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More Than a Tarrang (tree) symposium

Events

More Than a Tarrang (tree) symposium Presented by Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous research lab, Monash University Melbourne Museum 2 and 3 November 2023 Registrations and full program:  https://www.monash.edu/mada/events/2023/more-than-a-tarrang-symposium Register to attend by 26 October KEYNOTE TULLEI, GNIRIGOMINDALA KARULBO – RESPECTFUL DESIGN AND CULTURES OF REPAIR Professor Norm Sheehan RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS TUYLINI (STRINGY BARK GUM TREES), TRUKANINI AND CANOES Zoe Rimmer WANYARRA (ACTIVE) CODE-SWITCHING Moorina Bonini WIRRA – KAURNA CULTURAL CONNECTION TO EUCALYPTUS TREES James Tylor MURRUP (GHOST) WEAVING WITH AND FOR COUNTRY Dr Paola Balla WHARE TIPUNA – THE CARVED ANCESTRAL HOUSE Israel Tangaroa Birch THE DUNGHUTTI CANOE – POWER OF […]

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Forthcoming ANU Event Series: Critical AI in the Art Museum

Events

Artist Hito Steyerl will be giving the first Keynote at 7pm (AEST) on Tuesday to launch ‘Critical AI in the Art Museum’ – a series of discursive events happening over the next month; artist and writer James Bridle will be closing the event. The series will address questions of politics and praxis in contemporary art relating to the current “AI Spring” at a time of political, economic and environmental crisis. Further panels address the future of the commons in an age of extractive AI; on the limits of curatorial knowledge/education; and a final session (TBC) on ‘Bodies, Data, Models, Publics’ that will address the […]

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AAANZ Conference Early Bird Registration is now open

AAANZ Conference, Conference

AAANZ 2023 Conference  Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, Gold Coast (Southport) 6 – 8 December 2023 Registration Early Bird registration for the 2023 AAANZ conference is now open. You can pay for your registration via GriffithPay. Please note all panel convenors and speakers must be current members of AAANZ.  To take advantage of the member conference registration price you must be a current member. You can join of renew here. Please direct any queries about membership to the AAANZ Business Manager via admin@aaanz.info. For any queries regarding registration please contact the conference committee via conf@aaanz.info. EARLY BIRD (closes Friday 10 November […]

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CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA 24.2: OPEN ISSUE | DEADLINE 1 DECEMBER

ANZJA, Call for Articles

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 24.2: Open Issue Submission of essays due: Friday 1 December, 2023 Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, José da Silva, Dr Jaye Early We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. ANZJA publishes research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words (including endnotes), which will be peer-reviewed*. We encourage both traditional and experimental […]

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CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA 25.1 SPECIAL ISSUE: TARRANG | DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2024

ANZJA, Call for Articles

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.1 | Special Issue: Tarrang Submissions due: Papers due Monday 1 March, 2024 Editors: Brian Martin and Jessica Neath Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, José da Silva, Dr Jaye Early The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Special Issue (25.1) Tarrang. The Special Issue builds on the 2023 exhibition More Than A Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material and Cultural Agency, curated by Brian Martin, Jessica Neath, Kimberley Moulton and Brook Andrew for Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum. We invite Indigenous-led submissions worldwide and […]

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CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA 25.1 SPECIAL ISSUE: TARRANG | DEADLINE 1 MARCH 2024

ANZJA, Call for Articles

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.1 | Special Issue: Tarrang Submissions due: Papers due Monday 1 March, 2024 Editors: Brian Martin and Jessica Neath Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, José da Silva, Dr Jaye Early The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Special Issue (25.1) Tarrang. The Special Issue builds on the 2023 exhibition More Than A Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material and Cultural Agency, curated by Brian Martin, Jessica Neath, Kimberley Moulton and Brook Andrew for Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum. We invite Indigenous-led submissions worldwide and […]

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CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA 24.2: OPEN ISSUE | DEADLINE 1 DECEMBER

ANZJA, Call for Articles

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 24.2: Open Issue Submission of essays due: Friday 1 December, 2023 Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, José da Silva, Dr Jaye Early We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. ANZJA publishes research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words (including endnotes), which will be peer-reviewed*. We encourage both traditional and experimental […]

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Vale Ted Snell

News

AAANZ pays tribute to Ted Snell  who was a tireless advocate for the arts in Western Australia and his legacy is one that encouraged students, artists and the sector to thrive. Edgar William (Ted) Snell AM, CitWA (1949 – 2023) was born in Geraldton, Western Australia. He completed an Associateship in Art Teaching in England and undertook his postgraduate study in Birmingham. Returning to Australia Snell  taught at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, now Curtin University where he later became the Dean of Art.  In 2009 Snell was appointed Winthrop Professor and Director of the Cultural Precinct at the […]

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Book Launch | Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art | 17 October, 1-3pm

Events

Celebrate the book launch with artists and writers for the publication Variations A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art  by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten and Anthony White When: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023; 1-3pm Where: Conference Rooms 1 & 2, Level 7, Storey Hall, Building 16, RMIT University, 336–348 Swanston Street (near the corner of Latrobe Street), Melbourne To be launched with short readings from artists and writers featured in the book. Please RSVP to Book Launch: Variations: A More Diverse Picture of Contemporary Art by Tristen Harwood, Grace McQuilten and Anthony White | Humanitix Enquiries to: cast@rmit.edu.au Read more about Variations here This is an important new publication that positions […]

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Call for proposals | Performance Research vol. 29, no. 6 In Extremis | Deadline 6 November

Call for Articles

Call for proposals Performance Research vol. 29, no. 6 In Extremis Edited by Charles Green & Helena Grehan Deadline 6 November According to the OED ‘In Extremis’ means ‘on the point of death [or] in extreme circumstances; at the point of extreme hardship or suffering’ (OED 2023). So, what does it mean then to call for papers for an issue of Performance Research with this title? If ‘In Extremis’ is an end point, or a point of no return, what role might performance or artistic work play in thinking through this situation, accepting it or indeed rendering it artistically? This […]

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