::FLNW:: Fwd: Exhibition and Seminars - Connections Brazil and Australia
Leigh Blackall
From: Karen.Mow <Kare...@canberra.edu.au>
Date: Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Subject: Exhibition and Seminars - Connections Brazil and Australia
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Exhibition and seminar program
Presented by the Embassy of Brazil and the IAE
From 6 May to 19 June, the Gallery of Australian Design (GAD) will highlight connections between Brazil and Australia. From ancient Gondwana to the future, the exhibition covers environmental sustainability, conservation research, science and technology, urban design and sustainable development.
Brazil and Australia have strong connections in geology, flora, fauna and design. The exhibition also looks at the context of current scientific research and industry-based joint ventures while promoting the discussion of environmental issues with a historical viewpoint.
For more information http://www.gad.org.au/
SEMINAR PROGRAM
5 May 6:30 -7:30pm (following the formal opening of the exhibition)
Seminar: Design Dialogues: Canberra and Brasilia
Associate Professor Christopher Vernon, School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, University of Western Australia
Venue: Gallery of Australian Design (44 Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT)
Three decades after Griffin's departure, the national capital was languishing. Prime Minister Menzies acted decisively and sought expert advice to restart the city's development. Contemporaneous with the Australian government's enquiry into Canberra's development, elsewhere in the Southern hemisphere, its Brazilian counterpart renewed a long-standing initiative to build a new national capital -Brasilia- in 1955.
Lúcio Costa (1902-98) won the Brasilia contest in March 1957. For him -and opposition to the Griffins' approach- Brasilia was 'a deliberate act of conquest' and its site a wilderness tabula rasa. As his first design manoeuvre, Costa inscribed the site, a plateau devoid of topographical incident, with a grand cross-axis. Whereas Canberra's landforms dictated the Griffins' axial alignments, Brasilia's axes were the assertive products of Costa's adherence to Modernism's functionalist, geometric ideals.
12 May 6 -7.30pm – includes refreshments
Seminar: Southern Connections - fossil evidence for the evolution
of the living Australian and South American vegetation
Professor Robert Hill, University of Adelaide
Venue: Gallery of Australian Design
The plant fossil record provides great insight into the evolution of the living vegetation of South America and Australia. Beginning about 80 million years ago, many of the iconic Southern Hemisphere plant families had their genesis at high southern latitudes, during a period of intense evolutionary novelty. Since that time there has been continual change, but at a much lower level, leading to distinctive but related floras in these two major landmasses.
19 May 6 -7.30pm – includes refreshments
Seminar: The Amazon - a Pictorial Voyage
Professor Arthur Georges, University of Canberra
Venue: Gallery of Australian Design
26 May 6pm
Film: Latin American Film Festival, Abril Despedaçado (Behind the Sun) 2001. English subtitles
Venue: Manning Clark Centre Theatre 4, Australian National University
Set in the desert badlands of the Brazilian Northeast, a young man struggles with a tradition of violence and continuous killing between rival families. “Behind the Sun” is a powerful story with an incredible mix of imagery and winner of the BAFTA Best Foreign Film title.
Stay after the screening to enjoy refreshments provided by the Embassy of Brazil.
Seminars will also be held at the Gallery on 2, 9 and 16 June
Dr Karen E Mow | Executive Manager | Institute for Applied Ecology | University of Canberra | ACT 2601, Australia
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