Students investigate how artists use physical spaces to tell cultural stories and shape collective memory.
Space as Culture: Visual Art in Public Spaces
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Fluid Art Practices: Curatorship & Visual Art as Activism
Students explore how artists like Antonius Roberts move fluidly between roles, using art to advocate for social and environmental change.
Site-Specific Installation
In this advanced project, students create temporary installations inspired by art’s relationship to place and environment.
Environmental Force: On Abstraction and the Nature of Survival
Stories Environmental Force: On Poetry, Abstraction, and the Nature of Survival Letitia Pratt●27 March 2024 Between the years of 2004
“When the Lionfish Came”: Tamika Galanis Gives Voice to the People of the Reef amid Dangerously Rising Tides
By Natalie Willis. In Adelaide, there is a bell that has been ringing for at least a hundred years, but closer to two. Events, hurricanes, births and deaths, are all marked by the chime, and the proud denizens of this historic community for freed Blacks have, for generations, found themselves answering to its call. However, Tamika Galanis’ film, “When The Lionfish Came” (2015) is not a church bell…
It is an alarm.
In the wake of storms: Moving forward as a nation displaced
By Dr Ian Bethell-Bennett.Dominica, The British Virgin Islands, Barbuda, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, in particular, Ragged Island and some other southern places, are beautiful and far-flung, exotic and form parts of people’s dreams of paradise. They are paradises on earth and they have been devastated. They have, like many parts of the Commonwealth world, experienced unprecedented natural disasters and suffering in the short space of a few weeks. They are stunning spaces of natural beauty and amazing depth of feeling and life.
If an entire population moves, is it still a nation?: The consequences of censoring self.
By Dr Ian Bethell-Bennett. Sam Shepard has died. Sam Shepard has died and we are left to remember his works. It is a different dying than Derek Walcott because he is further away, perhaps, but he throws into sharp relief our refusal to see ourselves as we pass through our everyday lives. A country teetering on the verge of yet another downgrade, a society shrouded in debt but unwilling to spend less because tings coss more and VAT bite me in my…? Perhaps to see their lives, their futures.