ACCA Podcast

Lecture by Janine Burke, Respondent: Helen Hughes In this lecture, art historian and curator Janine Burke reviews pivotal radical feminist interventions of the mid-1970s, interrogating their legacy and exploring catalysts for collective feminist action, as well as their influence on Australian art history. Curator, writer and academic Helen Hughes responds and addresses the influence of this era on contemporary art and feminist thinking of today. More information available: https://acca.melbourne/program/defining-moments-a-room-of-their-own-creating-a-space-for-the-feminist-collective/ https://research.unimelb.edu.au/cova/people/centre-fellows/janine-burke https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/helen-hughes Recorded at ACCA on Monday 7 October Thank you to our partners: Abercrombie & Kent Presenting Partner; Centre for Visual Art (CoVA) Research Partner; Event Partners Melbourne Gin Company, Capi and City of Melbourne; Media Partners Art Guide Australia, The Saturday Paper, 3RRR FM

Chance Composition: Haroon Mirza and James Rushford in conversation Artist Haroon Mirza is joined by collaborator and composer James Rushford in a conversation that provides insight into each of their practices, from their shared interest in the aesthetic and spatial possibilities of sound and sampling to their experimental approaches to collaboration. This conversation is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Haroon Mirza: The Construction of an Act, and the program of studio residencies that take place in the exhibition over September and early October. Further info available here: acca.melbourne/program/chance-composition/ Recorded at ACCA on Monday 16 September 2019 Thank you to our exhibition partners: Exhibition Partners Melbourne International Arts Festival, Henry Moore Foundation, John Wardle Architects, Centre for Visual Art (CoVA), Dulux; Performance Partners Liquid Architecture, JMC Academy; Media Partner 3RRR FM

Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt: Public Readings Developed in partnership with RMIT University non/fiction lab The Doubting Writing/Writing Doubt workshops were held over August and September 2019 to look closely at the themes of ACCA's exhibition, On Vulnerability and Doubt, and to ask: "How can engaging with doubt and vulnerability help us let go of conventional writing positions, and go further into writing about art in the expanded field?" Listen here to the public readings by the 10 participants of their works, the final forms of which will be reproduced in a standalone publication. Further information: acca.melbourne/program/doubting-writing-public-readings/ Recorded at ACCA on Wednesday 21 August 2019 Thank you to our partners: RMIT University non-fiction lab, Art + Australia,Art Guide Australia, The Lifted Brow

Almost Anything Goes: Sculpturescape 1975 at Mildura Lecture by Julie Ewington In the 1970s Mildura became an unlikely epicentre of contemporary experimental art in Australia. Julie Ewington reflects in this lecture on the visionary leadership of Tom McCullough in staging the Mildura Sculpture Triennial, which morphed the town's Arts Centre from an exhibition of recent sculpture into a freewheeling consideration of contemporary forms that the state art museums could barely contemplate, let alone accommodate. Earth art, conceptual art, performance, feminist artists, ephemeral installations, artists living on site: Mildura commissioned and supported some of the first manifestations in a public art gallery in this country of ‘the expanded field’ of post-object art. Further information: acca.melbourne/series/defining-moments/ Recorded at ACCA on Monday 2 September 2019 Thank you to our partners: Abercrombie & Kent Presenting Partner; Centre for Visual Art (CoVA) Research Partner; Event Partners Melbourne Gin Company, Capi and City of Melbourne; Media Partners Art Guide Australia, The Saturday Paper, 3RRR FM

Soft Touch: Brent Harris and Justin Clemens in conversation Artist Brent Harris and academic, writer Justin Clemens discuss the role of vulnerability, doubt, desire and touch in Harris' painting and printmaking practice, specifically with reference to the works presented in ACCA's exhibition, On Vulnerability and Doubt. Further info available here: https://acca.melbourne/program/brent-harris-justin-clemens/ Recorded at ACCA on Saturday 24 August 2019 Thank you to our exhibition partners: Exhibition Partners Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, Centre for Visual Art (CoVA), Dulux; Media Partners The Saturday Paper, 3RRR FM

ACCA is pleased to host Chi Tran: Attention is a form of prayer as part of the 2019 WRITING & CONCEPTS program. A writer, artist and editor, Chi Tran presents this lecture in the form of a lyrical, prayer-like essay. Split into short chapters, Chi Tran's talk showcases 'how crucially feminist it is to combine poetry, autobiography, and critical theory,' as the speaker notes. This lecture is a meditation on embodied writing that seeks to simultaneously undo and affirm. WRITING & CONCEPTS is produced by Future Tense and moderated by Jan van Schaik and Fjorn Butler. WRITING & CONCEPTS is supported by each of the host venues, MvS Architects, RMIT’s School of Art and School of Architecture & Urban Design, Melbourne University and ART + AUSTRALIA. Further information: https://acca.melbourne/program/writing-concepts-chi-tran/ Recorded at ACCA on Thursday 29 August 2019

Bandits Live Comfortably in the Ruins by Sean Lynch Presented by the City of Melbourne Irish artist Sean Lynch visited Melbourne in August 2019 as part of a research project into creative practice in Australia, with Arts Melbourne. In this lecture Lynch speaks about his practice and recent work in terms of the public realm. Sean Lynch is interested in loose ends within stories: the lost footnotes and how to mediate their presence. The sculptures, installations, videos and publications generated in this process sway between the anecdotal and informative. Recent projects have included an exhibition of archaeological forgeries; a ‘storytelling’ installation at the Venice Biennale using sculpture and video; working with a fast food outlet now on the site of the forgotten first museum of London; cataloguing examples of vandalism and conservatism in modern art; locating remnants of the DeLorean car factory in the Atlantic Ocean; investigating alleged supernatural trees, in danger of destruction from new motorways; and finding illicit stone carvings by Irish workmen in Oxford. Further information: https://acca.melbourne/program/sean-lynch-artist-talk-bandits-live-comfortably-in-the-ruins/ Recorded at ACCA on Monday 12 August 2019

Clifton Hill Community Music Centre Lecture by David Chesworth. Respondent: Kelly Fliender The Clifton Hill Community Music Centre (CHCMC) was a lively place from 1976 to 1984, where artists from two distinct generations created, performed and debated. In this lecture, David Chesworth (coordinator between 1978-82) examines the CHCMC as one of the first places in Australia where the boundaries of performance, music-making, filmmaking and installation-making were dissolved. Further information: acca.melbourne/series/defining-moments/ Recorded at ACCA on Monday 5 August 2019 Thank you to our partners: Abercrombie & Kent Presenting Partner; Centre for Visual Art (CoVA) Research Partner; Event Partners Melbourne Gin Company, Capi and City of Melbourne; Media Partners Art Guide Australia, The Saturday Paper, 3RRR FM

This panel discussion was presented alongside ACCA's exhibition 'On Vulnerability and Doubt' (until 1 Sept 2019) and focussed on self-doubt, imposter syndrome and the complexities for artists in putting themselves and their work on display. PANELLISTS: Exhibiting artist Charlie Sofo is joined by artists Kevin Chin and Jessie Scott and moderators from the Pro Prac Podcast Nicole Breedon and Kiera Brew Kurec. This program was recorded at ACCA on 17 July 2019 and was presented in collaboration with Pro Prac. This podcast is a special episode of the Pro Prac podcast – the talk behind the artist talk. Find out more here: https://soundcloud.com/propracpodcast Read more about the exhibition here: https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/on-vulnerability-and-doubt/

The Psychology of Sounds Forum Listen to our forum about the psychology of music and sound, moderated by psychiatrist, author and media commentator, Steve Ellen. Building on the considerations of sound and the voice in healing and transcendence in ACCA’s exhibition Haroon Mirza: The Construction of an Act, this discussion brought together sound artist and co-director of FutureTense, Fjorn Butler; and music therapist at the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre, Stephan Skov; with exhibition curator Annika Kristensen. Further info available here: http://acca.melbourne/program/the-psychology-of-sounds-forum/ Recorded at ACCA on Monday 28 October 2019 Thank you to our exhibition partners: Exhibition Partners Melbourne International Arts Festival, Henry Moore Foundation, John Wardle Architects, Centre for Visual Art (CoVA), Dulux; Performance Partners Liquid Architecture, JMC Academy; Media Partner 3RRR FM