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Edward Colless - The Corpse Bride and the Human Centipede (Art Forum)
No full textDr Edward Colless presentation is titled “The Corpse Bride and the Human Centipede”. He will discuss as a noisy unstable montage of found objects, the splendid monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and how this demonstrates an enduring aesthetic as well as scientific romance. By the re-animated and remediated (and remedial) conjoining of its corpse parts we could construe this phallic creature – with the erotic pataphysical and alchemical recipe of Duchamp – as a “bachelor machine”: an allegorical image as well as working diagram of art as a “chemical wedding” even if, like the bride of Frankenstein, Duchamp’s famous bride stripped bare remains – isolated in the upper storey of The Large Glass – a virgin muse. Dr Colless directs us toward another muse, however, and another bride: necromantic rather than romantic and thus a catastrophic undoing of the bachelor machine. The muse in this case is the notorious “corpse bride”: the instrument of a legendary mode of execution in which a putrescent cadaver is tightly bound in actual intercourse with the victim. In the exposition of this necrotic mad love, he will range from the Gnostic apocryophal gospel of Thomas (Jesus’s twin) to the scatological exploitation movie by Tom Six, The Human Centipede 2 (2011) in which a demonic pervert kidnaps and crudely attaches with sculptural surgery, mouth to anus, a dozen victims in a phantasmic alimentary canal.
Dr Colless is Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. He has been employed in several tertiary institutions as a lecturer in art and cultural history, aesthetics, cinema studies, and design with practical teaching in performance. In addition to a steady output of writing (including art criticism, reviewing, fiction and travel), he has also worked at various times as a professional theatre director, as a filmmaker, curator, and architectural assistant. An anthology of his selected writing, The Error of My Ways, published in 1995, was nominated for the NSW Premier’s Prize for Literature. Colless has also been short-listed for the Pascall Prize for Criticism. He has been features writer and associate editor of Australian Art Collector since its inauguration and has worked as Melbourne art critic for The Australian newspaper. His most recent grant from the Australia Council has been in support of a writing project titled Hallucinogenesis, which deals with states of fascination and possession in art. Last year he held a residency with the Institut français/Ville de Paris for a novel in progress. This year he received the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand’s award for best scholarly article, for his essay “Pop Life and Living Death” in the 21012 Australian Art Journal
Designer Trent Jansen – Australian product designer (Art forum)
No full textTrent will share with the audience his point of view on the current state of international object design, considering the important formal/functional focus of early 20th Century design and the irrelevance of design practices that continue under this model today. He will discuss ‘biographical design’ as an alternative to the often-superficial narrative driven approach of many contemporary designers. This will include his latest design work, which derives from research into Tasmanian heritage and history.
After graduating from the College of Fine Arts in 2004, Trent Jansen undertook one year study program at the Industrial Design School of the University of Alberta in Canada and later an internship at the Amsterdam studio of design guru Marcel Wanders – of Moooi fame. This incredible opportunity gave Trent the confidence to open his own design studio back on home turf in Sydney in late 2004.
Trent Jansen focuses on producing sustainable designs with pieces that can connect with the user and bypass the disposable mentality of many of today’s modern designs. In addition to many awards and accolades he was the joint winner of the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award in 2008 and the 2010 Edra Design Residency at Space Furniture – a residency established to cultivate local talent and bridge the manufacturing gap by connecting Australian designers with world-leading Italian manufacturers.
Trent’s work is now in production with ISM Objects in Australia, Sekimoto in Japan and Moooi in The Netherland
Tony Thorne (Art forum)
No full textAfter graduating the Tasmanian School of Art in 1984 Thorne began work as a freelance illustrator, illustrating books of Aboriginal poetry and stories, as well as doing work for Redback Graphix and Streetwize Comix. He completed digital media course at AFTRS and worked in visual effects for ten years in the UK.
The presentation will cover his work as an illustrator and comic book artist in Australia during the 80's and 90's, for magazines like RollingStone. And visual effects work as an animator and supervisor in the UK and Australia on films like "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Prince" and "District 9"
Prof. Wayne C Hudson (Art Forum)
No full textGlobal culture is changing in ways no one expected. Along with the crisis of transhumanism and a triangulation of art, science and technology, postsecularism has emerged as a major challenge to nineteenth century notions of secularisation. Postsecularism can be defined as Enlightenment which takes account of the relevance of human spiritual performances to both private and public life. It is much more than a debate in political philosophy which has now largely been won (Habermas). Postsecularism involves a nonmundane philosophy of nature (Schelling), a new conception of plasticity (Hegel via Malabou) and a reassertion of spiritual ecology in institutional and personal design. For postsecularism spirituality is about the formation of the Real. Here recent developments in Islamic and Chinese art are pertinent, as is the massive revival of monasticism in Russia. In the twentieth century artists largely accepted secular assumptions, even if some of them dabbled in esoteric or religious ideas. In the twenty first century a new aesthetics is needed based on a different understanding of human creativity, ecology and the universe
Book Review : A Tale of Ambition and Unrealised Hope: John Montagu and Sir John Franklin by Craig Joel
Get PDFThe clash between Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor
of Van Diemen’s Land 1837–1843, and his ranking
bureaucrat, Colonial Secretary John Montagu, has a long
and distinguished historiography. Joel's book is reviewd by Michael Roe,author and historian, and was formerly
Professor of History at the University of Tasmania from 1975 to
1996. He has a particular interest in Tasmanian history. He is
the recipient of The Royal Society of Tasmania Medal for 2009
Contents page and instructions for authors
Get PDFContents page and instructions to authors for Volume 147 of the Papers & Proceedings o the Royal Society of Tasmania. Includes list of Council and Office Bearers from March 2013 to March 201
Jock McQueenie (Art Forum)
No full textJohn (Jock) McQueenie trained at the Tasmanian School of Art in the 1990s. He now specialises in designing projects which build relations between artists, communities and businesses and address social, environmental and economic issues. Designed to the draw the attention of non arts (community and corporate ) partners to the value of professional creativity, Jock’s cross disciplinary, cross sector projects go beyond conventional models of sponsorship or philanthropy, creating jobs and professional development opportunities for artists and adding value to corporate social investment.
Jock’s model has become known as the 3Cs – Community, Culture, Commerce. With his art and art theoretical training central to his practice, his consultancy work includes concept development, partnership brokerage, strategic planning, project design and mentoring. His long term (8 years and counting) project, C3West, with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney has resulted in the recently published book Art of Engagement.
His presentation will track his transition from artist to intermediary, provide examples of arts projects in diverse and unexpected contexts and discuss the largely unexplored area of brokerage as a practice
John Vella (Art forum)
No full textJohn Vella was born in Sydney in 1969 and since 1996 has lived in Hobart. Since dropping out of architecture in 1988, he has he has travelled the world, served as a waiter, labourer and telemarketer, loaded trucks, worked in a phone book factory, completed a DipFA with Distinction at the National Art School Sydney, a BFA (Hons) first class and an MFA, at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart where he is the Head of Sculpture.
John has developed independent and collaborative projects that have been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally over the last 20 years. In addition to having completed 5 major public art commissions, Vella has been the recipient of Arts Tasmania and Australia Council grants. John has been a guest lecturer at a number of national and international tertiary institutions. His work is held in public and private collections.
John Vella’s art forum will examine the trajectory of his practice mediated through an investigation of public art's vexed position in the contemporary civic context
Jerry de Gryse (Art Forum)
No full textAn ideas man and landscape architect, Jerry de Gryse is co-founder of Inspiring Place. Jerry has practice experience that ranges in scale from square metres to thousands of square kilometers and in setting from the city centre to the wilderness. In his work, Jerry seeks out the essential values of a place to understand how these influence the physical form of the built environment and the personal experience of outdoor space. Jerry believes that exceptional public spaces are created where the needs of people for a vibrant setting are integrated with a community’s vision for its place and environmental sustainability principles.
Jerry is a well-recognised figure in Landscape Architecture in Australia and a sought after public speaker and raconteur about the need to link nature, culture and community to create inspiring places. In 2001 he was the HWS Cleveland Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota
Mertz in Hobart: impressions of one of Mawson’s men while preparing for Antarctic adventure
Get PDFThe story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 1911–1914 has often been told in many publications which also refer to the
drama of the Far-Eastern Sledging Journey from which Mawson trudged back to base, arriving in a desperate condition after both his companions, Xavier Mertz and Belgrave Ninnis, had died. Sir Douglas Mawson’s career is well documented but we know less about his team of men and their work. What do we know of Mertz? The literature repeatedly notes that he was Swiss, held a doctorate in law, was a ski champion, looked after the expedition’s dogs and died, mysteriously, on that Far-Eastern Sledging Journey. Details of his death have stimulated much discussion. But what of his life? Born in Basel in1882, he was six months younger than Mawson. With Ninnis he sailed from London on the AAE’s S.Y. Aurora and spent November 1911 in Hobart as the team made final preparations for their Antarctic expedition. This paper focuses on that month of new experiences for the Swiss member of Mawson’s team, his impressions of Hobart, the city’s response to Antarctic explorers, what has changed and what remains as it was then