Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities
12 September, 1 – 7.30pm
Black Box, UNSW Art & Design Box
D106, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington NSW
Harnessing Energies symposium, 1-5pm
Energies in the Arts book launch and performance, 6 – 7.30pm
Energies in the Arts, the new collection edited by Professor Douglas Kahn (UNSW Art & Design) and published by MIT Press, explores the pluralistic concepts of energies—scientific, cultural, spiritual, ecological – as they occur in the arts, history and theory.
The book will be launched by Joyce Hinterding (Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney), and celebrated with a symposium and performance.
Symposium presenters are: Dr Andrew Belletty, Dr Heather Contant, Dr Lindsay Kelley, and Dr Emily Morandini, as well as Associate Professor Jennifer Biddle and Dr Su Ballard, both of whom have contributed chapters to Energies in the Arts. The symposium is convened by Dr Heather Contant and moderated by Mitchell Ryan.
For a full symposium programme, including titles, abstracts and biographies, please visit see.unsw.edu.au
The performance by Peter Blamey entitled Rare Earth Orbits is a new work that explores rotation, magnets, interference, and the expressive potential of hand-generated electricity.
This book investigates energies—in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun— as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics from the visual arts, art history, anthropology, music, literature, and the history of science, it offers the first multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts. Just as Douglas Kahn’s earlier books helped introduce sound as a category for study in the arts, this new volume will be a foundational volume for future explorers in a largely uncharted domain.” — MIT Press
This event is sponsored by the Sound, Energies and Environments (SEE) Research Group and UNSW Art & Design.
A limited number of books will be available at a reduced price on a cash basis.
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