Join us for a forum bringing together a panel of artists, writers, academics, journalists and environmentalists each addressing our collective responsibility to sustain our planet.
The forum will reflect on working better together across various disciplines and backgrounds in addressing the climate emergency. Panellists will consider the social, cultural and economic opportunities that can be cultivated to create long-term sustainability and resilience, from addressing a culture of care, to the roles played by arts and culture in sustainable and collective ways of working.
Speakers include Rebecca Huntley, Tim Riley Walsh, Amanda Cachia and Isadora Vaughan.
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Rebecca Huntley is one of Australia’s most experienced social researchers and former director of The Mind and Mood Report, the longest running measure of the nation’s attitudes and trends. She holds degrees in law and film studies and a PhD in gender studies. She has written numerous books including How To Take About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference. She has been a broadcaster with Radio National. She is on the board of The Whitlam Institute and The Bell Shakespeare Company.
Tim Riley Walsh is a curator and art historian. Riley Walsh is Australia Desk Editor for ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong, and a Post-Thesis Fellow within the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland. He is the Co-Editor of Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings (2020, Power Publications, Sydney, and Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane) and has written widely for ArtAsiaPacific, Frieze, Art Monthly Australasia, Art + Australia, Eyeline, Apollo, Runway, and Artlink. Riley Walsh has previously worked in gallery management, communications, and programming roles at Milani Gallery, Brisbane; Camden Arts Centre, London; and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Amanda Cachia is an independent curator and critic from Sydney, Australia. She received her PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism from the University of California San Diego in 2017. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art; curatorial studies and activism; exhibition design and access; decolonizing the museum; and the politics of embodied disability language in visual culture. She is currently working on two book projects: a monograph based on her dissertation entitled In My Language: Translation in Contemporary Disability Art solicited by Duke University Press, and the edited volume Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation under contract with Routledge that includes over 30 contributors from around the world. Cachia currently teaches art history, visual culture, and curatorial studies at Otis College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, California State University Long Beach, and California State University San Marcos. She serves as caa.reviews Field Editor for West Coast Exhibitions (2020-2023).
Isadora Vaughan completed a Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture and Spatial (Honours), at the Victorian College of Art, University of Melbourne in 2013. Vaughan is the recipient of a number of awards and residencies including recently as a Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist, Melbourne, 2018–19, and at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, United States of America in 2016. Recent solo exhibitions include Bilirubin Bezoar, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne, 2019; Gaia Not the Goddess, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2019; Metabolic Rift, STATION, Melbourne, 2018; Tess (w Clementine Edwards), 55 Sydenham, Sydney, 2017; Cunjevoi, STATION, Melbourne, 2016; Slaty Cleavage, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne, 2015; Soil Slag,TCB art inc., Melbourne, 2015; Slippery Mattering, West Space, Melbourne, 2014.
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This event will be live-streamed to Zoom and ACCA’s Facebook with live closed captioning and Auslan interpretation.
