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THE ART OF DISQUIET:
PRACTICE, THEORY, PERFORMANCE

"We were born into the midst of moral anxiety and political disquiet." Fernando Pessoa

The Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, presents a colloquium on contemporary art, with special guest speaker, Isabel Carlos, Curator of the Biennale of Sydney, 2004.

This colloquium will address the intersections of art and the political, emotion and reason, the colonial and post-colonial, and art theory/practice/performance in the context of a cultural climate marked by political disquiet and ethical crisis. What are the possibilities of art in this context? What modes of address does art enable in the face of forces committed to the reproduction of silence, obeisance and violence? What tactical practices and spaces does art open up in its attempts to disrupt regimes of censorship and closure?

Date: 21 June 2004

Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University

Program

1.00-2.40pm
1.00pmWelcome by A/Prof Naren Chitty (Acting Dean)
1.05pmIntroduction by Joseph Pugliese
1.10pm"Reason and Emotion, Translation, Post-Colonialism and Other Difficulties," Isabel Carlos
2.00pm"Dhuuluu-Yala: To Talk' Straight," Anita Heiss
2.40-3.00pm Afternoon Tea (supplied)
3.00-4.50pm
3.00pm"The Impossible Quiet," Nick Mansfield
3.30pm"Art That Matters," Tess McLennan and Ken Watson
4.20pm"Counterculture and Its Punchlines," Lina Kastoumis

Notes on Contributors

Isabel Carlos is a Curator and Art Critic, Founder and Deputy Director, 1996 to 2002, of the Instituto de Arte Contemporānea, Portugal, and Curator of "On Reason and Emotion: Biennale of Sydney, 2004."

A/Prof. Anita Heiss, (Wiradjuri nation) is a Novelist, Poet, Social Commentator, and Historian; she is currently writing for the screen. She is writer-in-residence at Macquarie University.

A/Prof. Nick Mansfield is a Cultural Theorist, Macquarie University, working on Subjectivity in Post-Structuralist Theory, especially Derrida.

Tess McLennan is a Freelance Curator and Lecturer in Indigenous Art, Casula Powerhouse Art Gallery and Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney.

Ken Watson is Assistant Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Lina Kastoumis is a Writer/Performer and Cultural Satirist

Dr Joseph Pugliese, Macquarie University, writes on the Intersections of Art and the Political

This colloquium is hosted and funded by the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy, Macquarie University.

Art Work: "Cog-Native Frontiers" by Gordon Hookey

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