Opening Weekend Artist Talks: 2019 John Fries Award

From Site to Place

Presented in conjunction with the UNSW Galleries exhibition ‘Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscapes’, this program convenes artists, thinkers and poets for a conversation about land and space within the intertwined contexts of neoliberalism, settler colonialism and environmental degradation.

Opening Weekend Artist Talks: 2019 John Fries Award

Join exhibiting artists for a series of talks on their work in ‘There is Fiction in the Spaces Between’, moderated by John Fries Award Curator Miriam Kelly.

Guided Tour: Material Place

Tours of ‘Material Place’ will explore key works, themes and ideas from the exhibition whilst connecting to the history and geography of the Galleries site itself.

Macarena Gómez-Barris

In the era of the colonial anthropocene how do we address histories of loss and disappearance in relation to resurgence?

Talk & Workshop: Knitting Nannas Against Gas

Join the Sydney Knitting Nannas for a discussion on the use of knitting as a tool for non-violent political activism and take part in a banner making workshop.

Closing Weekend Artist Talks: 2019 John Fries Award

Join 2019 John Fries Award finalists on the closing weekend of the exhibition for a series of talks on their work in ‘There is Fiction in the Spaces Between’.

Curating Grief: In-conversation with Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Daniel Mudie Cunningham and José Da Silva, UNSW Galleries Director, discuss the complex and intimate process of working with an artist’s estate.

Research Forum: Seth Kim-Cohen

UNSW Galleries, UNSW Art & Design Research Forum and Liquid Architecture present a lecture by Seth Kim-Cohen (Art Institute of Chicago).

Talk: SOME OF IT IS FAMILIAR, SOME OF IT IS STRANGE

UNSW Galleries Director José Da Silva provides an intimate account of Debra Porch’s life and work, along with her enduring interests in literature, walking and the potential of art to transform the everyday into the extraordinary.

Talk: Tania Bruguera

In this special public event hear acclaimed artist Tania Bruguera discuss recent projects and initiatives that examine and expose the nature of political and social power structures.

Gazing from the Sinosphere: Media Art as Border Crossings

How are cultural borders depicted and disrupted? This program discusses new media works by three East Asian artists...

Research Forum: Launch, Discipline no.5 / Más Allá del Fin no.3