Tag: Public Art

News | Public Art Melbourne Biennial Lab Artists announced

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Last week the City of Melbourne announced the artists who will participate in the inaugural Public Art Melbourne Biennial Lab: What happens now? at Queen Victoria Market. The selected artists are: Hiromi Tango; Jessie Bullivant; Kiron Robinson; Steven Rhall; Willurai Kirkbright; Sanné Mestrom and Jamie Hall from The Mechanic’s Institute; Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine; Jason Maling and Martyn Coutts from Field Theory; Will Foster from A Centre for Everything and Timothy Moore from SIBLING. From the City of Melbourne: More than 150 artists from around Australia applied to take part in the Public Art Melbourne Biennial Lab: an experimental temporary art project run by the City of Melbourne which will result in major new public art installations at the Queen Victoria Market (QVM), coinciding with the Melbourne Festival in October. These artists will spend two weeks in June developing their…

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News | MUMA unveils new public artwork by DAMP and Monash Art Projects

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The new work, called Gormenghast is by the artist group Damp and Monash Art Projects (MAP) and can now be seen at the Ian Potter Sculpture Court at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). The work is a a temporary and evolving architectural structure and will be a key site for Art holds a high place in my life | Damp: study of an artist at 21 – a series of exhibitions and events curated by Rosemary Forde, a Monash University Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) PhD candidate. Throughout the year, the two-level structure at Caulfield campus will provide a base for Forde’s curatorial project, with exhibitions, events, and study group seminars to take place at the site. The program presents a survey of new and existing work by the Melbourne artist group Damp, drawing on 21 years of practice from a group that has involved…

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Forum | Claire Doherty, The New Rules of Public Art

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MONA and TCotA present a special Arts Forum in Hobart Claire Doherty, The New Rules of Public Art Wednesday 26 March 2021 “Create space for the unplanned; Don’t make it for a community. Create a community; Demand more than fireworks; Get lost.” An organisation born in Bristol, UK, Situations re-imagines what public art can be and where and when it can take place. Claire Doherty, writer, curator and founder Director of Situations, gives a provocative introduction to the New Rules of Public Art – drawn from producing groundbreaking public art projects over the past fifteen years from New Zealand’s One Day Sculpture series to Nowhere island, the Cultural Olympiad’s most daring public art commission. Doherty is renowned as a leading voice in public art curating through Situations’ work and through her publications, Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation (2004) and the…

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Lecture Series | Palimpsest at La Trobe | Shamin Momin, Jack Becker and Rob Garrett

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Arts Mildura, La Trobe University and LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art partner to bring to Melbourne three leading international curators all with a long standing interest and commitment to site-specific contemporary art practice. All three speakers are taking part in Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #9, 4-7 October, a biennial visual arts event that invites artists to engage with the cultural and natural environment of the Mildura and Murray Darling region. Palimpsest is organized by Arts Mildura an independent non-profit organization with full tax deductible gift status. La Trobe University is Arts Mildura’s principle education partner. October 3rd 6.30pm, State Library of Victoria, Seminar Room 1 Shamim Momin | An introduction to L.A.N.D. (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) Shamim Momin is the Director of L.A.N.D (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), a non-profit public art initiative committed to curating site and situation…

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Public art forum | Invasion or integration? Public art in urban spaces | Ian Potter Museum of Art

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Invasion or integration? Public art in urban spaces Vivien Lovell, Vanessa Walker Vivien Lovell is the founder of Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit curating and producing site-specific artistic interventions. Based in London, Modus Operandi has delivered more than 110 projects over the past 12 years throughout Britain, Europe and Japan. In this presentaion, Vivien will focus on current approaches to urban public art, contrasting the role of integrated art and the concept of place-making with the notion of the ‘placed’ object as ‘space-invader’. Case studies, including BBC Broadcasting House, the Phoenix Initiative in Coventry, the Marunouchi Art Project in Tokyo, Oxford University’s Radcliffe Observatory Quarter and The Fourth Plinth project in Trafalgar Square, will explore the notion of artist-designed public spaces, the integration of art within architecture, and the role of the temporary installation in the public realm. Vivien…

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Symposium | Sculpture: Place and Space

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 Sculpture: Place and Space Australian National University, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the ANU School of Art and the National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Australia, May 10 – 12, 2013 The symposium is a highlight of the 2013 Centenary of Canberra program TOUCH: Sculpture and the Land that has been designed to celebrate sculpture in all its forms. TOUCH: Sculpture and the Land is taking place in venues across Canberra in May 2013 and includes special exhibitions at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery and School of Art Gallery, various activities and events at ACT Galleries and Art Centres, artists in residence, walks, talks and tours of sculpture collections on the ANU Campus and International Sculpture Park and the NGA Sculpture Garden. Opportunities to visit Canberra’s public sculpture collections in Civic, Parliament House, New Acton and the Australian…

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Public Art Workshop | Go on DO IT: Things to think about in public (art) at ACMI

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Go on DO IT: Things to think about in public (art) Join Jordana Maisie, feature artist for this year’s Light in Winter festival, in a two-day workshop focusing on installation art. Jordana will start the two-day workshop with an artist’s talk on site-specific and public art, followed by a workshop session in the afternoon, where participants will carry out a thorough site analysis of Fed Square as a hypothetical installation site. The second day of the workshop will kick off with a session called ‘Design Charette’. The term ‘charette’ refers to an intense period of work by one person or a group of people to resolve conflicts and map solutions prior to a deadline. Groups will be working together to develop site-specific installation project ideas. The event will culminate in a final session where groups and individuals will present their…

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Wheeler Centre Breakfast Club Talks on Art

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Breakfast Club at the Wheeler Centre The Breakfast Club is a series of talks events, presented in partnership with the Next Wave Festival, and held at breakfast time: on weekdays at 8am, on weekends at 10am. From the Wheeler Centre: “We’re interested in how the world and art collide. In a time of intense political confusion, it’s hard to articulate the changes so many want to see. Artistic practice, with its complex arsenal of the subconscious, is well placed to be a key player. We’re not interested in expert-led formats; we want big opinions, good discussion and personal stories. And coffee (that’s important). Each event runs for two hours, and will be punctuated by a series of provocations from artists, key thinkers and our international curators-in-residence. Arrive at any point. Pull up a chair and a croissant. And dive on…

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Lecture and Panel Discussion | Public Art, Spatial Practices and the City

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  Public Art, Spatial Practices and the City John Vella, Tasmanian School of Art What role and form does Public Art have in the City and its future/s? In imagining the city, ideas of community and culture, and their dynamic interrelations, can be obscured within a focus on physical and built forms. Artist John Vella’s public lecture will examine the matrix of Public Art in the contemporary city, with a focus on spatial practice. Drawing upon recent shifts in conceptions of ‘place-making’ that attempt to take greater account of socio-cultural dynamics, can spatial practice be imagined more broadly – as a platform and medium for dialogue in the city? For articulating ‘the right to the city’? For reconnecting people to place via Public Art ‘place-making’ as a relational activity? For imagining futures and producing public space, whether utopian or pragmatic? The speaker…

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CFP: Temporality in public arts practice (Newcastle, 29-30 Mar 12)

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Temporality in public arts practice (Newcastle, 29-30 Mar 12) Newcastle upon Tyne, March 29 – 30, 2012 Deadline: Sep 30, 2020 Duration: an international, interdisciplinary conference exploring the temporality of contemporary public arts practice. The conference is part of AV Festival 2012. Please e-mail abstracts (300 words) for 20 minute presentations of papers, reflections on practice or proposals for 1hr workshops to info@intersectionspublicart.org.uk Intersections invites papers and presentations of work that explore the tensions between permanence and temporality in contemporary public arts practice. Public Art engages with issues of societal change, policy-making and environmental specificities, all of which unfold at a unique pace. Critical practice and new technologies can engage, disrupt or challenge this pace by working across time and space. Possible themes include, but are not restricted to: Permanent / Ephemeral: how do ephemeral practices disrupt, agitate or question the permanence…

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Symposium – Public interactions: Dialogues on art and public space, ANU School of Art, Canberra, 20 July – 23 July 2020

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Public interactions: Dialogues on art and public space ANU School of Art, Canberra, 20 July – 23 July 2011 The Australian National University School of Art presents Public interactions: Dialogues on art and public space, an international symposium to be held in Canberra from the 20th to the 23rd of July 2011. International and local artists, architects, designers and public intellectuals will converge to explore the role of art in the public spaces of the contemporary community. Diverse practices will be revealed across digital, relational, guerrilla, ephemeral, heritage, commemorative and architectural spaces. Participants will discover Canberra’s vibrant public art scene, as well as glimpsing the failed dreams of those projects that might have been. Canberra, Australia’s capital, was planned at a time when faith in the role of art and design in perfecting inhabited space was at its zenith. A remnant…

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CFP: Trieste Contemporanea Seminar on Art History ‘The Fragile Pedestal’

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Call for Papers Trieste Contemporanea Seminar on Art History ‘The Fragile Pedestal’ 3-4 June, 2011 Deadline: 1st of March, 2011 The seminar: The purpose of the seminar is to offer European students and young researchers the opportunity to share their research work with a group of young scholars of different provenance and to verify work methods, with the supervision of an international team of professors and professionals in the field of contemporary art. Trieste Contemporanea plans to create a collaborative space for research, parallel to the academic one, in which the transmission of knowledge among students and professors is organized according to the requests of the student. In this way, the student will have the opportunity to develop and correct his own work in the making. The seminar is an integral part of the CEI Venice Form for Contemporary Art…

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Funding: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Architecture and Design at RMIT University

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow RMIT University – School of Architecture and Design,  Melbourne, Australia A$50,811 – A$68,921 p.a. + 17% super, CBD location, Full-time, 4 year fixed term contract until 24 December 2020 A position for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow is available within RMIT University’s School of Architecture and Design. You will work alongside Dr Quentin Stevens in connection with a major ARC-funded project exploring the design and public perception of contemporary memorials and other public artworks. The post would suit someone with a PhD in open space design, human-environment relations, urban geography, and/or public art policy. Experience in the publication of academic research is desirable. The post is research-only and is available full-time for four years. All applicants are required to provide a separate statement addressing the key selection criteria (see PD) in addition to providing a resume and covering…

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CFP: Art on the Street (South Korea)

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Call for Papers: Art on the Street The Korean Society of Art Theories, Seoul, KOREA October 24, 2020 We seek to build upon the recent discussion on public art and community by investigating specific examples of the practices of contemporary art inparticular contexts. We pay attention to the way in which the process of creation, perception, and reception of the artwork relates to the formation of a community. We invite papers on mural projects, site-specific urban planning projects, parks, public monuments, and other types of community-oriented projects. Discussions on a project or network of activities that form relationships among participants and a public are also encouraged. At the same time, we hope to explore artistic practices that resist or negotiate in terms of everyday life, localization, globalization, and social and cultural structures. We also encourage papers that revisit the issue…

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