Category Archives: Events

Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Brisbane Launch Events

August 23, 2019Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Brisbane on Saturday 24 and Saturday 31 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue—Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’)—represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance itself, whereas the editors of Más allá del fin refer […]

Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Melbourne Launch Events

August 16, 2019Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Melbourne from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue — Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’) — represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance […]

Public Lecture | Lynne Cooke – Contesting Boundaries: Outliers and American Vanguard Art | University of Melbourne

August 1, 2019EventsAmerican Art, Modernist Art

Professor Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Contesting Boundaries: Outliers and American Vanguard Art Modernist art history routinely situates the work of self-taught artists, along with that of various other unschooled creators — so-called “primitives,” visionaries, children and the insane — on the margins, a source and stimulus to the avant-gardes who plundered it at will. In recent years, challenges to that canonical model of a privileged center and dependent periphery have come from many quarters. By examining key intersections between credentialed American artists and their disenfranchised peers over the past century, this lecture will bring into focus […]

Symposium | Intersections: New Work on Islamic and Southeast Asian Art | University of Melbourne

July 24, 2019Events

Speakers include Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Sam Bowker, Stefano Carboni, Wulan Dirgantoro, Peyvand Firouzeh, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Susan Scollay, Nur Shkembi, Manu P. Sobti, Sadra Zekrgoo This public event brings together curators, art historians and artists from all over Australia to look at the state of the field both here and our larger region. It is a day for exchange and debate, with series of papers, some case-studies, some explorations of specific issues or problems, to culminate in a final round-table discussion. Among the questions we hope to address: how can historical art production be understood in contemporary context? How […]

Exhibition | bookworks | Monash University Museum of Art

July 22, 2019Events, Exhibition

24 July – 21 September 2019 Participants: Adam Cruickshank (AU), Will Holder (UK/BE), Olaf Nicolai (DE), Roma Publications (NL), Batia Suter (NL), Ella Sutherland (NZ/AU) Guest curator: Warren Taylor (Program Coordinator, Communication Design at Monash Art Design & Architecture) bookworks is an exhibition of contemporary artists’ book publishing. Organised by guest curator, designer and educator, Warren Taylor, it brings six leading artists, graphic designers, book-makers and publishers together to explore the materials, procedures, ambitions, economies and critiques around art publishing. The term ‘bookworks’ was first used in the 1960s to refer to inexpensive, mass-produced books conceived and designed by artists and […]

Book – Exhibition – Events | Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond

July 19, 2019Book, Events20th century art, Bauhaus, Book Launch, Contemporary art, Exhibition, Modernism

Melbourne Launch next week 25 July, details below. The anthology Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond, soon to be launched in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane alongside a series of talks and exhibitions, is a major contribution to the centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019. The book, exhibitions and accompanying public events are the culmination of a three-year research project that brought together the region’s leading experts in modern art, design and architecture and has uncovered untold stories of how European modernism’s revolutionary ideas on art, design and architecture came to Australia and New Zealand. Bauhaus Diaspora starts with the Australian reception of […]

Lecture | Timothy McCall – Velvet Goldmine: Silk, Gold, and Renaissance Masculinity | University of Melbourne

July 18, 2019EventsEuropean Art History, Lecture, Renaissance Art, University of Melbourne

The Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne invites you to a lecture by Dr. Timothy McCall (Villanova University, Pennsylvania) ‘Velvet Goldmine: Silk, Gold, and Renaissance Masculinity’ Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2019, Lecture 6.00 pm-7.00 pm Venue: North Theatre, Old Arts Building (149), University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010. The ruling men of Renaissance Italy wrapped themselves in silks and jewels, feathers and pearls. To dazzle the eye, they wore cloth-of-gold and cloth-of-silver, but also sometime gems made of paste, intended to deceive observers. What glittered was not necessarily gold, and luxury materials were not always what they […]

Lecture | Dr Stefano Carboni | University of Melbourne

July 18, 2019EventsIslamic Art History, Lecture, University of Melbourne

Macgeorge Fellowship Lecture Dr Stefano Carboni Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Western Australia This lecture explores one of the most intriguing books of the medieval Islamic world. The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things is an encyclopedia of the natural world written by the legal scholar Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazvini (1202-83), who worked under the late Abbasids and the early Mongol Ilkhanids in Iraq. The book was extremely popular and is known in many surviving manuscripts, virtually all of them heavily illustrated. The text describes such things as survival from shipwrecks, encounters with giant whales, people […]

Symposium: Towards a flexible future

May 24, 2019Events

Managing time-based media artworks in collections Today digital technologies are so embedded in our daily lives that the rapid rate in which they develop often goes unnoticed. What does such intense and ongoing technological change mean for artists and art museums, where the notions of permanence and perpetuity have long reigned supreme? Featuring presentations from conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tate, London, as well as Australian artists, this symposium sets out to explore what it means to collect, display, preserve and make time-based media artworks. This symposium brings attention to the significant risk […]

Statement on Christchurch Massacre

March 28, 2019Advocacy, Events, General

The AAANZ expresses its complete and utter abhorrence towards the events of March 15, 2019 in Christchurch which saw 50 people murdered and a similar number wounded. As an organisation dedicated to fostering understanding about the art and visual culture of the widest possible range of cultures, peoples, and histories, the Association is fundamentally opposed to the racist and hate-filled ideologies which gave rise to this attack on the Muslim community. On behalf of all members of the Association, in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, I would like to offer my heartfelt condolences to those colleagues, friends, and families who […]