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De-coding Contemporary Art - new speakers announced!

NETS Victoria is delighted to partner with Museums Australia (Victoria) to present De-coding Contemporary Art.

This seminar will feature methods to interpret contemporary art to new audiences. New media, hybrid and ephemeral art are exciting and challenging mediums that require careful interpretation for the benefit of the general public. Hear from curators and program mangers about methods to appreciate and interpret new art.

Friday 9 September, 10am - 3pm
NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne

Speakers:

Jane Clark, Curatorial Consultant, MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), Tasmania
Jane Clark graduated from the University of Melbourne and the Courtauld Institute, London University. From 1982 until 1994 she was Curator of Major Special Exhibitions and then Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, responsible for exhibitions including The Great 18th-Century Exhibition, Golden Summers: Heidelberg and beyond (with co-curator Bridget Whitelaw) and Sidney Nolan: Landscapes and legends. She was a Harkness Fellow in 1988-90, working in Washington D.C. and at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. In 1994 she moved to Sotheby’s, serving as Deputy Chairman of Sotheby’s Australia for several years until 2007, when she joined David Walsh’s new Museum of Old and New Art as curatorial consultant.

Dr Jane Deeth, Interpretation and Visitor Engagement Consultant
Jane has twenty years experience in the visual arts as an artist, educator, arts administrator, writer and researcher. Her overarching area of interest is in interpretation and viewer engagement with contemporary art, which is the subject of her doctoral and masters research.

Melissa Loughnan, Director, Utopian Slumps gallery, Melbourne
Utopian Slumps was established in February 2007 as a non-profit curator-run arts initiative. The gallery closed its doors in December 2009 and reopened as a curator-run dealer gallery in Melbourne’s CBD in April 2010. Retaining its off-the-hand aesthetic and commitment to the creative development and experimentation of its artists, Utopian Slumps represents a stable of eleven artists while maintaining an emphasis on curated group exhibitions and projects.

Emma Mayall, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
In 2010 Emma curated the exhibition Contemporary encounters: Selected works from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, and she is a co-curator (with Amanda Dunsmore) for the 2012 Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award. Emma has worked on numerous contemporary art projects at the NGV including Draw the line: The architecture of LAB, the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, and Time Catcher for the NGV Kids Corner. Upcoming projects include David McDiarmid: Don’t Forget to Remember (curated by Sally Gray and Kelly Gellatly), and Unexpected Pleasures (curated by Susan Cohn.)

Booking:
• Gold / Institutional Members $70
• Silver Members $105
• Associate / Non Members $140

Bookings close Monday 5 September.

Book online at:
www.mavic.asn.au/events

Enquiries to the office on:
(03) 8341 7344
mavic@mavic.asn.au

www.mavic.asn.au

 

 

 

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