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Talking Writing: Pasifika – Writing NSW, September 13

September 10, 2018Events

September 13 6:30pm–8pm Join Indigenous-Pasifika artists Amrita Hepi, Brian Fuata, Emele Ugavule, Latai Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn for a talanoa about Australian arts and literature, in which race, class, culture, faith, gender and sexuality intersect. Location: Information and Cultural Exchange 8 Victoria Rd, Parramatta (Corner Villiers St), NSW Pasifika Image credit: Brian Fuata, 2015, photo by Manuela Barczewski, image courtesy of Chisenhale, London

Research Fellow Position – RMIT University, Melbourne

August 27, 2018Jobs, News

http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au/caw/en/job/568161/research-fellow-arc-linkage-project The Role and Your Responsibilities The Research Fellow will be required to undertake a range of research and project management activities in line with the ARC Discovery Project’s strategy and proposal. The position will play a significant part in carrying out team based research activities that will make a significant impact in the area of art based social enterprise education and training practices with marginalised young people. You will be expected to contribute to the development of a high quality research project, and to play a lead role in the production of high quality outputs. You will be the […]

Register for the 2018 AAANZ Conference

August 21, 2018News

Early bird registration for this year’s AAANZ conference is now open and closes on 30 September. For full details about the 2018 AAANZ Conference which is being held from December 5 to 8, 2018, hosted by the School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia visit: https://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2018-conference/ To register visit: https://rmit.onestopsecure.com/OneStopWeb/AAANZ_2018 To join or renew your AAANZ membership visit: https://aaanz.info/membership/ REGISTRATION EARLY BIRD closes 30 September LATE REGISTRATION closes 5 December CONCESSION / STUDENT / RETIREE This category is open to those with valid student ID cards, health care cards or pension cards $100 $150 AAANZ MEMBER Please note all speakers and convenors must be current AAANZ members […]

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 […]