Past events
Books that Changed Humanity: Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style
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Youth culture, pop art, cultural studies, style – Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style was an influential early text in the march of cultural studies, but it was also very influential on artists and art criticism, and in fact Hebdige ended up teaching in art school in the US. Prof Chris…
Katie Hayne | HDR Season One Exhibition Two
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“Over the past four years I visited Canberra’s public housing precincts as they were undergoing urban renewal. As an artist and long-term Canberra resident, I wanted to document the dramatic changes occurring and the impact on the people that lived there. The iconic modernist architecture of the…
Elefteria Vlavianos | HDR Season One Exhibition Two
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Elefteria Vlavianos was born in Zimbabwe of mixed Armenian and Greek heritage. She is a painter whose practice has developed through an ongoing investigation into the process of abstraction, its vocabulary and conventions, as a visual translation of a displaced cultural aesthetic. Imagery in her…
Jane Theau | HDR Season One Exhibition Two
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Inciting the Site of the Soul engages with the notion that our soul is in our skin, so to perceive the world through the sense of touch affords us a more holistic experience of life, and of art. I have explored this idea, put forward by the philosopher Michel Serres, through an investigation of the…
A History of Student Activism at the Australian National University Launch
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Please join us for the launch of a new permanent public artwork at ANU. A History of Student Activism at the Australian National University traces sixty years of student activism at ANU, beginning in 1960 when the University first began to accept undergraduate students and running until 2020 when…
Dierdre Pearce | HDR Season One Exhibition One
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The starting point for this research is the growth of global human-machine networks and the significance humans place on participation in such networks. This practice-led project investigates how negative space might be used as an analogy for non-machine interactions which are data-silent yet…
Tina FiveAsh | HDR Season One Exhibition One
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The Sweet Forever: How Photography in the Wake of Digital Transformation Might Inform a Re-imagining of Death “For nearly 200 years, photography has been intrinsically interconnected with death through a range of scientific, medical, technological, cultural, social and personal practices,…