Curatorial Intensive alumna Tess Maunder will discuss how contemporary Indigenous Australian practices are being represented and contextualized through the work of several Indigenous Australian artists.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Qantas and Tate recently launched a new joint acquisition program for Contemporary Australian Art including major work of prominent Indigenous Artists: Judy Watson, Vernon Ah Kee and the late Gordon Bennett. In other news, Tracey Moffatt is representing Australia at the 2016 Venice Biennale, and is the first solo presentation by an Australian Indigenous Artist in history. Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art have appointed an Indigenous Advisory Group to oversee their Asia Pacific Trienniale. Now, more than ever, Indigenous Australian artists are gaining greater visibility both internationally, and at home, and through this, they are able to draw attention to urgent political, social and cultural issues that Aboriginal Australians still continue to face.
Taking from the title of Archie Moore’s 2016 work, Home away from Home, this talk by curator Tess Maunder will take listeners though prominent projects by Australian-born Indigenous practitioners; and examine the way in which these practices are contextualized and represented at an international level. She will speak about the use of identity politics in the work of artists such Tracey Moffatt, Richard Bell, Judy Watson, Vernon Ah Kee, Brook Andrew, Daniel Boyd, Megan Cope, Christian Thompson, Tony Albert, Dale Harding and Archie Moore, among others.
Tess Maunder is currently a curator-in-residence at ISCP. Her residency is generously funded by Brisbane City Council, Australia, and Arts Queensland. Her award of the 2016 MPavilion and Art Monthly Australia Writing Award enabled much of the research for this lecture.
This event is free and open to the public. To attend, please RSVP to rsvp@curatorsintl.org with HOME in the subject line.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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