Merilyn Fairskye will be joining the 2010 Arts Conference as a plenary speaker. Saturday, 24 July she will present her work, ‘Fieldwork - Chernobyl’. After her plenary she will also be available for an informal Q&A, or Garden Session.
Merilyn Fairskye is an artist and academic whose work is exhibited in art galleries, public spaces, electronic arts and film festivals within Australia and internationally and is represented in numerous Australian and international public collections. She has undertaken artist residencies in the USA, Italy, France and Australia and has been the recipient of many Australia Council and Australian Film Commission grants, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. From 2007-2009 she was Associate Dean, Research at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. She is currently on sabbatical and on her return will teach in the Photomedia Studio at SCA. More…
As a curator and art historian, Djon Mundine will be joining the 2010 Arts Conference as a plenary speaker, Thursday, 22 July. For more on his plenary session and the day’s program, please download the conference draft program.
Djon Mundine is a curator and art historian, originally from the Northern Rivers area of NSW. He is currently Indigenous Curator, Contemporary Art at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Mundine is well known as the concept curator of the permanent Aboriginal Memorial installation at the National Gallery of Australia and was awarded an OAM in 1993. Previous positions have included: Senior Curator, Gallery of Aboriginal Australia, National Museum of Australia, Senior Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Programs, MCA, and Art Adviser for the Ramingining Community of Central Arnhem Land. More…
The 2010 Arts Conference, 22-25 July, University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, will be hosting a Special Exhibition, proppaNOW: Women Artists, Women’s Business.
The exhibition, proppaNOW: Women Artists, Women’s Business, features the art works of proppaNOW Aboriginal Artists Collective’s Brisbane-based members Jennifer Herd, Bianca Beetson and Andrea Fisher. The exhibition presents the artists’ innovative approaches to Aboriginal Art and contemporary urban expressions that situate Indigenous women’s art as central to Australian art history and national culture. Fresh from the Putsch exhibit at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, proppaNOW artists look to overthrow institutionalized racism, stereotypes, urban myths and romanticised views of contemporary Indigenous art.
The artists will speak at the Arts Conference on Friday, July 23rd, as part of a panel in conversation with Professors Tressa Berman and Pat Hoffie.
From the exhibition…
(Image below: Andrea Fisher, from ‘Armed Series’)
(Image below: Jennifer Herd, Untitled, shields)
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David Elliott is the Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney. He is a curator, writer, broadcaster and museum director primarily concerned with modern and contemporary art. Elliott was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England from 1976–96, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden from 1996–2001, the founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 2001–2006 and, in 2007 the first Director of Istanbul Modern, Turkey. From 1998–2004, he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and in 2008, he was the Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor of Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin. More…
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Arts Conference
22-25 July 2010
Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
- David Elliott, Director, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Merilyn Fairskye, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Djon Mundine, Cambelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins by submitting a paper proposal. More information on proposals, presentation types, and other options available here. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. 2010 Arts Conference registration options.
Mario Minichiello, Birmingham City University BIAD, Birmingham, UK
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Mario Minichiello is the Head of Department and Chair of Visual Communications programmes at Birmingham City University BIAD, faculty of Art and Design, Britain. He is also a visiting research Fellow at the University of Sydney, School of art. An award winning artist and designer producing both inspirational and often controversial reportage artwork for broadcast media including television, broadsheet newspapers and magazines. Professor Minichiello has recently been a guest on a number of broadcast debates on the role of art in society and has most recently taken part in an interview with Press TV, this was broadcast on a number of international channels including al-Jazeera. More…
Accommodation for the 2009 Arts Conference in Venice, Italy may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
Colin Rhodes, Professor, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Rozelle, NSW, Australia,
Leoni Schmidt, Academic Director: Research & Postgraduate Studies, School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Tomasz Wendland, Dr. Wendland is a practicing artist who works in various media: Video, installation, drawing, sculpture, photography, object and performance, Poland
Judy Chicago, Artist, Author, Feminist, Educator, and Intellectual, New Mexico, USA
Barbara Fischer, Barbara Fischer, Director/Curator of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto; as well as Senior Lecturer in Curatorial Studies in the Department of Art at University of Toronto, Canada
Aaron Levy, Teacher, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nancy Mithlo, Assistant Professor, Art History and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
28-31 July 2009
Venice, Italy
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