CoVA x Perimeter is a collaborative publishing initiative curated by the Centre of Visual Art at the University of Melbourne and independent publishing house Perimeter Editions. Foregrounding experimental and otherwise innovative discursive outputs from three key streams of enquiry – Postnational Art Histories, Feminism and Intersectionality, and Art + Science – the program spans research-in-progress, academic dialogues, artist responses, and essays, working to reframe scholarly research via a multiplicity of new perspectives and lenses.
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Enough: Artists and writers on gendered violence
On March 15, 2021, more than one hundred thousand people marched across Australia in a series of March 4 Justice protests calling for gender equality and justice for victims of sexual assault. Enough: Artists and writers on gendered violence comprises creative responses to the issues highlighted in these protests.
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Sight Unseen: Visualising the Unseeable through Art and Science
At its most fundamental, the act of seeing is the sensory experience of detecting light. A confluence of science, art, cultural knowledge, imaging and imagining, Sight Unseen – which is edited by Edward Colless, Suzie Fraser, and Ryan Jefferies, and designed by Daly & Lyon – positions the notion of sight to be so much more.
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What is Postnational Art History?
Through its collection of essays, reflections and conversations – many of which position the iconic collaborative paintings, the Yirrkala Church Panels, as a central motif – What is Postnational Art History? provides an interdisciplinary base for sketching out countless potential futures, and foregrounding Indigenous, diasporic and postcolonial studies, to expand the history of art beyond the default of the nation-state.