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Day 2 : Saturday 19 March 2005
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| 9am |
Registration/coffee |
| 9.30am |
Keynote address:
A people's palace for the elite
Edmund Capon, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Co-respondents:
Ron Radford, Director, National Gallery of Australia
Gerard Vaughan, Director, National Gallery of Victoria |
| 11am |
Morning tea |
| 11.20am |
Special performance: Think in thongs by Carlos Russell, artist and performer |
| 11.30am |
Panel session:
Art for laughs: Should humour be banned in the art museum?
Can serious art raise a smile? Are learning and fun mutually exclusive? What is the place of levity in the complex mesh of object and meaning?
Chair Jonathan Biggins, presenter Critical mass, ABC TV
George Alexander, writer, Co-ordinator of Contemporary Art programs, AGNSW
Takuo Komatsuzaki, Chief Curator, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Ken Unsworth, artist
Elisabeth Bastian, Director, Stop Laughing This is Serious Gallery, Blackheath, NSW
Carlos Russell, artist and performer |
| 1pm |
Lunch |
| 2.10pm |
Keynote address:
The world within the word
Bob Ellis, writer, film director, political commentator
Response:
Helen Ennis, Senior Lecturer, School of Art, The Australian National University, and independent curator |
| 3.20pm |
Panel session:
Language and the art museum
Who are we writing for? Who are we speaking to? What are the challenges of effective language usage in the art museum - from exhibition catalogues to museum websites; from children's performances to publicity and marketing information?
Chair Helen Ennis
Judith Ryan, Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria
Ann MacArthur, Co-ordinator of Asian Programs, AGNSW
Craig Judd, Public Programs and Education Manager, Biennale of Sydney
Anne Loxley, Sydney-based art critic, writer and curator |
| 4.50pm |
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