Artists and Mentors from the VCA Access Program discuss the importance of mentorship in the arts.
New Postgraduate Visual Arts Journal
Online Exhibition launched September 10, 2020
Online exhibition two launched 30 July, 2020
cova-research@unimelb.edu.au
During the past 50 years, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged deeply with the many postnational challenges to national sovereignties yet the nation state and nationalisms are as strong and influential as ever.
This program aims to produce a new understanding of cultural alliances across the Asia Pacific region with programs specifically focused to facilitate collaboration between institutions and individuals across Australia, Indonesia and India.
Contemporary society, and public culture, is no longer formed by values and practices that arise from and remain bound to a homogenous group, but has multiple origins, addresses diverse communities, and flows across territorial boundaries.
The Feminism and Intersectionality program is designed to challenge dominant narratives and ideologies, and propose new frameworks in which to continue making and legitimising forms of knowledge and cultural production that are otherwise rendered invisible.
The CoVA Art and Science program, supported by Science Gallery Melbourne, facilitates vital, national and international research projects in this space, building relationships between the University of Melbourne and scientific and creative research institutions across the world.
Online Exhibition launched September 10, 2020
cova-research@unimelb.edu.au
Art + Australia is a publishing and research body that focuses on contemporary art and its relationship to broader theoretical, social and geo-political contexts. Based at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne, and living intimately with the vibrant pulse of its art school host, Art + Australia presents a rigorous and uncompromising perspective on what might constitute both art and Australia in the twenty first century.
The AAANZ publishes the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA). The ANZJA is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. The journal is dedicated to research in art history, art practice, art theory, and exhibition and museum studies. 2014 ushered in a new era for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art. The journal is now published with Taylor and Francis, a division of Informa. It is published in hard copy and online via the ANZJA site on Taylor and Francis.
Project Anywhere is a global blind peer reviewed exhibition program dedicated to art at the outermost limits of location-specificity. Although descriptions and images of hosted projects are featured on a dedicated website, Project Anywhere is neither an online exhibition nor a journal. It is instead a vehicle for illuminating artistic projects located anywhere and elsewhere in space and time. It is perhaps best imagined as an exhibition comprising the entire globe in which the role of curator is replaced with a peer evaluation system.
Currents is an interdisciplinary arts and practice-led-research journal dedicated to the flow of ideas occurring between the disciplines of visual art, film, production, architecture, design, dance and theatre; along with art, architecture, theatre and music history. Collaboratively published between the Centre of Visual Arts (CoVA) University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia, Currents charts the social, creative and historical dialogues generated by early career researchers across these discrete yet interrelated disciplinary fields.
Unlikely is a transdisciplinary online journal. An experiment in form, Unlikely engages its audience and contributors through a two-stage process of live events that showcase the work of creative practitioners, followed by peer reviewed electronic publication of creative arts work and traditional scholarly articles and essays—both overseen by an international editorial board and panel of peer reviewers. Unlikely opens unexpected spaces for artistic exchange and scholarly conversations across mediums, disciplines and continents. It offers researchers from humanities and artists working in practice-led research the chance to participate in and explore a range of practical and theoretical contemporary art concerns.
Published: 15 Jul 2019
On Thursday 27 June, CoVA and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) invited Canadian artist Ambera Wellmann to conduct a masterclass with VCA Graduate students.
Published: 17 Jun 2019
PANEL Wednesday 19 June, 5:30-7PM at Buxton Contemporary
Published: 28 May 2019
The Potter Museum of Art presents Water: An Interdisciplinary Public Forum, with co-presenters CoVA
Published: 30 Apr 2019
COMING UP with Archie Barry & Eugenia LimNational Anthem @ Buxton Contemporary until July 7, 2019
Published: 02 Apr 2019
PERFORMANCENational Anthem at Buxton Contemporary8 March - 7 July 2019
Published: 25 Mar 2019
SYMPOSIUMThis event was curated by Sean Lowry (University of Melbourne) and Simone Douglas (Parsons School for Design, New York City) as part of an ongoing partnership between the Centre of Visual Art (University of Melbourne) and Parsons Fine Art (Parsons School of Design, The New School).
Published: 20 Mar 2019
8 March - 7 July 2019 at Buxton ContemporaryCurated by Dr Kate Just
Published: 18 Dec 2018
LISTENFollowing the opening of The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (Brisbane), curator Natalie King in conversation with regional luminaries Elia Nurvista (Indonesia), Ly Hoàng Ly (Vietnam), Mithu Sen (India) and Lyno Vuth (Cambodia) discussing the role of artistic collaboration and collectivity.
Published: 26 Nov 2018
A SYMPOSIUM with speakers including Myria Georgiou (LSE), Paul Carter (RMIT), Audrey Yue (NUS), Mark Andrejevic (Monash), Kristy Kang (NTU), Eddie Patterson (UOM), Danielle Wyatt (UOM)