The AAANZ October Newsletter is available to read here The Newsletter opens with the Presidents Report and contains updates regarding the Association. This includes the conference, awards and prizes, journal and the Indigenising Working Group. Updates from the regions include publication news, appointments, seminars and courses from the Australian Capital Territory, Aotearoa New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.
Posthumanism at the edge of the world Closing date: 29 October 2021 Location: Hobart Citizenship requirement: Domestic/International Onshore About the research project How might we image and imagine the posthuman on an island that sits on the 42nd southern parallel? Posthumanism at the edge of the world is a visual arts research area that seeks to expand knowledge of the posthuman through critical engagements with interdisciplinary creative speculations, experimental practice-led enquiries, and new discursivities of the more-than-human/human-to-come. This project explores practice-led and practice-based capacities to map and imagine new geographies, developing new possibilities that build on existing relations (e.g. with Antarctica and its […]
Executive curators with the support of the Contemporary Art Institute, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, are honored to present to you the 1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale. They are proposing constructing the theoretical basis of the exhibition with the philosophical vision of materials, new materials, and new materialism. In the context of contemporary art, the emphasis on the text and dematerialization, along with the supremacy of concepts, not only exploit and mechanize materials and the materialization process but also gradually formed a kind of artistic discourse in the context of contemporary art. Reconstruction and perception of contemporary […]
A student studying International Marketing Management at the HWR University in Berlin, Alba Martinez Matovina, has requested visual artists to assist with his questionnaire. Alba is currently writing a thesis and is trying to understand how visual artists and brand collaborations can be more satisfactory to the artist. The questionnaire is built on Microsoft forms and takes 5 to 6 minutes to complete and can be found through this link: https://forms.office.com/r/0CsbqTn21d
It has been more than three decades since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ as a conceptual tool with which to conceive subjectivity/identity as other than singular, and analyse the contextually-specific ways in which axes of power connect and cohere. The notion of intersectionality was also an attempt to move beyond the limitations of the ‘additive model’ which categorised individuals in terms of levels of oppression: for example, a working-class Blak lesbian with a disability would be understood as quadruply oppressed. While this model of identity had significant political import, it did not, and could not, grapple with the complex, […]
Applications for the 2022 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program – on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ – are now open. The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) was established in 1972 as a national and international centre for excellence in the humanities and as a catalyst for innovative humanities scholarship and research within the Australian National University. The HRC interprets the ‘humanities’ generously, recognising that new methods of theoretical enquiry have done much to break down the traditional distinction between the humanities, the creative arts, and the social sciences. It also recognises the importance of establishing a dialogue between the humanities and the […]
In a period of declining government support for the visual arts, it is always welcome when a colleague receives official recognition for their contribution to art history. This year Associate Professor Tina Barton was named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to art history and curation. Tina is currently the director of the Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and continues to supervise in the Art History honours and postgraduate programmes. Tina commenced her career at the Auckland Art Gallery (1988‒92) and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa […]
Pacific Audience and Access Programme Producer He angitūtanga: The opportunity Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich communities. Our vision is to be the home of art for Auckland, its people, and visitors from our internationally recognised award-winning building. Established in 1888, the Gallery holds a pre-eminent collection of New Zealand art and a significant collection of international art presented alongside a dynamic programme of temporary exhibitions, events, and outreach activities. An exciting opportunity […]
Newsletter | President’s Report | December 2020 As the end of the year quickly approaches I think most of us will be pleased to say farewell to a year more akin to a dystopian science fiction novel. It is a year that has changed everyone. A year that art historians, writers and artists are likely to interrogate for decades into the future. And unfortunately it has been a year that has seen our discipline, and the arts sector as a whole, come under threat. At first this was from the lack of government support through the JobKeeper and […]
As the 2020 AAANZ conference is not running this year, the AAANZ executive committee has proposed to run the annual PhD prize in a different mode. This is also in response to feedback on the prize format in previous years. This year’s prize will be based upon a video presentation of research and will be open to all current PhDs and recent graduates. The winner will receive $1,000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis. Deadline – Thursday November 12th, 2020. AAANZ Research in Focus – Online Online format – entrants submit a video (see website for details). Videos should be based […]
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