Seminar: Anthony Gardner, The Artist as Unsettler: Tom Nicholson and the Art of Historiography.
You are invited to a research seminar delivered by MacGeorge Visiting Speaker, Associate Professor Anthony Gardner, “The Artist as Unsettler: Tom Nicholson and the Art of Historiography.”
Wednesday 13 December 2017
6pm.
Anthony Gardner is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History and Theory and Head of the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. He writes extensively on postcolonialism, postsocialism, and exhibition and curatorial histories, and he is one of the editors of the MIT Press journal ARTMargins. Among his books are Mapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations (Melbourne, 2013), Politically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art Against Democracy (MIT Press, 2015), NSK From Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst – An Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia (with Eda Čufer and Zdenka Badovinac, MIT Press, 2015), and (with Charles Green) Biennials, Triennials, and documenta (Boston, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).
6pm, Wednesday 13 December
Room 553, 5th Floor, Arts West North Wing
Arts West Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville.
All welcome.
Please RSVP to: aneta.trajkoski@unimelb.edu.au
THIS SEMINAR IS SUPPORTED BY THE MACGEORGE BEQUEST