Presented by Sydney Contemporary and Artspace, supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund
Keynote Panel Discussion
with Tony Albert, Laura Raicovich, Jarrod Rawlins, Natasha Bullock, moderated by Alexie Glass-Kantor
When | Tuesday 16 November, 1 - 2pm (AEDT)
Where | Live online via Zoom. RSVP below for your ticket
Image credit: (from left to right) Laura Raicovich (image courtesy Michael Angelo), Jarrod Rawlins, Natasha Bullock, Tony Albert (image courtesy Rhett Hammerton), Alexie Glass-Kantor (image courtesy Zan Wimberley).
This panel discussion titled After Shocks: Art, Disruption and Provocation features artists, curators and writers whose practices and research intersect with themes of censorship, disruption and protest. The discussion will focus on leading institutional structural change and embedding new perspectives in the arts sector. At a time of profound social, cultural, and political transformation the discussion, held via Zoom on 16 November at 1pm AEDT, considers how contemporary art and cultural spaces are being shaped by greater attention to equity and direct action.
Speakers include Tony Albert, artist, Laura Raicovich, curator and writer, and Jarrod Rawlins, Director, Curatorial Affairs, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Natasha Bullock, Assistant Director, Curatorial and Programs at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), and will be moderated by Executive Director, Artspace, Alexie Glass-Kantor.
Laura Raicovich is a New York-based curator and writer whose new book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest was published in June 2021 by Verso Books. She recently served as Interim Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Center; and was awarded the inaugural Emily H. Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators at Hyperallergic. While Director of the Queens Museum from 2015 to 2018, Raicovich co-curated Mel Chin: All Over the Place (2018), a multi-borough survey of the artist’s work. She lectures internationally and in 2019-20 co-curated a seminar series titled Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies into Darkness at the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, from which she is co-editing an anthology of writings on the subject. She also is the author of At the Lightning Field (CHP 2017) and co-editor of Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production (OR 2017).
Presented by Sydney Contemporary and Artspace, supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.