A series of short seminars
Wednesdays 3:10 – 4:00pm in the SVPA theatrette
Ranging from designers, curators and artists to performers, writers and directors, each Wednesday afternoon from 3.10-4.00pm creative practitioners will be presenting a seminar on their work and research in the School of Visual and Performing Arts Theatrette. Each seminar will run for approximately 30 minutes followed by a Q&A session.
Staff, students are especially encouraged to attend. The seminars are also open to the public. All welcome! Free entry!
Enquiries:
Email: jklabbers@csu.edu.au
Phone: (02) 6933 2588
Autumn Semester Programme
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Justy Phillips about ‘write/here’, ‘fifteen years’ and ‘magnificent’ |
Wednesday 4 March |
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Damian Candusso Australia: the movie |
Wednesday 11 March |
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Scott Howie The Hermit Project Download the audio podcast of this seminar 12.6Mb [MP3] |
Wednesday 18 March |
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Christopher Orchard Immortality through digital epitaphs and machination |
Wednesday 25 March |
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Emily Snadden Master of Arts Practice (Jewellery Production and Design) |
Wednesday 8 April |
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Johannes Klabbers Soundings: Autobiographical Reckonings |
Wednesday 6 May |
| Dennis O’Connor | Wednesday 13 May | |
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Margaret Woodward | Wednesday 20 May |
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Julie Montgarrett | Wednesday 27 May |
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Neill Overton | Wednesday 3 June |
Justy Phillips
Justy Phillips is a visual artist and lecturer who has recently relocated to Wagga. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, and the London College of Printing, Phillips spent 10 years teaching communication design in the UK at the London College of Communication, University of Brighton and Kent Institute of Art & Design before moving to Tasmania from England in 2003, to develop her practice through site-specific installation and text-based narrative works.
Phillips’ emerging body of work is informed by the intimate ways in which people relate to each other and to the world in different social and cultural contexts. Her practice continues to examine the diversity and complexity of these human relationships and raises questions about the marginalisation of individuals and communities within society. Through her practice, Phillips considers the complex moral and ethical structures of society and the impact of such structures on everyday-life. Underpinning her practice is a strong belief in the potential of art to participate in and provide an understanding of contemporary social realities.
Phillips works across a range of media including video, print and installation. She continues to develop her practice through text-based installation, limited-edition publishing, through an ongoing study of the vernacular, words in social spaces.
Justy will talk us through three of her recent projects - the write/here project, a gallery installation in Hobart ‘fifteen years’ and the project she is currently working on called ‘magnificent’.
Christopher Orchard
Presenting the second chapter from ‘Programming Thanatos; The Work of Mourning in the Digital Age’ entitled ‘Immortality through Digital Epitaphs and Machination’.
In his writings on the psychology of death, Robert Lifton discerns that a lack of motivation for continuity is the greatest source for emotional distress, therefore permanence and intransience offers stability of mind. Lifton details that one of our greatest ambitions is to escape the predictability of death; whether feared or denied; through five determinate methods of symbolic immortality in order to create a lasting memory of ourselves. Drawing upon Liftons ideas I will move to discuss the relevance of digital culture in planning a lasting memorial in fear of death and denial of death.
Christopher Orchard is a Master of Arts (Research) candidate in Fine Arts, and Associate Lecturer in Photography at CSU.
Emily Snadden
The possibility of mimicry, imitation, simulation and the suggestion of reality in the inanimate object is central to my Masters project.
My work to date has largely been centred on the theorem of Simulation (posed by French social theorist Jean Baudrillard), and the potential plasticity/malleability of metal. I am intrigued by the possibility of challenging the material hardness of the medium; the ‘simulations’ aim to allow metal to ‘perform’ the unexpected (ie: fluidity, flexibility, crumpling, collapse and folds). The developed objects/wearables aim to ‘simluate’ recognisable form, acting as memory triggers the works aim to encourage the viewer to question authenticity.
Emily is a postgraduate student in the Master of Arts Practice (Jewellery Design and Production)