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Creative Arts Fellowships at the National Library of Australia

Applications for the 2022 Creative Arts Fellowships at the National Library of Australia are now open, and will close on Monday 26 July 2021 at 1pm (AEST). See the website for full details and application link https://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/creative-arts-fellowship Guidelines for the 2022 program Creative Arts Fellowships offer $10,000 to support writers and artists to spend four weeks at the National Library researching and developing a new artistic concept, artwork or body of work inspired or informed by the collections.  Two Fellowships are available: Creative Arts Fellowship – using our collections, artists can progress or complete a new artwork or body of work. Artists may be […]

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Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List │ Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson

Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson was recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson AM is an internationally recognised expert on the art and culture of Renaissance and early-modern Venice, and has made fundamental and lasting contributions to the arts and to the public culture of Australia. Among her many achievements, she has curated exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and her publications books on Italian art include Giuseppe […]

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Call for papers │ Graphic Landscape │ The British Library

GRAPHIC LANDSCAPE THE LANDSCAPE PRINT SERIES IN BRITAIN, c. 1775–1850 The Paul Mellon Centre and the British Library 2–11 November 2021 Landscape and topographical print series proliferated in the late eighteenth century and in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Indeed, the format seems to have enjoyed an artistic and commercial boom in this period. The British Museum, the British Library and the Yale Center for British Art hold rich collections of such series, in various formats. Some, like Turner’s Liber Studiorum (1807–19) and Constable’s English Landscape Scenery (1830–33) are extremely well known. Many others, however, have still to receive sustained and critical […]

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Call for Papers │ Conference Utopias of (Non)Knowledge: The Museum as a Research Hub

Jacques Rancière connects the notion of knowledge with that of ignorance: a person who knows must be aware that they do not know. Rancière’s theory of an ‘ignorant teacher’ problematizes the hierarchical regime of the one-way transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. By criticizing the neoliberal production and commodification of knowledge in this way, he reminds us that the purpose of democracy is to attain equality, and in particular the equality of knowledge. What he offers instead can be described as a modernist model of a ‘knowledge utopia,’ where all citizens are equal and therefore equally involved in practices of (not) knowing. […]

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Workshop │ The Performance and Pedagogy Working Group

The Performance and Pedagogy Working Group is in the process of reimaging itself, and we are seeking collaborators in shaping its future. This June and July we will host two sets of global workshops, spread across multiple time zones, to explore the complex relationship between performance and institutions of pedagogy. We begin from the premise that performing/performance engenders specific ways of knowing. At the same time, organizations and institutions are, themselves, formal and informal rule systems that codify modes of being across their architectural, textual and digital platforms. At the intersection of these considerations, we will focus on embodied knowing, […]

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