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AAANZ Conference 2018 – Announcing Curator David Teh as Fifth Keynote

August 20, 2018News

The Conference Committee are pleased to announce the 2018 AAANZ Conference’s 5th keynote speaker: Associate Professor David Teh. David Teh is a curator and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, specialising in Southeast Asian contemporary art. His curatorial efforts have included Unreal Asia (55. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 2009), Video Vortex #7 (Yogyakarta, 2011), TRANSMISSION (Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, 2014), Misfits: Pages from a Loose-leaf Modernity (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017) and Returns, a project for the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018). David’s writings have appeared in journals including Third Text, ARTMargins, Afterall and Theory, Culture and […]

Booklaunch – What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives – Buxton Contemporary, August 16, 6-8pm

August 13, 2018Events

From Power Publications: Please join us in Melbourne for the launch of our latest publication What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives Edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly LAUNCH AND RECEPTION 6-8pm, Thursday 16 August 2018 Buxton Contemporary Dodds St &, Southbank Blvd Southbank VIC 3006 The book will be launched by Edward Colless Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. This event will bring together a dynamic discussion chaired by Dr Edward Colless, with Adam Geczy, Sean Lowry, Mimi Kelly, Hannah Mathews, Jill Orr and Mark Shorter. Light refreshments will follow the panel discussion. Register to preorder your copy to pick up at […]

Keir Lectures on Art: Professor Steven Nelson – Learning from Johannesburg, University of Melbourne, 6.30pm 20 August

August 7, 2018News

Keir Lectures on Art: Professor Steven Nelson Learning from Johannesburg: Moshekwa Langa’s Maps of Desire This lecture explores how South African-born, Amsterdam-based artist Moshekwa Langa, who spent his youth under the rule of Grand Apartheid in South Africa, trades in ethnography, the historic relations of whites and blacks, and the systems of homelands in the nation state to create collaged and drawn geographies that point to the constructed nature of official South African maps. This discussion also looks at how Langa’s work, in its mixture of languages and semiotic systems, deconstructs the authority of maps and “official” information as a means […]

The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference, ANU 4-6 September

August 7, 2018Conference, Events, News

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AAANZ Conference 2018 – Call for Papers Now Open

August 2, 2018AAANZ Conference, News

The Conference Committee would like to invite proposals for papers for the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) conference to be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, 5-7 December 2018. The call for panel sessions is now closed. The conference committee has reviewed the proposals and more than 60 were accepted, including panels with a full speaker list and artist talks. Listed in the Call for Papers are the panel sessions that are open to paper proposals. The full conference program will be available at the end of September 2018. The deadline for paper proposals is Monday 3 September […]

Call for Participation | Survey on social media use by artists, art educators and academics

July 12, 2018Call for Papers, NewsCall for Participation

Call for participation in a research survey. Artists, Art Educators and Academics we would like to invite you to contribute to a survey about your use of social media in your practice. We are investigating how different groups of professionals use social media. Social media has changed how we engage with and reach our audiences. But what does this look like across disciplines that naturally require collaboration, feedback, dissemination and profile building as part of your work? Access the link via the profile or at < https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0BWwrVDp0Vrp21D> More info about the project: < https://chatwithrellypops.wordpress.com/reach-and-engagement-social-media-use-by-artists-art-educators-academics /> If you would like to […]

‘Antipodean Early Modern’ – Launch – Ian Potter Museum of Art, July 19th 6pm

July 9, 2018Events

Join us for the launch Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200-1600, edited by Anne Dunlop. Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Date: 19th July, 6pm. In 2015 Margaret Manion curated an exhibition An Illumination: the Rothschild Prayer Book & other works from the Kerry Stokes Collection c.1280-1685 here at The Potter. An extensive series of lectures accompanied the show. Antipodean Early Modern is a publication of the case studies presented in this series of talks. A Prayer Book owned by the Rothschilds, an Italian bronze casket by Antico, a lavishly illustrated Carnival chronicle from sixteenth-century Germany, an altarpiece by […]

Call for Papers | ArtCrime2018 ‘Provenance Matters’ Wellington September 2018

July 6, 2018Call for Papers

The 4th annual New Zealand Art Crime Symposium will take place at the City Gallery Wellington, on Saturday 22 September 2018. Hosted by the NZ Art Crime Research Trust, in conjunction with City Gallery Wellington and our other sponsors, ArtCrime2018 will encompass a wide range of presentations on all aspects of, and explore a range of issues relating to, art crime in New Zealand. The programme will favour New Zealand content, but will also encompass international content that highlights or illustrates material of relevance to a primarily New Zealand audience. There will be a range of presentations, plus ample opportunities for networking. The […]

Call for Papers | DISTANCE LOOKS BACK

July 6, 2018Call for Papers

A Thematic Conference of the European Architectural History Network, held in conjunction with the 36th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand University of Sydney, School of Architecture, Design and Planning 10-13 July 2019 Convened by Andrew Leach and Lee Stickells Distance is both conceptual and actual. It is overcome or exploited in all manner of ways that have consequences for the history of architecture. It is fostered in the critical attitude. And collapsed when history is invoked in the present. It shapes the relationship of Europe to its Antipodes, as well as of Europe […]

Job | Professor Art History & Curatorship, Director Centre for Art History and Art Theory

June 25, 2018JobsJobs

ANU is looking for a new professorial position in Art History and Curatorship. Deadline 13th July 2018. Website: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/522451/professor-art-history-curatorship-director-centre-for-art-history-and-art-theory Classification: Academic Level E1, Salary package: $171,386 to $181,646 plus 17% Superannuation Term: Full-time, Continuing Position overview The Director will be a leading scholar with recognised expertise in Art History and Curatorship and is expected to promote excellence in research, teaching, and lead professional activities. The position will provide research leadership in the Centre and School, connect to the studio disciplines and pursue strategic engagement across the University, nationally and with international research partners, building on the Centre and School’s reputation. […]