Program
Program
Art = Ideas,
Thursday 12 July, Friday 13 July
One of the world’s largest gatherings of dancers, dance educators, and artists of all ages, the congress honours rich Indigenous dance cultures from Australia and around the world. It includes five full days of presentations, social interaction and debate.
Special event,
6.30pm - 7.30pm | Thursday 12 July
Bertolt Brecht’s 1947 poem The anachronistic procession, or Freedom and democracy provokes Robyn’s interrogation of the status of these two ideas from a cultural perspective. While ‘cultural democracy’ is on the rise, enthusiasm for social and political democracy wanes worldwide. It's assumed that we have freedom and democracy, but do we? And if so, how do we qualify those ideas?
8:00 pm | Thursday 12 July
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,
Thursday 12 July, Friday 13 July
Tutti Arts visual artists engage in cultural discourse with the Sikh community. Artists will embellish turban cloth, exchanging sacred objects to create new, shared objects that bypass cultural differences and unite rather than define.
