Symposium
women* art & feminism
21 - 23 February 2018
in australia since 1970
Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Southbank campus Women, Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970 seeks to bring together diverging and complementary views on feminism, its history, practice and critical positions in the visual arts.
“We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land in which this event is taking place, the land of the Wurundjeri and pay respect to their Elders and families.”
Image Credit: Tal Fitzpatrick, appliqué protest banners at the Black Friday Rally, Melbourne CBD, 2015. *This symposium is trans and non-binary inclusive
Opening Night Wednesday February 21, 2018 6.30pm, Federation Hall
Welcome to Country Presented by a traditional land owner from the Boon Wurrung Foundation
Keynote speakers Wednesday February 21, 2018 6.30-8.00pm, Federation Hall
Thursday February 22, 2018
Associate Professor
Professor
“Un-recordable memories of the senses, intagible heritage & traditional futurity: Tjanpi as radical archive”
“A feminist politics of ambivalence: an uncertain response to contemporary dilemmas”
Associate Professor Jennifer Biddle is Director of Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture, and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), UNSW. She has worked with Warlpiri in Lajamanu for over two decades, as well as with other Central and Western Desert artists and art centres. Her book breasts, bodies canvas: Central Desert Art as Experience (UNSW Press 2007) modelled a ‘feminisation of the Dreaming’ in the Papunya Tula movement and Remote Avantgarde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation (Duke UP 2016) models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival.
Professor Clare Hemmings is Professor of Gender Studies and Head of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics. She is author of Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender (2002), Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory (2011) and Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and Historical Imagination (2017). Supported by the Macgeorge Bequest, University of Melbourne
Jennifer Biddle
6.30-8.00pm, Federation Hall
Clare Hemmings
symposium program 2018
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Symposium Venues. M216 – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Ground floor, Bldg 862, St Kilda Road)
The Founders Gallery (Ground floor, Bldg 860, St Kilda Road)
Phillip Law Room (Ground floor, Bldg 860, St Kilda Road)
The Art Space (Student Gallery on map, Art Bldg 874 – enter from gate 4, Dodds Street)
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Wheelchair accessible toilets. Stop 1: Student Centre, Bldg 860, St Kilda Road. Ground floor, Bldg 862, St Kilda Road Art Bldg 874 Federation Hall ground floor (see map for other locations)
Women, Feminism & Art in Australia since 1970
Thursday Schedule Time
Founders
Music 216
Phillip Law Conversations
Art Space 1+3
The Founders Gallery (Ground floor, Bldg 860, St Kilda Road)
M216 – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Ground floor, Bldg 862, St Kilda Road)
Phillip Law Room (Ground floor, Bldg 860, St Kilda Road)
(Student Gallery on map, Art Bldg 874 – enter from gate 4, Dodds Street)
9.00
Introduction
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9.30 - 11.00
Feminist Futures in Colour - What is White Feminism?
n/a
Feminism, Art & Disability
Performance setup
Break
Break
Break
Break
Race & Identity
12 - 1pm Gender Equity Femisphere
FavourEconomy
Performance setup
Lunch
Mira Oosterweghel Tethering Slippage
Catherine Bell, Sim Luttin, Jane Trengrove, Lindy Judge
Tiang Zhang Sophia Cai, Priya Srinivasan, Megan Cope & Atong Atem.
11.00 - 11.30
11.30 -1.00
Priya Vaughan, Gail Naden, Nusra Latif Qureshi
(NZ publishing co). Judy Darragh, Tessa Laird.
1.00
Lunch
Lunch
Claire Feild, Alexandra Pedley, Stella Chen and Tonie Field.
Performance 30-45m.
Vanessa Godden Cartography | Purge Performance 30m.
2.00
Georgia Banks, Katya Grokhovsky (via video), Lauren McCartney, Bonnie Lane (20 mins)
Female Body
LEVEL Rachael Haynes, Louise Mayhew, Kellie O’Dempsey, Eloise Breskvar
Slide/video lecture (90m)
Jill Scott
Performance residue / installation
3.30 - 4.00
Break
Break
Break
Break
4.00 - 5.30
Conversations with artists
Activism
Bed Sheet: Cyberfeminist Genealogy
Performance residue / installation
Courtney Coombs, Julia Drouhin & Philipa Stafford, Clare Rae, Cecilia White
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Collaborations
Kathy Temin (SWIM), Julie Montgarrett & Sarah McEwan, WAR, Katrina Ginis
Linda Dement & Nancy Mauro-Flude
Women, Feminism & Art in Australia since 1970
Friday Schedule Time
9.30 - 11.00
Founders
Music 216
Phillip Law Conversations
Art Space 1+3
The Founders Gallery (Ground floor, Bldg 860, St Kilda Road)
M216 – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Ground floor, Bldg 862, St Kilda Road)
Phillip Law Room (Ground floor, Bldg 860, St Kilda Road)
(Student Gallery on map, Art Bldg 874 – enter from gate 4, Dodds Street)
Maternal body
Simone Hine and Kawita Vatanajyankur (video + vid con)
Bed Sheet from Cyberfeminist Genealogy
Displacement
Nina Ross & Jessie Scott & Lizzy Sampson Sohia Xeros-Constantinids Rebekah Pryor, Lynn Mowson
11.00 - 11.30
Break
Break
Break
Break
11.30 - 1.00
Gender & Sexuality – Penny Trotter, Tassia
Craftivism
Young artists and consumer culture
Performance set up Art Space 2
Joannides, Kate de Jude, C. Moore Hardy
1.00
2.00
3.30 - 4.00
4.00
on display all day
Tal Fitzpatrick, Kate Just, Lizzy Emery, Larraine Larri
- Patrice Sharkey (with Katherine Botten, Harriet Kate Morgan & Hana Earles)
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Art Space 2 Harriet Kate Morgan Military Position Performance
Art & Technology
Exhibitions, Aesthetics & Action
After Kathy Acker
Chris Krauss
Performance residue / Art Space 1
Nancy Mauro-Flude (performance lecture 30m), Svenja Kratz, Tracey Benson
– Catherine Speck, Vivonne Thwaites, Janine Burke, Virginia Fraser
(Dell Stewart and On the Beach Reading Group)
screenings senVoodoo Ana Wojak and Fiona McGregor Sick Little Games
Break
Break
Break
Break
Cyberculture
Feminine body/language
Mountain of Words
Olga Cironis
Bonnie Lane text based scroll performance (20m)
Virginia Barratt, Francesca da Rimini performance lecture 30m Pip Wallis
5.30 - 7.00
(human hair weaving)
Alison Thomson Siying Zhou Susan Fereday (30m)
Closing drinks at ACCA with
Gallery Viewing
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Art Space:
Elizabeth Gertsakis, Lisa Andrew, Nasim Nasr, Kylie Banyard
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