Tag: Discipline

Lecture | Dr Chris McAuliffe Blind Replicators and Conscious Foresight: Surviving Circulation | TarraWarra Museum of Art

Dr Chris McAuliffe | Blind Replicators and Conscious Foresight: Surviving Circulation Date: Sunday, 23rd October 2016, 2:00pm Venue: TarraWarra Museum of Art Free to attend The 2016 TarraWarra Biennial addresses the ideas of circulation and continuity emerging in art’s passage through institutional and industry channels such as exhibitions, magazines, galleries and museums. The sense of opportunity and crisis associated with these ideas might be traced back to 1976, when two challenging proposals relating to circulation and continuity were made. Writing in the first issue of the journal October, critic Rosalind Krauss reflected on artists’ extensive engagement with circulatory media, such as magazines, photographs and video. As artists more self-consciously occupied circulatory systems, Krauss saw a radical change to art’s presence looming; ‘That an artist’s work be published, reproduced or disseminated through the media has become … virtually the only mean…

Publication | Discipline No. 4

Congratulations to the Discipline team on another issue. Discipline No. 4 launches are being held in both Melbourne and Brisbane next week. Launch Melbourne Tuesday, 29th March 2016, 6:00–9:00pm | The Alderman, Melbourne Launch Brisbane Saturday, 2nd April 2016, 3:00–5:00pm | Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Discipline is pleased to launch its fourth issue, published in December 2015. Edited by Nicholas Croggon, David Homewood and Helen Hughes, with a guest edited section by Ferdiansyah Thajib of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, designed by Robert Milne, and eighteen months in the making, Discipline No. 4 features: Michael Ascroft, Amelia Barikin, Gordon Bennett, Rex Butler, Prihatmoko ‘Moki’ Catur, Centre for Style, Angus Cerini, John Citizen, Fiona Connor, Juan Davila, A.D.S. Donaldson, Giles Fielke, Amelia Groom, David Homewood, Helen Johnson, Nuraini Juliastuti, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Bronté Lambert, Matthew Linde, Liang Luscombe, Ian…

Lecture | Philip Brophy Voiding Effects & Terrorised Language: Video and the Unreality of ISIS (Part 2) | West Space

Part 2 of Brophy’s Discipline lecture at the Wheeler Centre, ‘Terror Vision: Video and the Unreality of ISIS’ by Philip Brophy, will take place at West Space this Thursday 16 July, from 6–8pm. This is an opportunity to hear the rest of Philip’s lecture, and for discussion. The clutch of late 2013/early 2014 ISIS videos have been near-unanimously accepted as being real—mostly out of fear that they might be real. Yet the videos employ multi-camera set-ups, pixel-tracking, void-compositing, particle effects and diffusion plug-ins which are utilised in Hollywood, television advertising and video art production—all of whom ape cinematic effects for various purposes. The contemporary dilemma is not whether one believes the videos to be real or unreal, but how one distinguishes their divination from the consternation of Zero Dark Thirty, the hysterics of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, or the rhetoric…

Gertrude Discipline Lecture | Inside Outside and In Parallel: Speculations from four curators working in the Turkish Context

Mari Spirito, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak Şenova and November Paynter The next Gertrude-Discipline lecture takes the form of a panel: a discussion between four curators whose work concerns the presentation and production of contemporary art from Turkey. Mari Spirito, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak Şenova and November Paynter represent a range of voices from within the independent, not-for-profit and museum sectors in Turkey. They will discuss their approaches to curating contemporary Turkish art, highlighting the individual concerns, challenges and circumstances that motivate and inform their curatorial approaches. Following the panel discussion, Associate Professor and Director of Curatorial Practise at Monash University and Editor at-large for The Exhibitionist, Tara McDowell, will facilitate a Q&A with the audience. Inside, Outside & In Parallel: Speculations from four curators working in the Turkish context is presented by Gertrude Contemporary and Discipline in collaboration with Artspace and Protocinema. Mari Spirito, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak…

Lecture | Sound Matters: One Energy Among Others - Douglas Kahn

Gertrude, Discipline and Liquid Architecture - Theories and Histories of Sound Douglas Kahn will give the second lecture in a series presented by Gertrude Contemporary, Discipline and Liquid Architecture festival on the theories and histories of sound. This exploratory talk will follow from Douglas Kahn’s most recent book, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts (University of California Press, 2013). The book, over a decade in the making, is a fundamental reworking in the histories of science, communications, music and the arts to account for the incursion of electromagnetism into culture from the nineteenth century to the present. It covers such figures as Thomas Watson, Henry David, Thoreau, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Joyce Hinterding and Alvin Lucier, Kahn’s former teacher. Investigating the trade between acoustics and electromagnetism in aesthetics and the arts poses questions for new…

Lecture | Branden W. Joseph - Art and Dirt: Kim Gordon’s Aesthetics of Impurity

Art and Dirt: Kim Gordon’s Aesthetics of Impurity Branden W. Joseph Before embarking on her path-breaking career as singer and bassist in the band Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon was a key artistic and critical voice in the New York art scene, close to such celebrated figures as Mike Kelley, Dan Graham, John Knight, Robert Longo and Laurie Anderson. Throughout the early 1980s in artist-run publications such as Real Life, ZG, Journal, and FILE, Gordon contributed a series of astute analyses of the artistic practices of these and other figures, as well as of the crossovers between art and music. At the same time, she was producing exhibitions and installations under the moniker “Design Office”. In this lecture, Branden W. Joseph, editor of Is It My Body?, a collection of Gordon’s early art writing published this year on Sternberg Press, will discuss the little known range of Gordon’s aesthetic practices and…

Gertrude Contemporary/Discipline Contemporary Art lecture #7 | Interface, Access, Loss - Sean Dockray

LECTURE #7: Sean Dockray  Interface, Access, Loss with respondent Jake Goldenfein This lecture surveys how the structure of digital property has changed over the past few years with the growth of ‘the cloud’. Drawing on concepts from computer science, it traces a path from the peer-to-peer utopianism of a decade ago to the power and data centralising within today’s Internet platforms. It is a dark lecture, written under the cloud’s shadow, but I’ll conclude with an attempt to gesture toward some cracks in those interfaces that define the seemingly impermeable contours of this new reality. Sean Dockray is an artist, a founding director of the Los Angeles non-profit Telic Arts Exchange, and initiator of knowledge-sharing platforms, The Public School andaaaarg.org. As a research fellow the Post-Media Lab at Leuphana University last year, he explored the physical infrastructure of the sharing…