ACCA Podcast
Conversations and events from Melbourne's flagship contemporary art space, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). The podcast features discussions with artists, curators, and thinkers about contemporary art and culture.
Episodes
ACCA x MADA Publication Launch | The Second Studio: Drawing on Contemporary Art in the Gallery
ACCA and Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) celebrate the launch of collaborative publication, The Second Studio: Drawing on Contemporary Art in the Gallery.
Featuring a panel discussion between ACCA Artist Educator Lauren Simmonds; Amélie Scalercio – Lecturer, Coordinator of Drawing, MADA, Monash University; Andrew Atchison – Artist and educator at Monash, RMIT and Swinburne Universitie
Julius von Bismarck: This is not the storm Artist Talks
Join artist Julius von Bismarck and ACCA's Senior Curator and Head of Exhibitions Shelley McSpedden as they take a tour of 'This is not the storm', on show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
Labels: Fashion and Identity
*Please note this podcast contains coarse language
ACCA presents Labels: Fashion and Identity, a panel discussion exploring the role of fashion in expressing identity.
Featuring ACCA Curator Sophie Prince, Shauna Toohey (P.A.M), Jackie Wu (Wackie Ju) and Ricarda Bigolin (RMIT), the panel considers unisex and gender nonconforming fashion branding, including designing for diverse bodies and identi
We need to talk: with Tourmaline and Sophie Prince
‘We need to talk’, is a bold new series of free public conversations that bring together artists, thinkers, and cultural leaders to explore the art world from every angle.
For our latest event, acclaimed American artist, filmmaker and writer, Tourmaline joins ACCA curator Sophie Prince for a conversation on her exhibition Tourmaline: Transcendent.
‘We need to talk’ is a space for spirited exchan
Artist Talk and Book Launch: with r e a, Judith Ryan AM and Myles Russell-Cook
Listen to our talk with artist r e a, Myes Russell-Cook and Judith Ryan AM on their latest exhibition 'r e a : c l a i m e d'.
r e a : c l a i m e d is a focused survey of Gamilaraay, Wailwan and Biripi digital media artist, r e a, highlighting some of their most significant works from a career spanning more than three decades. r e a first exhibited at ACCA as part of the landmark group exhibiti
We need to talk: with Tschabalala Self and Myles Russell-Cook
*CONTENT WARNING: Please note that this podcast includes discussions of genocide. Support is always available: Lifeline 13 11 14, Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636
‘We need talk’, is a bold new series of free public conversations that bring together artists, thinkers, and cultural leaders to explore the art world from every angle.
For our first event, acclaimed artist Tschabalala Self joined ACCA’s Artis
Artist Talks: with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Khaled Sabsabi and Ali Tahayori
*CONTENT WARNING: Please note that this podcast includes discussions of suicide and genocide. Support is always available: Lifeline 13 11 14, Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636
Listen to our latest talk with artists Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Khaled Sabsabi and Ali Tahayori, from our current exhibition 'Five Acts of Love'. Take a deep dive into the discussions on their works, their practice and th
'Tina Stefanou: You Can't See Speed' - Digital Publication Launch
Moderated by exhibition curator Elyse Goldfinch, join us as we hear from designer Lloyd Mist, and contributing writers Azza Zein, Fayen d’Evie, Tara Heffernan and Tessa Laird.
The talk includes a tour of the interactive digital publication site, and readings from the writers, followed by conversations around Stefanou’s work and ideas that have been explored through the different texts.
Artist Talk: with Tina Stefanou
Listen to our talk with artist Tina Stefanou, curator Elyse Goldfinch (and special guests) on her new exhibition 'You Can't See Speed'. This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Saturday 05 April 2025.
'Tina Stefanou: You Can’t See Speed' attends to the interconnected and multisensory experience of film beyond vision. The exhibition continues Stefanou’s interest in the voice
Title wall
Title wall by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Grief Ramp
Grief Ramp by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Trickle down
Trickle down by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Agritemple
Agritemple by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Centipede
Centipede by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Toilets
Toilets by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
You Can't See Speed
You Can't See Speed by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Days in Doreen
Days in Doreen by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
From the hooves
From the hooves by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Concrete Archives Book Launch | Panel Discussion: Yhonnie Scarce & Lisa Radford with Vikki McInnes
Listen to Yhonnie Scarce and Lisa Radford in conversation with Vikki McInnes, discussing their artistic practice and publication 'The image is not nothing (Concrete Archives)'..
'Concrete Archives' is the culmination of Radford and Scarce’s fieldwork to local and international sites of nuclear colonisation, genocide and memorialisation. Published by Person Books, 2024
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Panel discussion: Living Queer Histories
Listen to our panel discussion focusing on the lineages of queer histories on the present. Featuring the research and practices of three speakers, Angela Hesson, Patrice Sharkey and Elyssia Wilson-Heti, who variously engage with queer subcultures, aesthetics and histories, the panel will consider how these legacies have shaped or reshaped the diverse range of LGBTQI+ representation today.
This po
Artist Talks: Andy Butler and Nicholas Smith
Listen to our talk with artists Andy Butler and Nicholas Smith on their new works presented as part of 'Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions'.
This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Saturday 13 July 2024.
Artist Talks: Kim Ah Sam, Teelah George, Joel Sherwood Spring and Salote Tawale
Listen to our talk with artists Kim Ah Sam, Teelah George, Joel Sherwood Spring and Salote Tawale on their new works presented as part of 'Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions'.
This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Saturday 29 June 2024. Please note the quality of this podcast is interrupted towards the end of this recording. We apologise for any inconvenience
Keynote with Laure Prouvost in conversation with Annika Kristensen
Listen to ACCA's in conversation with Laure Prouvost and Annikka Kristensen, following a screening of 'They Parlaient Idéale' 2019.
This program was recorded on Monday 18 March at ACMI as part of ACCA's exhibition 'Laure Prouvost: Oui Move In You'.
Read more about the program here: https://acca.melbourne/program/screening-and-keynote-with-laure-prouvost-in-conversation-with-annika-kristensen/
In conversation with Barbara Creed and Lisa French
Listen to ACCA's in conversation with Barbara Creed, author and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne alongside Lisa French, Professor and Dean in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
This program was recorded on Wednesday 28 February as part of the official book launch of Barbara Creed's new book 'Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Femi
Lecture with Carol Yinghua Lu
Listen to ACCA's lecture 'Building a post-revolutionary world through the 8th Yokohama Triennale' with Carol Yinghua Lu, art historian, curator, and current Director, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. Alongside Liu Ding, Carol Yinghua Lu is also co-Artistic Director of the 8th Yokohama Triennale 2024.
Read more about the program here: https://acca.melbourne/program/building-a-post-revolutionary-worl
Maria Kozic Artist Talk
Listen to the artist talk with Maria Kozic speaking about her iconic series 'Calendar Girls' 1999 presented in ACCA’s current exhibition 'From the other side' (9 December 2023 – 3 March 2024).
Maria Kozic works across painting, sculpture, photography and film. Her practice has often drawn on the depictions and tropes of women, monsters and creatures in horror and exploitation films. Through the l
Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne Launch of 'Offset'
Listen to exhibition artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne for a talk about their new digital commission 'Offset' on the ACCA Digital Wing.
Thao Phan Performance lecture: Listening to Misrecognition
What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance?
This experimental presentation is a collaboration between feminist technoscience researcher Thao Phan and Machine Listening, an ongoing investigation and experiment in colle
Suvani Suri with Aasma Tulika, Uzma Falak, Shareeka Helaluddin, Mehak Sawhney
Listen to performance lectures 'Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies, and other Détournments' by Suvani Suri and 'Listening to Misrecognition' by Thao Phan, as well as an Artist Talk with Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne on their new digital commission 'Offset'.
Zach Blas Performance Lecture
Listen to the performance lecture 'Expositio, Iudicium, Lacrimae, or, Does an AI God Have an Ass?' by exhibiting artist Zach Blas exploring the idea of religious-un/conscious thriving in today’s tech industry. Charting his encounters with various artificial intelligence gods, Blas tells of a computational world of divine judgment and devout submission, where artificial intelligence exists alongsid
Lauren Lee McCarthy In Conversation With Jenny Kennedy
Roe v. Wade is overturned while gene editing is opening entirely new reproductive futures. What does kin mean as reproductive technologies shift our relationships? How much control should we have over a birthing person’s body, and over a life before it begins?.
‘The Surrogate project began with a desire to serve as a surrogate. During the pregnancy, the parents would have an app I made that provi
Mimi Ọnụọha Performance Lecture
Through a series of media and artworks, Mimi Ọnụọha’s performance lecture explores absence, knowledge, and how what is missing is still there.
Laura Raicovich: Undoing and Redoing
Listen to writer and curator Laura Raicovich discuss the artworks and methodologies that inform Mithu Sen’s exhibition 'mOTHERTONGUE' in relation to Raicovich’s own practice which calls for institutional change to improve cultural spaces.
This conversation was recorded at ACCA on Tuesday 16 May, 6–7pm and is presented with the support of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (KNMA).
Read more abo
Mithu Sen in conversation
Listen to artist Mithu Sen in conversation with Max Delany, ACCA’s Artistic Director & CEO, alongside special guests Irina Aristarkhova, Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Digital Studies Institute of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Deepanjana Klein, Director of Acquisitions and Development, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA).
They discuss Sen’s major solo exhib
Writing in the Expanded Field IV: Touching Feeling Writing (Audio-only)
This recording is part of a video commissioned for 'Writing in the Expanded Field IV: Touching Feeling Writing' developed in conjunction with ACCA’s exhibition ‘Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH’ (23 September – 20 November 2022). The digital publishing project exploring new compositional modes and publics for art writing will be released in early 2023.
Credits:
Rebecca Bracewell, sound editor
Sofie M
Paul Yore In Conversation With Nick Henderson
Listen to the in conversation with artist Paul Yore and Nick Henderson, volunteer committee member at the Australian Queer Archives, and Curator at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. They will be discussing Yore’s extensive survey exhibition 'Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH', unpacking the past fifteen years of his practice, with a focus on the major new immersive installation commission
WRITING & CONCEPTS Lecture with Mykaela Saunders
Listen to the lecture by editor Mykaela Saunders speaking on the critically acclaimed anthology 'THIS ALL COME BACK NOW'.
'THIS ALL COME BACK NOW' is the world’s first anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, ‘this all come back’: all those things that hav
Artist Talks: Gian Manik, Jason Phu and Jahnne Pasco-White
Listen to our Artist Talks with Gian Manik, Jason Phu and Jahnne Pasco-White.
This Artist Talk was recorded in association with the exhibition ' Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 4 September 2022.
Artist Talks: Lucina Lane, Betty Muffler and JD Reforma
This Artist Talk was recorded in association with the exhibition ' Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 4 September 2022.
In this Artist Talk we hear from exhibiting artists Lucina Lane, Betty Muffler and JD Reforma.
In Conversation: Frances Barrett and Daniel Mudie Cunningham
This conversation was recorded in association with the exhibition 'Frances Barrett: Meatus', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 19 June 2022.
In this conversation we hear from artist and curator Frances Barrett and from Daniel Mudie Cunningham, who is head of Programming at Carriageworks.
'Frances Barrett: Meatus' forms part of Suspended Moment: The Kat
MTalks—Who’s Afraid of Public Space? Think Tank #4: Movement of People & Safety in Public
This panel discussion explores ideas of safety, movement, surveillance, physical distancing, visibility and invisibility within Melbourne’s public spaces.
Think Tank Moderator Nur Shkembi, artist, curator and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, and Curatorial Advisory Group member for Who’s Afraid of Public Space?, is joined by esteemed local cultural contributors including Idil Ali, writer,
Distribution series #3: Publishing Art Serials
Listen to Melbourne Art Library for the final in their series of discussions about the values of the public library. Reflecting on the library of written materials on public art, public culture and public space in the Reading Space: The Common Room, Melbourne Art Library discuss the purpose and complexities of developing a community library collection and archives.
Forum Series: Distribution
Wh
Insurgent modes for urban reconnection: Scaling, augmenting, and counter-mapping public space
Creative practice researchers: Prof Carol Brown, Dr Troy Innocent, and A/Prof Linda Knight, chaired by Rachel Iampolski addresses how artistic practices offer insurgent modes for developing reconnection with urban spaces after a prolonged lockdown, and sustained anxiety around public spaces.
The panel shares their practical and creative approaches for being in the world and the key role that insu
Making Spaces Public
Urbanists and planners need to engage in broader and messier practices if they are to design inclusive and accessible public spaces. The production of space is as much a social and political process, as a physical one, and identities of places are often latent, contested and invisible. A new genre of artists and creative practitioners are engaging in public space, using site-based practices that c
Artist Talks: Education Space with Ross Coulter, Eugenia Lim and James Nguyen
Listen to ACCA’s Artist Educator and Curator of the Education Space Andrew Atchison with artists Ross Coulter, Eugenia Lim and James Nguyen for a discussion about art and working in public space. This program is associated with the Education Space: Creating Art in Public, a hybrid studio, classroom and gallery designed to promote active participation with, and careful consideration of, public art
Distribution series #1: Introduction to Art Librarianship
Listen to Melbourne Art Library for the first in their series of discussions about experimental modes of sharing information.
Reflecting on the library of written materials on public art, public culture and public space in the Reading Space: The Common Room, Melbourne Art Library unpack the role of the contemporary art librarian.
Forum Series: Distribution
What power dynamics are at play in the
Artist Talks: Who's Afraid of Public Space? – Offsite projects #2
Join artists Jon Campbell, Guled Abdulwasi, and Laresa Kosloff at ACCA as they discuss their commissioned works as part of Who’s Afraid of Public Space? offsite projects.
Distribution series #2: Alternative Collections
Join Melbourne Art Library for the second in their series of discussions about experimental modes of sharing information as part of Who's Afraid of Public Space?.
The forum panel includes: Nell Fraser (Melbourne Art Library), Caroline Phillips (Womens Art Register), and Nick Henderson (Australian Queer Archives).
Panel discussion: City of Melbourne Commissions
Join artists Sean Lynch and Mikala Dwyer, and writer Alicia Sometimes for a panel discussion about public art, presented in association with the recent launch of two major City of Melbourne temporary public art commissions in University Square, Carlton.
Artist Talks: Who's Afraid of Public Space? – Offsite projects #1
Join artists Simona Castricum, Michael Candy, Hoang Tran Nguyen, and Callum Morton at ACCA as they discuss their commissioned works as part of Who’s Afraid of Public Space? offsite projects.
Panel discussion: APHIDS DESTINY
Listen to a panel discussion on Melbourne-based collective APHIDS’ new moving-image work 'DESTINY' with artist Eugenia Lim, and worker-performers Cher Tan and Wasay, moderated by Amelia Wallin.
'DESTINY' 2021 is a moving-image work made in collaboration with on-demand or ‘gig economy’ workers – rideshare drivers, food delivery riders and cleaners – exploring personal and global experiences of th
Artist Talks: Who’s Afraid of Public Space? – Onsite exhibition spaces
Listen to N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM, Sarah Lynn Rees, Andrew Atchison, Stephanie Pahnis, Lauren Crockett, Nicola Cortese, Timothy Moore, and John Tanner as they share their approaches to transforming ACCA’s four galleries to become civic spaces: Gathering Space: Nargee Djeembana, Education Space: Creating Art in Public, Reading Space: The Common Room, and Project Space: The Hoarding.
Experimental Institutionalism: Rethinking infrastructures and curatorial practice
Speakers: Biljana Ciric and iLiana Fokianaki
In this lecture, curator and researcher Biljana Ciric discusses her educational platform What Could/Should Curating Do? and long-term project 'As you go... the roads under your feet, towards a new future' as experimental models for cross-cultural collaborations. Writer and curator iLiana Fokianaki shares her curatorial journey in establishing the non-p
A Poem and a Mistake Panel Discussion
Listen now to a panel discussion on A Poem and a Mistake, written by Cheri Magid, with Alexis Grenell, Cheri Magid, Stephanie McCarter, Sarah Baskin and Tamila Woodard.
Read more here: https://acca.melbourne/program/a-poem-and-a-mistake-by-cheri-magid/
Experimental Institutionalism: Ecological with Keg de Souza and José Roca
Ecological: Practices and challenges of sustainability
Speakers: José Roca and Keg de Souza
In this lecture, we are joined by José Roca, Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, and artist Keg de Souza, with a focus on the practices and challenges of sustainability. Roca’s presentation questions whether biennales are sustainable, sharing the processes, curatorial considerations and some
Experimental Institutionalism: Electronic with Seb Chan and Sahej Rahal
Electronic: Modelling the digital present and tools for the future
Speakers: Seb Chan and Sahej Rahal
Seb Chan is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image where he is responsible for a holistic, multi-channel, visitor-centred design strategy for the institution. Until August 2015, he was Director of Digital & Emerging Media, at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian De
In Conversation | Cheri Magid and Stephanie McCarter on ‘A Poem and a Mistake’
Listen now to Cheri Magid and Stephanie McCarter on ‘A Poem and a Mistake’, presented between 27 August – 12 September at acca.melbourne as part of the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne.'
Read more here: https://acca.melbourne/program/a-poem-and-a-mistake-by-cheri-magid/
A Biography of Daphne Artist talks: Erik Bünger, Inge Meijer, and Katie West
Listen now to Mihnea Mircan in conversation with artists Erik Bünger, Inge Meijer, and Katie West to discuss their works featured in the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne'.
A Biography of Daphne’ is a curatorial project that revisits the Classical myth of Daphne as the starting point for an investigation of trauma and metamorphosis, symbiosis and entanglement in contemporary art. Daphne, the nymp
Experimental Institutionalism: Employment with Alana Kushnir and Julieta Aranda
Employment: Art, labour and changing modes of working
This program is part of ACCA’s 2021 Lecture Series, Experimental Institutionalism: Contemporary Art and Curatorial Ecologies and features two short lectures by Alana Kushnir and Julieta Aranda followed by a conversation with ACCA Curator Miriam Kelly.
Alana Kushnir explores collaboration, labour and scaling-up the artist’s studio in the conte
A Biography of Daphne Artist Talks: Ho Tzu Nyen, Jill Magid, P. Staff and Candice Lin
Listen to curator Mihnea Mircan in conversation with artists Ho Tzu Nyen, Jill Magid, and P. Staff and Candice Lin to discuss their works featured in the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne'.
A Biography of Daphne Artist Talks: Lauren Burrow and Nicholas Mangan
Listen to artists Lauren Burrow and Nicholas Mangan as they discuss their works featured in the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne'.
‘A Biography of Daphne’ is a curatorial project that revisits the Classical myth of Daphne as the starting point for an investigation of trauma and metamorphosis, symbiosis and entanglement in contemporary art. Daphne, the nymph who turned into a tree to evade the a
Experimental Institutionalism: Expanded with ruangrupa and The Unbound Collective
What similarities and alliances can be drawn across borders, and how do we work and learn differently in response to the specificities of locality, place, culture and community? Can we work better together? What futures are possible or likely for the contemporary art ecology?
Listen now to Expanded: Collectivity and Solidarity in Changing Times now, with ruangrupa and The Unbound Collective, as p
Who’s Afraid of Public Space? Think Tank #3 – Visibility and Accessibility
Listen now to the third conversation in the Think Tank series as part of the forthcoming exhibition Who’s Afraid of Public Space?
Presented in partnership with Art Projects Australia (APA), this session will be moderated by ACCA’s Public Programs Coordinator Bianca Winataputri and include contributors Dewi Cooke, Eleanor Jackson, Sim Luttin, Michael Camakaris and Ed Service.
ACCA is pleased to c
Nuclear: Yhonnie Scarce, Mykaela Saunders and Dimity Hawkins
Listen now to a conversation between between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia, Mykaela Saunders, writer, teacher, and community researcher and Dimity Hawkins, Australian activist, researcher and academic.
This podcast concludes the series produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', including Glass with Yhonnie Scarce, Kristel Britcher and Lisa Slade,
Concrete Archives: Yhonnie Scarce and Lisa Radford
Listen now to a conversation between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia and Lisa Radford, artist and writer about their collaborative project 'Concrete Archives.'
Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park.'
Family: Hannah Presley and Lisa Waup
Listen now to a conversation between Hannah Presley, currently curator of Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Victoria and inaugural curator for the Yalingwa program at ACCA, and Lisa Waup, artist and co-curator of 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park.'
Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', on view at ACCA until 14 June.
Architecture: Louis Mokak, Mikhail Rodrick and Kim Bridgland
Listen now to a conversation between Louis Anderson Mokak, a Djugun man from West Kimberley and interdisciplinary designer, Mikhail Rodrick, architect at Wood Marsh and Yhonnie Scarce's long-term collaborator, and Kim Bridgland, a director at Melbourne based architecture studio Edition Office.
Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile
Public Readings – Writing in the Expanded Field #3: Overlapping Writing
ACCA and the non/fictionLab at RMIT are pleased to present a live snapshot of outcomes and processes from the 2021 program of Writing in the Expanded Field Volume 3: Overlapping Writing, developed in conjunction with ACCA’s summer show Overlapping Magisteria.
Program participants: Des Barry, Anna Kate Blair, Alisa Blakeney, Sophia Cai, Kate Jama, Peta Murray, Diego Ramirez, Autumn Royal, Audrey
Glass: Yhonnie Scarce, Kristel Britcher and Lisa Slade
Listen now to a discussion about the medium of glass between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia, Kristel Britcher, artist, designer and head of the Jam Factory glass studio, and Lisa Slade, Assistant Director at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', on view at ACC
Counter-monuments Symposium: Session Three
Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices
Session Three: Friday 19 March 2021
Chair: Dr Marnie Badham, Senior Research Fellow, CAST, RMIT School of Art
SPEAKERS:
Unbound Collective: Sovereign Acts of (Anti)Memorial Love
Djon Mundine: Remembering and Forgetting –Forgiveness and Not Forgetting
More information: https://acca.melbourne
Counter-monuments Symposium: Session Two
Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices
Session Two: Thursday 18 March 2021
Chair: Genevieve Grieves, Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne
SPEAKERS:
Dr Fiona Foley: Honouring our Aboriginal Warriors
Carol Que and Joel Sherwood Spring: Mutually assured construction
Lilly Brown, Dianne Jones and Dr Odette Kelada:
Counter-monuments Symposium: Session One
Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices
Session One: Wednesday 17 March 2021
Chair: Associate Professor Sana Nakata, co-founder of the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration, University of Melbourne:
SPEAKERS:
Genevieve Grieves and Dr Amy Spiers: Counter-monuments: An introduction
Dr Julie Gough: MISSING or DEAD: reinstating t
Experimental Institutionalism: Education with Emily Floyd and Gridthiya Gaweewong
Education: Alternatives and the Academy with Emily Floyd and Gridthiya Gaweewong
This program is part of ACCA’s 2021 Lecture Series, Experimental Institutionalism: Contemporary Art and Curatorial Ecologies and features two short lectures by Emily Floyd and Gridthiya Gaweewong, followed by a conversation with ACCA’s Artistic Director and CEO Max Delany.
'Loose Objects and Situated Knowledge', a
Missile Park: Yhonnie Scarce in conversation with Max Delany
Listen to a conversation between exhibiting artist Yhonnie Scarce and exhibition curator Max Delany about Scarce’s major new commission, 'Missile Park'.
'Missile Park' extends Scarce’s research into the impacts of nuclear testing on the land and the people of South Australia, and the architectural legacies of past and ongoing international military presence in the region.
Image: Yhonnie Scarce,
Yhonnie Scarce in conversation with Daniel Browning
Listen now to Yhonnie Scarce in conversation with Daniel Browning, producer and presenter of Awaye! on ABC Radio National, as they unpack a range of ideas in Scarce’s practice and consider the works on display in the artist’s major solo survey, 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park'.
Yhonnie Scarce is an artist known for sculptural installations which span architecturally-scaled public art projects to in
Experimental Institutionalism: Exchange with Nikos Papastergiadis and Laura Raicovich
ACCA’s 2021 Lecture Series ‘Experimental Institutionalism: Contemporary Art & Curatorial Ecologies’ delves into the artistic, curatorial, organisational and institutional models in which artists, curators and producers reflect and shape the role of contemporary art practice.
Our first lecture ‘Exchange: Reciprocity and institutional collaboration’ features Nikos Papastergiadis and Laura Raicovich
Overlapping Magisteria Artist Talks: Robert Andrew, Sidney McMahon And Mimosa Echard
Listen to artists Mimosa Echard, Sidney McMahon and Robert Andrew and and as they discuss their newly commissioned works for Overlapping Magisteria: the 2020 Macfarlane Commissions.
Encompassing living organisms, kinetic installations and immersive assemblages, Overlapping Magisteria pays attention to multiple ways of knowing, sensing, feeling and interacting with the world. The works by partici
Resilience And Sustainability Forum
Speakers: Rebecca Huntley, Isadora Vaughan, Amanda Cachia and Tim Riley Walsh.
Listen to a panel of artists, writers, academics, journalists and environmentalists each addressing our collective responsibility to sustain our planet.
This forum reflects on working better together across various disciplines and backgrounds in addressing the climate emergency. Panellists will consider the social, c
Overlapping Magisteria Artist Talks: Isadora Vaughan And Sam Petersen
Listen to artists Isadora Vaughan and Sam Petersen as they discuss their newly commissioned works for Overlapping Magisteria: The 2020 Macfarlane Commissions.
Encompassing living organisms, kinetic installations and immersive assemblages, Overlapping Magisteria pays attention to multiple ways of knowing, sensing, feeling and interacting with the world. The works by participating artists draw on v
NIRIN NAARM Artist Talks
Brook Andrew, Artistic Director of NIRIN, 22nd Biennale of Sydney in discussion with exhibiting NIRIN NAARM artists, including Victoria Hunt, Justin Shoulder and James Tylor.
Hosted online for a limited one-week period from 10–15 November, NIRIN NAARM is a unique collaboration between ACCA and the Biennale of Sydney, presenting key works from NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney online on ACCA's we
