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University of Melbourne Duldig Lecture – Sculpture and the Museum: From Fortunate Son to Runaway Child

August 29, 2016News

Dr Christopher Marshall will give this year’s Annual Duldig Lecture on Sculpture, titled: Sculpture and the Museum: From Fortunate Son to Runaway Child 6.15-7.15pm Thursday 1 September, 2016 Forum Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne In 2005, the Director of the National Gallery, London, signalled the long-standing eclipse of sculpture in favour of painting when he noted that “sculpture is what you fall over when you step back from the paintings”. The expanded field of contemporary sculptural practice, including installations, conceptual art and commissioned artist interventions, has nonetheless re-energised and revitalised the potential of sculpture to engage with the historical, […]

Brisbane Consortium for the Visual Arts – PhD Scholarships (extended deadline for applications)

August 29, 2016News

Three new PhD Scholarships offered by the Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts (BCVA) The BCVA facilitates scholarly collaboration between the art history-theory programs of Griffith University (GU), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Queensland (UQ) working in conjunction with the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). The BCVA’s key areas of focus include: contemporary Asian art; art of the Asia-Pacific; Australian and Australian Indigenous art; the global contemporary; curatorial education and training; new approaches to art history and theory. The BCVA is now offering three PhD scholarships for research in the visual arts in these […]

Australian National University Conference – Moving Image Cultures in Asian Art, 26-28th August 2016

August 22, 2016News

Moving Image Cultures in Asian Art 26-28 August 2016 Australian National University, Canberra This conference addresses historical and contemporary manifestations of spatio-temporality in Asian art. In addition to the relatively recent international visibility of ‘new media’ art, there are pronounced instances of time and space being addressed together in various art traditions across the Asian region, ranging from the murals of Ajanta and Dun Huang (Mogao) to contemporary video installations. We consider ‘moving image cultures’ as ways of comprehending and representing time in space, not being restricted to cinematic or digital domains, but claiming deeper historical developments through various two-, […]

University of Melbourne Symposium – Hidden Traces of Shared History

August 22, 2016News

Hidden Traces of Shared History: Rethinking Asia Pacific through 19th and early 20th century photographs Academic Symposium 29 August 2016, 9:30am-4:30pm, Japanese Room, MSD Building Register here for the Symposium and Keynote attendance Keynote Address: Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Victoria University of Wellington 29 August 2016, 5:30-7:00pm, Singapore Theatre, MSD Building Register here for the Keynote Address attendance only This symposium brings together leading researchers who are working on 19th and early 20th century collections of Asia Pacific photographs. Alongside a broader consideration of the significance of the history of photography in the region, explorations of visual and built traces of […]

University of WA Symposium – Colonization & Wilderness: Nineteenth-Century Amercian and Australian Landscape Painting

August 22, 2016News

Online registration for ‘Colonization & Wilderness: Nineteenth-Century American and Australian Landscape Painting’, an international symposium, convened by Emeritus Professor Richard Read, held at Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 27-28 September 2016, is now open. In collaboration with The University of Western Australia and The Terra Foundation for American Art, the symposium addresses paintings from both countries brought together in the exhibition Continental Shift and Unknown Land: Mapping and Imagining Western Australia.’ Speakers include Professor David Peters Corbett (Courtauld Institute, London and University of East Anglia), Associate Professor Rachael Z. DeLue (Princeton University), Dr David Hansen (Australian National University), […]

Book Launch at MUMA – Ian McLean

August 18, 2016NewsBook Launch

Book Launch Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art Wednesday 24 August 6pm Location: MADA Faculty Gallery Ground floor, Building G Monash University, Caulfield campus Join MUMA for the launch of Ian McLean’s latest book,Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art. As Senior Research Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Wollongong and Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia, McLean is an internationally recognised scholar. His previous books include Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Art (2014), How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art (2011) and White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art (2009). He […]

AAANZ 2016 Conference Registration now open!

August 15, 2016AAANZ Conference, News

Registration for the AAANZ 2016 Conference in Canberra is now open. To register please go to the secure conference registration web portal hosted by the Australian National University here: AAANZ 2016 Conference Registration Early Bird Registration will be available until October 7, 2016. Rates below: Early bird Student/Concession – $100 Early bird AAANZ Member – $300 Early bird non-member $400 After October 7, 2016 Late Registration fees apply: Late registration Student/Concession – $150 Late registration AAANZ Member – $450 Late registration non-member – $550 Early Bird Registration will be available until October 7, 2016. REGISTRATIONS close on November 21, 2016

Conference – Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700-1914, September 8-11, The University of Melbourne

August 15, 2016News

The University of Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne presents Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700-1914 A four day conference between September 8-11, 2016 that focuses on British or Australian portraits between 1700 and 1914, both as separate fields and as overlapping or comparative studies. For information on the presenters and to register, visit http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication/study/art-history-and-art-curatorship/human-kind

Lecture: Charles Green – Biennales, Triennales and documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art

August 15, 2016News

Charles Green Biennales, Triennales and documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art Tuesday, 23rd August 2016, 6:00pm Clemenger BBDO Auditorium National Gallery of Victoria International Free to attend Two main questions overlap in this lecture. What is the impact of biennials on contemporary art? And how have biennials changed in the course of the appearance of contemporary art? We will sum up the issues that we see played out in different biennials between 1955 to now. We will work through a typology of biennial formats, noting that each appears in turn as an answer to a set of problems and […]

University of Queensland: PhD Scholarships, School of Architecture

August 15, 2016News

2 x PhD Scholarships, School of Architecture, University of Queensland (Deadline: Aug 21, 2016) The School of Architecture at the University of Queensland invites applications for two research projects: 1) How Meston’s ‘Wild Australia Show’ Shaped Australian Aboriginal History The Wild Australia Show (1892-93), staged by a diverse company of Aboriginal people for metropolitan audiences, provides the focus for an interdisciplinary study of performance, photography, collections, frontier environments and race relations in colonial Australia. Using archival and visual records, and in partnership with key cultural institutions and Indigenous communities, the research seeks to produce an authoritative and original interpretation of the […]