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Symposium: Archive States Contemporary Art and the Document Saturday 28 July, 11.00 – 4.30pm Lecture theatre G1.04, Caulfield campus Accompanying the MUMA exhibition Liquid Archive, Archive States is a one-day symposium offering fresh thinking and dialogues on the current relations between contemporary art and the archive. The keynote addresses will be presented by Sven Spiker and Patrick Pound, other presenters include Joyce Campbell and Emmanuel Madan.  Register online now...

Talks at MUMA: Pretty Air and Useful Things Tuesday 31 July, 1.00 – 1.45pm Dan Bell, Sanné Mestrom, Alex Vivian, Rosemary Forde Artists in the exhibition Pretty Air and Useful Things discuss their work with curator Rosemary Forde. Focussing on the invisible forces, transgressive processes and anarchic approaches to materials in contemporary sculptural practice, the exhibition invokes the magnetism and friction of objects and our relationship to them. Read more...

Forum: The Archive and the Limits of Representation Tuesday 14 August, 5.30 – 7.00pm Professor Jay Winter, Professor Bruce Scates and Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow Liquid Archive traces connections between traditional notions of the archive, emerging technologies, and the ways in which memory and personal experience are incorporated into larger histories. In this public forum, the panel will discuss the research, responses to and representations of sites of trauma and loss. Read more...

Talks at MUMA: Liquid Archive Tuesday 21 August, 1.00 – 1.45pm Geraldine Barlow, Kit Wise, Zoe Croggon Liquid Archive traces the ways in which contemporary artists are making connections between traditional notions of the archive and emerging technologies; incorporating memory and personal experience into larger histories. Artists Kit Wise and Zoe Croggon will discuss the way in which their respective practices engage with the archive. Read more...

Film Screening: Nostalgia for the Light Tuesday 11 September, 5.00 – 7.00pm Director: Patricio Guzman, 90 mins, 2010 Master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries (The Battle of Chile, The Pinochet Case), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. Introduction by Sarah Rainbird, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art Design & Architecture, Monash University Read more...

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