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Conversations and events from Melbourne's flagship contemporary art space

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  • A World Of One's Own: Wild Thing — Jenny Watson

    19/02/2018 Duración: 41min

    Wild Thing: A conversation with artist Jenny Watson. What does it mean to be an 'Aussie Artist'? What is wildness and how do we allow it space to thrive? Tai and Jenny share their love of horses and the freedoms they offer to us as young girls whilst taking a close look at the Australian and international gallery scene and the ‘sober business of art'. They talk about the importance of depicting ‘broken women’ and female iconoclasts in paintings and the power of imagining other versions and stories for yourself. Additional resources: 'The Fabric of Fantasy' at Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2017–18: https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/jenny-watson-fabric-fantasy 'I, Tonya' (2017) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Tonya Image: Jenny Watson 2009, Chandigarh. Photograph: Andrew Wilson

  • A World Of One's Own: Painting Yourself out of the Dark — Diena Georgetti

    19/01/2018 Duración: 42min

    Painting Yourself out of the Dark: A conversation with painter Diena Georgetti. What is it like to live with a mental illness and make art? How important is editing when it comes to being an artist? Tai and Diena discuss how difficult it can be when we are critical not only of our work but also of ourselves. They talk about finding consolation in successful works we have made and painting as a way of existing when life itself is really really hard. Image: Diena Georgetti, 'Compass' 2017, acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 79.3 x 52 x 4.8 cm. Private collection, Sydney. Image courtesy The Commercial, Sydney. Photograph: Sofia Freeman/The Commercial, Sydney

  • A World of One's Own: Natural Woman — Patricia Piccinini

    13/12/2017 Duración: 39min

    Natural Woman: A conversation with Patricia Piccinini How do we use work to explore ideas of motherhood and morality? Tai and Patricia discuss what it means to be a mother and continue a successful art practice. They talk about issues of postnatal depression and anxiety, partners and family life. They also talk about owning and celebrating your fecundity and creating ‘finely crafted love letters’ to your audience with your work.

  • A World of One's Own: Big Horizons — Sally Smart

    13/12/2017 Duración: 38min

    Big Horizons: A conversation with visual artist Sally Smart How do our gestures and bodies become part of our work? And how is the act of cutting a feminist action? Tai and Sally talk about female identity and archetypes of women such as pirates, witches and more- ideas which have been present in Sally’s life and imagination since she was a child. We talk about the act of cutting and how the female identity is both fragile and sturdy, but ultimately ‘re-arrangeable’ and fluid.

  • A World of One's Own: Control / Escape — Shelley Lasica

    13/12/2017 Duración: 36min

    Control / Escape: A conversation with dancer and choreographer Shelley Lasica How and what do you present to an audience? Where does the line between yourself and your work begin? Tai and Shelley discuss the assumptions about ‘revealing the truth’ in dance and how creating complexity and a kind of ‘unhooked narrative’ that is not linear or logocentric might be a more exciting way of looking at things. We also discuss the idea of playing with ‘the gaze,’ the fraught relationship between needing approval from an audience and making work within a female body.

  • A World of One's Own: Tempering Tenacity — Lou Hubbard

    13/12/2017 Duración: 38min

    Tempering Tenacity: A conversation with visual artist Lou Hubbard How can we find our true methodology and maintain a healthy obsession? Tai and Lou talk about taking your time in life to find your true creative path. They also talk about tenacity, bossiness and learning how to defer control and practice patience. Lou says ‘The artist in me doesn’t sit down’ and they explore what it means to be truly obsessed by your work, but how to keep a healthy balance with your family and ‘shave away the extraneous’ aspects of your life.

  • A World of One's Own: Her Life in The Nude — Maude Davey

    13/12/2017 Duración: 34min

    Her Life in The Nude: A conversation with performer and director Maude Davey How can we be open and honest and take risks, but still feel safe? Tai and Maude talk about making work about women and what exactly does it mean to take risks in front of an audience? They share the frustration of finding it easier to write about other people’s work than their own and how to deal with failure. They ask the hard question; ‘What happens as you get older and your body can’t perform in the same way anymore?’

  • A World of One's Own: Non Binary Futures — Tonié Field

    13/12/2017 Duración: 43min

    Non Binary Futures: A conversation with guitarist Tonié Field Don’t put me in a box! How can we celebrate and encourage fluidity? Tai and Tonié discuss what it means to be a non-binary and progressive artist in a classical world. How might we express overtly political ideas through an abstract language like music. They share a boisterous and heartfelt journey through the worlds of Drag, Burlesque and Fashion as well as the serious issues of feeling safe within the educational institution and getting ‘Tired of the fight.’

  • A World of One's Own: Dark Laughs — Claire Lambe

    13/12/2017 Duración: 34min

    Dark Laughs: A conversation with sculptor Claire Lambe How do we dig up dark memories from our past and make them funny? Tai and Claire share a lively chat about dark satire as a way of communication in art practice and how the past, present and future can all exist in an artwork right now. Claire shares tales of the ‘white-knuckle-ride’ that is making work and how she manages to deal with feelings of vulnerability and stress.

  • A World of One's Own: Window to the Inside — Katherine Hattam

    13/12/2017 Duración: 34min

    Window to the Inside: A conversation with painter Katherine Hattam How do we access our True Selves? Tai and Katherine discuss how making and depicting space can merge the inside (mental) world with the outside (public) world of politics and ideas. Reflecting on Katherine’s interest in psychoanalysis and unconscious time vs real time and how family life can be political.

  • A World of One's Own: World Weaver — Chaco Kato

    13/12/2017 Duración: 28min

    World Weaver: A conversation with visual artist Chaco Kato How do we fit into the art world? Can we create our own world? Tai and Chaco explore ideas of how and why you might create your own support network, collective or cross-community project. Chaco literally weaves her own context and explores traditionally domestic crafts on a giant scale.

  • Forerunner: Unfinished Business

    24/11/2017 Duración: 01h39min

    As a prelude to ACCA’s major exhibition, 'Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism' (15 Dec 2017 – 25 March 2018), this panel discussion starts the conversation about the historical legacies and new debates within feminism and discuss the ‘unfinished business’ of feminism today. Speakers: Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer whose work explores postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and the politics of looking and being looked at. Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator and academic, Victoria University, and co-curator of Unfinished Business. Emily Floyd is an artist and collaborator with Mary Featherson on the exhibition Round Table. Anne Marsh is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, whose work focuses on performance art, photography, feminist art history and theory. Editing and sound by Eric Demetriou

  • Danny Butt Book Launch: Artistic Research in the Future Academy

    31/10/2017 Duración: 01h25min

    An open discussion with Danny Butt, Professor Nikos Papastergiadis, Professor Barbara Bolt and Professor Ashok Mathur discussing the state of artistic research in the academy and its future. This event was supported by Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne 24 October 2017

  • Cities Of Architecture: Guadalajara with Diego Ramírez-Lovering

    19/10/2017 Duración: 01h01min

    Diego Ramírez-Lovering, Deputy Dean and Associate Dean (Engagement) MADA and Co-founding Managing Director of Monash Architecture Studio (MAS) explores the west Mexican city of Guadalajara. In particular, Professor Ramírez-Lovering focuses on the city’s ‘Opportunistic Urbanism’, how Guadalajara is increasingly governed by opportunity, and shaped by the ad hoc, the contingent and the easily obtainable. Presented by Abercrombie & Kent at ACCA. Monday 16 October 2017

  • Cities Of Architecture: Isfahan with Justine Clark & Maryam Gusheh

    21/09/2017 Duración: 52min

    Justine Clark, Editor, writer and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne and Maryam Gusheh, Director of Architecture at The University of New South Wales explore the central Iranian city and former Persian capital Isfahan. Presented by Abercrombie & Kent Image: Courtesy Abercrombie & Kent

  • Future Forum: Communication with Erik Jensen

    13/09/2017 Duración: 39min

    Founding editor of The Saturday Paper, Erik Jensen discusses the pluses and minuses of digital technologies and presents the current state of traditional media with the rise of digital technologies and communications. Wednesday 6 September 2017 Future Forums Media Partner: The Saturday Paper

  • ALL CONFERENCE: Artists’ labour and the speculation economy

    13/09/2017 Duración: 01h22min

    Hosted within the common space of Céline Condorelli’s installation, this discussion responds to expanded notions of organised labour in the arts, who the risk-bearers are and what their reward. Speakers: Colleen Chen – Lawyer and President, Young Workers Centre and founder of Interns Australia Ben Eltham – Writer, Journalist, Researcher, Creative Producer & Social Commentator Sarah Gory – General Manager, un Projects and former Director, Queensland Poetry Festival Lucie McIntosh – Artist, Curator and Chair of Directors at BLINDSIDE Tuesday 29 August 2017

  • Public Art and the City

    03/09/2017 Duración: 01h26min

    'Public Art and the City: creating meaning by disrupting the everyday and enhancing the human experience' is a discussion about building relationships between people, how public art will play a role in the City of Melbourne’s Southbank Boulevard transformation project, and the future of public art in Melbourne. Speakers: Charlotte Day — Director, MUMA (Chair) Rob Adams — Director City Design and Projects, City of Melbourne Vaari Claffey — Curator and Public Art Strategist for Southbank Jefa Greenaway — Director, Greenaway Architects Introduction from Max Delany — Artistic Director and CEO, ACCA Presented by Public Art Melbourne & The City of Melbourne at ACCA Saturday 19 August 2017

  • Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) WRITING & CONCEPTS

    28/08/2017 Duración: 01h10min

    Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) – a collaborative art group comprising Bianca Hester, Terri Bird and Scott Mitchell – delivers a WRITING & CONCEPTS lecture reflecting on the relationship between the process of writing and the development of social, political and philosophical questions within contemporary arts and cultural practice. Thursday 24 August 2017

  • Future Forum: Work with Katrina Sedgwick

    28/08/2017 Duración: 54min

    In this Future Forum ACMI Director Katrina Sedgwick discusses the future of workplaces for humans and non-humans; including the origins of ACMI X, a 60-seat co-working space for selected creative enterprises designed to encourage collaboration between different creative industries. The Future Forums series is supported by The Saturday Paper Wednesday 23 August 2017

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