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Registrations are now open for the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (NSW) Conference:<br>
<div align="center"><b><font size="5" color="#FF8100" face="Century Gothic">Art and the real: Documentary, Ethnography, Enactment</font></b>
<p><b><font size="4" color="#FF8100" face="Arial">12-14 July 2007 </font></b><br>
<font size="4" face="Arial">Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia</font><br>
<font size="4" face="Arial">PRESENTED BY: AGNSW and Artspace Sydney</font></div><br>
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<b><font color="#FF8100">With keynote speakers:</font></b><br>
<b><font face="Century Gothic">Geoffrey Batchen</font></b><font face="Century Gothic">: Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art, The City University of New York.</font><br>
<b><font face="Century Gothic">Anne Rorimer: </font></b><font face="Century Gothic">Chicago based independent scholar and freelance curator and author of </font><i><font face="Century Gothic">New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality</font></i><font face="Century Gothic"> (Thames & Hudson, 2001).</font><br>
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<b><font size="5" color="#FF8100">CONFERENCE PROGRAM: </font></b><b><font size="5" color="#FF8100"><a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/home">http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/home</a></font></b><br>
<b><font size="5" color="#E26200">REGISTER ONLINE: </font></b><b><font size="5" color="#E26200"><a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/registration">http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/registration</a></font></b><br>
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<font face="Century Gothic">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. </font><br>
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<font face="Century Gothic">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.</font><br>
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Donna Brett<br>
Curatorial Project + Research Officer <br>
Art Gallery of New South Wales | Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney 2000<br>
T: 02 9225 1873 | F: 02 9225 1701 | M: 041 202 4457<br>
Website: <a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au">http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au</a><br>
AAANZ Conference website: <a href="http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz">http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz</a><br>
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