Blog

Call for manuscript proposals │Research / Art / Writing, a new series with Brill

March 7, 2022Call for Papers

Research / Art / Writing (RAW) aims to promote critical, discursive, and creative engagement with global contemporary art and visual cultures. RAW understands art as an expanded field of practice, supporting experimental and interdisciplinary writing. We wish to provide a home for exciting, necessary, progressive work. We encourage personal approaches combined with articulated methodologies. We are interested in experimental art research: texts that account for positionality, pursuing art’s socio-political effects, while proposing rigorous answers to the question of matching form and content. RAW invites scholarly and artistic researchers to pursue insights into art’s multiple, including indirect, efficacies. The book series […]

Call for Proposals │ Unlikely – Journal for Creative Arts Issue 9: RESISTANCE

February 28, 2022Call for Papers

Unlikely – Journal for Creative Arts Issue 9: RESISTANCE Call for Proposals: Proposals due 1 May 2022 Guest Editors: Melody Ellis (RMIT University) Kim Munro (University of South Australia) ABOUT Foucault writes, “Where there is power, there is resistance” (1990, 95). To resist—from its most modest quotidian expression to large-scale community action—implies action. To resist might be to stand one’s ground and refuse to act as one is being told one must. Or to be unruly, to break the rules, to experiment and to push the boundaries. We might characterise resistance as that revolutionary impulse that Audre Lorde writes about, […]

CALL FOR PAPERS │ EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS’ SYMPOSIUM │ APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING AND CURATING WOMEN ARTISTS

February 28, 2022Call for Papers

EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS’ SYMPOSIUM │ APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING AND CURATING WOMEN ARTISTS National Gallery of Victoria, Thursday 23 Jun 2022, 10am (AEDT) The National Gallery of Victoria has recently launched Observations, a year-long online seminar series that examines the contributions of women in art and design history. The program will feature lectures and panels with leading historians, writers, and curators from Australia and internationally. Especially for career researchers, this symposium invites responses to the question: What does it mean to study the work of women artists at this time? Fifty years ago, art historian Linda Nochlin’s provocation, ‘Why have there been no […]

Job │Assistant Curator │ Northern Centre for Contemporary Art

February 28, 2022Jobs

NCCA is one of the most exciting contemporary art centres in Australia. Established in Darwin in 1989, it is the Northern Territory’s premier public institution for presenting local, national and international contemporary art. The Centre contributes to the life and well-being of the city by operating a nationally recognised art space, with strong community engagement based on experimental, ambitious and innovative exhibitions that foster a creative environment for artists and positive experiences for our visitors. The Position The Assistant Curator role is made for a dynamic all-rounder, operating both independently and in a collaborative team environment. No two days will […]

Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM

February 28, 2022Call for Papers

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of three monographs. The series will be divided into two rounds with proposals for the first two monographs selected in the first round in 2022. A Committee comprising of senior and early career art historians will select two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three […]

Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM

February 14, 2022Call for Papers

Professor Terry Smith receives the 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award │ CAA

January 31, 2022News

Professor Terry Smith receives the 2022 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award from the College of Art Association of America AAANZ President and Executive congratulate Professor Terry Smith on receiving this prestigious award in recognition for his services to academic teaching and being an inspirational mentor to his students. Details of the announcement can be found at https://www.collegeart.org/news/ CAA 2020 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award Terry Smith has long written, curated and taught across borders, in the beginning coming from Australia to study and work in New York as both a scholar and an active member of Art & […]

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 21 Issue 2 2021 | Open Issue

January 31, 2022ANZJA

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 21 Issue 2 2021 | Open Issue Editors: Anita Archer, Christopher Marshall, David M. Challis Vol. 21.2 at Taylor and Francis Articles The War Itself: Cornelia Parker’s Official Election Art, Post-2016 Democracy and the Weaponisation of Social Media Kit Messham-Muir Silent Witnesses: Doris Salcedo and Blanchot Toby Juliff Raising the Spectre: Contemporary Art and Print Culture in the Aftermath of Colonialism Deidre Brollo Xerox Memory: Lindy Lee’s Photocopies Sophie Rose Frame-work: Borders and the Limits of Representation in Recent Paintings by Peter Adsett Mary Alice Lee Goitres, Growths, and Distortions: Rodin’s Balzac in Melbourne David […]

Call for Papers │ INDEX JOURNAL Issue No. 4: SECESSION

January 31, 2022Call for Papers

INDEX JOURNAL is calling for submissions for Issue No. 4, 2022, themed SECESSION Submissions due: 4 April 2022 Editors: Cameron Hurst and Giles Fielke Issue No. 4 SECESSION That secession is treason, and that all who uphold it by menace or force, or by giving aid in any degree, or in any manner, are traitors, and legally subject to capital punishment. Gardner’s Institutes, 1860 The term secession is usually used to refer to any withdrawal from a federation or political state. In the context of modern art, secession also refers to the artistic withdrawal from the art academies which occurred in the late-nineteenth century. INDEX JOURNAL invites art historical […]

AAANZ CONFERENCE 21 IMPACT | SURVEY

January 31, 2022Conference

If you attended AAANZ21 live, please take our survey! Your answers will provide us with information about you and your experience that will be invaluable for the organisation of next year’s conference. It only takes 3 minutes!