Category Archives: Events

Book Launch: An Act of Showing – West Space – December 4, 6pm

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Please join the editors for the launch of their new book An Act of Showing: rethinking artist-run initiatives through place co-edited by Maria Miranda and Anabelle Lacroix.  The book will be launched by Esther Anatolitis, Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).   Tuesday 4 December at 6pm West Space Level 1/225 Bourke St, Melbourne The book features newly commissioned essays by Paola Balla, Kirsten Lyttle and Dominic Redfern, and includes Chris Kraus’s essay “Kelly Lake Store” as well as creative contributions by ARIs in Australia and the Asia-Pacific on their relationship to place, and more…   The book is designed by […]

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Duldig Lecture 2018 – Charlotte Day ‘Public Art: Out and About’

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Annual Duldig Lecture 2018: Public Art: Out and About   Address: Charlotte Day, Director, Monash University Museum of Art    In 2014 Monash University unveiled a new public art master plan and began an ambitious program of public art commissions. The University has experimented with a range of models of commissioning and roles for artists in relationship to architectural and landscaping projects. This lecture provides a great opportunity to discuss the commissions undertaken so far, review what has worked well and also the challenges, along with future plans. Public art is a reinvented genre that can be many things – both […]

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Ursula Hoff Lecture 2018 – University of Melbourne

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The Ursula Hoff Lecture 2018     ‘I Can Connect” – the Power of Curating to Share Experiences   Speaker: Professor Michael Tooby, Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University   Ursula Hoff’s career is a vivid example of dedication to curatorial expertise. At the same time, her extraordinary life story warrants retelling and sharing, not least as a warning from history of the need to challenge racism and prejudice towards migrants. In his lecture, Professor Michael Tooby will explore how testimony has played a key role in his recent curatorial projects. His starting point will be the use […]

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Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History – James Meyer The Double: Return and Reenactment – Monash University

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Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History – James Meyer The Double: Return and Reenactment – Monash University The upcoming lecture, The Double: Return and Reenactment, presented by U.S.-based curator James Meyer is the inaugural Monash University Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History. Tuesday 23 October 2018 @ 6.30pm The Pavilion, Building H, Level 8 Monash University, Caulfield campus 900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East, VIC In his talk, Meyer will draw from his forthcoming book, The Art of Return: The Sixties and Contemporary Culture (University of Chicago Press) and discuss how movements of the “long Sixties” (1955-1979) – including […]

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Love from Damascus – Art Gallery of South Australia and the University of Adelaide

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LOVE FROM DAMASCUS FRI 9 & SAT 10 NOV ART EXHIBITION II BOOK LAUNCH II SYMPOSIUM ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA  THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE Link: https://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Events/Love_From_Damascus_Symposium Link: https://www.ozasiafestival.com.au/events/love-from-damascus/ Love from Damascus is a half day symposium looking at conceptions of love by an eminent 18th-century Syrian mystic and related stories of art and culture. Hosted by Samer Akkach and James Bennett, the event features invited experts and panels covering Sufism and the evolving nature of Islamic arts and culture across the vast continent of Asia over many centuries. The symposium coincides with a launch for the new book ʿIlm: Science, Religion, […]

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Symposia: Minimalist/Maximalist, National Gallery of Australia, 19-20 October

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  This symposium explores a key period in American art to focus on two tendencies generally regarded as polar opposites—minimalism and photo-realism. Minimalism’s impact is traced in works using light, land and installation art, as well as through feminist practice and in architecture, to examine resonances today. The importance of realism, a much-neglected aspect of the period, is also considered. Building on from two highly successful past events—Action. Painting. Now. (NGA 2012) and Minimal. Conceptual. Pop. (AGNSW 2013)—this symposium seeks to expand the dialogue between American and Australian artists, art historians and cultural critics. Keynote speaker James Meyer, National Gallery of Art, Washington […]

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Sheridan Palmer – Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods, October 4, Buxton Contemporary

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Histories and Theories of Sound Lecture 6pm Thu, 04. Oct Buxton Contemporary Dodds St and Southbank Blvd Southbank, VIC FREE As part of the ongo­ing lec­ture series, His­to­ries and The­o­ries of Sound, Dis­ci­pline and Liquid Archi­tec­ture present Dr Sheri­dan Palmer’s ​‘Dis­e­qui­lib­rium: Presence/​absence in the art of Tony Woods’, fol­lowed by dis­cus­sion with Doug Hall AM. During the 1960s the Tas­man­ian artist TONY WOODS (1940 – 2017) emerged as a rare talent in the Aus­tralian art scene. An advo­cate of modernism’s plu­ral­ism, his bold fig­u­ra­tion, vig­or­ous abstract for­mal­ism, irreg­u­lar shaped can­vases that often incor­po­rated col­lage and the ready­made, was a syn­the­sis of Amer­i­can […]

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Talking Writing: Pasifika – Writing NSW, September 13

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September 13 6:30pm–8pm Join Indigenous-Pasifika artists Amrita Hepi, Brian Fuata, Emele Ugavule, Latai Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn for a talanoa about Australian arts and literature, in which race, class, culture, faith, gender and sexuality intersect.   Location: Information and Cultural Exchange 8 Victoria Rd, Parramatta (Corner Villiers St), NSW Pasifika Image credit: Brian Fuata, 2015, photo by Manuela Barczewski, image courtesy of Chisenhale, London

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Booklaunch – What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives – Buxton Contemporary, August 16, 6-8pm

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From Power Publications: Please join us in Melbourne for the launch of our latest publication What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives Edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly LAUNCH AND RECEPTION 6-8pm, Thursday 16 August 2018 Buxton Contemporary Dodds St &, Southbank Blvd Southbank VIC 3006 The book will be launched by Edward Colless Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. This event will bring together a dynamic discussion chaired by Dr Edward Colless, with Adam Geczy, Sean Lowry, Mimi Kelly, Hannah Mathews, Jill Orr and Mark Shorter. Light refreshments will follow the panel discussion.   Register to preorder your copy to pick up at […]

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