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Archive / Counter Archive Conference - Prato centre

Published: 24 June 2009

Exploring relations between contemporary art and the archive.

Presentations/ discussions/ exhibitions. Thinkers/ artists/ writers/ curators.

Archive/Counter-Archive is a two-day conference offering fresh thinking and dialogues on the current relations between contemporary art and the archive with a particular focus on drawing.

Twelve presentations and additional discussion sessions, plus satellite events and exhibitions at the Monash Centre, Project Gentili and Dryphoto in Prato, Italy that debate and extend the challenges and effectiveness of deploying archives and archival thinking in contemporary art practice.

Keynote speakers: Professor Okwui Enwezor and Dr Charles Merewether.

Presenters include: Azra Aksamija (Bosnia and Herzegovina/US), Andrew Benjamin (Australia), Rossella Biscotti (Italy), Sonia Boyce (UK), Brian Catling (UK), Victoria Lynn (Australia), Avis Newman (UK), and Tom Nicholson (Australia).

Archive/Counter-Archive is part of a series of collaborative projects organised by the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University and The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts, London.

Date: Friday 10 to Saturday 11 July, 2009
Venue: Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy

For further information contact:
Name: Department of Fine Arts
Telephone: +61 3 9903 2706
Email: aca.conference@artdes.monash.edu.au
Website: Art and Design Faculty website