What’s So Funny? - Why haven’t jokes, humour, wordplay and satire in the art of the last century been taken seriously? Jennifer Higgie VCA Alumna, now co-editor and staff writer of frieze magazine living in London It’s as impossible (or unbearable) to imagine a life – and by association, art – without laughter as it is to...
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Tingel Tangel: A Portrait of Turbulent Times in Germany, 1910 – 37 Dr Petra Kayser, Curator, Prints & Drawings, NGV and Coordinating Curator for The Mad Square Modernity in German Art 1910 – 37 Lecture presented by the Friends of the Gallery Library This lecture explores German culture during the period of the ‘Weimar Republic’, which saw an unprecedented number...
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Melbourne School of Design Lecture Living Building Challenge - Jason McLennan What is the Living Building Challenge? The Living Building Challenge is a philosophy, advocacy tool, and certification program that addresses development on all scales and defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today. The Challenge acts to diminish the...
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Chris Kraus Keynote Lecture MUMA is honoured to present a keynote lecture by filmmaker, writer and editor Chris Kraus as part of the Chris Kraus exhibition opening at MUMA on Thursday 13th October.. In 2011, the New York Times described Kraus as ‘one of our smartest and most original writers on contemporary art and...
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Reconstructing an Iconographical Program of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos: New Wall Paintings and Their Interpretation Professor Jack Davis, University of Cincinnati Hosted by the Archaeological Institute at Athens, Classical Association of Victoria & The School of Historical & Philosophical Studies The Bronze Age ‘Palace of Nestor’ at Pylos, originally excavated by Carl...
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‘Feeling Stone’ Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University) Our vocabulary for stone is impoverished. We describe rock as dumb, mute, unfeeling, unyielding, recalcitrant. Stone can sometimes be invoked as a witness, but most often its testimony is silent, an unfeeling trigger to affect, a passive reminder of tragic human histories. This talk excavates a...
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Sir John Monash Lecture 2011 Whose Art Is It? Cultivating a Creative Community Join the 2011 Sir John Monash Lecture panellists Bryan Dawe, artist and political satirist, Prof. Ruth Rentschler, Arts & Entertainment management, Deakin University, Julie Shiels, artist, and Stephen Zagala, MGA Curator, to have your say about creativity in Monash. The 2011...
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Special Public Lecture Changing Places: Responsive housing, mobility systems, and networked intelligence for future cities Professor Kent Larson To meet the profound sustainability, demographic, and health challenges of the future, new strategies must be found for creating responsive places where people live and work, and the mobility systems that connect them. Professor Kent Larson...
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Predicaments of Painting Indigenous Presence in Central Australia: Early Papunya Boards in Circulation Professor Fred Myers, Silver Professor of Anthropology, New York University This paper considers a predicament in the constitution of Aboriginal acrylic painting in Central Australia. Begun in 1971 as a translation of ritually-based designs into a new medium, the international success of...
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The tale of the 1880 Atlas des Plans de Paris Michael Shirrefs Atlas des Plans de Paris is a remarkable book containing reproductions of ancient maps showing the development of Paris, from its beginnings in Roman times as a village in the middle of the Seine. Former Creative Fellow Michael Shirrefs will discuss his...
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