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

July 15, 2022Events

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, […]

Book | Bruno Leti by Thomas Middlemost

July 15, 2022Publication

Melbourne University Press is releasing this October Bruno Leti by Thomas Middlemost. To celebrate, MUP are offering discounts on pre-orders. This book not only lets the reader travel swiftly through beauteous image, and some wonderful text through the life of an exceptional late career artist who’s work is just as vital as it was in the 1970’s, but also through the diverse locations of that art; from the small town in Italy of Roccantica, of his birth, and his visits to Rome as a child, to his home town of Melbourne; a family, the surrounding city scapes, markets and gardens, to America, […]

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

July 1, 2022AAANZ 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 […]

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

July 1, 2022Prizes

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. […]

ARI REMIX | Issue # 5 Winter 2022

July 1, 2022General

ARI Remix collective share a few current, recent and past highlights with you this winter from collaborative memory work about Queensland/Australian artist-run culture and heritage happening in 2021 and 2022. Access > Issue #5 | Winter Edition 2022 > here

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

June 27, 2022AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

Event | Symposium on Japanese War Art: In Person event | Adelaide

June 27, 2022Events

Symposium on Japanese War Art: In Person event REGISTRATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL and CLOSE SUNDAY 17 JULY 2022 Cost FREE Register here About the event: Thursday 21 July 2022, Flinders Victoria Square, Adelaide, SA 3:30pm – 4.00pm : Registration 4:00pm -4:15pm Opening of the Symposium: Emeritus Prof Purnendra Jain (University of Adelaide) 4:15pm – 5:00pm Keynote speech : Australian internment and POW camp histories , Prof Peter Monteath (Flinders University) 5:00pm Drinks 5:15pm – 6:00pm Book launch: Four Years in a Red Coat (Translation of Miyakatsu Koike’s Loveday diary, Wakefield, 2022). Edited by Prof Peter Monteath (Flinders University) and Dr Yuriko Nagata (University of Queensland) Launched by […]

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

June 27, 2022Prizes

Upcoming Title │ Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images │ Terry Smith

June 27, 2022Book

The upcoming title ‘Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images’ by Terry Smith Book Summary: Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics — especially constellations of visual images — has become pervasive within contemporary life. It questions the implications for critical thought and political action. ‘Iconomy: Towards a Political Economy of Images’ argues that imagery of all kinds has become a definitive force in the shaping of contemporary life. While immersed in public politics and […]

Event | BARREENG YIRRAMBOI | 19 to 20 JULY | Monash University Caulfield Campus

June 20, 2022News

BARREENG YIRRAMBOI 19 to 20 JULY 2022, Monash University Caulfield Campus Barreeng Yirramboi is a research symposium and exhibition program presented by the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA). It aims to highlight the relationality between practice-led research and Indigenous ways of knowing. Barreeng Yirramboi are Boon Wurrung words translating as tracks towards tomorrow or as Senior Boonwurrung Elder, N’arweet Professor Carolyn Briggs AM explains “it’s about the journey of coming into knowledge and envisioning new futures”. Keynote speakers: Associate Professor Ali Gumillya Baker (Mirning) and Dr Faye Rosas Blanch (Yidinyji/Mbararam) will speak together […]