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2018 AAANZ Conference Early Bird Registration extended to October 10

September 27, 2018News

Early bird registration for the 2018 AAANZ Conference has been extended to October 10. To register before the early bird rate closes go to: https://aaanz.info/register-for-the-2018-aaanz-conference/ To help delegates plan their visit to the conference a detailed program, with all panel session and keynote scheduled times, will be available from next week. To stay informed about the conference, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or subscribe to the AAANZ newsletter. https://www.facebook.com/events/193150874673350/ https://twitter.com/ArtAustraliaNZ https://aaanz.info/email-subscribe/ Finally a reminder, postgraduate and early career researchers who wish to participate in Professor Griselda Pollock’s masterclass must apply by 1 October. Full details about the masterclass and how […]

Graphic Encounters Conference – Arts West, University of Melbourne, 7-9 November 2018

September 24, 2018Conference

GRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS (MELBOURNE, 7-9 NOV 18) Dr. Liz Conor Arts West, The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia 11/07/2018-11/09/2018, 9am-5pm To be held 7-9 November in Melbourne, the Graphic Encounters conference will be presented by La Trobe’s Department of Archaeology and History and the Centre for the Studies of the Inland. The conference hopes to provide a welcoming, inclusive forum in which conversations can be started, and in some cases continued, on prints depicting Aboriginal Australians. There are many, diverse people interested in this colonial visual archive within and beyond the academy – scholars, librarians, bibliophiles, art historians, curators, artists, collectors, […]

AAANZ Conference: A Masterclass with Professor Griselda Pollock at RMIT

September 21, 2018AAANZ Conference

“To create transgenerational democratic space for the continuing virtuality of feminism, we need historical understanding of feminism itself that is different from the currently fracturing caricature of generations at war and waves of novelty” (Pollock 2016, 57). Griselda Pollock will be presenting a masterclass for interested HDR candidates and early career researchers as part of the AAANZ Annual Conference at RMIT University on Tuesday 4 December 2018. We are seeking applications from postgraduates and early career researchers whose work engages with the themes of trauma, feminism, transgenerational feminism, virtuality and affect. The masterclass will involve critical responses to two recent […]

Sheridan Palmer – Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods, October 4, Buxton Contemporary

September 20, 2018Events

Histories and Theories of Sound Lecture 6pm Thu, 04. Oct Buxton Contemporary Dodds St and Southbank Blvd Southbank, VIC FREE As part of the ongoing lecture series, Histories and Theories of Sound, Discipline and Liquid Architecture present Dr Sheridan Palmer’s ‘Disequilibrium: Presence/absence in the art of Tony Woods’, followed by discussion with Doug Hall AM. During the 1960s the Tasmanian artist TONY WOODS (1940 – 2017) emerged as a rare talent in the Australian art scene. An advocate of modernism’s pluralism, his bold figuration, vigorous abstract formalism, irregular shaped canvases that often incorporated collage and the readymade, was a synthesis of American […]

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 […]