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July 2008

CROSS CURRENTS:MODELS, MIGRATIONS AND MODERNISMS

by Shelley Rice

 

 

   


  August  

Month

Title
 

Chairman

Guest speakers

 

August 2007

Dialogue and Dilemmas:
Contemporary Visual Art in Perth

Ju Glianoddard

Gary Dufour
Hannah Matthews
Jasmin Stephens
Jon Tarry

   


   

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Title
 

Introduction

Guest speakers

 

July 2007

THE BAROQUE-ISM


Marco Marcon

Raphael Cuir
Julian Goddard
Thea Costantino

   


   

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Title
 

Introduction

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May 2007

After Photography?


Julian Goddard

Paul Thomas (Just an extra)
Ric Spencer (Photography- now- then and always)
Tony Nathan (After Photography)

   


   

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April 2007

Faith and belief in art

Simon Blond
Marco Marcon
Stephen Rairig
Berenice Rairig

   


   

Month

Title
 

Chairman

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October 2006

The world is not enough (on globalism and art)

Ian MacLean

Rex Butler

   


   

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July 2006

Art of terror/terror of art

John Mateer
Kendell Geers
Steve Bull
Kelli Mcclusky

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

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May 2006

Ephemerality


Julian Goddard

Paul Thomas
Geoff Warn
Tove Krabo

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

Guest speakers


Musicians

 

March 2006

PLEASURE with music, talks and performance at the Quarry

Diana Warnock

Marie Haass/Marie Bonnal (duo)
Marcus Canning
Julian Goddard

Tos Mahoney (flute)
Mel Robinson (Cello)
Justin Smith (violin)
Sarah Jane Pell with Gian-Cosimo Bove (performance)
DJ DAY (Beats)

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

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December 2005

Un-revolution


Julian Goddard

Diana Warnock
Tony Cooke
Hannah Mathews

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

Guest speakers

 

October 2005

Why romanticism now?


Marcus Canning

Peter Stafford
Simon Perichich
Ben Riding
Aidan Broderick
Tanja Visosevic

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

Guest speakers

 

September 2005

The edge integrity and postmodernism

Julian Goddard

Michael Levine
Romesh Gonnewardene
Emelie Floyd

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

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August 2005

Melancholia


Julian Goddard

Grace Tarpey
Penny Bovell
Domenico De Clario

   


   

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Title
 

Introduction

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May 2005

Post Perth


Julian Goddard

Diana Warnock
Ken Adam
Marcus Canning

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

Guest speakers

 

April 2005

The future of the sublime


John Stringer

Marco Marcone
Julian Goddard
Michele Theunissen

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

Guest speakers

 

December 2004

Unspoken Perth


Diana Warnock

Jo Darbyshire
Julian Goddard
Torrance Mendez

   


   

Month

Title
 

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October 2004

Why Perth?

John Stringer
Katherine Kalaf
Justin Smith

   


   

Month

Title
 

Introduction

Guest speakers

 

September 2004

What is Perth?


Diana Warnock

Andrea Gaynor
Julian Goddard
Terri-Anne White
Geoff Warn

   


   

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August 2004

Moments of crisis:
Painting and Trauma

John Stringer

Denise Green

Graduate faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia

   


   

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July 2004

The symbolic order of things

Richard Weller

Director of Room 4.1.3

   


   

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Quiz Master

 

June 2004

Quiz Afternoon

Andrew Gaynor

   


   

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May 2004

Zombies and Cyborgs

Stelarc

Stelarc Website

   


   

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December 2003

Porno Chic

Edward Colless

Head of Art History and Theory Victorian College of the Arts

   


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November 2003

Walk from Bunbury to Kellerberin

Dr Mark Minchinton

Head of Performance Studies, School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance, Victoria University Melbourne

   


   

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October 2003

Works

Lyndal Jones
Marie Haas

Video and Installation Artist, Post Doctoral Fellow ECU Australian Artist at Venice Biennale 2001

 


   

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September 2003

Un-Australian Art

Rex Butler

Historian, critic, writer, University of Queensland, Brisbane