ACCA Podcast

Listen now to the third conversation in the Think Tank series as part of the forthcoming exhibition Who’s Afraid of Public Space? Presented in partnership with Art Projects Australia (APA),this session will be moderated by ACCA’s Public Programs Coordinator Bianca Winataputri and include contributors Dewi Cooke, Eleanor Jackson, Sim Luttin, Michael Camakaris and Ed Service. ACCA is pleased to co-host further Think Tanks over the coming year to consider a wide array of considerations pertinent to the exhibition and the work of ourpartner organisations and co-hosts. The Think Tank discussions will continue to feed into the critical concerns of the overarching Who’s Afraid of Public Space? project, contributing to a polyphonic and polycentric understanding of our increasingly complex public realm.

Listen now to a conversation between between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia, Mykaela Saunders, writer, teacher, and community researcher and Dimity Hawkins, Australian activist, researcher and academic. This podcast concludes the series produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', including Glass with Yhonnie Scarce, Kristel Britcher and Lisa Slade, Architecture with Louis Mokak, Mikhail Rodrick and Kim Bridgland, Family with Hannah Presley and Lisa Waup and Concrete Archives with Yhonnie Scarce and Lisa Radford.

Listen now to a conversation between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia and Lisa Radford, artist and writer about their collaborative project 'Concrete Archives.' Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park.'

Listen now to a conversation between Hannah Presley, currently curator of Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Victoria and inaugural curator for the Yalingwa program at ACCA, and Lisa Waup, artist and co-curator of 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park.' Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', on view at ACCA until 14 June.

Listen now to a conversation between ​Louis Anderson Mokak, a Djugun man from West Kimberley and interdisciplinary designer, Mikhail Rodrick, architect at Wood Marsh and Yhonnie Scarce's long-term collaborator, and Kim Bridgland, a director at Melbourne based architecture studio Edition Office. ​ Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', on view at ACCA until 14 June.

ACCA and the non/fictionLab at RMIT are pleased to present a live snapshot of outcomes and processes from the 2021 program of Writing in the Expanded Field Volume 3: Overlapping Writing, developed in conjunction with ACCA’s summer show Overlapping Magisteria. Program participants: Des Barry, Anna Kate Blair, Alisa Blakeney, Sophia Cai, Kate Jama, Peta Murray, Diego Ramirez, Autumn Royal, Audrey Schmidt and Tina Stefanou. Encompassing living organisms, kinetic installations and immersive assemblages, Overlapping Magisteria pays attention to multiple ways of knowing, sensing, feeling and interacting with the world. The works by participating artists draw on various social, cultural, technical and material forms, unsettling the lingering divide between nature and culture towards more complex realms of knowledge and experience. Participants from Writing in the Expanded Field, Volume 3: Overlapping Writing have taken these exhibition themes as a provocation for further exploring what is possible when we shift position so that instead of writing about art we write with and from art. Building on the discoveries of Writing in the Expanded Field Volume 1 and Volume 2, and the ongoing inquiries of RMIT non/fictionLab, writer/participants are exploring embodiment, feeling, and intuition in the writer’s encounter with art, situating material, poetic and playful ways of knowing alongside critical and curatorial perspectives. Writers have also participated in an overlapping, or ‘cross-over writing’, methodology that explores decentred authorship and cacophonous voice alongside the development of individual pieces.

Listen now to a discussion about the medium of glass between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia, Kristel Britcher, artist, designer and head of the Jam Factory glass studio, and Lisa Slade, Assistant Director at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', on view at ACCA until 14 June.

Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices Session Three: Friday 19 March 2021 Chair: Dr Marnie Badham, Senior Research Fellow, CAST, RMIT School of Art SPEAKERS: Unbound Collective: Sovereign Acts of (Anti)Memorial Love Djon Mundine: Remembering and Forgetting –Forgiveness and Not Forgetting More information: https://acca.melbourne/counter-monuments-indigenous-settler-relations-in-australian-contemporary-art-and-memorial-practices Genevieve Grieves and Dr Amy Spiers have developed this program in partnership with the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration (ISRC), University of Melbourne, Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST), RMIT, and with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. ACCA is pleased to host this symposium as part of the 2020-22 research, publication and exhibition project 'Who’s Afraid of Public Space?'

Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices Session Two: Thursday 18 March 2021 Chair: Genevieve Grieves, Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne SPEAKERS: Dr Fiona Foley: Honouring our Aboriginal Warriors Carol Que and Joel Sherwood Spring: Mutually assured construction Lilly Brown, Dianne Jones and Dr Odette Kelada: Mass Exposure: Memory Laundering, Racial Literacy and the Art of Truth Telling MORE INFO: https://acca.melbourne/counter-monuments-indigenous-settler-relations-in-australian-contemporary-art-and-memorial-practices Genevieve Grieves and Dr Amy Spiers have developed this program in partnership with the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration (ISRC), University of Melbourne, Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST), RMIT, and with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. ACCA is pleased to host this symposium as part of the 2020-22 research, publication and exhibition project 'Who’s Afraid of Public Space?'

Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices Session One: Wednesday 17 March 2021 Chair: Associate Professor Sana Nakata, co-founder of the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration, University of Melbourne: SPEAKERS: Genevieve Grieves and Dr Amy Spiers: Counter-monuments: An introduction Dr Julie Gough: MISSING or DEAD: reinstating the hidden figures of history Paola Balla and Dr Clare Land, with Kate Golding: Indigenous perspectives on Captain Cook: this full agency, this decolonised spirit MORE INFO: https://acca.melbourne/counter-monuments-indigenous-settler-relations-in-australian-contemporary-art-and-memorial-practices Genevieve Grieves and Dr Amy Spiers have developed this program in partnership with the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration (ISRC), University of Melbourne, Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST), RMIT, and with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. ACCA is pleased to host this symposium as part of the 2020-22 research, publication and exhibition project 'Who’s Afraid of Public Space?'