15 Nov: AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium 2024 – ‘Asian Art Research Now’
Olivier Krischer
Very pleased to share a reminder of this year’s program for the annual 2024 AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium, platforming Asian art research now ~
AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium 2024 – ‘Asian Art Research Now’
Registration and full-day symposium program
https://events.humanitix.com/an4aa-postgraduate-symposium-2024
For the first time this year, the symposium will be a hybrid 1-day conference next Friday 15 November, so attendees can join either online via Zoom or in-person at venues in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra. This event is FREE, and you are welcome to drop in for a panel or join us all day.
2024 marks the seventh year since the establishment of 'Asian Art Research Now', the annual postgraduate research symposium organised by the Australasian Network for Asian Art (AN4AA). This symposium has become a flagship event for the network, bringing together early-career Asian art researchers from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to share their research-in-progress with their peers and experts in the field.
12:30–13:00, Keynote:
“Shore to Shore: Thinking about Art through Distraction”, Dr Simon Soon
Reading art history, developing artistic research, and sustaining curatorial practice are often seen as inter-related but clearly distinct fields in the study of art. Drawing on historian Shigehisa Kuriyama’s concept of an archaeology of distraction, Simon will be reflecting on about how my seemingly disparate parts contribute to a sustained inquiry into the transnational cultural histories of specific forms and ideas. Emphasis is placed on investigating context alongside formal explanatory grids through the making, staging and theorisation of art, to better understand the capacity of sense-perception in distracting us from the commonsense and the complacent reading of art and culture in relation to history.
About the keynote speaker
Simon Soon is a Lecturer in the Art History and Curatorship Program at the University of Melbourne. His research interest spans the 19th- and 20th-century and has curated exhibitions, including Bayangnya Itu Timbul Tenggelam: Photographic Cultures in Malaysia, Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2021). He is a co-founder and editorial member of SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, a peer-review journal published by NUS Press, and a team member of the Malaysia Design Archive. He is also an artist, working chiefly through collaboration to explore cultural histories of the Malay archipelago, such as the artwork King Kalakaua’s Hawaiian Travels/Melayu Pono’I (2017–18), included in the 24th Biennale of Sydney.
Kind regards,
Olivier
AN4AA co-cordinator member
Michelle Antoinette
Please join us at this year’s AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium, platforming Asian art research now ~
AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium 2024 – ‘Asian Art Research Now’
Registration and full-day symposium program
https://events.humanitix.com/an4aa-postgraduate-symposium-2024
For the first time this year, the symposium will be a hybrid 1-day conference next Friday 15 November, so attendees can join either online via Zoom or in-person at venues in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra. This event is FREE, and you are welcome to drop in for a panel or join us all day.
2024 marks the seventh year since the establishment of 'Asian Art Research Now', the annual postgraduate research symposium organised by the Australasian Network for Asian Art (AN4AA). This symposium has become a flagship event for the network, bringing together early-career Asian art researchers from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to share their research-in-progress with their peers and experts in the field.
12:30–13:30, Keynote:
“Shore to Shore: Thinking about Art through Distraction”, Dr Simon Soon
Reading art history, developing artistic research, and sustaining curatorial practice are often seen as inter-related but clearly distinct fields in the study of art. Drawing on historian Shigehisa Kuriyama’s concept of an archaeology of distraction, Simon will be reflecting on about how my seemingly disparate parts contribute to a sustained inquiry into the transnational cultural histories of specific forms and ideas. Emphasis is placed on investigating context alongside formal explanatory grids through the making, staging and theorisation of art, to better understand the capacity of sense-perception in distracting us from the commonsense and the complacent reading of art and culture in relation to history.
About the keynote speaker
Simon Soon is a Lecturer in the Art History and Curatorship Program at the University of Melbourne. His research interest spans the 19th- and 20th-century and has curated exhibitions, including Bayangnya Itu Timbul Tenggelam: Photographic Cultures in Malaysia, Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2021). He is a co-founder and editorial member of SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, a peer-review journal published by NUS Press, and a team member of the Malaysia Design Archive. He is also an artist, working chiefly through collaboration to explore cultural histories of the Malay archipelago, such as the artwork King Kalakaua’s Hawaiian Travels/Melayu Pono’I (2017–18), included in the 24th Biennale of Sydney.
Kind regards,
Olivier
AN4AA co-cordinator member
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Chaitanya Sambrani
Dear Speakers, Organisers and Coordinators at AN4AA,
Thank you for your excellent work. I am sorry not to have been able to join this morning, but really enjoyed the afternoon’s proceedings.
With best regards,
Chaitanya
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Subject: REMINDER, please join us TODAY: [an4aa] 15 Nov: AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium 2024 – ‘Asian Art Research Now’
Dear friends, colleagues
A kind reminder about today's symposium beginning soon!...
Please join us at this year’s AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium, platforming Asian art research now ~
AN4AA Postgraduate Symposium 2024 – ‘Asian Art Research Now’
Registration and full-day symposium program
https://events.humanitix.com/an4aa-postgraduate-symposium-2024
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/an4aa/CAMEZ5y3TMun1vdWNHepgvGPyTL2aJzhbkygKwCJyGVDh2W%2BHpg%40mail.gmail.com.