024 is delighted to announce Franchesca Cubillo, Executive Director, First Nations Arts and Culture, Creative Australia, as the 2024 keynote speaker for the 7th Annual Conference of the International Art Market Studies Association at […]

A kind of future: the theme of the ninth edition of the Graphic DaysⓇ festival

May 6, 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 […]

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

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 […]