Program
Program
Panel,
4pm - 4.50pm | Sunday 15 July
Is Australia truly a democracy and, if not, what would it take to make it one? Throughout the West, trust in democracy is plunging despite widely-differing material circumstances. Should activism operate within the system to improve things, or on the system itself?
Solo event,
Session cancelled
4pm - 4.50pm | Sunday 15 July
Lyndall’s research and mapping of massacre sites attracted widespread media attention. She discovered that regional Australians know a great deal about frontier massacres and how they shaped modern Australia. If this is the case, how is it that there is still no national memorial to the frontier wars?
In conversation,
4pm - 4.50pm | Sunday 15 July
Would society be better off with a new bridge, children’s cancer ward or art gallery? How should an arts budget be divided between struggling authors, penniless painters and aspiring filmmakers? How can you value art and culture? Find out why we think the arts and economics should be better friends.
Art = Ideas,
Thursday 12 July, Friday 13 July, Saturday 14 July, Sunday 15 July
Explore humanity’s ongoing struggle for moral safe ground in this ambitious exhibition. Having long been under the spell of Hieronymus Bosch’s 1516 The Haywain Triptych, Iacobelli brings Bosch’s eternal allegory of religion, politics and sin into a contemporary context.
Art = Ideas,
Thursday 12 July, Friday 13 July, Saturday 14 July, Sunday 15 July
Experience the full suite of eight montage films by Tracey Moffatt and her collaborator Gary Hillberg, tapping into the humour and pathos of universally shared subjects such as art, revolution, love and destruction.
Art = Ideas,
Friday 13 July, Saturday 14 July, Sunday 15 July
This exhibition features artworks by eight artists who attend workshops run by Neami National, an organisation supporting people living with mental health issues to live independently. Curator Elyas Alavi recognises how art develops self-awareness and self-esteem and gives a voice to feelings not always easily expressed in words.
