Events
11 Feb 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | ScreeningDirector Alex Barnes introduces Not a Willing Participant, his documentary on Brisbane artist Vernon Ah Kee. There will be several screenings. View trailer. |
18 Feb 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | ScreeningD. A. Pennebaker's film Town Bloody Hall documents a feisty 1971 public debate between Norman Mailer and four feminist writers, Germaine Greer, Diana Trilling, Jill Johnston, and Jacqueline Ceballos. Mailer had just published The Prisoner of Sex, a rejoinder to Greer's The Female Eunuch. 16mm print courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. |
11 Mar 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | LectureAmerican artist Anthony McCall is known for the 'solid light' film projections he began making in the early 1970s. They emphasise the sculptural qualities of beams of light. A joint project with OtherFilm. Thanks to Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. |
18 Mar 2010Thursday, 7:00 pm | Conversation'For art to be art (a medium of numinous, sometimes symbolic power), it must maintain a distance from life. Without distance, art has no authority and is no longer special', argues curator David Elliott. Elliott discusses his upcoming Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, with IMA director Robert Leonard. It opens 12 May. |
25 Mar 2010Thursday, 6:00 pm | Book LaunchPenelope Seidler launches Mirror Mirror: Then and Now. Tin Sheds, City Road, University of Sydney. |