Semester 1 2003

Feb - May

Feburay

Andrea Morucchio

March

Janis Jefferies

Andrew  Benjamin

Alasdair Foster

Fiona Hall

April

Mary Callahan

Stephen Eastaugh

May

Julie Gough

Callum Morton

Peter Morse

Frances Lindsay

Don Bates

Feb 28                                   

Andrea Morucchio. Andrea, who lives and works in Venice, Italy, will be artist in residence at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart from late December 2002 until mid April 2003. Andrea is the first artist in residence to be sponsored by the Claudio Alcorso Foundation .Whilst here Andrea will be working on a number of projects which will take place during the 10 Days on the Island Festival. For more info on the Claudio Alcorso Foundation go to www.claudioalcorso.org/

Andrea's work explores the mystery and dynamism of the human creative impulse. He is interested in the potential for the creative act to facilitate a direct spiritual connection with nature and place. The projects he is working on whilst in Tasmania aim to create a situation where the viewer is given the opportunity to reflect upon their relationship with the natural world.

March 7                     

Janis Jefferies is an artist with a substantial international reputation who has been working in art Textiles since 1974. She is currently Head of Department & Professor of Visual Arts  a t Goldsmiths College in the UK.  One of her most significant works is The Greenham Common Tapestry which was started in 1984 in support of the Women's Peace Camp's continuing protest against the deployment of US cruise missiles.

March 14                   

Andrew  Benjamin Continuing Painting.  Professor Andrew Benjamin is Research Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University. He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University. An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London. His many books include: What is Deconstruction? (1988), Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991), Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997) and Philosophy's Literature (2001). He also edited The Lyotard Reader (1989), Abjection, Melancholia and Love: the Work of Julia Kristeva (1990) and Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience (1993).

March 21                   

Alasdair Foster.  Art without the Artist? Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including neurophysiology, economics, art history, behavioural science and consilience theory, Alasdair Foster explores the use of art and looks to a near future when art may no longer rely upon or privilege the artist-producer. A polemic refracted in a crystal ball.

Alasdair Foster has hybrid education in physics, photography, history and theatre. His career has spanned the film industry, commercial and art photographic practice, curation and writing. He was the founding director of Fotofeis, the award-winning biennial of international photography in Scotland and is currently Director of the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.

March 28                   

Fiona Hall.  Currently based in South Australia, Fiona Hall is an artist Fiona Hall is a well-known Australian artist who has exhibited widely, both at home and overseas.  She has won several major art prizes, including the prestigious Contempora 5 award in 1997, Australia's most lucrative art prize. As writer Stephanie Radok states;  'The complex, ingenious, labour-intensive artworks made by Fiona Hall arouse great wonder, delight, incredulity and thoughtfulness in the viewer as the various bodies of her work create a Wunderkammer for the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.'

April 4                        

Mary Callahan is a graphic designer and emerging artist. Having specialised in book design of literary fiction for ten years, she has designed many of the Picador titles, including the recent GouldÕs Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan. She has won a number Australian PublishersÕ Association Book Designs Awards, including Best Designed Book of the Year for GouldÕs Book of Fishes. The talk will cover her current art practice that has developed whilst studying fine art, her work in book design and issues that have arisen in the cross over between art and design.                                                                                                               

April 11                      

Stephen Eastaugh AntaRcTic. Stephen was artist in residence at Davis Base in Antarctica over the 02/03 summer period thanks to the Australia Antarctic Division's Humanities Program.

  'Setting up a  studio in a cargo container situated by the Helipad on the outskirts of this science driven village was an incredible treat. Watching numerous icebergs out in Prydz Bay and a number of field trips about the strange and brutal Vestfold Hills kept me very busy during the 3 months I was situated down far south. It was daytime at Davis Base for most of the three months I was there and some times my little studio wobbled about in the wild winds that screamed outside. I will attempt to scream and wobble these experiences with the help of some slides to those interested in my geographical promiscuity over the past twenty years and this chilly part of the world four thousand kms south of Hobart.'             For more information go to www.stepheneastaugh.com.au

April 18                       MID SEMESTER BREAK = NO FORUM

April 25                       ANZAC DAY HOLIDAY = NO FORUM

May 2                         

Julie Gough is a sculptor/installation artist who creates work that encourages fresh  engagements between viewers and  historical accounts, places and objects. 

Julie completed her PhD in fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art in 2001 and embarked on three art residencies from which she returned in 2002 to commence a lectureship in Aboriginal Studies at the University of Tasmania. Julie will speak about directions, continuities and divergences in her practice over time, and how much of art is life.

May 9                        

Callum Morton. More Talk About Buildings and Mood.  A Melbourne based artist with a growing international reputation, Callum Morton initially studied Architecture and urban Planning at RMIT. before competing a BA in Fine Art at VCA. He has recently been awarded a Samstag Scholarship. The built environment remains a core concern of his artwork. One strand of his art practice involves making two-dimensional digital models and then fabricating these models into three-dimensional scale models. Recent work joins iconic modernist buildings to commercial interests, thus turning the Schroder House in Utrecht into a Toys 'R' Us shop, the Casa Malaparte in Capri into a Spizzico restaurant and the Farnsworth House in Illinois into a 7/11 store.

Morton will be giving an illustrated overview of his art practice for his Art Forum talk.

May 16                      

Peter Morse has a diverse background in semiotics, fine arts, artistic practice, music and computing. Currently Coordinator of Media and New Media at the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia, Peter has worked variously as a computer animator, database designer and programmer, website designer, multimedia programmer and exhibition curator. Since the early 1980's he has created computer-controlled audio-visual works combining musical/operatic performance and computer-aided visualisation. His current interests revolve around visualisation for (semi) immersive virtual environments and exploring modes of user interaction towards scientific datasets deployed in artistic contexts. To this end he is currently working upon stereoscopic materials composed from scientific datasets of the Antarctic, in consort with early twentieth-century stereoscopic photography from various Australian Antarctic expeditions, that can be deployed in a variety of contexts. Peter will be resident at the Tasmanian School of Art for two weeks.

May 23                       

Frances Lindsay. Frances Lindsay is the Deputy Director at the National Gallery of Victoria with particular responsibility for The Ian Potter Centre NGV: Australia at Federation Square. Prior to her appointment in February 2000 she was Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne, where she was responsible for the development of that museum.  Frances is an alumnus of the Getty Museum Management Institute.

May 30                       

Don Bates. Emerging Spaces Ð Federation Square. Federation square was designed on a premise that the nature of contemporary urban space, the space of cultural institutions and the incorporation of civic and commercial activities demanded an architecture of relationships, not formal, built objects. in alignment with this agenda, was an attitude that saw the design as an emergent process, not as an 'idea', fixed at conception and merely made solid over time. permeability, 'coherence and difference', and multiplicity were also important design concerns.

 Principal architect with the Lab Architecture studio who designed the Federation Square Project in Melbourne in collaboration with Bates Smart Architects

For more information contact Art Forum Coordinator Yvette Watt  ywatt@utas.edu.au tel: 6226 4306