Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll in conversation with Brook Andrew
In this lecture Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll presents her method of writing the history of Australian art in the time of (post)colony as one of perpetual anachronism. Through a history of anachronic exhibitions of colonial material in Melbourne by contemporary artists the argument traces shifts between alienation in the museum vitrine and irreverent vitrinizations. The evening’s discussion also marks the launch of the book ‘Art in the Time of Colony’ by focusing on how anachronistic artists engage in a process of disalienation. Brook Andrew will moderate a debate about the taboo and critical import of working with Aboriginal archives.
Date: Thursday 14 May, 2015, 6.00 - 7.00pm
Venue:
William Macmahon Ball Theatre, Room 107 | Old Arts Building
University of Melbourne
Admission is free
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is a British Academy Newton Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of ‘Art in the Time of Colony’ (Ashgate, 2014) and is currently working on a book about Restoration. Her recent publications include ‘Sartre’s Boomerang: The archive as choreographed ready-made’, ‘The Presence of Absence: Tommy McRae and Judy Watson in Australia, the imaginary grandstand at the Royal Academy in London’ and ‘Living Paint, even after the death of the colony’. She wrote her PhD at Harvard University on ‘Imaging Nation: Colonial History and Contemporary Australian Art’. She is a guest editor of the Discipline journal issue ‘The Importance of Being Anachronistic’ and of the collection ‘Botanical Drift: Economic Botany and its Plant Protagonists’. Her films have most recently been shown at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Extracity Kunsthal Antwerp and the Irish Film Institute. www.kdja.org
Brook Andrew challenges cultural and historical perception, using installation and mixed-media to comment and connect local Australian issues with global issues regarding colonialism, identity, the media and history. Apart from drawing inspiration from vernacular objects and institutional and found archive collections, Andrew travels internationally to work with communities and museum collections to create new work relating to historical object display and perception. Andrew has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at major institutions including Tate Britain (forthcoming); Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Künstlerhaus, Vienna; Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and the Jewish Museum, Berlin. He has worked with collections from significant museums and has received numerous fellowships and awards. Brook Andrew is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels.