Events
20 Jan 2009Tuesday, 7:00 pm | Underground MusicTwo legends perform, Eugene Chadbourne (USA) and Mani Neumeier (Japan). A joint project with Audiopollen. |
13 Feb 2009Friday, 7:00 pm | MONOkick1Japanese psych-folk duo Tenniscoats play Cairns. A joint project with Room 40 and Kick Arts. COCA, 96 Abbott Street, Cairns. Free. |
7 Mar 2009Saturday, 5:00 pm | OpeningThe Same River Twice: Part 2 and Dorothy Napangardi / John Reynolds. Preceded by a curators talk by Angela Goddard and Robert Leonard and an artist talk by John Reynolds at 4pm. |
12 Mar 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Jeremy Hynes AwardDoug Hall, Australian Commissioner for the 2009 Venice Biennale, announces the inaugural winner of the $10,000 Jeremy Hynes Award. |
19 Mar 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Artist TalkArtist Dorothy Napangardi in conversation with Roslyn Premont. |
26 Mar 2009Thursday, 12:00 pm | MONO6Atsuhiro Ito (Japan) and Robbie Avenaim, plus guests. MONO6 plays host to the launch of Audiopollen's Ready, Fire, Aim festival, a culmination of all things underground. Presented in conjunction with Audiopollen. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity Of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::) |
31 Mar 2009Tuesday, 6:00 pm | LectureJapanese architects Atelier Bow Wow present their lecture 'Commonalities and Differences'. A joint project with the School of Architecture, University of Queensland. Abel Smith Theatre, St Lucia Campus, University of Queensland. Admission free. |
9 Apr 2009Thursday, 7:00 pm | microMONO6Marco Fusinato, and James Rushford and Joe Talia. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity Of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::) |
23 Apr 2009Thursday, 7:00 pm | microMONO7Mike Cooper (Italy) performs his soundtrack to Paradjanov's lauded 1968 film The Colour of Pomegranates. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity Of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::) |
2 May 2009Saturday, 5:00 pm | OpeningCao Fei Utopia and Lincoln Austin Field of Vision. |
2 May 2009Saturday, 4:00 pm | Artist TalkLincoln Austin. |
3 May 2009Sunday, 2:00 pm | MONOkick2Mike Cooper offers a repeat performance of his live-cinema soundtrack for The Colour of Pomegranates (microMONO7). COCA, 96 Abbott Street, Cairns. Admission free. A joint project with KickArts. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity Of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::) |
13 May 2009Wednesday, 6:00 pm | AGMMembers only. |
14 May 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | LectureEyeline/IMA writer-in-residence Anthony Gardner examines the fate of postcolonialism in Australian art. Have its politics and potentials dissolved, transformed, or been rejected altogether? |
18 Jun 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | ForumWhat does it mean to feel like a citizen of the world? Ian Woodward (Deputy Director, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University), Ian Hunter (Australian Professorial Fellow, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland), and others discuss cosmopolitanism. |
25 Jun 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Lecture/LaunchRoger Benjamin (Research Professor in Art History, Power Institute, University of Sydney) on the beginning of Aboriginal painting at Papunya. Plus we launch the '21st-Century Art History' issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. We publish the Journal with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. |
26 Jun 2009Friday, 6:00 pm | LectureRoger Benjamin (Research Professor in Art History, Power Institute, University of Sydney) on Tim Johnson. Benjamin will be introduced by Julie Ewington, co-curator of the exhibition Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas, on show at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Presented jointly with Milani Gallery. Milani Gallery, 54 Logan Road, Woolloongabba, Brisbane. |
4 Jul 2009Saturday, 5:00 pm | OpeningBrisbane Airport Fresh Cut 2009 and Peter Robinson Polymer Monoliths. Preceded by talks by the Fresh Cut artists at 4pm. |
4 Jul 2009Saturday, 4:00 pm | Artists TalkTalks by the Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut 2009 artists. |
9 Jul 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Book LaunchCelebrate the release of our new book, Vernon Ah Kee: Born in this Skin, produced with the support of Trade Queensland's Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing Export Agency. Milani Gallery, 54 Logan Road, Woolloongabba, Brisbane. |
16 Jul 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Urban Cultures 1Jodie Taylor (Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University) on 'Bent Brisbane', the strategies, politics, and fracture of queer culture. The Urban Cultures lectures are a joint project with the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University. |
23 Jul 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Vernon Ah Kee Book SigningVernon Ah Kee talks about his project in the current Venice Biennale. Buy a copy of Ah Kee's monograph Born in this Skin, and have it signed. Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Street, Westend, Brisbane. |
24 Jul 2009Friday, 6:00 pm | LectureFounding Curator and Director of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, and co-curator of Global Feminisms, Maura Reilly talks about her work. |
25 Jul 2009Saturday, 4:00 pm | ScreeningTracey Moffatt introduces her new video montage, Mother. |
26 Jul 2009Sunday, 7:00 pm | MONO7Enjoy Spanish sound-artist Francisco López's soundscape—blindfolded. Presented as part of Queensland Music Festival. MONO: Expansive Sonic Environments, Intersecting Audiospheres, Singularity Of Sound, curated by Lawrence English (::Room40::). |
6 Aug 2009Thursday, 12:00 pm | The First CutGallery 4A Director Aaron Seeto and critic Louise Martin-Chew dissect Brisbane Airport Fresh Cut 2009. |
13 Aug 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Fashion FocusFashion collector Dr. Gene Sherman (Director, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation) and Bonnie English (Associate Professor, Art and Design Theory, Griffith University) discuss Japanese fashion. |
15 Aug 2009Saturday, 9:00 am | Writing Architecture Symposium: Day 1When and how is writing an architectural practice? What are the genre conventions of architecture writing? What might experimental architectural writing be? What are the potentials for architectural writing in new media? Is architectural criticism critical enough? How do critical practices in architecture compare with those in other fields? Participants include Bernard Brown, Karen Burns, Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano, Helene Frichot, Gevork Hartoonian, Paul Hogben, Andrew Leach, Steve Loo, John Macarthur, Andrew Nimmo, Veronique Patteeuw, Deborah van der Plaat, Julian Raxworthy, Charles Rice, Magnus Rönn, Alex Selenitsch, Naomi Stead, Lee Stickells, and Sarah Treadwell. Organised by Naomi Stead from the Architecture Theory Criticism History Research Group, School of Architecture, University of Queensland, in conjunction with Heat. |
16 Aug 2009Sunday, 9:00 am | Writing Architecture Symposium: Day 2When and how is writing an architectural practice? What are the genre conventions of architecture writing? What might experimental architectural writing be? What are the potentials for architectural writing in new media? Is architectural criticism critical enough? How do critical practices in architecture compare with those in other fields? Participants include Bernard Brown, Karen Burns, Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano, Helene Frichot, Gevork Hartoonian, Paul Hogben, Andrew Leach, Steve Loo, John Macarthur, Andrew Nimmo, Veronique Patteeuw, Deborah van der Plaat, Julian Raxworthy, Charles Rice, Magnus Rönn, Alex Selenitsch, Naomi Stead, Lee Stickells, and Sarah Treadwell. Organised by Naomi Stead from the Architecture Theory Criticism History Research Group, School of Architecture, University of Queensland, in conjunction with Heat. |
29 Aug 2009Saturday, 12:00 pm | Taryn Simon LectureAmerican photographer Taryn Simon on her An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. A joint project with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Cinema A, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, Brisbane. Limited seating. |
29 Aug 2009Saturday, 5:00 pm | OpeningTaryn Simon An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Jemima Wyman The Declaration of Resemblance and Fluid Insurgents, and Tamar Guimaraes A Man Called Love. Preceded by an artist talk by Jemima Wyman at 4pm. |
2 Sep 2009Wednesday, 4:00 pm | Taryn Simon LectureAmerican photographer Taryn Simon on her An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. A joint project with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Domain, Sydney. Limited seating. |
10 Sep 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Urban Cultures 2'Companionable Ghosts: How We Lived with the Dead'. David Ellison (Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University) on the ways the dead haunt the living, from spiritualism to CSI. The Urban Cultures lectures are a joint project with the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University. |
11 Sep 2009Friday, 8:00 pm | MONOkick3Aus and Cokiyu from Japan. Aus unites small melodic passages with detailed layers of rhythm and texture gathered from his everyday surroundings, while Cokiyu's suggestive melodies and sweeping emotive passages recall the pastural qualities of Iceland's Mum. Jute Theatre, 96 Abbott Street, Cairns. A joint project with Room 40 and Kick Arts. |
17 Sep 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Taryn Simon RoundtableArt critic Rex Butler, Lecturer in American Literature Hilary Emmett (both School of English, Media Studies, and Art History, University of Queensland), and others respond to Taryn Simon's An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. |
26 Sep 2009Saturday, 12:00 pm | LectureAs part of his 2009 Daphne Mayo Professorship of Visual Art at the University of Queensland, Ian McLean (Professor, Art History, University of Western Australia) will talk on Tim Johnson's use of Aboriginal art in his work. How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art, an anthology of writings on Aboriginal art edited by Ian McLean, is soon to be published by Power Publishing and the IMA. Tim Johnson's retrospective Painting Ideas, currently at GOMA, closes on 11 October. |
1 Oct 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Emory Douglas LectureArtist and Black Panthers Minister for Culture, Emory Douglas, on his work. Introduced by Aboriginal activist and academic Sam Watson. Thanks to Milani Gallery. |
15 Oct 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Fashion FocusDesigner Akira Isogawa talks to Katie Somerville (Curator, Australian Fashion and Textiles, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne). |
21 Oct 2009Wednesday, 1:30 pm | QCA Lunchbox LectureArtist-in-residence Christian Capurro. Central Lecture Theatre, Queensland College of the Arts, 226 Grey Street, Southbank. |
24 Oct 2009Saturday, 5:00 pm | OpeningMirror Mirror and Volume II. Preceded by a talk by Mirror Mirror curator Ann Stephen at 4pm. |
5 Nov 2009Thursday, 7:00 pm | Record LaunchThe Deadnotes Orange Trumpet. |
19 Nov 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Urban Cultures 3Mary Fogarty (Lecturer in Dance, Institute for Performing Arts Development, University of East London) on break-dancing. The Urban Cultures lectures are a joint project with the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith |
23 Nov 2009Monday, 9:00 am | Art Teachers DaySecondary-school teachers only. Features lectures by artists Del Kathryn Barton, Peter Madden, and Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan. $50 (includes lunch and the bus to GoMA). A joint project with the Queensland Art Gallery. Contact Dhana. |
3 Dec 2009Thursday, 6:00 pm | Mirror Mirror PanelArtists Peter Cripps and Eugenia Raskopoulos, essayist Andrew McNamara, and curator Ann Stephen dissect Mirror Mirror. |
4 Dec 2009Friday, 7:00 pm | Annual Members Cocktail PartyThe party of the year. Strictly members and invited guests only. With a performance by Bob Log III and prizes. |
9 Dec 2009Wednesday, 6:30 pm | Nowhere BoyA special preview screening of Nowhere Boy, British artist Sam Taylor-Wood's film about John Lennon's formative years. Dendy Portside. |