CAHAT - Past events
Insurgence Symposium @ The Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
Art forum
Art and Politics: Critiquing Richard Bell’s latest video work The Dinner Party 2013 The ongoing tensions of colonisation and resistance and the reality of life as an Indigenous person in contemporary Australia are powerfully addressed by the proppaNOW collective. This exhibition features the work…
Fringe Forum: Dr Jane Kinsman
Art forum
Floor talk 'William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa' @ NGA William Kentridge is a major figure in contemporary art, who has established an international reputation as a gifted figurative artist. Working in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, Kentridge explores themes of the society in…
Stephen Jones
Art forum
Theremin Project In 1971 and 1972 Australian media artist Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski undertook an ANU Creative Arts Fellowship which resulted in the design and production of several theremins that could be attached to a series of abstract 'paintings' on steel 'canvasses'. These…
Fringe Forum: Maike Dahl
Art forum
Maike Dahl is Silversmith, based in Hannover, Germany. Her work is centered around the theme ‘silver for the everyday’. Inspired by modern packaging, Maike takes very thin silver sheets, which she then folds and solders together to make a fascinating collection of tumbling tumblers, bowl and…
James McLeod
Art forum
James McLeod is a mixed media artist who uses glass as an integral component in his work. His current work incorporates site specific photography with silk screening and enamel work on glass. James McLeod is an Associate professor of 3D Fine art / glass at Massachusetts College of Art and…
Fringe Forum: Michael Brennand-Wood
Art forum
Pretty Deadly Michael Brennand-Wood is known primarily as a textile artist, and is also an accomplished visual artist, curator, lecturer and arts consultant and often works across a variety of disciplines. His work is held in major public, corporate and private collections worldwide, including at…
Shaping Canberra
Art forum
Exhibition floor talk Shaping Canberra: the lived experience of a changing landscape is an exhibition of fresh new work by eighteen Canberra artists who combine their own sense of Canberra's changing landscape with explorations of material held in local collections and archives. Join curator Ruth…