Impresario: Paul Taylor | Art & Text | POPISM
This public symposium celebrates and reflects upon the life and achievements of the eminent editor, art critic and curator Paul Taylor (1957-1992). It explores Taylor's legacy and example by investigating his impact and enduring influence on Australian visual culture through the many aspects of his work: as a publisher, curator and critic, as an advocate of post-structuralist theory, and also as a ground-breaking impresario who forged significant national and international networks of artists, critics, gallerists and curators.
Paul Taylor was the founding editor of the internationally renowned art journal Art & Text. He was also an influential critic and curator who had a dynamic impact on the discourse and practice of visual arts.
The symposium marks thirty years since Taylor's landmark exhibition POPISM, which he curated for the National Gallery of Victoria, and twenty years since his untimely death. The title of the symposium is derived from Impresario: Malcolm McLaren and the British New Wave, which Taylor curated for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 1988.
Convenors: Dr Janine Burke and Associate Professor Adrian Martin
Participants include: Janine Burke, Adrian Martin, Max Delany, Patrick McCaughey, Juliana Engberg, Dr Edward Colless, Judy Annear, Juan Davila, Philip Brophy, Lyndal Jones, Helen Hughes and Nick Croggon, Lauren Bliss, Rosemary Forde and Kelly Fliedner.
Image: Robert Rooney, Paul Taylor 1984. Courtesy the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne.
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