Tag: Melbourne

Call for Sessions | AAANZ Conference 2013 ‘Interdiscipline’

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Interdiscipline AAANZ 2013, Melbourne, December 7-9 The 2013 AAANZ annual conference will take place in Melbourne, December 7-9. It is being hosted by the University of Melbourne (VCA and Art History), National Gallery of Victoria and RMIT. It will include sessions on the history of art and other visual disciplines, art theory, and practice-based research in art, design and architecture. Keynote Speakers | Professor David Joselit is a leading scholar and critic who has written about pivotal movements in modern art ranging from Dada to the emergence of globalization and new media; he contributes regularly to Artforum and Art in America, and is currently Carnegie Professor and Chair of the History of Art department at Yale University and an editor of October. Professor Joselit was also curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Professor Irit Rogoff is based at Goldsmiths, University of…

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Forums | Melbourne Now at NGV

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In anticipation of the Melbourne Now exhibition later this year, the NGV is holding a series of free forums about the latest art, design, architecture, music and film in Melbourne . Each Sunday in February, a range of speakers including Phip Murray, Simone LeAmon, Gideon Obarzanek, Melissa Loughman, Jon Campbell and others will explore the issues and subjects that drive our artistic community. Details are below, visit the NGV website for further details. More speakers will be announced for each forum. The forums will take place between 1-3pm at the NGV International. Free entry. Collaborations:  3rd February This discussion focuses on Melbourne artists who work collaboratively as a mode of practice, as well as those who have collaborated with designers, architects, musicians and fashion designers on one-off projects that fall outside their usual practice. Speakers include: Tony Ellwood (Director, NGV), Phip…

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Lecture | Sasha Grishin – The Book and the Hand: Canberra Books 1972-92

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The Codex Bolton Lecture Sasha Grishin : The Book and the Hand : Canberra Books 1972-92 This is the first of an annual series of public lectures on the handmade book in Australia, held in honour of the late Alec Bolton of the Brindabella Press, Canberra 1972-1996. Each lecture is intended to reflect on the history of the handmade book as the background for its continuing life in the twenty-first century. The series has been made possible by the generous permission of the Bolton family, and each lecture will be given by a prominent writer/scholar in the field. For this inaugural lecture Codex Australia is delighted to present Sasha Grishin, the Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History at ANU, whose knowledge and scholarship is widely respected in the world of Australian art and in the art of the book.…

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Symposium | Migration and Exchange: Symposium on early Australian Photography, Melbourne 29-30 November

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Migration and Exchange: Symposium on early Australian Photography This symposium explores itinerant and sporadic image making in Australia (including those parts of the Pacific that Australia administered and that Australian photographers travelled to) in order to understand the effects of photographic transformation and exchange. It begins with images recruited to lend authority to colonial and indigenous elites and royals, includes the images created in the most intense period of Australia’s settlement – a period which includes the gold rush, the Great Exhibitions and Federation – and ends with the First World War which transformed relationships between foreign colonial powers, engendered a spirit of independence, and saw locals journeying to a European war carrying cameras and bringing back a new set of travel images with deep personal meaning. The symposium seeks to emphasise patterns of transformation and exchange. It includes the…

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Symposium | A Body of Knowledge, Melbourne University

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A Body of Knowledge Symposium The University of Melbourne Medical Science is much more than a single discipline, it intersects with art, technology philosophy and history. This symposium will consider the medical body from a number of perspectives. The morning sessions explore forensic and scientific innovations as well as considering the social and cultural history of the Melbourne Medical School. The afternoon sessions probe what happens when artists investigate the boundaries of anatomy, historically through models and images, and in the future, where technological evolution challenges our ideas of what it is to be human. See full details of the art history papers below. Session One 11.00 – 11.30 | The Demon in the Body Professor Mark Cook Chair of Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital 11.30 – 12.00 | The sick man thesis: bodies and disease in the nineteenth century Dr James…

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Artist Book Display and Talks

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Seeing Artists Books as Research  The Royal Society of Victoria Heritage Library Curated by Dr Anne Bennett This one day exhibition affords a unique opportunity to see and handle artist books arising from postgraduate research produced in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University over the past decade within the historic setting of the Heritage Library and Lecture Theatre at The Royal Society of Victoria. Featuring artists books by Monash University alumni and current postgraduate candidates including: Jillian Allan, Marie-Louise Anderson, Lyn Ashby, Rhonda Ayliffe, Catherine Bell, Anne Bennett, Jennifer Butler, Natasha Carrington, Antonietta Covino-Beehre, Mimmo Cozzolino, David Frazer, Kari Henriksen, Lily Hibberd, Wendy Kelly, Spiros Panigirakis, Stephen Pascoe, Elizabeth Presa, Felicity Spear & others. Talks by: Dr Steven Tonkin, Dr Anne Bennett, Marian Crawford, Prof. Sasha Grishin Venue: The Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne Date: Friday…

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Film, Feminism and Fun at West Space!

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Film, Feminism and Fun at West Space!  September 5 – 15, West Space, Melbourne A Dinner Party: Setting the table – feminist art forum, events and art exhibition A Dinner Party: setting the table, is a collaborative project curated by Caroline Phillips and Victoria Duckett. It is a cross- media forum and series of events that brings a range of feminist artists, scholars, and social commentators together to explore feminist art today. The project is the first step towards the realization of a larger feminist exhibition The F Word which will tour Regional and metropolitan Victoria in 2014/15. Events programme Thursday, September 6, 6-8pm | Knitting Circle with Kate Just. Bring a piece your working on, or just bring some needles and wool and Kate will help you get started. Friday, September 7, 6-8pm | Film: Imaging Her World: Feminist Visions A…

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Lecture | Landscape, Ancient Monuments and Memory in Early Modern Britain – Alexandra Walsham

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Landscape, Ancient Monuments and Memory in Early Modern Britain  Professor Alexandra Walsham, Greg Dening Lecture In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the landscape of the British Isles was littered with mysterious remnants of the prehistoric past: stone circles, chambered tombs, and standing stones. This lecture explores the evolution of early modern ideas about the origin, function and significance of these monuments. It considers how attitudes towards the partly natural and partly man-made physical environment were shaped and transformed by the profound theological upheavals associated with the Protestant Reformation and by intellectual and cultural developments that fostered a growing fascination with the early history and archaeology of Britain and Ireland. Then, as now, people perceived and interpreted the landscape through the prism of their own moral and spiritual values and social and political preoccupations. The lecture will assess the critical importance…

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Exhibition | Eros, Philos and Agape: A work by Ponch Hawkes

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Eros, Philos and Agape: A work by Ponch Hawkes Eros, Philos and Agape – the Greek names for the three forms of love – is an installation by photographer Ponch Hawkes. It presents the role of love in the sporting progression of four elite junior athletes. Hawkes developed the work during her year as the National Sports Museum Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellow for 2011/12. Admission to Eros, Philos and Agape is free of charge, but visitors must present a valid match-day ticket if they wish to see the exhibition in conjunction with an AFL match at the MCG. Dates: August 9, 2012 to August 30, 2012 Venue: Gate 3, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Yarra Park, East Melbourne Organized by: National Sports Museum Further information on the National Sports Museum Website

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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 – 6.00pm and Sunday 2 September 2012 9.00 am – 6.00 pm Convenors: Dr Jenny Spinks, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, School of…

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Lectures | Revealing the Collections of Melbourne University

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Revealing the Collections This program of lectures will showcase some of the rich but little known collections of art and visual culture held at the University of Melbourne. In addition to one of the largest art collections in Victoria, the University houses collections in such diverse areas as classics and archaeology, international Indigenous cultural material, decorative arts, 20th century poster designs, decorative arts, public sculpture and artists’ archives. Come and listen to a series of lectures by art historians, educators and students, who give their insights into the history and significance of their favourite collections.This program of lectures is hosted by the Art History Program in the School of Culture and Communication. Venue: Elisabeth Murdoch Lecture Theatre A, Melbourne University, Parkville. Date: Sunday 29 July 2012, 10.30am–12.00noon; 2.00pm–4.00pm Free Event. All Welcome. No Bookings required. Program 10.30am–10.35am Welcome – Speaker: Assoc Prof Alison Inglis,…

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Talk | An Invitation to ‘Modern’ Melbourne: Reconsidering the 1956 Olympic Games Poster Dr John Hughson

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An Invitation to ‘Modern’ Melbourne: Reconsidering the 1956 Olympic Games Poster Dr John Hughson The poster designed by Richard Beck for the Games of the XVI Olympiad introduced a significant stylistic interruption to the imagery used to promote the Olympic occasion and its ideals. Posters for the previous summer Games, since 1912, had featured different renditions of the semi-naked male athletic body. In stark contrast, Beck’s poster dispensed with human figuration instead offering a sparse geometrical design said to depict an invitation card. While there is little evidence in the formal records to indicate the commission of a specified design, Beck’s image fitted well with the agenda pursued by the local organizers for Melbourne to be represented as a ‘modern’ destination; a location where the Olympic Games could be conducted at distance from old enmities. However, rather than being a…

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Review | Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond. Reviewed by Adam Bushby

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Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond Reviewed by Adam Bushby Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, State Library of Victoria, Keith Murdoch Gallery, until 1 July 2012. Illustrated manuscripts from Persia, Ottoman Turkey and Mughal India are rare treats in Melbourne. Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond presents a modest but varied collection of manuscripts drawn mostly from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, covering the period between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. The subject matter is both profane and sacred, familiar secular stories such as One Thousand and One Nights giving way to stories of love and illustrations of the natural world representing the divine. I suspect that most viewers, like me, approach these manuscripts tentatively, because the images they contain appear so different from those one is accustomed to meeting in traditional art histories. For…

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Event | Melbourne Open House 2012

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Melbourne Open House 2012 Melbourne Open House has announced the list of buildings for their 2012 event. The Open House weekend will take place on the 28th and 29th of July. This year there are exactly 100 buildings on the list, they are grouped according to situation in the North, South, East and West of Melbourne. The majority are in the CBD or close by with a handful further afield in Port Melbourne, Fitzroy North, and Essendon. The full list can be found on the Melbourne Open House website here. The buildings that you will be able to see inside include both historical and contemporary examples, from the grandly historical such as Melbourne Town Hall and the Manchester Unity Buidling to the contemporary spaces of Denmark House or the roof garden at 131 Queen St. Of particular interest to those…

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