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Symposium | Rooms for Thought: Radical Uses of Museum Collections

MUM collections symposium

Rooms for Thought examines recent curatorial initiatives with collections, undertaken both by artists and curators alike. We are delighted to bring Dr Clémentine Deliss to Australia to discuss her groundbreaking work with ethnographic collections at Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, as well as Jaroslaw Suchan, whose unconventional curatorial approach to the collections at Muzeum Sztuki has brought great attention to this artist-initiated regional museum in Lodz, Poland. These keynote speakers will be joined by Australian and New Zealand artists, academics and curators in a program designed to look at the movement away from…

Exhibition and Workshop Faculty Gallery, Monash University

Nobuhiro Shimura, Dress. Installation view, Faculty Gallery, Monash University 2012. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Exhibition | Nobhuro Shimura | Dress Experimenta ‘Speak to Me’ 5th International Biennial of Media Art Japanese artist Nobuhiro Shimura is presented at Faculty Gallery, Monash University as a part of Experimenta Speak to Me. Shimura’s playful projections draw upon everyday materials and objects, such as paperclips, matches, buttons and sneakers.  His work Dress is a shimmering projection on to metallic ribbons that spans the width of the gallery. Exhibition: 11 - 29 September | Free Workshop | No Direction Home with D. H. Thomas Wednesday 19th September, 10am A D.I.Y., hands-on, collaborative, old…

Exhibition | Monash Faculty Gallery ‘The Barwon Interviews’

Monash Faculty Gallery ‘The Barwon Interviews’ Natasha Carrington An upcoming exhibition The Barwon Interviews by Natasha Carrington at the Faculty Gallery will take visitors to prison, where twelve anonymous men describe their experiences of incarceration. In this experience, first recorded on site at Barwon prison, twelve prisoners present a complex narrative of individual agency, emotional tension and subversion towards the correctional system. Carrington states: “I wanted to understand how they adapt, manage relationships and respond to the punitive mechanisms of the institution. The hard edge of cells, locks and razor wire,…

Exhibition | Jill Orr ‘Space, Place and Recurring History’, Monash University Faculty Gallery

Jill Orr, Between Somewhere and Nowhere-Mirror, 2011. Photographer, Christina Simons for Jill Orr. Copyright the artist. Inkjet print on crane silver rag. 105 x 145cm. Courtesy of the artist and Jenny Port Gallery.

Jill Orr ‘Space, Place and Recurring History’ Monash University Faculty Gallery Space, Place and Recurring History is an analysis, through art practice, of relationships to place that overlap, intermingle, collaborate and question. Vision, imagination and possibility sit side by side the challenges faced in the psycho-social environment, that goes hand in hand with the Earth’s  ecology of which we are an integral part. The works created for this research address some blockages  that impede social and environmental change and propose an imaginative, interactive space through which a productive chaos of…

Lectures | ASA International Scholar Lecture Series - The Ancient Mediterranean

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete photo by Kristen Hellstrom. Via ASA website.

ASA International Scholar Lecture Series - The Ancient Mediterranean Speakers Dr Don Evely, Curator, British School of Athens at Knossos, Crete Dr Erin Gibson, a Landscape Archaeologist, with interest in past human activity in the Eastern Mediterranean Program 10.00 - 11.00 Lecture 1: A Tale of Two Islands: Cyprus and Crete in the Bronze Age by Dr Don Evely 11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea 11.30 - 12.30 Lecture 2: A Layered Past: Reading the Landscapes of Cyprus and Turkey by Dr Erin Gibson 12.30 - 1.45 Lunch Break 1.45 -…

Exhibition | Museums in the Incident

Benet Spencer, Untitled City, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 140 x 220 cm, courtesy of the artist

Museums in the Incident Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, 15 February - 22 March 2021 Local and international artists have chosen works from the Monash University collection and paired it with a work of their own, creating a whole new artistic experience. Eleanor Crook, Ysabelle Dauguet, Sam Martin, Michelle Neal, Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock and Wyndham Lewis, Benet Spencer, Kristina Tsoulis-Reay, Michael Vale, Rosie Weiss, Anna White. Alongside work they have curated from the Monash University Collection: Rick Amor, Mike Brown, Domenico De Clario, John Heartfield, Maria Kozic, Stieg Persson, Yikartu …

Lecture: John Paoletti ‘Learn My Language: Strategies of Medici Patronage in Renaissance Florence’

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The Bill Kent Foundation invites you to the Inaugural Bill Kent Memorial Lecture Professor John T. Paoletti Learn My Language: Strategies of Medici Patronage in Renaissance Florence Emeritus Professor John T. Paoletti is currently a Macgeorge Fellow at The University of Melbourne. He was Professor of Art History and the William R Kenan Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. Co-author of Art in Renaissance Italy, a standard text on the subject (now in its third edition), he has also published widely on issues of patronage and on Michelangelo, and…

Call for Papers - IMPACT 7: Intersections and Counterpoints

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Call for Papers IMPACT 7: Intersections & Counterpoints Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University 27-30 September, 2011 The conference addresses practitioners, writers, critics, artists, theorists, and others working in the broad fields of print-related research. It aims to provide a platform in which practitioners and researchers can engage in a mutually productive exchange. Media identified by the conference will include but not be limited to: Printmaking, Photography, Graphic Design, Drawing, The Artist’s Book, Text, Animation, Film and Digital Media, Jewellery and Metalsmith, Glass, Ceramic and Textile. Monash University invites…