The Ursula Hoff Lecture 2018
‘I Can Connect” – the Power of Curating to Share Experiences
Speaker: Professor Michael Tooby, Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University
Ursula Hoff’s career is a vivid example of dedication to curatorial expertise. At the same time, her extraordinary life story warrants retelling and sharing, not least as a warning from history of the need to challenge racism and prejudice towards migrants. In his lecture, Professor Michael Tooby will explore how testimony has played a key role in his recent curatorial projects. His starting point will be the use of William Blake’s Illustrations to Dante in a recent major British exhibition, Journeys with “The Waste Land”, a link to Ursula Hoff’s curatorial interests. He will discuss how this exhibition was created by the collective sharing of different life experiences and expertise by over 100 participants in its curating. He will show how this process was informed by his previous interest in testimony when co-curating faith-based and minority cultural projects in Wales, such as The Muslim World on Your Doorstep’ and Hineni: belonging and identity in a Jewish community.
Within his career as a curator, Michael Tooby was founding curator of Tate St Ives in Cornwall, and a Director of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museums Wales. He is now an independent curator and a Professor at Bath School of Art and Design. He has worked in North America, Japan and Hong Kong as well as in Europe. His current research is in understanding curating in the context of individual experiences and localities.
Thursday, 25 October 2018
6.15pm-7.30pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre A
Spencer Road
University of Melbourne
Parkville Vic 3010
Admission is free.
Bookings are required.
Seating is limited.
To register visit: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/tooby
For further information please contact: Associate Professor Alison Inglis asi@unimelb.edu.au
The Ursula Hoff Lecture is presented annually in honour of the distinguished curator, art historian and academic, Dr Ursula Hoff AO OBE (1909-2005).
The Australian Institute of Art History is pleased to assist the Ursula Hoff Institute in presenting the Ursula Hoff Lecture for 2018 and acknowledges the generous support of the S R Stoneman Foundation. Professor Tooby’s visit to Australia has been supported by a grant from the ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts.