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Expression of Interest Advocacy Representative | AAANZ Executive Committee

News

AAANZ is looking for a passionate member to join our executive team as the Advocacy Representative to assist with promoting and supporting visual arts research and art history across Australia and New Zealand. The Advocacy Representative will work with the President, the Advocacy Committee and other working groups to address critical issues, Indigenisation, make submissions and provide support on current concerns for the sector as they arise. The Association aims to address these matters in the public domain, ensuring the concerns of its members are heard. In pursuit of this goal AAANZ seeks to foster productive working relationships between members, […]

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Call for papers | ARTISTS’ COLONIES IN THE WORLD / THE WORLD IN ARTISTS’ COLONIES | The Abbey Art Centre

Call for Papers

The ARTISTS’ COLONIES IN THE WORLD / THE WORLD IN ARTISTS’ COLONIES conference arises from a collaborative research project on the Abbey Art Centre, an artists’ colony on the outskirts of London that attracted many Australians and South Africans in the decade following WW2. Professor Ian McLean, Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History, is lead investigator on the 2020–23 project, which is funded by the Australia Research Council. The conference is intended to broaden the international context for our research by examining artists’ colonies of different periods from around the world. The details are as follows: Title: ARTISTS’ COLONIES IN THE WORLD […]

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International visual design festival | Graphic Days | 17 September to 2 October

Events

The seventh edition of Graphic Days®, the international visual design festival promoted in Turin since 2016 by the Print Club Torino association, the Quattrolinee agency and the Plug association, will take place from 17th September to 2nd October. For the first time, the festival will be fully disseminated in the city in 6 main locations (Docks Dora, Spazio Musa, Cavallerizza Reale, Print Club Torino, Casa del Pingone and Cumiana15) and with a calendar of over 40 events curated by local design studios. Another important novelty of this edition: all the initiatives will be dedicated to the Kids theme. The theme […]

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AAANZ 2022 CONFERENCE: DEMONSTRATIONS | CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSES FRIDAY 29 JULY

AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

AAANZ 2022 Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS Monash University and The University of Melbourne 1 – 3 December 2022 The AAANZ Annual Conference for 2022 is prompted by the idea of ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’ For some this might raise the idea of political advocacy in relation to Indigenous land rights, the global pandemic, climate crisis, and social injustice. For others it might provoke questioning of traditional demonstrations of art history: the exhibition, the catalogue, the curator, and physical artworks. For yet others it may evoke the idea of thinking through making and its connection to conceiving artistic practice as research. How might we re-conceive […]

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AAANZ PHD PRIZE CLOSES FRIDAY 29 JULY

Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated PhD students to enter the AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. From 2022 the format of the annual PhD prize will change. This follows a review by the AAANZ Prize Committee that took into consideration feedback received from former and potential entrants, academics and former members of the judging panel. The AAANZ PhD Prize for 2022 (and subsequent years) will be judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation. Deadline: Friday 29 July 2022  Shortlisting The judging panel will shortlist three applicants. […]

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CALL FOR PAPERS │ Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference

Call for Papers

This November the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy will be having its annual conference at the University of Melbourne and are calling for papers.   Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference University of Melbourne 28 – 30 November, 2022 The ASCP provides a broad intellectual forum for scholars working within or in communication with continental philosophy and European philosophical traditions. The Society is welcoming papers from philosophers, non-philosophers and anti-philosophers working in any discipline, from diverse backgrounds at any stage of their career. Keynote Speakers Claire Colebrook (Penn State) Giulia Sissa (UCLA) co-sponsored by the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association Jessica Whyte (UNSW) Deadline for […]

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Event | The master from Marnpi | Brunswick Library

Book, Events

Join Dr Alec O’Halloran for a presentation: ‘The master from Marnpi’:  the life story and art career of Pintupi man Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri  Brunswick Library, Melbourne Thursday 28 July 2022, 7 – 8pm The master from Marnpi is the authorised biography of Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, a Pintupi man from the Western Desert who became an award-winning Papunya Tula artist. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Papunya Tula Artists, of which Namarari was a founding member. This illustrated public lecture is a free event, with registration required to reserve a seat: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/painting-stories-the-art-of-pintupi-man-mick-namarari-tickets-350228431667?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Everybody is most welcome. Enquiries: alec@alecohalloran.com

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AAANZ 2022 CONFERENCE: DEMONSTRATIONS | CALL FOR PAPERS ARE OPEN | DEADLINE FRIDAY 29 JULY

AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

AAANZ 2022 Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS Monash University and The University of Melbourne 1 – 3 December 2022 The AAANZ Annual Conference for 2022 is prompted by the idea of ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’ For some this might raise the idea of political advocacy in relation to Indigenous land rights, the global pandemic, climate crisis, and social injustice. For others it might provoke questioning of traditional demonstrations of art history: the exhibition, the catalogue, the curator, and physical artworks. For yet others it may evoke the idea of thinking through making and its connection to conceiving artistic practice as research. How might we re-conceive […]

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AAANZ PHD PRIZE FOR 2022 IS OPEN │DEADLINE FRIDAY 29 JULY

Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated PhD students to enter the AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. From 2022 the format of the annual PhD prize will change. This follows a review by the AAANZ Prize Committee that took into consideration feedback received from former and potential entrants, academics and former members of the judging panel. The AAANZ PhD Prize for 2022 (and subsequent years) will be judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation. Deadline: Friday 29 July 2022  Shortlisting The judging panel will shortlist three applicants. […]

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Symposium | Artistic Courage: reimagining work, ambition, and equity in the arts | RMIT

Events

Artistic Courage: reimagining work, ambition, and equity in the arts Date: Friday, 29 July 2022, 12 – 5pm Location: RMIT University (CBD location to be confirmed soon) Registration is free for this symposium and all are welcome: register here This symposium brings together artists, researchers, and organisers to yarn, present, and perform about their diverse arts practices and imagine creative approaches for the future of work in the visual arts sector. Participants will present creative ideas that challenge existing processes and structures to create more equitable, inclusive, and collaborative approaches that recognise and embrace the diverse cultural and social values in artistic and creative practices today. Presentations include artists, […]

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