ACCAonline and ACCAMag
In 2003 the ACCAMag went from strength to strength with five issues published online and over 200,000 hits. Throughout the year the online journal covered international and local art exhibitions with contributions from local and international writers, including Daniel Palmer, Kitty Scott, Claire Doherty, Helene Frichot, Ivona Janczewski, Cloe Kinsman, Natalie King, Scott Drake, Darren Tofts, Lisa Vasiliou, Margaret Morgan, Rebecca Coates and Juliana Engberg. Artists covered included: Kathy Temin, Callum Morton, Matthew Barney, Anish Kapoor, Tracey Emin, Guy Benfield and many more.
Editor: Juliana Engberg
ACCAMag Coordinator: Meredith Turnbull
Education
In 2003 ACCA offered over 230 free in-house guided tours, talks and discussions with primary, secondary, tertiary and community groups from Melbourne metropolitan, regional and rural Victoria. ACCA also presented an active School Holiday Program for children aged 5-13. Children were engaged in practical art-making in conjunction with viewing the current exhibition seasons. Four School Holiday programs were offered in 2003, including:
The G-Gnome & Other Creatures & Cosmic Creations
17 January 2003
Children will design and make their own ‘creature’ or ‘creation’ inspired by ideas and forms from the exhibition Respectology: The World According to Patricia Piccinini
Program Leader: Joanna Ransome, artist and educator
Tall Tales: Truck Babies, Crazy Creatures and Game Boys
24 January 2003
Children will explore the exhibition Respectology: The World According to Patricia Piccinini to develop a new story that is then transformed into an artwork
Program Leader: Susan Pepper, storyteller & Sarah Merrigan, artist and educator.
Forum – New Family
undated 2003
A public forum that examined the impact of increasing technological interventions into the human body, the transformation of the family and ideas of societal construction in the work of Patricia Piccinini.
Forum – New03: Taking the pulse of contemporary art in Melbourne
2 April 2003
Presented as part of Melbourne Conversations, a series of free talks supported by the City of Melbourne, this event was held at BMW Edge, Federation Square and involved the participants of the inaugural NEW03 exhibition.
Speakers: Juliana Engberg, Emily Floyd, Andrew McQualter, David Rosetzky, Louise Weaver
Look Who’s Talking
This series of free floor talks gave the public opportunities to hear first hand from artists, ACCA’s curatorial team, guest speakers and gallery staff. The talks were an informal event held regularly in ACCA’s gallery spaces. In 2003 over 1400 people attended the ‘Look Who’s talking’ series and 30 talks were presented, including:
Talk – John Pym & Danielle van Zuijlen
24 May 2003
John Pym’s discussed his architectural installation Loaded – a clinical, white, and alarming maze that robbed the viewer of sensory signs as they passed through his corridor canal as it squeezed, tilted and turned. Danielle van Zuijlen also responded to her work Encyclopedia for a Public Building, a sequence of index cards with information on one side and hieroglyph on the other, that were installed in holders in the ACCA spaces. On collection of all the available cards the viewer was rewarded with a complete picture, thus marking a moment of enlightenment for those who undertake the enterprise of the maze game.
Held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Labyrinthine Effect.
Talk – Anne Ooms
25 May 2003
Ooms discussed her ambient and restful narrative installation, The Ladies of Nairn, an evolving story in parts, which moved the reader from seating arrangement to seating arrangement, book to book, place to place and character to character in an ever co-joined event of imagination.
Held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Labyrinthine Effect.
Talk – Juliana Engberg
1 June 2003
Exhibition curator Juliana Engberg discussed the recent emergence of the labyrinth as a form of sculpture, walk-in environment and digital world, with links to our current cultural quest in search of meaning. A hopeful yet disorienting place and space where the body becomes lost while the mind undertakes the puzzling journey in search of conclusion.
Held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Labyrinthine Effect.
Talk – Rebecca Coates
15 June 2003
Exhibition project manager, Rebecca Coates, discussed the exhibition planning and installation process: including the curatorial concept; sourcing works; liaising with artists and dealers; and the technical requirements of displaying and presenting contemporary artworks in The Labyrinthine Effect.
Held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Labyrinthine Effect.
Talk – Anthony Gardner, Lecturer in Art History and Cinema Studies at the University of Melbourne
22 June 2003
Gardner responded to the work of Anne Ooms, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and John Pym, exploring the possibilities, ethics and aesthetics of navigating art in The Labyrinthine Effect.
Held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Labyrinthine Effect.
Forum – Labyrinths
Tuesday 24 June 2003
A public discussion that explored the labyrinth as a recurring cultural symbol. The forum focused on the symbolism of the labyrinth in contemporary art, cinema, literature and the constructed environment.
Speakers included: Juliana Engberg, ACCA Artistic Director and Curator of The Labyrinthine Effect, Barbara Creed, Associate Professor and Head of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Melbourne and Scott Drake, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
Presented in conjunction with ACMI
Forum – Labyrinths flyer
Talk – Colin Duncan
6 July 2003
Colin Duncan discussed the Freudian and Jungian spaces of the natural labyrinth through his series of works on paper that were indented with Braille and were indistinguishable, indeed indecipherable without special light.
Held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Labyrinthine Effect.
Talk – Geraldine Barlow
13 July 2003
ACCA Curator Gerladin Barlow is interested in the manner in which the labyrinth operates as a metaphor for the numerous ways in which we perceive the world. She discussed what we make of the labyrinthine form that combines both the chaotic and the ordered, depends upon our angle of approach.
Held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Labyrinthine Effect.
Talk – Juliana Engberg
3 August 2003
A curatorial floortalk held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming.
Talk
10 August 2003
Held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming.
Talk – Godwin Bradbeer, artist
17 August 2003
A floortalk held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming.
Talk – Alison Inglis, Lecturer, Fine Arts Department, University of Melbourne
24 August 2003
A floortalk held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming.
Talk – Greg Creek
31 August 2003
An artist floortalk held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming.
Talk – Juliana Engberg
7 September 2003
A curatorial floortalk held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming.
Talk – Jeff Khan, 200 Gertrude Street
14 September 2003
A floortalk held as part of ACCA’s ‘Look Who’s talking’ series in conjunction with the exhibition The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming.