bacon symposium
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save art in TAFE
Address by Ann Stephen, President, AAANZ 19 November 2012 There is widespread concern at the closure of TAFE art training across all sectors of the arts. The Art Association of Australia & NZ (AAANZ) calls on the government to restore public funding for TAFE arts courses across Australia. Last weekend the Arts Section of the Australian Academy of Humanities also expressed concern at the proposed closure in the TAFE sector. Since all education is a continuum that leads potentially into tertiary studies every sector needs to support potential. Both AAANZ and the Academy are particularly concerned at how the closure […]
colonial art exhibitions: past, present, future
Two Day Symposium Dates: Friday 23 November and Saturday 24 November Venue: Sunderland Theatre, Medicine (Building 181), The University of Melbourne Date: Friday 23 November 2012, evening session 6.15 – 8.00 pm Venue: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch (Building 134), The University of Melbourne Date: Saturday, 24 November 2012, day session 10.00am – 4.15pm Venue: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch (Building 134), The University of Melbourne Overview: The last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Australian colonial art, with an unprecedented number of important exhibitions being held in our major art galleries (national, state and regional) and libraries. This symposium […]
interstices 2012
Join national and international architects, curators, historians, and artists in a three-day symposium – read more…
challenging the humanities
AAH 43rd Annual Symposium 15-16 November University of Western Sydney, Parramatta campus Convened by Professor Tony Bennett FAHA and hosted by the Institute for Culture and Society, the theme for this year’s symposium is Challenging (the) Humanities. more information, programme and registration is available on the Symposium website: http://www.humanities.org.au/Events/AnnualSymposium.aspx The humanities are currently presented with a rare combination of intellectual challenges: changing policy environments and priorities necessitate new styles of thought and intervention; the still-unfolding financial crises urges a rethink of the economy and the interdisciplinary issues at stake in its investigation; there is increasing emphasis on the role played […]
action. painting. now
A Symposium on Abstract Expressionism 24-25 August National Gallery of Australia Single day: $90 full; $80 student / member / concession Both days: $160 full; $150 student / member / concession The remarkable impact of Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis and their contemporaries is still felt today. Leading American scholars Branden Joseph, Ellen Landau, Michael Leja and Richard Shiff join Australian experts to explore the development, reach and influence of Abstract Expressionism. Presented in association with the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney. Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art . To register email: eventbookings@nga.gov.au
sense of planet: the arts and ecology at earth magnitude
A NIEA Symposium 25 August 2012 Saturday UNSW CBD Campus, 1 O’Connell Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Standard $80, Student $60, Flat rate w/o lunch $40 Speakers: Ursula Heise (Stanford University), Jennifer Gabrys (University of London),Timothy Morton (Rice University), Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Marko Peljhan (University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, University of California at Santa Barbara) The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises, enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists and scholars […]
art and food symposium
The University of Otago and Dunedin School of Art are hosting an Art and Food Symposium. Friday August 24 from 8 am until late. The day is open to all and there is no charge. There will be sixteen papers by academics, artists and foodies from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Italy together with an exhibition highlighting the work of Chee Wang Ng ‘Rice Amidst the Cloud’. For further details see http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz/schools-departments/art/seminars-and-events/art-food-symposium-2012.html or contact peter.stupples@op.ac.nz
2012 AAANZ annual conference report
It was great to see so many members and students at this year’s conference in Sydney. It was held earlier than usual to coincide with this year’s Sydney Biennale , and was also linked to it thematically by the title TOGETHER<>APART. APT etc Many papers focused on the network of relations that structure art and its practices, between artists, curators, critics, art museums and their publics. The two key notes invited to Australia, Thierry de Duve and Helen Molesworth, both renowned art historians and curators were most generous in also conducting master classes for some 60 postgraduate students in Sydney. […]