Monthly Archives: August 2012

Exhibition and Artist Talk Program at Monash Faculty Gallery | Arlo Mountford, Sonia Leber and Adam Cruickshank

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Exhibition and Artist Talk Program at Monash Faculty Gallery | Arlo Mountford, Sonia Leber and Adam Cruickshank The Faculty Gallery at Monash University Artist Talk Program will feature Arlo Mountford, Sonia Leber and Adam Cruickshank as part of its current exhibition ‘The Social Life of Things’ curated by Alicia Renew. ‘The Social Life of Things’ is an exhibition featuring works by five Melbourne-based artists whose work focuses on how ‘things’ (both physical and theoretical) circulate through our lives and how they illuminate and drive human experience. This series of talks will look at each artists practice from inception to completion and finish with a Q&A. Artist Talk Program (details below) Arlo Mountford: Wednesday 8 August 2pm Sonia Leber: Friday 10 August…

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Symposium | Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse

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Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse The University of Melbourne, September 1st-2nd, 2012 This symposium will explore the different ways that communities and individuals understood disaster and mass death in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the impact of human emotions in shaping these understandings. Speakers Dagmar Eichberger (Trier), John Gagné (Sydney), Sigrun Haude (Cincinnati), Fredrika Jacobs (Virginia Commonwealth), Erika Kuijpers (Leiden), David Lederer (NUI Maynooth), Dolly MacKinnon (UQ), Louise Marshall (Sydney), Una McIlvenna (Sydney), Gerrit Schenk (Heidelberg & Darmstadt), Peter Sherlock (MCD), Patricia Simons (Michigan - Ann Arbor), Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Texas at Austin), Jenny Spinks (Melbourne), Stephanie Trigg (Melbourne), Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge) and Charles Zika (Melbourne) (full program below). Venue: Graduate House, 220 Leicester Street, The University of Melbourne Dates: Saturday 1st   8.30 am…

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Letter | Art History at La Trobe - Barry Humphries

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Barry Humphries has added his voice to those protesting the loss of art history at La Trobe and has kindly allowed us to publish his letter to the Vice Chancellor. Dear Vice Chancellor, I am at present in Australia presenting a series of one-man plays which is rumoured to be my last.  While in Melbourne, my home town, I have heard disturbing rumours from La Trobe University that the art history programme may be closed down. I was astonished to hear this, as were a number of distinguished friends of mine in the Arts both here, America and the UK and I would greatly welcome a reassurance from you that this decision is not irreversible.  Considering the quality of our…

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