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Call for Panels | 2022 AAANZ Conference | Deadline Friday 29 April

2022 AAANZ Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS Monash University and The University of Melbourne 1 – 3 December 2022 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 our […]

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Call for Panels | 2022 AAANZ Conference | Deadline 29 April

2022 AAANZ Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS Monash University and The University of Melbourne 1 – 3 December 2022 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 our […]

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Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │Deadline Friday 22 April

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 […]

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2022 ANU Art Collection Scholarship

The ANU Art Collection brings together outstanding Australian modern and contemporary art, including a remarkable diversity of artwork by Australia’s First Nations Peoples. Through its heritage-listed Drill Hall Gallery, ANU delivers a vibrant exhibition program in collaboration with emerging and established artists, curators and collectors. The 2022 ANU Art Collection Scholarship is supported by Andrew Dyer & Donna-Marie Kelly The Gallery presents exhibitions drawn from the ANU Art Collection, as well as diverse national and international loans. Internship students, under the supervision of leading academics from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS), make a vital contribution to […]

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New Zealand Pavilion announces further details of Yuki Kihara’s exhibition for Biennale Arte 2022

Yuki Kihara is the first artist to represent New Zealand at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia who is Pasifika, Asian and Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s third gender) Kihara’s project Paradise Camp, explores ongoing Sāmoa-New Zealand relations from a Fa’afafine perspective and will be shown in the Arsenale Ahead of the Biennale Arte 2022 opening on 23 April, Creative New Zealand announces further details of the New Zealand Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Small island ecologies, queer rights, intersectionality and decolonisation are all explored by artist Yuki Kihara in her Biennale Arte […]

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Submissions Open │ Hunar Symposia Conference: An exploration of art and conflict

Submissions are now open for Hunar Symposia’s inaugural conference on 16 -18 November 2022  Hunar believes that art, in all its forms, functions in a similar way, serving as a bridge between our utopic desires and the concrete possibilities for change. In this sense, it makes visible what has been deemed invisible, and speakable what has been deemed unspeakable, opening new paths to understand and overcome our social and political challenges. Hunar seeks to foreground the importance of creative work in producing imaginative, humorous, provocative, and unpredictable responses to conflicts both past and present. In this context, we challenge researchers […]

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Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │Deadline Friday 22 April

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 […]

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Power Institute Public Programs 2022 now launched

 Registration is now open for the Power Institute Public Programs 2022 The Power Institute is delighted to launch our public programs schedule for 2022.  Registration for all our talks, lectures and roundtables is now open! Our program this year is divided into three discrete series, and our speakers include MCKENZIE WARK on queer raves, THY PHU on socialist futurity in Vietnam, LISA NAKAMURA on the new metaverse and women of colour, TINA CAMPT, CHRISTOPHER PINNEY and many others. We also have a new series, “Ways of Being”, that will delve into the knowledge systems of four different Aboriginal communities. All […]

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