Books that Changed Humanity: Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Lecture
Youth culture, pop art, cultural studies, style – Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style was an influential early text in the march of cultural studies, but it was also very influential on artists and art criticism, and in fact Hebdige ended up teaching in art school in the US.…
Katie Hayne | HDR Season One Exhibition Two
Gallery
“Over the past four years I visited Canberra’s public housing precincts as they were undergoing urban renewal. As an artist and long-term Canberra resident, I wanted to document the dramatic changes occurring and the impact on the people that lived there. The iconic modernist architecture of the…
Jane Theau | HDR Season One Exhibition Two
Gallery
Inciting the Site of the Soul engages with the notion that our soul is in our skin, so to perceive the world through the sense of touch affords us a more holistic experience of life, and of art. I have explored this idea, put forward by the philosopher Michel Serres, through an investigation of the…
Elefteria Vlavianos | HDR Season One Exhibition Two
Gallery
Elefteria Vlavianos was born in Zimbabwe of mixed Armenian and Greek heritage. She is a painter whose practice has developed through an ongoing investigation into the process of abstraction, its vocabulary and conventions, as a visual translation of a displaced cultural aesthetic. Imagery in her…
Truth and Reconciliation: South Africa and Victoria
Webinar/Online
The Freilich Project is pleased to invite you to a Freilich Network Seminar with Dr Ibrahim Abraham. Abstract: Victoria's recently announced Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) draws inspiration from the famous TRC initiated in South Africa in 1995. Both initiatives endeavour to reveal…
The Story Circle and the Arts Practice: a panel discussion about digital storytelling
Panel discussion
Join Dr Maya Haviland, Jenni Savigny and Stephen Corey as they take us inside the process of making digital stories with marginalised communities. Learn how to run a process that gives people a voice whilst keeping an ethical boundary around what you will publish. Find out why…
A History of Student Activism at the Australian National University Launch
Other
Please join us for the launch of a new permanent public artwork at ANU. A History of Student Activism at the Australian National University traces sixty years of student activism at ANU, beginning in 1960 when the University first began to accept undergraduate students and running until 2020 when…