In secondary schools across Australia, more and more feminist groups and collectives are being formed. Next Gen(der) invites young people to take over ACCA to explore the role and significance of feminism and gender diversity for the next generations.

Members of school feminist collectives across Melbourne will discuss why feminism is important to them, and challenge some of the works in Unfinished Business.

Presenters

FHS Feminist Collective (Fitzroy High School)

The Violet Fems (Eltham High School)

TUHF: The Uni High Feminist (University High School)

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How does gender bias effect the arts? What does the gender representation in national art collection tell us about our society?

Join the conversation with leading art historians, curators and artists, who will reflect on the evolution of gender balance in the arts in the past 40 years and propose the new challenges we are facing today.

This symposium will be introduced by Angela Goddard, Board Member, SHEILA, A Foundation for Women in Visual Art, and current Director of the Griffith University Art Museum; and convened by Vikki McInnes, Editor, Art & Australia, Co-Curator of Unfinished Business.

SPEAKERS

• Janine Burke, author, art historian, biographer and award-winning novelist. Curator, Australian Women Artists: 1840-1940, George Paton Gallery in 1975
• Vikki McInnes, Editor, Art & Australia, Co-Curator of Unfinished Business and PhD candidate researching feminisms and the archive
• Jacqueline Milner, Art Historian, Future Feminist Archive, University of Sydney, Future Feminist Archive
• Elvis Richardson, Founder of CoUNTess, artist and co-curator of Unfinished Business
• Gemma Weston, Curator, The Cruthers Collection, University of Western Australia

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Join us for an evening of reciprocity and exchange exploring intersectionality in feminism, in relation to systems of oppression, domination, and discrimination. Chaired by Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator, academic and Co-Curator of Unfinished Business, Paola Balla, this panel discussion will identify and question the challenges of blak feminism and intersectionality today in Australia and more widely.

SPEAKERS

• Maddee Clark and Neika Lehman, writers and current editors of uN Magazine. Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh freelance writer, curator and educator. Neika Lehman is a poet and art writer, she belongs to the Trawlwoolway peoples of North-East Tasmania
• Kate Just, artist, exploring feminist representations of the body through a range of media, and lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
• Nina Lykke, gender studies scholar, author of ‘Feminist Studies: A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing’ (2010), professor at Linköping University, Sweden
• Paola Balla, Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator and academic, Victoria University, and Co-Curator of Unfinished Business

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How are women, non-binary and gender diverse people represented in the media? What are the alternatives?

Join us offsite at MPavilion to explore feminist analyses and strategies in relation to the media, writing, new forms of publishing and text as form with guest speakers Brigid Delaney, Nayuka Gorrie, Natalie Thomas and Deb Verhoeven.

This panel discussion launches ‘Unfinished Conversations’, a symposium series taking the form of collective discussions to unpack how feminism is critical and relevant today.

*  inclusive of non-binary and gender diverse people

SPEAKER BIOS

Brigid Delaney is a journalist, author and features editor of The Guardian Australia. Her book Wellmania, a critical review of the wellness industry was released in 2017 by Black Inc. She is also the author of Wild Things (Harper Collins, 2014) and This Restless Life (Melbourne University Press, 2009). She has worked for the Telegraph news group, and the London bureau of CNN, as well as a freelance reporter and writer. Her writing has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, ABC online, The Age, Qantas Magazine, Vogue, the Spectator and the Griffith Review. Delaney is also the co-founder of anti-death penalty group The Mercy Campaign.

Nayuka Gorrie is a Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman. Passionate about self-determination and culture, Gorrie has emerged as a compelling writer, primarily concerned with black politics, queerness and feminism. Gorrie has written incisively on topics such as her evolving views about constitutional recognition, performed her work at Women of Letters, produced an event for Melbourne Fringe and is more recently writing for television.

Natalie Thomas is an artist, writer and a fierce advocate for the participation of women in the arts. Her popular blog nattysolo | one woman, one camera, no film focuses on the social side of contemporary art. She was part of the duo nat&ali (1999–2005) and her work has been shown widely at institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane among others.

Deb Verhoeven is Associate Dean of Engagement and Innovation at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). An agitator, commentator and critic, Verhoeven is the author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters as well as a book on Jane Campion published by Routledge in 2009. Verhoeven is a former CEO of the Australian Film Institute and Deputy Chair, National Film and Sound Archive (Aust.) as well as former Chair of the widely read film journal Senses of Cinema and was Editor for the journal Studies in Australasian Cinema (Intellect).