Ethics and Aesthetics Conference Programme:

19-20 September 2003
Art Gallery of New South Wales
 Domain Theatre, Lower Level 3

 Please note: This programme is subject to change without notice.

 

Friday 19th September

 

 

Saturday 20th September

9am


9.50am

Registrations: Gallery Foyer, Ground Level. Refreshments: Yiribana Foyer, Lower Level 3

Welcome: Anthony Bond, Head of International Art and General Manager Curatorial Services 

9am

Registrations and refreshments: Yiribana Foyer, Lower Level 3

10-12.30

Politics and Ethics

Plenary Speaker: Julian Stallabrass, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Session Chair: Bronwyn Clark-Coolee
Speakers:
Anthony White: Abstract Art and Fascism in Como
Kit Messham-Muir: All That Remained: The Ethics of Displaying Holocaust Artefacts and Art
Jill Bennett: Affect and Transnationality in 'Post-9-11' Political Art



 

 

9.30-11am

Roundtable Discussion: Curatorial Issues

Session Chair: David McNeill
Discussants:
Okwui Enwezor: Artistic Director of Documenta 11
Dr Julian Stallabrass:
Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Dr Jenny Harper:
Associate Professor, University of Wellington, NZ
Dr Charles Merewether:
Collections Curator, Getty Research Institute
Djon Mundine: Indigenous Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities, Australian National University
Ken Watson: Curator Aboriginal Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Anthony Bond:
Head of International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales

12.30-2.00

Lunch and site visit: Lunch is not provided. The AGNSW café is open and several venues nearby.

11-11.30

Refreshments:

2.00-4.15

Art and Ethics in the Pacific Rim

Plenary Speaker: Dr Charles Merewether, Collections Curator-Getty Research Institute
Session Chair: Professor Roger Benjamin
Speakers:
Thomas Berguis: Eating people is wrong: Positioning Experimental Art in China 
Barbara Bolt: The Performativity of Indigenous Art

Karen Kosasa: Critical Conversations: Colonialism, Pedagogy and Museum Studies 

 

11.30-1.45

Institutional Ethics

Plenary Speaker: Associate Professor Jenny Harper, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Session Chair:
Donna Brett
Speakers:
Alain Viguier: Art History: New Museology and the Document
Jolanta Nowak: The Limits of Representation and the Limits of Art: Richter and the Relationship between Art and Ethics
Michael Goldberg: Catching a Falling Knife-a study in Greed, Fear and Irrational Exuberance

4.30-5.00

Short Break 

1.45-2.45

Lunch: Lunch is not provided. The AGNSW café is open and several venues nearby

5-6.00

Keynote Address

Okwui Enwezor, Artistic Director of Documenta 11

A Roundtable panel will discuss Curatorial issues raised in the Keynote in addition to other current curatorial concerns, tomorrow morning from 9.30-11am.

2.45-5.15

Bioethics: relation to art of the body

Plenary Speaker: Professor Anthea Callen,  Nottingham University
Session Chair: Anna Munster
Speakers:
Fay Brauer: Eradicating Difference: The Bioethics of Imaging Neo-Darwinist Eugenics
Pat Simpson: Eugenics and Images of the Soviet New Person in the 1920s-30s
Ionat Zurr: The Ethical Claims of Bio-art: Killing the Other, or Self-Cannibalism? 
Anna Munster: Biotechnical art and the ethico-aesthetic paradigm

 

6-7.00

Conference drinks: Yiribana Foyer, Lower Level 3 

5.30

Closing drinks: Venue to be confirmed. 

7-11.00

Conference Dinner: Gallery Restaurant
Prior booking for the conference dinner is essential. See Registration Form for details