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Love from Damascus – Art Gallery of South Australia and the University of Adelaide

October 11, 2018Events

LOVE FROM DAMASCUS FRI 9 & SAT 10 NOV ART EXHIBITION II BOOK LAUNCH II SYMPOSIUM ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE Link: https://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Events/Love_From_Damascus_Symposium Link: https://www.ozasiafestival.com.au/events/love-from-damascus/ Love from Damascus is a half day symposium looking at conceptions of love by an eminent 18th-century Syrian mystic and related stories of art and culture. Hosted by Samer Akkach and James Bennett, the event features invited experts and panels covering Sufism and the evolving nature of Islamic arts and culture across the vast continent of Asia over many centuries. The symposium coincides with a launch for the new book ʿIlm: Science, Religion, […]

AAANZ Conference Program Now Available and Masterclass EOIs Extended

October 4, 2018News

Draft AAANZ Conference Program Now Available to Download To help conference presenters and delegates plan their travel and conference stay we have released a Draft AAANZ Conference Program. Please be aware this schedule is subject to change. A finalised program will be made available in November. Please note: The official conference dates are 5-7 December 2018 with ancillary events for postgraduates and independent arts workers and artists on 4 December and 8 December. To download the program visit this link: https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Draft-AAANZ-Conference-Schedule-4-October-2018.pdf Griselda Pollock Masterclass Expressions of interest for Professor Griselda Pollock’s Masterclass have been extended to Monday 15 October. Postgraduate and […]

Harold Wright and Sarah & William Holmes Scholarships – Call for applications

October 4, 2018Funding

Prestigious international prints and drawings opportunity- Call for applications Dear friends and colleagues, Applications for the $22,000 Harold Wright and Sarah & William Holmes Scholarships are now open. Awarded jointly, the scholarships allow the recipient to carry out an intensive study of prints at the British Museum in London for a period of 3-12 months. These scholarships are very prestigious, with previous recipients holding positions in museums, galleries and collections throughout the world. The placement will commence in 2019, with exact timing subject to availability at the British Museum. ELIGIBILITY The opportunity is open to graduates […]

Symposia: Minimalist/Maximalist, National Gallery of Australia, 19-20 October

September 27, 2018Conference, Events

This symposium explores a key period in American art to focus on two tendencies generally regarded as polar opposites—minimalism and photo-realism. Minimalism’s impact is traced in works using light, land and installation art, as well as through feminist practice and in architecture, to examine resonances today. The importance of realism, a much-neglected aspect of the period, is also considered. Building on from two highly successful past events—Action. Painting. Now. (NGA 2012) and Minimal. Conceptual. Pop. (AGNSW 2013)—this symposium seeks to expand the dialogue between American and Australian artists, art historians and cultural critics. Keynote speaker James Meyer, National Gallery of Art, Washington […]

ANU – Professor of Art History and Curatorship

September 27, 2018Jobs

The Centre for Art History and Theory at the Australian National University is hiring a Professor of Art History and Curatorship (open field). This is a rare and exciting opportunity to lead one of the most exciting art history departments in Australia, if not the world! Please see the position description below. [gview file=”https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SOAD-Prof-Art_History_Curatorship-PD_PEWER-2018.pdf”]

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