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Lecture by Peter Kennedy; Respondent: Sue Cramer
In 1970, Sydney-based artists Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, Tim Johnson and others co-founded Inhibodress, one of Australia’s first artist-run initiatives. While Inhibodress was short-lived – operating only until 1972 – it was instrumental in supporting, and exposing the Australian public to, early experimental performance, movement, light, sound and video art. Among many impactful works shown at the Woolloomooloo space was Peter Kennedy’s But the Fierce Blackman (7-29 March, 1971); a performative environment/installation understood to be one of the earliest sound art works produced in Australia. Exhibited alongside Kennedy’s major neon installation, Luminal Sequences, the exhibition was grounded in ideas of interference, which subsequently became central to Kennedy’s practice. Recognised as a key moment in the development of critical discourse on conceptual art in Australia, in this lecture Kennedy will reflect on the importance of Inhibodress and this significant work.
Sue Cramer, curator of Inhibodress 1971-1972, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1989, will consider the legacy of this work in conceptual art practice, and the politics of working with the history of performance art and restaging historical exhibitions.
Peter Kennedy is an artist and co-founded of the artist-run Inhibodress gallery. His work has been presented and collected by major institutions in Australia and around the world.
Sue Cramer is a Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
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ABOUT THE SERIES:
What are the landmark exhibitions that have shaped Australian art? From 2019 to 2020, ACCA’s Lecture Series, Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1968–1999, will take a deeper look at the moments that have shaped Australian art since 1968. In this two-year series, sixteen guest lecturers will analyse the game changers in Australian art, addressing key contemporary art exhibitions staged over the last three decades of the twentieth century and reflecting on the ways these exhibitions shaped art history and contemporary Australian culture more broadly.
Ambitious, contested, polemical, genre-defining and genre-defying, contemporary art exhibitions have shaped and transformed the cultural landscape, along with our understanding of the very nature of what constitutes as art. This program traces the legacies of artists and curators, addresses the critical reception of select significant projects, and reflects on a wide range of exhibitions and formats; from artist run initiatives to institutions, as well as interventions in public space and remote communities.
Presented by Abercrombie & Kent with Research Partner, Centre of Visual Art (CoVA) at The University of Melbourne, the two-year series brings together a diversity of voices with hour-long lectures and conversations involving exhibiting artists, curators, art critics and historians, with the first set of lectures scheduled from April to November 2019.
