21 MARCH: It's Academic: Art Publishing inside & outside the institution

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A panel discussion with Charles Esche (Afterall), Rex Butler (Memo Review), Rosemary Forde (independent writer), Helen Hughes (Discipline) & Camila Marambio (Más Allá del Fin/Beyond the End). Chaired by Edward Colless (Art + Australia).

Arts publishing in Australia, and internationally, is in a constant state of flux - or crisis, depending on your perspective. This panel considered the challenges and opportunities for both institutionally-housed and independent publications, and discussed a number of Melbourne-based publications within a broader international framework.

a panel discussion with Charles Esche (Afterall), Rex Butler (Memo Review), Rosemary Forde (independent writer), Helen Hughes (Discipline) & Camila Marambio (Más Allá del Fin/Beyond the End). Chaired by Edward Colless (Art + Australia).

Each panelist presented their own publishing context while broader discussion reflected on some of the differences between academic and popular forms of publishing about art, and what art writing might gain or lose through digital and print platforms.

Professor Charles Esche is a museum director (Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands), curator and writer, and co-editorial director of Afterall - a nonprofit contemporary art research and publishing organisation based in London, at Central St Martins College of Art & Design. Esche's visit to Australia was supported by TarraWarra Museum of Art, and this event was co-hosted by CoVA, MADA (Monash University) & Buxton Contemporary.

Image: Charles Esche via the Van Abbemuseum.