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Index Journal: Identity Call for papers

INDEX JOURNAL is calling for papers for its inaugural issue IDENTITY. Submissions are encouraged from art historians of all specialisations. IDENTITY POLITICS DISSOLVES THE IDENTITY OF THE ARTWORK INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed art history publication based in Melbourne, Australia. The journal presents original scholarship by art historians from all specialisations, treating the art of the past with the same urgency as it does the art of the present. For each issue, INDEX JOURNAL will invite a guest editor to raise a polemic – in the form of a single proposition – that calls for pressing art historical attention. Submit […]

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Statement on Christchurch Massacre

The AAANZ expresses its complete and utter abhorrence towards the events of March 15, 2019 in Christchurch which saw 50 people murdered and a similar number wounded. As an organisation dedicated to fostering understanding about the art and visual culture of the widest possible range of cultures, peoples, and histories, the Association is fundamentally opposed to the racist and hate-filled ideologies which gave rise to this attack on the Muslim community. On behalf of all members of the Association, in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, I would like to offer my heartfelt condolences to those colleagues, friends, and families who […]

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Support the Redevelopment Project by Artefact Church Square

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/114 The Petition of certain citizens of the State of Victoria draws to the attention of the Legislative Council that cultural visitors to Victoria in 2017 injected almost $2 billion into our economy, an 88 per cent increase since 2013. Yet, from 2008 to 2015, the income of art practitioners across all art forms decreased by 4.2 per cent. After six years of study for basic qualifications, 60 per cent of professional artists earn less than $10,000 per year from creative work and 42 per cent commit to four more years for higher qualifications and earn the same. With supplemented […]

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CFP: ‘Belonging and Detachment’ the 19th Conference of Association RIdIM – Hobart, Tasmania – 13-15 November 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS Belonging and Detachment: Representing Musical Identity in Visual Culture The 19th Conference of Association RIdIM Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 13-15 November 2019​ Musicians and artists rarely operate in complete isolation. Throughout history they have negotiated power structures and geographical circumstances, and these factors remain influential in the digital age. The 19th International Conference of Association RIdIM seeks to examine the ways in which musicians and artists experience ‘belonging’ and ‘detachment’ – be it socially, politically, geographically, artistically, aesthetically and/or philosophically. The primary concern of the conference is how such experiences impact upon the representation of musical identity in visual culture. The […]

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CFP – ANZJA “War, Art and Visual Culture” Special Issue – EOI due March 31, 2019

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: 31 MARCH 2019Final Submissions will be due 10 July 2019 Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 20, Issue 1 War, Art and Visual Culture The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Issue 1 for 2020, War, Art and Visual Culture will be edited by Professor Charles Green, School of Culture and communication, University of Melbourne; Professor Ana Carden-Coyne, Centre for the Cultural History of War, University of Manchester; Associate Professor Kit Messham-Muir, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University; and Dr. Uros Cvoro, senior lecturer UNSW Art & Design. The editors are […]

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Professor Jonathan Bloom – 2019 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Lecture – 6.30pm, 14th of March 2019

A History of Paper as a Transformative Medium: from Ancient China to Contemporary Australia Professor Jonathan Bloom – Norma Jean Calderwood Professor, Islamic and Asian Art, emeritus, Boston College and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. The development and spread of paper has always opened up new cultural possibilities for recording and disseminating information: the printing and literacy revolution in early modern Europe is only the best known case. Yet the broader history of this humble and every-day item as a transformative medium has been less discussed. From its origins in China, and especially as […]

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Killing Today. Killing Yesterday: A Genealogy of Corpse Magic – Michael Taussig – 5.30pm, 28 Feb. 2019

The Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) and the Research Unit in Public Cultures (RUPC) are delighted to host an upcoming public lecture by Professor Michael Taussig from Columbia University, City of New York. Professor Su Baker will introduce this lecture. Killing of humans or animals creates a bond between killer and killed which in some instances amounts to the victim inhabiting the body and being of the slayer. What to think, then, of the killing by US police of three people per day (disproportionately Native American and black), let alone school shootings, gang shootings and other massacres in that fair […]

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Unpacking My Library – Michael Taussig – The Institute of Postcolonial Studies – 6.30pm Monday 25th Feb.

Michael TaussigUnpacking My Library Monday, 25th February 2019, 6:30pmThe Institute of Postcolonial Studies78–80 Curzon St, North Melbourne VIC 3051Free to attend Discipline, Ensayos, and MADA Monash University are pleased to present a public lecture by Michael Taussig, titled ‘Unpacking my Library’. The talk presents a Benjaminian take on and in the library in Paris where Walter Benjamin assembled most of the material in the 1930s that was later published as The Arcades Project. In exploring library subculture, it evokes elements usually ignored in Benjaminian exegeses, especially awakening and sleeping in relation to social revolution, along with the connections between the bodily […]

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