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Exhibition

Desire Lines:
A meander through art and life

The term ‘desire lines’ refers to the wayward, improvised tracks created by walkers and others who defy the ways designed for them by urban regulators and councils. Sometime known as ‘goat trails’ they show the preferable path, and indicate our more maverick and intuitive navigations. Extrapolating from this premise, Desire Lines at ACCA took audiences […]

Exhibition

Paul Taylor Memorial

...from Taylor’s private collection. Exhibiting Artists: Howard Arkley, Joseph Beuys, Juan Davila, Keith Haring, Joseph Kosuth, Maria Kozic & Philip Brophy, Sherrie Levine, Simon Linke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Morris, Peter Nagy, Mike Parr, Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, Vivienne Shark...
Publication

Desire Lines:
A meander through art and life

Kuhn, Stephen Sutcliffe, Grant Stevens, Akram Zaatari, Marcel Broodthaers, David Link, Willie Doherty, Pierre Bismuth, Charlie Sofo, Eva Koch, Catherine Yass, Leopold Kessler, AK Dolven and Jacqueline Donachie.
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Desire Lines booklet

Jochen Kuhn, Stephen Sutcliffe, Grant Stevens, Akram Zaatari, Marcel Broodthaers, David Link, Willie Doherty, Pierre Bismuth, Charlie Sofo, Eva Koch, Catherine Yass, Leopold Kessler, AK Dolven and Jacqueline Donachie.
Program

ACCA Book Club: Ellen van Neerven

...by University of Queensland Press, 2020). To take part in this Book Club, register here as soon as you can (as places are limited) and get reading! On registration you will receive a unique zoom link. If you don’t have...
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Public Programs, Education and Events

Foundation targeted schools in the Western suburbs who may not otherwise be able to come to ACCA. The Go West program provided free buses to transport 24 secondary school classes to ACCA for free workshops linking the exhibition program to the education curriculum. MSO/ ACCA music...
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Rewind: A posse of Scots

...and in 1998 researching for the Melbourne International Biennial, I made numerous studio visits and became a visiting critic at the art school for a time. From these mutual contacts a set of exhibition collaborations and projects emerged.  The links between Scotland, and in particular Glasgow, have...
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Public Programs, Education and Events

...exhibition season. Linked to the curriculum, these were designed to broaden both student and teacher knowledge of contemporary art through learning packs, soundfile interviews and discussions with artists and art professionals. ACCA Art Partners ACCA worked...
Press Release

Gestures & Procedures

August 6 - September 26 2010 A new survey exhibition where artists use gestures, rituals and repetitions in video and photography opens at ACCA on August 6th...
Press Release

Screams on Screen

...of art/horror auteur David Lynch’s rarely screened earliest experimental shorts, 1967-68, as well as shorts from some of Australia’s finest contemporary artists, a digital restoration of Ann Turner's Australian folk-horror cult classic Celia, 1989, and the first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily...
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Rewind: Paul Taylor

Beuys, Juan Davila, Keith Haring, Joseph Kosuth, Maria Kozic & Philip Brophy, Sherrie Levine, Simon Linke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Morris, Peter Nagy, Mike Parr, Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Jenny Watson In 1992...
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Public Programs, Education and Events

...discussions about contemporary art. ‘Look Who’s Talking’ and ‘In Conversation’ evenings ACCA’s popular “Look Who’s Talking’ program continued with free Wednesday evening and Sunday afternoon talks by artists, curators and social commentators linked...
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Public Programs, Education and Events

In Conversation – artist, David Rosetzky in conversation with choreographer, Lucy Guerin and screen critic, Jake Wilson 21 September 2011 Held in conjunction with the exhibition David Rosetzky: How to Feel. Talk – Olaf Nicolai illustrated artist talk 7...
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What is Public Art?

...sculpture, as the artwork's movement evokes the movement of an actual tree. This sculpture was originally commissioned for the Peninsula Link Freeway in Melbourne, and is now located in the McClelland Sculpture Park. Sound Based...
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Public programs, education, and events

Patricia Piccinini, Skywhale at ACCA December 2013. Photo: David Johns...
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Public Programs, Education and Events

Speakers: Juliana Engberg, Emily Floyd, Andrew McQualter, David Rosetzky, Louise WeaverLook Who’s TalkingThis series of free floor talks gave the public opportunities to hear first hand from artists, ACCA’s curatorial team, guest speakers...
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Tai Snaith: A World of One’s Own

...with an Italian dad and a Chinese surname in Echuca/Moama in the '80s. Paola talks about the strong influence of indigenous women’s voices like Aunty Marge Tucker, and the links to the incredibly powerful artwork she continues to make around this to this day...
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Monstrous Patchwork: Paul Yore’s Textile Politics by Helen Hughes

NOTHING REALLY MATTERS’. Aesthetically, these pithy phrases embroidered in colourful palettes may be said to recall the Rainbow Aphorisms 1993–95 of David McDiarmid, the Australian artist and gay rights activist whose posters, produced at the height of the AIDS epidemic, quipped ‘I’M TOO...
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Six Walks Episode Five: Timmah Ball on exploding the Maribyrnong Transcript

...nbsp;inequality across the arts industry. In her various projects Timmah has continued to investigate the links between gentrification, racial inequality and housing affordability. In 2016 she won the Westerly magazine Patricia Hackett Prize, and her writing has appeared in a range...