[can-events] AAANZ CONFERENCE: Art and the real: documentary, Ethnography, Enactment 12-14 July 2007 at the Art Gallery of NSW Sydney

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Registrations are now open for the Art Association of Australia and New
Zealand (NSW) Conference:
Art and the real: Documentary, Ethnography, Enactment

12-14 July 2007
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia
PRESENTED BY: AGNSW and Artspace Sydney

WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Geoffrey Batchen: Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary
Art, The City University of New York.
Anne Rorimer: Chicago based independent scholar and freelance curator and
author of New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality (Thames & Hudson,
2001).

SESSIONS INCLUDE
   Reality and realism
   Participation and interaction
   Aboriginal art and ethnography
   Documentary
   Site specific
   Classification + the archive

Session speakers include: Ann Stephen, Toni Ross, Morgan Thomas, Tony Bond,
Gabrielle Finnane, Robert Nery, Margaret Roberts, Anthony Gardner, Jennifer
L Biddle, Paula Bollers, Anthony White, Anne Graham, Melissa Miles, Gavin
Hipkins, Catherine de Lorenzo and Deborah van der Plaat, Gail Hastings,
Richard Read and Toni Ross.

In the last decade or so, we have witnessed an escalation of artistic
production drawn to ethnographic protocols, and documentary media and
methods. Artists framed in this way include: Liisa Roberts, Sharon
Lockhart, Kutlug Ataman, Nan Goldin, Atelier von Lieshout, Mark Dion and
Gillian Wearing, amongst many others. This conference aims to critically
interrogate this current situation and art which combines the human
sciences and documentary means, as well as art that attempts to intervene
in social or cultural situations. The precedents for the latter form of art
might include situationism and neo-concretism.

The conference would provide the opportunity to critically examine both
historical precedents and contemporary incarnations of both the
ethnographic turn in contemporary art and the forms of art practice
characterised as either interventionist or participatory.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/home
REGISTER ONLINE: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/registration
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Donna Brett
Curatorial Project + Research Officer
Art Gallery of New South Wales  |  Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney
2000
T: 02 9225 1873  |  F: 02 9225 1701  | M: 041 202 4457
Website: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
AAANZ Conference website: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz



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