Category Archives: Events

Talks | Reading Bennett: The Artist in his own Words | Power Institute

October 23, 2020EventsTalk

A morning of readings and reflections to mark the launch of a landmark new survey of writings by the artist Gordon Bennett (1955-2014). About this Event Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings brings together nearly forty published and unpublished essays, artist’s statements, letters, and interviews from across Bennett’s three-decade career. Selected Writings profiles the importance of the written word within the artist’s art and broader intellectual practice. To launch the volume, and coinciding with QAGOMA’s major Gordon Bennett retrospective, four speakers will select pieces from Bennett’s archive to read, and will then respond to his words in the context of their own practice and/or scholarship: […]

Symposium | At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – Australian Academy of Humanities

October 2, 2020Events

16-21 November. Daily free webinars. The arrival of COVID-19, on the heels of a summer of natural disasters, has led to profound disruptions to cultural life in Australia, propelling our artists, creators, researchers and cultural institutions into survival mode, and throwing into stark relief the dramatic pre-pandemic shifts in cultural production, consumption and distribution. Yet the events of 2020 have also highlighted how deeply culture and creativity are embedded in the daily lives of Australians, giving claim to culture’s status as a public good. The 51st Academy Symposium – At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – will explore Australia’s cultural terrain in light of recent […]

Launch of new postgraduate journal | CURRENTS

September 25, 2020Events, News

Launch of new postgraduate journal CURRENTS 28 September | 2pm AEST | 12pm AWST Currents is a new, collaborative, graduate research journal developed between the University of Western Australia and the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne. The first rolling issue of Currents includes critical and exploratory articles by early career researchers from theatre, film, visual art, art history and theory. Following on from the proposition what should a peer-review journal for postgraduate students look like, we will also consider how peer-review works in relation to artistic and practice-based research, and what are the benefits and difficulties of an interdisciplinary research platform? Editors Kelly Fliedner and […]

Online Lecture Series | IMAGE COMPLEX: Art, Visuality and Power in the United States

July 31, 2020Events

The Power Institute and Discipline journal are pleased to present IMAGE COMPLEX: Art, Visuality and Power in the United States, an online lecture series on the history of the visual infrastructures that have shaped the United States, and the practices that resist them. Jolene Rickard | On visual sovereignty Associate Professor, Department of The History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University September 2020 Lisa Lowe | On migration, materiality and memory Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies, Yale University October 2020 Jennifer González | On fearless speech: radical feminist art and war Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz March 2021 Nicole Fleetwood | On […]

Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS) | 2020 Theme: Ephemera in Digital Art History

July 17, 2020Conference, EventsDigital Art History

We are pleased to announce that the International Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS), a joint initiative of the University of Málaga and the University of Berkeley, with the collaboration of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Fundación General de la Universidad de Málaga, and the HDH, will celebrate the fifth edition from September 1st to 5th (2020). Due to the covid-19 situation, this year the Summer School will be all online. The DAHSS team is convinced that we have an unprecedented opportunity to explore new ways of working together in a real global scenario and at the […]

Virtual Lecture | Mavis Ngallametta’s Emotional Ecology – Sally Butler | QAGOMA

July 16, 2020Events

VIRTUAL LECTURE: MAVIS NGALLAMETTA’S EMOTIONAL ECOLOGY 10.30am, Sat 18 July | Online via Zoom | FREE | BOOK NOW Hear from Sally Butler, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Queensland, as she discusses Mavis Ngallametta’s later large canvas paintings through the lens of emotional ecology. Discover how Mavis Ngallametta’s paintings reflect an intimate, emotional knowledge of her country, functioning more as spiritual portraits of place rather than landscapes, through the unique methods she used to personalise the locations she portrayed. Free / Bookings Required / This event is a webinar. Participant’s webcam and microphone will be disabled. Proudly presented by HSBC. Check out […]

Videos online from The Australian Object: Material Culture in Context symposium

May 1, 2020Events, Resources

The Australian Object: Material Culture in Context October 3-4 2019 National Art School, Darlinghurst This two-day symposium presented new scholarly research on the material culture of Australia. It addresses the rich diversity of objects and the processes, knowledge, and meanings embedded therein. Our purpose is to revitalise the discourse on marginalised media and quotidian culture and bring sc holars, artists, curators and collectors into productive dialogue. Focusing on making meaning through materials, this symposium reinforces the National Art School’s core emphasis on object-led art practices and histories. Despite renewed interest in material culture, the conversation about objects often remains siloed […]

Online panel discussion | The Art Newspaper – The future of museums, exhibitions and the objects they display

May 1, 2020Events, Resources

“NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE an online panel organised by The Art Newspaper and Factum Foundation With Il Giornale Dell’Arte. The panels can be watched on YouTube at 17.00 BST (so not great for Aus/NZ but hopefully the recordings may be made available). Friday 1st May: The Future of Museums, Exhibitions and the Objects They Display. (Chaired by Sir Charles Saumarez Smith CBE) Saturday 2nd May: The Circulation of Objects: the Politics of Recording, Training, Preserving and Sharing. (Chaired by Simon Schaffer) Sunday 3rd May: An Intimacy with the Physical World: New Technologies Generating New Knowledge. (Chaired by […]

COVID-19 PANEL DISCUSSION | FLATTENING THE CURVE | UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

April 17, 2020Events

The first in a new series of discussions with eminent thinkers and scientists on COVID-19, which continues to rapidly change our world. In Life Beyond Coronavirus: The Expert View, the wider implications of the COVID-19 pandemic is explored. The discussion brings in a range of leading experts to consider the impacts on the economy, education, public life, and our politics and culture. In episode one, Professor Shitij Kapur (Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Health) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences) and panellists Professor Sharon Lewin, Professor James McCaw, Professor Ian Harper and Professor Joy Damousi discuss the issue of flattening […]

Know My Name Edit-a-thon Sydney

March 2, 2020EventsEvents, Feminism

Learn to create new Wikipedia pages about female creators to celebrate International Women’s Day About this Event Date And Time: Sat 7 March 2020, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT Location: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie St, Sydney, NSW 2000 Just 18 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. When it comes to female artists and creators, that number is even lower. Wikimedia Australia is partnering with the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name project to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by Australian artists who identify as women. On the weekend of International Women’s Day, join us […]