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… are guaranteed. Hanna’s public reception following her PhD presentation is at Burgman College at 5.00pm this Friday. On Saturday at 2.00pm (clashing with Open Day) she is giving a floor talk. It’s a one-day show – so don’t miss it! (More pix here)

See the link to emaj (electronic melbourne art journal) for opportunities for referreed online publishing of essays of art historical interest. And glimpse, for nostalgia’s sake, your blogwrangler’s work on the cover illustration.

Don’t miss the great show Reflex at M16 curated by Geoff Farquhar-Still, open this weekend until 16th August. In the footsteps of the great NZ mobilist Len Lye – my spies tell me his Melbourne ACMI retrospective is surprisingly good. If you miss it in Melbourne it will be at the AGNSW in December. But who would have thought there were seven young artists (all with a connection to the ANU School of Art) who were producing mobiles? Matt Smith (PhD Sculpture) is the only one currently in the ANU School of Art postgraduate program, but yes, there’s something happening here!

Matthew Smith: Devon Street

Dan Lorrimer: Surface Tension

Chloe Bussenschutt: Water 6.30am

Heike Qualitz: Princess and Henry

Marina Neilson: Time with feeling

Geoff Farquhar-Still: A Machine for Ignoring the Facts

Sara Firth: Dream Machine

The show is up until 16 August - don’t miss it!

Vicki Mason (MPhil, G&S) is having a busy few days: Research Progress Seminar today at 3.00pm, a two-person show in Gold and Silver with Jane Bowden, and on Friday she’s giving an artists talk as part of Momentum, currently in the SofA Gallery.

The artists symposium is in the School of Art Lecture Theatre (above library).
11.00 Artists Talks – Cecilia Heffer, Vicki Mason, Ria Vlavianos

Vicki’s title: Working across classifications: In the 1970s, a handful of jewellers were forerunners in bringing textile materials and processes into the craft/art jeweller’s repertoire, within my work I’m hoping to build on this tradition.

The Research School of Humanities presents,
Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
1- 2.30 pm, Friday 31 July, Theatrette, Old Canberra House
Baskets Reveal History in the 1948 AASEAL Expedition

Dr Louise Hamby, Post-doctoral Fellow, Research School of Humanities, ANU

Departing from Adelaide in March 1948 the historic American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (AASEAL) was led by the South Australian Museum’s honorary associate ethnologist, Charles P. Mountford. Many items were collected during the expedition, in particular bark paintings, one of Mountford’s great passions. As a result, other items collected, such as fibre baskets and bags were not given as much consideration.

This seminar aims to try and bring together this dispersed group of fibre objects, currently being held in the Australian Museum, the South Australian Museum, the National Museum and the National Museum of Natural History. An analysis of the collected group will provide a snapshot of styles and forms that were being made in the mid twentieth century in Arnhem Land, keeping in mind that these items were purchased by team members and may not have been totally representative of objects in the everyday and ceremonial life of the communities. In order to give some perspective to this historical trajectory fibre works from Milingimbi will be given a closer examination. Perspectives from Milingimbi artists currently producing fibre work and others familiar with objects from sixty years ago will also be discussed

Louise Hamby is a Postdoctoral Fellow, lecturing in the Museums and Collections Graduate Program at the Research School of Humanities, ANU. She is currently working on an ARC Discovery Grant: Contexts of Collection- a dialogic approach to understanding the making of the material record of Yolngu cultures (2008-2011). Her research interests include historic and contemporary material culture from Arnhem Land

(Please note that entry to OCH is via the fenced walkway starting from Lennox Crossing (the Stanner Bld entrance), across the lawn in front of the tennis court and through the terrace)

the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference call for papers is on: the conference is happening in Canberra this year in November, so presenters won’t even have to travel to speak. You can find details on the conference website and deadline for abstracts is 31 August.

Here’s news of “an innovative new partnership between the Australia Council for the Arts and Queensland Conservation Council will see $15,000 mentorships going to young and emerging artists to tackle environmental challenges in their work.

The mentorships will involve artists being mentored by environmental activists to learn about issues ranging from climate change to biodiversity conservation to develop an artistic piece which brings together the environment, community and art.  Artists will also receive support from Feral Arts who will provide community, arts and cultural mentoring.

Ryan Dillon, Queensland Conservation Executive Member says the HELM-Arts (Healthy Environment Leadership Mentoring) project is innovative because it helps develop a new generation of artistic leadership.

“This project will expose, train and support young artists and shape them into effective leaders who can advocate for a sustainable world through their art,” Dillon says.

“Queensland Conservation, the peak body for more than 60 environmental groups in Queensland, is well placed to build closer links with the art sector,” Dillon says, “and we are hoping to attract nominations from a broad range of artists, geographical locations and ethnic backgrounds.”

“We created the term HELM-Arts as we feel it is up to young people to take the helm and lead the way with environmental change,” Dillon says.

Expressions of interest close 3 August 2009 and further information is available online here.

time . transcendence . performance
1-3 October 2009

Early bird registration closes this Friday – 24th July.

You can register online at:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/drama-theatre/conferences/ttp/2009/registration.php

TTP brings together the expertise and experiences of scholars and
artists in a format that permits the thinking and doing of time with an
aim towards mutual elucidation. Drawing together papers, panels, diverse
performance practices, exhibitions, installations, screenings and
workshops, this transdisciplinary conference and inter-media event
initiates a global discussion, investigation and critique of temporality
in its performative, phenomenological and transcendental dimensions. The
tangible consequences of this cross-fertilisation offers promise for
researchers, scholars and artists alike.

* Professor Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Australia)
* Professor Alphonso Lingis (Emeritus, Penn State University, US)
* Dr Erin Manning (Research Chair, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
* Professor Brian Massumi (Université de Montreal, Canada)
* Associate Professor Ian Maxwell (The University of Sydney, Australia)
* Assistant Professor Lanei Rodemeyer (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, US)
* Professor Anthony J Steinbock (Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, US)

Confirmed participating artists

* Professor Stelarc (Performance Artist; Brunel University West London, UK)
* Sue Healey (Choreographer, Sydney)
* Monica Tichachek (Artist, Byron Bay)
* Peter Fraser (Performer, Melbourne)
* Martin Del Amo (Dancer, Sydney)

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/drama-theatre/conferences/ttp/2009/

If you have any issues registering, please contact
TTP2009@arts.monash.edu.au

Call for Papers – “Art Worlds” Symposium, 19-20 Sept, ANU.

Sam Bowker extends a warm invitation to all current and recent postgraduates in Art Theory and the SofA to participate in the upcoming “Art Worlds” Symposium, 19-20 Sept, ANU. Though we designed it as an Art History postgraduate event, we would be really excited to see our colleagues from your lovely Art Deco building join us for a weekend of discussion, new ideas, and recent research. It’s intended as a forum for postgraduates (current and recent, including Honours students) to share their work with their ANU colleagues and a wider audience. The deadline for abstracts is Thursday 20 August 2009. (Sam Bowker).

And

Craft Design Enquiry Journal

Call for papers 2009: The Craft Australia Research Centre is seeking contributions for 2009 on the theme – Cross cultural exchanges in craft and design. We invite papers that interrogate cross-cultural practices, communicate the breadth of activity across cultural exchanges, and establish a dialogue between practice and policy for a rich and sustainable culture. Deadline for submissions has been extended to 31 July 2009 or as agreed. The papers will be published on-line in June 2010.
For further information about the Research Centre see: http://www.craftaustralia.org.au/research/committee

Silvia Velez introduces us to TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), full of “Ideas Worth Spreading”. Take a look, and if any readers know of sites that should be in our links, please submit them…