Experimental Institutionalism: Employment with Alana Kushnir and Julieta Aranda

Employment: Art, labour and changing modes of working This program is part of ACCA’s 2021 Lecture Series, Experimental Institutionalism: Contemporary Art and Curatorial Ecologies and features two short lectures by Alana Kushnir and Julieta Aranda followed by a conversation with ACCA Curator Miriam Kelly. Alana Kushnir explores collaboration, labour and scaling-up the artist’s studio in the context of the contemporary art ecology, and Julieta Aranda examines our relationship – as beings, as humans, as artists, as cultural workers – to the toxic environments that we have created. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Alana Kushnir an art lawyer, curator, art advisor and Director and Founder of Guestwork Agency based in Melbourne, Australia. She is the Principal Investigator of the Serpentine Galleries R&D Platform Legal Lab and a sessional lecturer at The University of Melbourne, teaching subjects on curating, contemporary art and art law. Julieta Aranda is an artist and co-director of the online platform e-flux. Her artistic practice spans installation, video, and print media, with a special interest in the creation and manipulation of artistic exchange and the subversion of traditional notions of commerce through art making. Read more, including full speaker biographies here: https://acca.melbourne/program/experimental-institutionalism-employment/ Read more about the series here: https://acca.melbourne/series/experimental-institutionalism-2021