This event will take place online via Zoom with live closed captions and Auslan interpretation.
A masterclass led by Australian contemporary artist/poet, curator and educator, Rachel O’Reilly, centred around her creative research project The Gas Imaginary (2013-2020).
Rachel O’Reilly will present on the critical strategies and philosophy of practice deployed in her process of building a practice-led PhD from long duree artistic research, partially supported by different residency and commissioning institutions, including Jan van Eyck Academie (NL), Frontier Imaginaries (NL/AUS), Van Abbemuseum (NL), E-Flux (USA) and most recently KW Institute for Contemporary Art (DE), ICA London (UK) and WTS Mparntwe (Alice Springs). O’Reilly also teaches ‘How to Do Things with Theory’ at the Dutch Art Institute since 2014. This timely discussion of The Gas Imaginary for the first time in Victoria coincides with the IMA’s presentation and national tour support to the final work from this series, INFRACTIONS (2019), a feature length installation platforming frontline Indigenous cultural workers’ struggles against major shale gas plans in the Northern Territory.
This presentation is part of the ACCA Tertiary Masterclass series that gathers diverse creative practitioners, both artists and curators, to address the complex challenge of marrying studio and curatorial processes with that of a theoretical exegesis. Presenting artists and curators will each share their approaches to developing methodologies for writing about their own and others art and exhibition whilst in the very process of art-making or curation.
Previews of works:
Artist research essay ‘Dematerialization of the Land/Water Object’ Eflux 2018
INFRACTIONS (2019) 63minsArtist research essay for INFRACTIONS tour – “SHUT. IT. DOWN.”
Further Links/Documentation/Bios for Australian tour of INFRACTIONS
Teaching/Bio at Dutch Art Institute
This event is intended as a forum for higher research art and curatorial students to come together to learn successful strategies for negotiating the study of art within the academy. Each event is presented as a case study of one artist’s research project. The presentation is intended to address the development of each project as it relates to MFA or PhD study, this is how the events are differentiated from generalist artist talks. The aim of this series is to position ACCA as a place where students of different institutions come together to learn from presenters and each other in a creatively stimulating, discursive and collegiate environment.
This program is presented in partnership with the Centre of Visual Art (CoVA), University of Melbourne.
Image descripton: Que Kenny (Western Arrarnta) shows an unlined evaporation pond near gas infrastructure and dried up sacred springs in Ntaria (Hermannsburg). The landscapes of Namatjira’s paintings are now connected by a pipeline to the Queensland export market.