A symposium exploring art and queer histories.
Enquiries: lwag@uwa.edu.au or 08 6488 3707
Thinking Queerly is a symposium examining the links between queer histories and their social contexts through the lens of art practices.
It features keynote presentations from Australian jurist, academic and former Justice of the High Court, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG and Dunja Rmandic, Associate Curator of 21st Century Arts, Art Gallery of Western Australia. It also includes panel discussions on queer curating and the relationship between history and social practice.
Thinking Queerly is organised alongside the exhibitions HERE&NOW20: Perfectly Queer and A Sorrowful Act: The Wreck of the Zeewijk. It is presented in partnership with Pride WA, UWA LGBTIQA+ working group, UWA Law School and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Woolnough Lecture Theatre, UWA | $10 tickets
10.30am-11.00am: Registration
11.00am-11.10am: Introduction and Acknowledgment of Country
11.10am-12.10pm: Opening Keynote from Michael Kirby
12.15pm-1.15pm: Panel 1: History and Social Practice with `Duc Dau (chair), Jo Darbyshire, Drew Pettifer and Peter Waples-Crowe
1.15pm-2.00pm: Lunchbreak
2.00pm-3.00pm: Panel 2: Queer Curating with Theo Costantino (chair), José Da Silva, Brent Harrison and Melissa McGrath
3.05pm-3.50pm: Closing Keynote from Dunja Rmandic