Category Archives: Events

Symposium │ Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture │18 November

October 31, 2022Events

AAANZ Membership is invited to join Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture, to be held in-person and online at the Australian National University on Friday 18 November, 2022 (AEST) This symposium hosted by the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory aims to generate cross-disciplinary dialogue about how we interpret metal in ancient and historical societies. Researchers in history, art history, archaeology, archaeometry, curatorship and creative practice will present papers which adopt diverse approaches to investigating the production, fabrication, meanings and interpretation of metals and metal material culture across chronologies and geographies. Interested colleagues are invited in Australia […]

Performance | Magic Lantern Show for Light: Works from Tate’s Collection | ACMI

August 26, 2022Events

Martyn Jolly and Elisa deCourcy will be re-imagining an historical magic lantern show, based on the shows popular in Australia in the late nineteenth century, at ACMI from 9 to 11 September. Using a pair of authentic ‘dissolving view’ magic lanterns they will project original chromatropes and the thrilling story Jane Conquest, not seen in Melbourne since 1894, all accompanied by special effects and live original music. The show is relevant to people interested in the history of photography, animation, media, projection and performance. For more information about the performance, dates, times and tickets go to https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/light-works-from-tates-collection-exhibition/magic-lantern-show/ Image: Hand coloured […]

International visual design festival | Graphic Days | 17 September to 2 October

August 1, 2022Events

The seventh edition of Graphic Days®, the international visual design festival promoted in Turin since 2016 by the Print Club Torino association, the Quattrolinee agency and the Plug association, will take place from 17th September to 2nd October. For the first time, the festival will be fully disseminated in the city in 6 main locations (Docks Dora, Spazio Musa, Cavallerizza Reale, Print Club Torino, Casa del Pingone and Cumiana15) and with a calendar of over 40 events curated by local design studios. Another important novelty of this edition: all the initiatives will be dedicated to the Kids theme. The theme […]

Event | The master from Marnpi | Brunswick Library

July 15, 2022Book, Events

Join Dr Alec O’Halloran for a presentation: ‘The master from Marnpi’: the life story and art career of Pintupi man Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri Brunswick Library, Melbourne Thursday 28 July 2022, 7 – 8pm The master from Marnpi is the authorised biography of Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, a Pintupi man from the Western Desert who became an award-winning Papunya Tula artist. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Papunya Tula Artists, of which Namarari was a founding member. This illustrated public lecture is a free event, with registration required to reserve a seat: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/painting-stories-the-art-of-pintupi-man-mick-namarari-tickets-350228431667?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Everybody is most welcome. Enquiries: alec@alecohalloran.com

Symposium | Artistic Courage: reimagining work, ambition, and equity in the arts | RMIT

July 15, 2022Events

Artistic Courage: reimagining work, ambition, and equity in the arts Date: Friday, 29 July 2022, 12 – 5pm Location: RMIT University (CBD location to be confirmed soon) Registration is free for this symposium and all are welcome: register here This symposium brings together artists, researchers, and organisers to yarn, present, and perform about their diverse arts practices and imagine creative approaches for the future of work in the visual arts sector. Participants will present creative ideas that challenge existing processes and structures to create more equitable, inclusive, and collaborative approaches that recognise and embrace the diverse cultural and social values in artistic and creative practices today. Presentations include artists, […]

Event | Symposium on Japanese War Art: In Person event | Adelaide

June 27, 2022Events

Symposium on Japanese War Art: In Person event REGISTRATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL and CLOSE SUNDAY 17 JULY 2022 Cost FREE Register here About the event: Thursday 21 July 2022, Flinders Victoria Square, Adelaide, SA 3:30pm – 4.00pm : Registration 4:00pm -4:15pm Opening of the Symposium: Emeritus Prof Purnendra Jain (University of Adelaide) 4:15pm – 5:00pm Keynote speech : Australian internment and POW camp histories , Prof Peter Monteath (Flinders University) 5:00pm Drinks 5:15pm – 6:00pm Book launch: Four Years in a Red Coat (Translation of Miyakatsu Koike’s Loveday diary, Wakefield, 2022). Edited by Prof Peter Monteath (Flinders University) and Dr Yuriko Nagata (University of Queensland) Launched by […]

Power Institute Public Programs 2022 now launched

March 18, 2022Events

Registration is now open for the Power Institute Public Programs 2022 The Power Institute is delighted to launch our public programs schedule for 2022. Registration for all our talks, lectures and roundtables is now open! Our program this year is divided into three discrete series, and our speakers include MCKENZIE WARK on queer raves, THY PHU on socialist futurity in Vietnam, LISA NAKAMURA on the new metaverse and women of colour, TINA CAMPT, CHRISTOPHER PINNEY and many others. We also have a new series, “Ways of Being”, that will delve into the knowledge systems of four different Aboriginal communities. All […]

EVENT │ In and Beyond Academia: A Conversation with Ananda Cohen-Aponte │The James Gallery

March 14, 2022Events

In and Beyond Academia: A Conversation with Ananda Cohen-Aponte When Friday, 18 March 4:00pm (EDT) Where This event will take place online via Zoom Register here Join The James Gallery for “In and Beyond Academia” a discussion with Ananda Cohen-Aponte. The scholarship and advocacy of Ananda Cohen-Aponte (Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY) examine and expose critical issues in art history as both a humanistic discipline and a profession. Beyond her research on colonial painting from the Andes, which focuses on racial, political, and social questions, she has also published about issues of diversity and inclusion in art history as well as on […]

Currents Special Issue Launch | Archipelagic Encounters

December 6, 2021Events

Launch of ‘Archipelagic Encounters’, Currents first Special Issue When: Friday 10 December, 6pm-8pm Where: Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC), 45 Moreland Street, Footscray 3011 ‘Archipelagic Encounters’ includes contributions by early career researchers from McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and the University of Melbourne. This special issue reflects the diverse networked relations between artistic practices and art histories that move across and within the Asia-Pacific. Set against the backdrop of the pandemic ‘Archipelagic Encounters’ is an experiment in island encounters of the digital turn, among people geographically separated by water and socially separated by their respective lockdown […]

Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium | ANU and Zoom

July 7, 2021Events

Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium at the Australian National University About this event Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium The Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University is hosting a one-day symposium devoted to emerging scholarship in the Visual Medical Humanities presented in-person and live online via zoom. Time and Date: 9.00am – 5.00pm Thursday 22 July 2021 In-person Venue: Conference Room 1.02, Sir Rowland Wilson Building, Australian National University An online keynote address Tales of the unbeautiful: The Elephant Man as modern fable by Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck) will be held at […]