ACCAMag
In 2004 the ACCAMag ran four issues with thirty articles about cutting edge contemporary art, including special editions on new exhibition spaces in London, the Sydney Biennale and Melbourne artist run initiatives. The aim of the ACCAMag was to provide a free and easily accessible web-based magazine. It was intended to reach a variety of audiences with the inclusion of diverse articles and reviews. Not only did the ACCAMag include articles by some of Australia’s pre-eminent curators and critics but it also provided an opportunity for young emerging writers to contribute to this forum.
Education
In 2004 ACCA delivered over 200 free in-house guided tours, talks and discussion sessions for primary, secondary, tertiary level and community groups. Teachers professional development programs were also offered along with interpretive materials and resources and a Schools Outreach Program.
Artist Event – John Giorno & Rapid Fire
29 January 2004
To accompany the Ugo Rondinone exhibition, ACCA worked with Word is Out and the Midsumma Festival, to bring artist, poet and activist, John Giorno to Melbourne and to present a series of free events in the areas of visual arts, literature, spoken word performance and theoretical writing. Giorno was the special guest at Melbourne’s favourite spoken word event, Rapid Fire, appearing alongside several of Melbourne’s brightest poets, writers and performance artists. The night delivered its customary potent mix of provocation, edginess and entertainment, with writers having just six minutes to win over the audience, with the stopwatch poised to crush errant performers. Approximately 250 people attended the John Giorno event and over 3 days more that 450 people attended the Word is Out series.
Writers included John Giorno, Michael Farrell, Margaret Vandeleur, Will Day, Lisa Bellear, George Taleporos, Moira Finucane, Steven Dawson, Spiro Panigarakis.
Forum – Fine & Dandy: The Rise and Practice of a Queer Aesthetic
30 January 2004
Is art the pinnacle of queer achievement? Where do we look to find traces of our dandified past? From the spectacular to the theoretical via the interior worlds of self-creation, renowned writers and academics spoke about the historical development and current practice of queer aesthetics.
Speakers: Nikki Sullivan (author of An Introduction to Queer Theory) and Robert Reynolds (author of From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual and History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis)
Fine & Dandy flyer
Seminar – Sacred Sites
1 February 2004
Culture, sexuality, race and political affiliation collided in this seminar and reading by Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and artists.
Speakers: Patricia Cornelius, Gregory Phillips, Ross Moore, Bryan Andy
Sacred Sites flyer
Talk – Tom Nicholson
27 March 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW04.
Talk – Stephen Honegger and Anthony Hunt
28 March 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW04.
Curatorial Clinics
Curatorial Lab 1: 20-22 April 2004
Curatorial Lab 2: 9-11 August 2004
ACCA’s Curatorial Clinics were a professional development program designed specifically for emerging artists. ACCA recognised that outside the university system there are limited opportunities for critical feedback for young artists. The Curatorial Clinics was ACCA’s effort to redress this deficiency and aimed to provide opportunities for discussion between artists and curators with each artist allocated an hour-long session with the curatorial panel to discuss their artwork and artistic practice.
First run in April 2004, this initiative was developed by ACCA’s Artistic Director, Juliana Engberg. The program was so successful that a second instalment was organised for August of 2004. Both clinics ran over three days and were held in Melbourne on site at ACCA. The first round involved 15 artists. This number was increased in the August round to include 18 artists.
The 2004 clinic panel consisted of members of ACCA’s curatorial team including, Juliana Engberg and Rebecca Coates, and was coordinated by Project Officer, Meredith Turnbull. Guest panel members in the first round included Wayne Tunnicliffe (Curator of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW) and the internationally acclaimed Australian artist, Susan Norrie. In the August round panel members included Russell Storer (Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney) and Australian artist, Kate Daw.
Education – Magic Forest, Mystery and Myths at ACCA.
6 & 16 June 2004
Iwona Janczewski and Kirsten Rowbottom, artists and educators ran a School Holiday workshop for children to introduce them to contemporary art through a guided tour of the exhibition NEW04 followed by a practical art-making exercise.
Magic Forest, Mystery and Myths flyer
Talk – Nadine Christensen
18 April 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW04.
Talk – Sangeeta Sndrasegar
25 April 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW04.
Talk – Parekohi Whakamoe
2 May 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW04.
Talk – Guy Benfeld
9 May 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW04.
Talk – Geraldine Barlow
16 May 2004
A curatorial talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW04.
Talk – Rebecca Coates
30 May 2004
A curatorial talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Swoon.
Talk – Jennifer Lee, Kate Reeves & Sean Whelan
6 June 2004
An artists’ floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Swoon.
Talk – Lesley Eastman
13 June 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Swoon.
Talk – Sean Mellak
20 June 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Swoon.
Talk – Amanda Rodrigues Alves & Thomas Mulcaire
24 June 2004
International artists Amanda Rodrigues Alves (Brazil) and Thomas Mulcaire (South Africa) gave an illustrated presentation of their professional art practice and discussed their collaborative project, Project for Sydney (2004) which was presented as part of the 2000 Biennale of Sydney: On reason and Emotion. The artist talk held in conjunction with Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
Amanda Rodrigues Alves & Thomas Mulcaire flyer
Talk – Christopher Langton
27 June 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Swoon.
Talk – David Rosetzky
4 July 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Swoon.
Talk – Justin Andrews
18 July 2004
An artist floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Swoon.
Talk – George Dunford & Rose Mulready
25 July 2004
An artists’ floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Swoon.
Talk – Guan Wei, artist
8 August 2004
An artists’ floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia
Education – Teacher’s Briefing
10 August 2004
An artist and curatorial talk for teachers held in conjunction with the exhibition Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia.
Speakers: Juliana Engberg, Louisa Bufardeci, Christian Capurro, Emily Floyd
Talk – Interrogating Utopian Architecture
12 August 2004
A group talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia.
Speakers: Juliana Engberg, Karen Burns, Louisa Bufardeci & Pia Ronicke
Interrogating Utopian Architecture flyer
Talk – Personal Refugee Stories
22 August 2004
A talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia.
Speakers: Fitzroy Learning Centre
Talk – Christian Capurro
5 September 2004
An artists’ floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia.
Talk – Bernhard Sachs
16 September 2004
An artist’ floor talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia.
Talk – Adam Bandt, lawyer and student
19 September 2004
A talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia.
Talk – Rebecca Coates: Music and Silence
17 October 2004
A curatorial talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Janet Cardiff: Forty Part Motet.
Talk – Fatemah Vafaeinjad: Female identity in the work of Iranian artist Sherin Neshat
17 October 2004
An artist talk presented as part of the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ series of free floor talks.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Shirin Neshat: Turbulent.
Talk – The Screen and The Voice
11 October 2004
Robyn Archer in conversation with artists Mikel Rouse, Markus Muntean & Adi Rosenblum and curator Juliana Engberg.
Venue: The Spiegeltant at the Arts Centre Forecourt
Talk – The Visual In Performance
18 October 2004
Robyn Archer in conversation with artist David Pledger and Jude Walton and curator Juliana Engberg.
Venue: The Spiegeltent at the Arts Centre Forecourt