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 playful and place making but also disruptive and provocative. While its effect and impact can sometimes be contentious, its publicness is its great strength. This lecture also provides an opportunity to speculate about where public art can take us …
Charlotte Day joined Monash University Museum of Art as Director in 2013. Previously she worked as an independent curator and Associate Curator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). Charlotte has worked across a range of public and private contexts, from curating major exhibitions nationally and internationally, to advising on temporary and permanent urban-sited artworks and acquisitions for public and private collections. She has over twenty years of experience curating contemporary art and in arts management.
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
6.15pm-7.30pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre A
Spencer Road
The University of Melbourne
Parkville Vic 3010
Admission is free.
Bookings are required.
Seating is limited.
To register visit: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/duldig2018
For further information please contact: Assoc Prof Alison Inglis asi@unimelb.edu.au
This lecture is supported by the Duldig Studio, museum + sculpture garden.
Inaugurated in 1986 the Annual Duldig Lecture on Sculpture commemorates the life and work of the sculptor Karl Duldig and his wife, the artist and inventor Slawa Horowitz-Duldig.