Emma Langridge | Margin for Error
Gallery
Emma Langridge uses line as an indication of surface, contour and continuity. Line implies a uniformity - denoting an equal value along its length, like that used in cartography and meteorology. Creating a striated surface allows for interference, through fracture and glitch. If the line is a…
Bic Tieu | Objects In-between: Designing a Visual Language for Traversing Personal Identity, Migration and Intercultural Spaces.
Gallery
Bic Tieu is a designer, object maker and jeweller. She is interested in ways objects are holders to stories, cultures, and knowledge. Her identity is connected to her migrant past and Southeast Asian-Australian women with Chinese, Vietnamese and Australian up bringing. Bic’s works draws on…
The Tension of Movement: Stanisław Chlebowski’s Istanbul years
Seminar
This paper analyses Polish artist Stanisław Chlebowski’s fraught relationship with his own mobility. Nineteenth-century Istanbul was a refuge for Polish nationals in exile, like Chlebowski, who was appointed court painter to Sultan Abdülaziz in 1870. Chlebowski’s home-studio, densely crowded with…
Jilda Andrews - Working with Country
Seminar
Join us for a presentation by Dr Jilda Andrews, Research Fellow, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies (ANU) and the National Museum of Australia Working with Country: regenerative research in museum collections Lecture Theatre (room 1.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building, 120 McCoy Circuit, ANU…
Works that Shaped the World: Gaetano Moroni’s Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica
Lecture
In 2022, the HRC’s Works that Shaped the World public lecture series focuses on religion. Gaetano Moroni’s Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica may be the most significant work of nineteenth-century amateur scholarship that you have never heard about. Running to 12,472 entries across 103…
Mobilizing Papal History
Seminar
The papacy can seem like a static fixture in world history. It is Europe’s most enduring political and religious institution, with continuity of activity since at least the third century. It is also inexorably grounded in place: the pope derives his authority from his office as bishop of Rome. His…
Panel Discussion as part of Degrees of Concern exhibition
Seminar
For decades science has shown that global warming is real and upon us. Yet urgency for climate action, communicated by scholars, citizens and activists is at an impasse. What then is the contribution of artistic practice and research in shifting this inaction? Please join us for a lively panel…