3 MAY-14 JUNE, 12:00-1:00PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO ST, (off Albany Street)

 

International and national speakers will present on a variety of topics in a weekly seminar series on Thursdays lunchtimes at Dunedin School of Art. All events are held at 19 Riego Street Dunedin, Lecture Theatre P152, except where stated otherwise. Times are included with each event.
Note: All Thursday seminars are scheduled for 12-1pm. All listed events are open to the public – all welcome, no RSVP and no charge.

In accordance with the Otago Polytechnic MoU with local Kai Tahu Runaka, we observe tikanga in our lecture and gallery spaces and thus request all attendees to refrain from eating and drinking during events (except water) and from sitting on tables, thank you.
All enquiries to leoni.schmidt@op.ac.nz except where otherwise indicated. This program is supported by the Fred Staub Open Art.

 

3 MAY, 12:00-1:00PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO ST, (off Albany Street)         

Imagining the Past, Imagining the Future: What’s Memory Got Do With It?

Chloe Wall, University of Otago

The artist’s imagination is crucial to her ability to produce art. Philosophically, however, imagination is still poorly understood, and consequently so is the relationship between memory and imagination. Among the work that has been done, there has been very little agreement about what the nature and degree of the relationship is. On one end of the spectrum is the claim that the difference between imagination and memory is whether the event in question really happened or not, while on the other end is the claim that remembering just is imagining the past. The question is further complicated by evidence that thinking about future events is subserved by the same cognitive mechanisms that subserve thinking about the past. So, how are remembering, thinking about the future, and imagining different? The purpose of this talk is to provide a broad overview of the different answers to these questions, and to offer some speculations about their plausibility.

Chloe Wall is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Otago. Her research focusses on memory and testimony and compares how they serve as sources of knowledge.

 

10 MAY, 12:00-1:00PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO ST, (off Albany Street)         

CLINKProject: Collaboration – Intervention – Exhibition CLINK4

Johanna Zellmer & Andrew Last, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic

This presentation will report on the collaborative jewellery initiative established in 2014 jointly by Hungry Creek Art & Craft School in Auckland and the Dunedin School of Art (Otago Polytechnic). Every year the two schools join forces to form a collective of undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff for a collaborative event known as CLINKProject, all working collaboratively towards one outcome and a conclusive publication. The projects play with the experience of disruption or intervention, often in the form of unannounced pop-up exhibitions in central Auckland, such as jewellery making on the street or deploying clear plastic umbrellas as moving showcases. Each year’s collective gathers for a frenzied week of brainstorming, planning, collaborative making and public interaction, in an endeavour to share contemporary jewellery with a diverse audience. The first two projects unfolded at the Auckland Inner Link Bus stops (2014) and the courtyards of public institutions such as the Auckland Art Gallery & and City Library (2015). Projects #3 and #4 were working with the challenge of how to enact these driving forces within the context of the public gallery settings of Te Uru Waitekere Contemporary Gallery (2016) and the Auckland Museum in 2017.

Johanna Zellmer completed a masters degree at the Australian National University Canberra School of Art and a formal apprenticeship as a Goldsmith in Germany. As Studio Coordinator in Jewellery & Metalsmithing she also manages the Artist-in-Residence programme at the Dunedin School of Art. Johanna’s research explores the possibilities of jewellery as a medium of socio-political knowledge.

Andrew Last is from Melbourne but has lived in Dunedin since 2001. He is a jewellery lecturer in the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, the job that brought him to Aotearoa. Andrew’s art education was at RMIT’s Gold & Silversmithing department and he lectured at Charles Sturt Uni in Wagga for ten years prior to crossing the Tasman. Andrew is a maker of jewellery, sculpture, houses, boats, bikes, bass guitars, bits and bobs. Much of this work goes to friends, family and community, often in a gift economy, occasionally by commission. His recent work is characterised by the relationships between people, place and materials.

 

17 MAY, 12:00-1:00PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO ST, (off Albany Street)

Drawn to Sound 

Hannah Joynt and Jane Venis, School and Design and Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic

Drawn to Sound is a performance project in which we address the question “How do we collaborate successfully with two very different creative practices in order to explore new territories within a contemporary context?” In Drawn to Sound we are able to remain based in our separate disciplines yet generate new work collaboratively. Inevitably this pushes our individual practices to otherwise uncharted territory and lead us to deeper understandings of our own and each other’s work.

Our seminar is in the form of a collaborative performance live in the DSA gallery. Jane will play a range of instruments – including handmade works – in an improvisational way and Hannah responds to the music interpreting the sound as a large scale drawing.

Hannah Joynt is a contemporary drawing practitioner who works in a range of media, processes and scales. Jane Venis a musician, installation artist and maker of sculptural musical instruments

 

24 MAY, 12:00-1:00PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO ST, (off Albany Street)         

The Art of the Critic

Ed Hanfling, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic

This seminar provides a critic's perspective on a range of issues associated with the discipline of art criticism, including the relationship between criticism and relativism, the functions of implicit and explicit judgements and the basis for various evaluative criteria, particularly the criterion of "surprise".

Ed Hanfling is an art historian, critic and curator and lecturer in art history and theory at the Dunedin School of Art.  He has reviewed Auckland exhibitions for the quarterly journal Art New Zealand since 2004.

 

31MAY, 12:00-1:00PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO ST, (off Albany Street)         

Le Maître ignorant? – teaching the history of design in an English medium polytechnic in the Persian Gulf

David McMaster, Director: Learning & Teaching, Otago Polytechnic

This paper, drawn from my doctoral work, invokes the figure of Jacques Ranciere’s ‘maitre ignorant’ (Ranciere, 1987/1991) to explore the curriculum design practices and discourses at work in the development of design history courses in an English medium HEI in the Persian Gulf. I argue for the urgent need to decolonise curriculum practice by advocating for the importance of inter-epistemic dialogue.

David McMaster is Director of Learning and Teaching Development at Otago Polytechnic. Prior to coming to Dunedin, David spent twelve years living and working in the Middle East (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain) and has also worked in France, Thailand, China and most recently in Mexico. He is currently working on a PhD in Education at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) on the geopolitics of knowledge in transnational HEIs in the Persian Gulf.

 

7 JUNE, 12:00-1:00PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO ST, (off Albany Street)

Where next for the Otago Museum?

Dr Ian Griffin, Director: Otago Museum

2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Otago Museum which seems an appropriate occasion to reflect on its past accomplishments, and prognosticate on its future direction.

Ian Griffin is the 8th Director of the Otago Museum, which first opened in 1868. Joining the Museum in May 2013, Ian has inspired a greater focus on science engagement within the Museum and led the development of the Museums planetarium which opened in December 2015. The Museum will open its new bicultural science centre in December 2017.

In his spare time, Ian has been actively spreading the message and getting people excited about astronomy, aurora photography and the value of preserving Dunedin’s night skies and currently writes a weekly astronomy column for the Otago Daily times. In recognition of Ian’s contribution to science communication in New Zealand, in 2015 Ian was awarded the Prime Ministers Science Media Communication prize.

Before joining the Otago Museum, Ian had previously held a number of lead positions in science engagement in the UK and the US including at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry, at Hubble Telescope Outreach and at NASA’s Education Forum. Ian has also headed, at different times, two planetariums: as CEO of the Stardome Observatory in Auckland and as Director of the Armagh Planetarium in Armagh, Northern Ireland. During Ian’s research for his PhD in astronomy, Ian discovered 26 asteroids, including asteroid 10924 which is named after his wife Maria.

 

14 JUNE, 12:00-1:00PM, P152, DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART, RIEGO ST, (off Albany Street)

Relationship between space and art works

Yusam Sung, Asia New Zealand Artist-in-Residence, 2018

If you look at the two images of space and work apart from each other, they often do not feel common. However, through the various installation methods and forms, both elements are influenced by each other, so that the conflicting feelings that they have are not only reduced or disappear, but they are always seen in the audience as if they were there. Recently, there has been always a lot of worry about the space where the work will be placed in the situation that mainly the 3D works are mainly done. Since the energy of white cubes and other spaces is very different, the works and the ways of installation are always different. The influence of space in my work is becoming more and more important. In recent exhibitions, space has existed as a part of the work, not as a means of showing the art works.

Yusam Sung was born in 1978 in Korea. He graduated from Hong-ik University in South Korea and received an MFA from Long Island University, New York. He has been exhibiting his work consistently in New York and Seoul.

 

 


Published on 26 Apr 2018

Orderdate: 26 Apr 2018
Expiry: 16 Jun 2018