When: Sat, 14 Nov, ‘09 - Wed, 3 Mar, ‘10
Where: COFA, UNSW
Due to the end of the academic year, no COFA Talks/ public forums are scheduled. They will resume in Semester 1, March 2010.
Please visit this site regularly to be informed of the upcoming schedule of COFA Talks and speakers.
Tony Schwensen, Harrowing Plow from the Plough & Harrow, 2007, performance 14 August 2007, commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre. Photo: Silversalt Photography.
When: Tue, 20 Oct, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
In the panel discussion, Whose Rights? Artists and the State, a journalist, a curator and an art educator will discuss the relationship between various forms of government and the arts. Is it legitimate for governments, which do to some extent subsidise the arts, to have some say in what is presented and how?
José Borghino
José Borghino has a formidable background in publishing. He is the former editor of New Matilda, a respected online news and commentary site . Borghino has also lectured on literary journalism.
Lisa Havilah
Lisa Havilah is Director of the Campbelltown Arts Centre and a graduate of COFA. She has extensive experience in the arts including six years as Assistant Director of Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Liverpool Regional Museum and as the inaugural Co-Director of Project Contemporary Art Space, Wollongong
Gary Sangster
Gary Sangster currently lecturers in COFA’s school of Art History and Art Education. Sangster has both national and international experience as an art educator, curator and museum director in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the USA. He has also published and lectured on art and museum research internationally.
When: October 20 2009 6:00pm
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
FREE
For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/
To listen to the past COFA Talks please visit UNSW TV:
Semester One Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-1-2009
Semester Two Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-2-2009
When: Tue, 13 Oct, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
In May 2009, the Federal Government awarded COFA $48 million,through the Education Investment Fund (EIF), for the $58 million Gateway@COFA redevelopment. The Gateway@COFA project, due to begin in late 2009, will be an exceptional teaching, learning and studio/laboratory redevelopment which will transform art, design and media education in Australia to meet the growing demands of the global creative economy. COFA’s Dean and Associate Dean are joined by one of the project’s architects to discuss The Way Forward: What COFA Does Next.
Lindsay Clare
Lindsay Clare is the director at Architectus, the firm which is designing the COFA campus redevelopment. During his career Clare has completed more than 120 projects ranging from single residences to commercial, educational and public buildings. The previous projects Clare worked on include designing the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art at Brisbane, which won the RAIA National Award for Public Architecture in 2007.
Graham Forsyth
Graham Forsyth is Associate Dean (Academic) at COFA. He is also joint leader of the ALTC funded Curriculum Development in Studio Teaching project and he chairs the Organising Committee of the 2010 ConnectED International Conference on Design Education. Forsyth has undertaken a number of integrated research projects into teaching and learning that address the nature of the ‘student experience’ in visual arts and design institutions.
Ian Howard
Professor Ian Howard is Dean of COFA. He is also a practising artist and since 1969 he has focused on cross disciplinary investigations that explore the relationship between civilian and military cultures. Howard’s artistic research has taken him to ‘loaded’ sites such as: the Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of China and the Pentagon.
When: October 13 2009 6:00pm
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
FREE
For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/
To listen to the past COFA Talks please visit UNSW TV:
Semester One Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-1-2009
Semester Two Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-2-2009
When: Tue, 6 Oct, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
John Kaldor and Anthony Bond in conversation on the Kaldor gift to the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the development of Kaldor Art Projects.
Anthony Bond
Anthony Bond is currently Assistant Director Curatorial at the Art Gallery of NSW where he has been responsible for collecting international contemporary art since 1984. He has curated many significant projects at AGNSW in those years. He recently worked on a survey of 40 years of John Kaldor projects and is preparing for a major series of exhibitions with the Kaldor collection and Contemporary AGNSW collections starting 2011. His major future project is Kurt Schwitters 2012 at AGNSW.
John Kaldor
John Kaldor AM is a devoted collector, patron and supporter of contemporary art. He has been collecting and commissioning art since the late 1950s and since 1969 has shared his love of art with the Australian public through his series of art projects. He has brought innovative contemporary art to Australia for over 40 years through what is now the not-for-profit organisation Kaldor Public Art Projects. Kaldor Art Projects have included such memorable installations as Christo & Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Coast at Little Bay in 1969 and Jeff Koon’s Puppy in 1995.
When: Tue, 6 October, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
FREE
For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/
To listen to the past COFA Talks please visit UNSW TV:
Semester One Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-1-2009
Semester Two Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-2-2009
When: Tue, 29 Sep, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
Artists, educators and students explore the impact of the environment on creativity in the panel discussion Art, Essence and Place .
Lucy Day
Lucy Day is a current Master of Art Administration student at COFA. She is also undertaking an internship working with Allan Giddy.
Louise Fowler-Smith
Louise Fowler-Smith’s artwork has focused on symbolic visual languages in relation to the land for the past two decades. Her most recent work focuses on the veneration of trees, a subject she was drawn to not only for its enchanting beauty, but its ability to protect trees from loggers. Fowler-Smith is a Senior Lecturer at COFA and is the Director of the Imaging the Land International Research Institute (ILIRI), which aims to promote new ways of perceiving the land in the 21st century.
Allan Giddy
Allan Giddy is a pioneer in, and one of Australia’s foremost proponents of, sustainable energy systems, electronic interconnectivity and interactivity embedded in the physical art object. He has worked with alternative energy systems in his sculpture and installation art for over 15 years. Giddy currently lectures for COFA’s School of Art and directs ERIA (The Environmental Research Initiative for Art) an organisation aimed at reinvigorating decaying public spaces through the installation of “active” artwork.
Ian Grant
Ian Grant taught in COFA’s painting department for 30 years. When he retired he was Head of Painting. He was a founding member of ILIRI and is a practicing artist who exhibits widely, both nationally and internationally. Grant has won numerous prizes including the Blake Prize for religious art in 1987 and the Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize in 2004.
When: Tue, 29 Sep, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
FREE
For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/
To listen to the past COFA Talks please visit UNSW TV:
Semester One Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-1-2009
Semester Two Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-2-2009
When: Tue, 15 Sep, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
In the panel discussion, Reason and Emotion in Art, a curator, a gallery director and a senior lecturer in psychology explore the tension between reason and emotion in art and in other expressions of creativity. This event is a preview of the special Reason/Emotion issue of Artlink magazine due to hit the stands on September 16.
Glenn Barkley
Glenn Barkley is a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. His recent projects include Avoiding Myth & Message and Making it New – Focus on Contemporary Australian Art. Barkely was curator of the University of Wollongong Art collection from 1996 - 2008. In 2008, he co-curatred, with Peter Fay, Without Borders, an exhibition of international and national outsider art.
Mary Knights
Mary Knights is the Director of SASA Gallery, School of Art, Architecture & Design, University of South Australia. Before moving to Adelaide to take up this position, she was Manager and Art-coordinator at Irrunytju Arts, a remote art centre at the edge of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. She is currently completing her PhD with the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania.
Doris McIlwain
Doris McIlwain is a senior lecturer in psychology at Macquarie University, teaching personality and philosophy of psychoanalysis. Researching emotion and personality, she profiles narcissism, machiavellianisn and psychopathy in terms of affective personality dispositions. McIlwain is interested in self-reflective awareness of the bodily broadcast and pursues this new interest exploring colonising the body via yoga.
FREE
For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/
To listen to the past COFA Talks please visit UNSW TV:
Semester One Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-1-2009
Semester Two Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-2-2009
COFA Talks are the public lecture forums that the College of Fine Arts conducts during the semester teaching period. Each week the College of Fine Arts hosts FREE dynamic panel discussions between well known artists, designers and writers on current topics in art and design. Afterwards the audience joins in the lively Q&A. You can now listen to the 2009 past COFA Talks online. Simply visit UNSWTV, accessible from the below links to listen to talks by Lord Mayor Clover Moore, well known gallerist Stuart Purves, curator and art historian Djon Mundine, or well known artist Reg Mombassa as well as many other artists, designers and art figures.
Past 2009 COFA talks are now available to listen to on UNSW TV:
2009 Semester One Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-1-2009
2009 Semester Two Talks: http://tv.unsw.edu.au/collection/cofa-talks-sem-2-2009
When: Tue, 25 Aug, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
Aboriginal Art and Politics examines the complexities of the indigenous art scene, and a range of other issues facing indigenous artists in contemporary society, from two different perspectives. Djon Mundine, whose his Father is Bundjalang and Mother is Ngaku, speaks from within the indigenous community, while John von Strurmer discusses the topics as a white Australian.
Djon Mundine is a curator and art historian, originally from the Northern Rivers area of NSW. He is currently Indigenous Curator, Contemporary Art at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Mundine is well known as the concept curator of the permanent Aboriginal Memorial installation at the National Gallery of Australia and was awarded an OAM in 1993. Previous positions have included: Senior Curator, Gallery of Aboriginal Australia, National Museum of Australia, Senior Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Programs, MCA, and Art Adviser for the Ramingining Community of Central Arnhem Land.
John von Sturmer is an anthropologist with a particular interest in Aboriginal art. Fieldwork in the western Cape York Peninsula formed the basis of his PhD research. In 1970 he was appointed the first lecturer in Aboriginal Studies at the University of Queensland, in association with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. In the 1970s, he was active in the promotion of Aboriginal dance and ceremonial life. In more recent years, he has been involved in negotiating the nexus between government, big business and traditional owner groups.
The Ladies of Bigotbri Concerned Women’s Association (aka Tess Allas and Lina Kastoumis) are a tongue in cheek comedy duo who raise serious issues by taking the mickey in the guise of their alter egos Mrs Beryl Myers and Mrs Coral Henderson. Allas has a Bachelor of Creative Arts and a Masters in Curatorship and Modern Art. She currently works at COFA where she researchs and write biographies for the Storylines Project which are published on the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online. Kastoumis has worked extensively with emerging artists as an instructor, deviser and director at companies such as Shopfront, Sidetrack and Powerhouse Youth Theatre. She is currently Artistic Associate at Urban Theatre Projects.
When: Tuesday 25 August, 6:00pm
Where: COFA, Main Lecture Theatre (EG02)
FREE
For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/
Michael Esson, Outside In. Image Courtesy of Michael Esson
When: Tue, 4 Aug, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm
In April 2009, a suite of sculptural garments designed by Michael Esson, an artist known for his obsessive drawings of human anatomy, featured in, Outside In, a dramatic catwalk show on the opening night of the Shanghai Fashion and Cultural Festival.
Esson took inspiration from anatomical diagrams, acupuncture charts and surgical procedures. He will discuss the process of translating drawings of the body into garments which occupy a space on the body. Esson will also elaborate on his use of drawing as a means of communication between himself as the designer and the talented staff at Dong Hua University in Shanghai who fabricated his garments. As he says, “Cross-cultural collaboration is complex and demanding, and an acceptance of the potential for misinterpretation and ambiguity offers exciting unexpected solutions to the design process.”
Michael Esson is a senior lecturer in COFA’s School of Art. He is also the director of the International Drawing Research Institute, an initiative comprised of three founding members: COFA, UNSW in Sydney, China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and Glasgow School of Art. Esson’s research is part of a wider cultural climate, forging links between art, anatomy and surgery. In 2005, he received the position of honorary Visiting Professor of Drawing at Dong Hua University, Shanghai, leading eventually to his participation in the 2009 Shanghai Fashion and Cultural Festival.
When: Tuesday 4 August, 6:00pm
Where: COFA, Main Lecture Theatre (EG02)
FREE
For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/
COFA students working with Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro on, Life Span, 2009 at The Ludoteca, Castello 53rd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
When: Tue, 21 Jul, ‘09
Where: College of Fine Arts, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, lecture theatre: EGO2, 6:00 pm (please note new time)
The Venice Biennale is the world’s oldest and most prestigious biennial art exhibition. In the panel discussion, We Went to Venice, a professional artist, a curator and a current COFA student reflect on their experiences in Venice and the impact of this internationally acclaimed event on their careers.
Felicity Fenner
Felicity Fenner curated the Australian group show, Once Removed, at the 2009 Venice Biennale, which featured COFA alumni Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy. Fenner is a curator at COFA’s Ivan Dougherty Gallery. She also curates independently.
Bronwyn Bailey
Bronwyn Bailey Charteris is an editor, artist and also a current COFA Masters of Art Administration student. As part of her degree she went to Venice in 2009 to assist Felicity Fenner in installing the work and liaising with the artists.
Narelle Jublein
Narelle Jublein represented Australia in the 1990 Venice Biennale. She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and is well known for her minutely worked petit points. Jubelin will be talking about the long term impact of representing Australia at Venice on her career.
When: Tuesday 21 July, 6:00pm
Where: COFA, Main Lecture Theatre (EG02)
FREE
For details on how to get to COFA and to navigate yourself around the campus, please visit: www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location/