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Support the Redevelopment Project by Artefact Church Square

March 15, 2019News

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/114 The Petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council that cultural visitors to Victoria in 2017 injected almost $2 billion into our economy, an 88 per cent increase since 2013. Yet, from 2008 to 2015, the income of art practitioners across all art forms decreased by 4.2 per cent. After six years of study for basic qualifications, 60 per cent of professional artists earn less than $10,000 per year from creative work and 42 per cent commit to four more years for higher qualifications and earn the same. With supplemented […]

CFP: ‘Belonging and Detachment’ the 19th Conference of Association RIdIM – Hobart, Tasmania – 13-15 November 2019

March 11, 2019News

CALL FOR PAPERS Belonging and Detachment: Representing Musical Identity in Visual Culture The 19th Conference of Association RIdIM Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 13-15 November 2019 Musicians and artists rarely operate in complete isolation. Throughout history they have negotiated power structures and geographical circumstances, and these factors remain influential in the digital age. The 19th International Conference of Association RIdIM seeks to examine the ways in which musicians and artists experience ‘belonging’ and ‘detachment’ – be it socially, politically, geographically, artistically, aesthetically and/or philosophically. The primary concern of the conference is how such experiences impact upon the representation of musical identity in visual culture. The […]

CFP – ANZJA “War, Art and Visual Culture” Special Issue – EOI due March 31, 2019

March 5, 2019NewsANZJA

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: 31 MARCH 2019Final Submissions will be due 10 July 2019 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 20, Issue 1 War, Art and Visual Culture The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1 for 2020, War, Art and Visual Culture will be edited by Professor Charles Green, School of Culture and communication, University of Melbourne; Professor Ana Carden-Coyne, Centre for the Cultural History of War, University of Manchester; Associate Professor Kit Messham-Muir, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University; and Dr. Uros Cvoro, senior lecturer UNSW Art & Design. The editors are […]

Professor Jonathan Bloom – 2019 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Lecture – 6.30pm, 14th of March 2019

February 25, 2019News

A History of Paper as a Transformative Medium: from Ancient China to Contemporary Australia Professor Jonathan Bloom – Norma Jean Calderwood Professor, Islamic and Asian Art, emeritus, Boston College and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. The development and spread of paper has always opened up new cultural possibilities for recording and disseminating information: the printing and literacy revolution in early modern Europe is only the best known case. Yet the broader history of this humble and every-day item as a transformative medium has been less discussed. From its origins in China, and especially as […]

Killing Today. Killing Yesterday: A Genealogy of Corpse Magic – Michael Taussig – 5.30pm, 28 Feb. 2019

February 25, 2019News

The Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) and the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) are delighted to host an upcoming public lecture by Professor Michael Taussig from Columbia University, City of New York. Professor Su Baker will introduce this lecture. Killing of humans or animals creates a bond between killer and killed which in some instances amounts to the victim inhabiting the body and being of the slayer. What to think, then, of the killing by US police of three people per day (disproportionately Native American and black), let alone school shootings, gang shootings and other massacres in that fair […]

Unpacking My Library – Michael Taussig – The Institute of Postcolonial Studies – 6.30pm Monday 25th Feb.

February 25, 2019News

Michael TaussigUnpacking My Library Monday, 25th February 2019, 6:30pmThe Institute of Postcolonial Studies78–80 Curzon St, North Melbourne VIC 3051Free to attend Discipline, Ensayos, and MADA Monash University are pleased to present a public lecture by Michael Taussig, titled ‘Unpacking my Library’. The talk presents a Benjaminian take on and in the library in Paris where Walter Benjamin assembled most of the material in the 1930s that was later published as The Arcades Project. In exploring library subculture, it evokes elements usually ignored in Benjaminian exegeses, especially awakening and sleeping in relation to social revolution, along with the connections between the bodily […]

Three-month “Fondazione de Venezia” scholarships

February 18, 2019News

THE VITTORE BRANCA INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ITALIAN CULTURE “FONDAZIONE DI VENEZIA” SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT RESIDENCY PERIOD: APRIL 2019 – APRIL 2020 Application deadline: 10 March 2019 The Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture offers 8 residential scholarships to PhDs and post-doc students who must not be over 40 years old on March 10, 2019. Each scholarship is worth 3,100 euros (gross sum) and accommodation free of charge for 3 months at the Vittore Branca Center Residence in the period between April 2019 and April 2020. The scholarships are offered by Fondazione di Venezia.

Funded Opportunities for Emerging Scholars – connecting Art Histories at DAS 2020 and AAA in 2019

February 18, 2019News

Dhaka Art Summit are looking for academics from Australia to participate in a scholars weekend at the 2020 Dhaka Art Summit (DAS). After a 2 year process and a successful inaugural DAS scholar’s weekend in 2018, Dhaka Art Summit are expanding the academic focus of Dhaka Art Summit through a grant from the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative in partnership with Cornell University’s Institute for Comparative Modernities and the Asia Art Archive. Entitled “Modern Art Histories In and Across Africa, South, and Southeast Asia,” this program will support 20 emerging scholars to join a team of leading international faculty […]

DONALD BROOK MEMORIAL GATHERING

February 7, 2019News

Join us to celebrate the life of Donald Brook, Emeritus Professor Flinders University, much loved and celebrated art writer, theorist, teacher and mentor. Friends and colleagues will speak and there will be a limited edition lithographic print by Lucas Ihlein offering a sidelight on this Australian cultural treasure whose philosophical writings and projects have influenced generations of creative thinkers. WHERE: RON RADFORD AUDITORIUM, Art Gallery of South Australia DATE: Thurs 7 March 2019 TIME: 6pm Kindly hosted by the Art Gallery of South Australia All welcome Stephanie Britton with Janet Maughan, ‘Donald Brook 1927-2018,’ Artlink

M.A. in Art History at the University of Hong Kong

January 29, 2019News

The University of Hong Kong will admit its first class to the new M.A. in Art History in September 2019. Hong Kong’s first M.A. devoted to art history, the MAAH has the dual aim of preparing students for further academic study in art history or professional work in the art world. It is a full-time, one-year programme taught entirely in English, composed of six M.A. courses and a dissertation, with instruction in both Asian and western art from early to contemporary periods. Teaching is conducted by art historians trained in top international Ph.D. programmes, along with experts from the museum […]