Jobs Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria (link to general NGV jobs page, scroll down for job) - deadline 15th April 2013 Postdoctoral research collaborator, The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence - deadline 10th May 2013 Research Fellow, University of Warwick -History of Art - deadline 30th April 2013 Lecturer in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics, University of Kent -School of Arts - deadline May 3rd 2013 Research Fellowship 2013, University of Cambridge -Downing College (includes History of Art) - deadline 1st May 2013 Manager, Conservation - Museum Victoria - deadline 19th April 2013 Gallery Curator at Counihan Gallery, Moreland City Council (link to Moreland Council employment page, scroll down for job)- deadline April 15th 2013 Funding H. Allen Brooks Travelling…
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Forum | Pacific Arts and Culture
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Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival: Pacific Arts and Culture Forum The CPAF forum series brings together critical thinkers, creative practitioners, academics and arts industry professionals whose work engages with the contemporary Pacific. The program will include three discussion panels around the following themes: Addressing the Archive – Pacific collections in Australian museums and galleries Who Will Claim Me – Authenticity and identity in contemporary art of the Pacific diaspora Mobilizing Pasifika – Intersections of art, activism and community Panel speakers include Jacob Tolo, Kirsten Lyttle, Lia Pa’apa’a, Namila Benson, Taloi Havini and Sana Balai. Each panel discussion will run for 90 minutes and will conclude with an audience Q&A. Date: Friday 5 April 11:30 am - 5:30 pm Venue: The Basement Theatre…
Lecture | Rex Butler ‘Boris Groys: Communist Art Historian’
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Boris Groys: Communist Art Historian Rex Butler It might seem strange to argue it, but Boris Groys, who made his name with The Total Art of Stalinism (1992), a brilliant analysis of the complicity between the Russian avant-garde and Stalinism, might be our greatest Communist art historian. How? Groys’s critical writing — pursued primarily today through the internet in such journals as e-flux — is transcendental, unsurpassable, indespensible, precisely in its weakness, its unemphaticness, its non-judgementality, even its self-erasure and self-contradiction. In a radical sense, as Groys admits, it is not even critical, in the sense of negating, excluding, opposing to the world as it is the way it should be. Rather, Groys’s discourse attempts simply to double the world,…
Roundtable: Mapping South
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Mapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations A roundtable to celebrate the launch of the new book, Mapping South, and to discuss the importance of southern cultures for reimagining the global. What is the South? Is it a place, a voice or a perspective? A specific site or a mobile culture? Edited by a collective led by Anthony Gardner, Mapping South explores the South as a regional identity and a cultural provocation through essays, interviews and artworks by contributors from Australia and internationally. At once a reflection on the history of south-south cultural relations and a launching pad for new initiatives, Mapping South is an ambitious exploration of what it means to think from, through and ultimately about the South.…