Got itchy feet? Hankering to visit the world? Then book your seat now! ACCA’s highly acclaimed lecture series will do some major globe trotting in 2015. Expect Venice without the menace, Paris with the sizzle and New York New York with a Martini thrown in.
It’s art history but not as you know it. ACCA’s intrepid team will explore the best and most interesting galleries, art events, cafés, architecture and visit the writers, philosophers, filmmakers and artists that have shaped the unique culture of each city. Enjoy a complimentary regional drink, created by Sipsmith Independent Spirits & Hippocampus Metropolitan Distillery. All in the comfort of the ACCA departure lounge.
Online check in now open:
Five pack pass: $145
Casual passes: $35
6pm start, bar and gallery open from 5pm
Monday 18 May
See Venice and Die
Annemarie Kiely
Monday 15 June
A foggy day in London Town
Annika Kristensen
Monday 13 July
Tiptoe through the Tulips in Ol’ Amsterdam
Alison Lasek
Monday 17 August
A Fling with Beijing
Mikala Tai
Monday 21 September
Berlin: A City of Artists
Hannah Matthews
Monday 19 October
New York and the Invention of Downtown
Chris McAuliffe
Monday 16 November
I Love Paris
Annemarie Kiely
Meet your tour guides:
Annemarie Kiely is an author, editor and creative director who co-ordinates a network of talent to communicate the work of the world’s most innovative creative practices. As the Melbourne Editor for Vogue Living since 2004, the former Melbourne Editor of Belle magazine (1991 – 2004), and a regular speaker and internationally published writer on the subject of culture, she strategically plans and produces across print and digital platforms. A graduate of Melbourne University (Arts) and Swinburne University (Film and Television) she continues to mentor students in media and consult to commercial industry on the luxury landscape.
Annika Kristensen is ACCA’s Exhibition Manager. Previously the Exhibition and Project Coordinator for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow for the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012), Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair, Artangel, and Film and Video Umbrella, London; and The West Australian Newspaper, Perth. Annika was a participant in the 2013 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program and the recipient of an Asialink Arts Residency in 2014. Following studies in Scotland, Annika spent her early twenties trawling the galleries and pubs of London – a city that has crept irrevocably under her skin.
Alison Lasek is ACCA’s Public Programs Coordinator. Prior to this she spent 18 months in the Netherlands learning the language, exploring galleries and soaking up the culture. Alison has contributed a wide range of arts publications including Art and Australia, Runway Australian Experimental Art Journal, Vault Magazine, was co-founder and editor for the Melbourne based contemporary art blog Not Quite Critics and was a participant in the 2012 Gertrude Contemporary and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program. She is currently on the Board of Victorian artist run initiative, Bus Projects.
Hannah Mathews is an associate curator with ACCA. Her most recent exhibitions include, Framed Movements for the Melbourne Festival at ACCA in 2014, Action/Response, a two night cross-disciplinary program for Dance Massive 2013 and Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art, which launched the Melbourne International Arts Festival’s Visual Arts Program at ACCA in 2011. Hannah has completed curatorial residencies in New York, Berlin, Tokyo and Venice, teaches curatorial studies at RMIT University of Melbourne and sits on the boards of NAVA, Art Monthly Australia and International Art Space, Western Australia.
Dr Chris McAuliffe is Professor of Art (Practice-led research) at the School of Art, Australian National University. A one-time resident of New York’s East Village, Chris has explored Manhattan’s alphabet soup of art, music and bohemianism from SoHo to NoLIta, TriBeCa and offshore to Dumbo. From 2000–2013 he was Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne. He has taught art history at the University of Melbourne (1988-2000) and Harvard University (2011–12) and is the author of Art and Suburbia (1996), Linda Marrinon: let her try (2007) and Jon Cattapan: possible histories (2008).
Mikala Tai is Director of 4A. Mikala has taught at both RMIT and the University of Melbourne in both undergraduate and graduate programs in Contemporary Art, Modernism and Exhibition Management. Mikala was the founder and director of Supergraph – Australia’s Contemporary Graphic Art Fair, was part of the public programs team for Melbourne Now (2013) at the National Gallery of Victoria, and previously the Cultural Program Manager for the Melbourne Fashion Festival (2009-2013). Mikala currently sits on the board of BUS Projects, Melbourne. In early 2015 Mikala submitted her PhD at UNSW Art & Design examining the influence of the Global City on China’s local art infrastructure.
