RESEARCH

A panel discussion with Max Delany, Pippa Dickson, Rose Hiscock, Melissa Keys & Simon Maidment, chaired by Vikki McInnes VIA ZOOM

The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference Melbourne 2019 will be a powerful convergence of ideas, art and transnational solidarity.

Please note this event has now been postponed.

ARTISTS & ARCHITECTS ESTATES SYMPOSIUMTuesday 19 - Wednesday 20 November9.00AM - 5.30PM

A Research Seminar with Julian Day

With Artist Nuraini Juliastuti and Associate Professor Stephanie Springgay (University of Toronto)

The Pinochet Dictatorship Forty Years Later and Implications for AustraliaRMIT Radio Theatre, 11 September @ 18:00

Skills, Strategies and Insights

Curating Memory. Curating MourningIntersections of History, Art, and Activism

Te Toki Haruru - the resounding adzean indigenous conceptual platform for research and creative practice.

Wednesday 7 August, 10AM - 12PMSeminar will be chaired by Prof Ian McLean (University of Melbourne).

A Research Seminar with Prof Gunalan NadarajanDean, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan

Professor Gunalan Nadarajan will present some key conclusions and recommendation from the 2018 NASEM report Branches from the Same Tree, with reponses from Rose Hiscock (Director of Museums and Collections, University of Melbourne) and  Professor Jon Cattapan (Director, Victorian College of the Arts).

In this lecture, Dr MacNamidhe discussed a further part of her work in progress, a book on drawing tentatively entitled "The Desk-Bound Hand: Theories of Habit and Drawing in Modernism and After."

On July 5, 2019 we were pleased to invite early career and graduate researchers to join South American queer and decolonial scholar Dr Macarena Gómez-Barris for a workshop at Buxton Contemporary.

Full Conference schedule, abstracts and speaker bios now available to download as a PDF

The CoVA Graduate Academy convened a rare discussion of Melbourne Visual Poetry from the 1970's with the movements foundational figure π.O.

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.

PANEL  Wednesday 19 June, 5:30-7PM at Buxton Contemporary

This event is presented in partnership with the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, the Centre of Visual Art, Faculty of Arts and School of Historical & Philosophical Studies.

Presented by CoVA, the conference will be held on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 August at the Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne.

A masterclass for graduate students with artist Angela Tiatia, held at the Victorian College of the Arts.

COMING UP with Archie Barry & Eugenia LimNational Anthem @ Buxton Contemporary until July 7, 2019

A CURATORIAL MASTERCLASS for staff and students, held at the Victorian College of the Arts

PERFORMANCENational Anthem at Buxton Contemporary8 March - 7 July 2019

Volume III of Art + Australia's 'Documents' Series, launched at the NGV Art Book Fair 15 - 17 March, 2019. Edited by Jan van Schaik, published by Art + Australia.

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).

LECTURE with Professor Michael Taussig (Columbia University)

8 March - 7 July 2019 at Buxton ContemporaryCurated by Dr Kate Just

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.

Edited by Jan van Schaik, published by Art+Australia. WRITING & CONCEPTS 2016 takes its title from a critically-focused lecture series conceived by Jan van Schaik. With contributions from writers and artists including Maura Edmond, Nikos Papastergiadis, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Callum Morton among many others, this publication reflects on and extends the 2016 lecture series.

This two-day SYMPOSIUM examines the ongoing significance of The Aboriginal Memorial (1987–1988) and its context within contemporary art, Yolngu culture and creative practices, as well as relation to recent memorials from across Australia and internationally.

PUBLIC LECTURE at the National Gallery of Australia. Djon Mundine OAM in conversation with NGA Director Nick Mitzevich

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)

PUBLIC LECTURE with Sally Smart, Kate Daw together with artists from the exhibition #Perempuan and curator Santy Saptari, for a conversation about their works, female artists and art practices in Indonesia.

WATCH this public lecture with artists Elia Nurvista, Nuraini Juliastuti and art historian Wulan Dirgantoro

MIRA GOJAK & TAKEHITO KOGANEZAWA 7 November - 17 February at BUXTON CONTEMPORARY

Donald Brook, Rex Butler, Edward Colless, A.D.S Donaldson, Monique Fong, Marcus Moore, Tom Picton Warlow, Terry Smith, Daniel Thomas

WATCH21st Biennale of Sydney, SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement