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Contemporary Positions on Aesthetics and Politics Beyond Identity and Representation
Art, Politics and Social Engagement
Dr Peter Alwast Center for Critical Theory, New York University Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University In this paper, presented at the International Center for Critical Theory at New York University in January 2020, Dr Peter Alwast surveys recent artistic and theoretical positions that move beyond conventional...
Future Feminist Archive/Contemporary Art & Feminism
Art, Politics and Social Engagement
Artist: Alison Alder Curators: Dr Catriona Moore and Ms Jo Holder Acquired: Wollongong Art Gallery Wollongong Art Gallery, 2019 The FUTURE FEMINIST ARCHIVE is an ongoing project aimed at uncovering feminist histories and reviewing the creative possibilities of co-operative action. These are the issues: Treaty Time and These are the issues:...
Hi-Vis: Australian Political Posters 1979–2019
Art, Politics and Social Engagement
Artist/Curator: Alison Alder Essay: Ms Macushla Robinson Interference Archive, Brooklyn, USA 2019 HI-VIS: AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL POSTERS 1979–2019 is an exhibition of screen-printed posters that provide a visual commentary of politics and life in Australia over the last four decades. Exhibited at the Interference Archive in New York City, the...
Hyperreadings
Art, Politics and Social Engagement
Collaborators: Sean Dockray, Benjamin Forster, Julia Bavyka, and Public Office.Hyperreadings is an ongoing research project into the history, present, and future of the syllabus and readings lists more generally, which are aesthetic objects that both organise and produce knowledge. The research flows between critical writing; an open source, peer-...
It’s in the Bag
Art, Politics and Social Engagement
Rebecca Mayo Caves Gallery Melbourne, 2019 Partners: Art + Climate = Change Festival 2019 In this project Rebecca Mayo created a series of replica supermarket bags. Instead of extruded polyethylene she used silk dyed with plants collected on local walks. Pinned to the gallery wall, the bags operated as fine art. During artist-led walks,...
Spy
Art, Politics and Social Engagement
Dr Lucien Leon Spy is an outdoor, site-specific, large-scale digital architectural projection, moving image work responding to archival images from National Archives of Australia presented during a curated event during the 2020 Enlighten Festival held in Canberra. Outputs Leon, L 2020, Enlighten Festival, National Archives of Australia, ‘Spy’,...
