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Conference at University of Canberra
10:00 - 18:30, November 21, 2024
A day of lectures, presentations, performances and conversations curated by Geert Lovink, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, and Denise Thwaites, University of Canberra. I will be speaking in the final session on the fortunes and misfortunes of -empyre- media arts mailing list. This curated research forum instigated in 2002 as part of my PhD at UNSW, holds a wealth of global media and networked art dialogues and research. Currently it is inaccessable - should it stay dormant or be resurrected?
A day of lectures, presentations, performances and conversations curated by Geert Lovink, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, and Denise Thwaites, University of Canberra. I will be speaking in the final session on the fortunes and misfortunes of -empyre- media arts mailing list. This curated research forum instigated in 2002 as part of my PhD at UNSW, holds a wealth of global media and networked art dialogues and research. Currently it is inaccessable - should it stay dormant or be resurrected?
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BOUNDless : Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Women's Mental Health, Melbourne, 9-11 october 2024
I am delighted to be speaking at this year's APCEMH conference themed, Boundless: Redefining the Future of Women's Mental Health.
My panel is on cPTSD and Trauma and I will speak on issues surrounding adoption, both from the perspective of being a 15 year old girl who lost my only child to forced adoption, and as an adoptee myself, with its useally overlooked mental helalth challenges.
Keynote Speakers: Grace Tame, Senator Larissa Waters,
Dr J.J. Sandra Kooij and Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM
Hosted by: HER Centre at Monash University
International Association for Women’s Mental Health,
Cabrini and AlfredHealth
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Claude Creighton spots Spoiling Illusions at AGNSW Gallery Shop.
BE QUICK - SELLING OUT @ these book stores
- Sydney: Art Gallery of NSW Shop, Gleebooks
- Melbourne/Victoria: NGV Design Store, Readings,
- ACCA - ONLY 2 AVAILABLE
- Art Gallery of Ballarat Shop
- Brunswick Bound -SOLD OUT, Perimeter - SOLD OUT
- Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia Store - ONLY 1 AVAILABLE
- Adelaide: Central School of Art - 2 AVAILABLE
- Canberra: National Gallery of Australia
- Brisbane: Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) Store
- Institute of Modern Art - IMA Shop - ONLY I AVAILABLE
- Hobart: Fullers Bookshop - SOLD OUT !!!
- Perth: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Shop
2025 SCHOLARS
Hannah Gartside
Helen Grogan
Henry Jock Walker
Henry Jock Walker, Flexi-flag (detail) at Egg and Dart Gallery, Wollongong. Photography by Jennifer Leahy. Image courtesy of the artist and Egg and Dart Gallery, 2024.
Helen Grogan, SET AND DRIFT (as 3-4 constellations for Samstag Museum), 2020, installation view, 2020 Adelaide//International, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia. Photograph by Sia Duff.
Hannah Gartside, Forest summons (for Lilith), 2022–23, installation view, Melbourne Now, 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Photograph by Mark Ashkanasy. Image courtesy of the artist and National Gallery of Victoria.
Deep diving into the diverse aesthetics and theoretical underpinnings of the 2025 Samstag Scholars' art practices was a joy. Through generous conversations with each artsist on their experience and aspirations at this pivitol point of thier careers, I felt privlidged to write these texts. Wishing them every success in their international studies with the support of UniSA's Anne and Gordon Samstag Bequest.
what PEople Are saying about CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions since 2008
A heady mix of rigorous research, harrowing and humorous blog posts, hard crunched data, theoretical musings and intimate revelations in 216 glorious full colour pages, including a gallery platforming visual art works from 40 Australian contemporary not male artists.
- Jennifer Mills reviews Spoiling Illusions in The Saturday Paper: We don’t speak enough about the emotional dimensions of these structural deficits, how it feels to play when the game’s rigged against us. This book states an intention to be “welcomingly humorous, justifiably enraging and rigorously researched”, but it exceeds those goals. Its candidness also makes it deeply moving: a heartfelt and irresistible call to action.
- Dr Louise Mathew writes for The Sheila Foundation In Rackham and Richardson’s own words, Spoiling Illusions is also polyvocal. It eschews the masculine paradigms of a single voice or linear narrative in favour of sprawling and tangential references. It is partial, asynchronous, collaborative and collective. It foregrounds the authors’ co-writing process; shares named and anonymous comments on the CoUNTess blog; and warmly acknowledges expert assistance, contributors and funders, as well as the women artists, writers and researchers they celebrate and on whose shoulders they stand.
