Events

Keynotes & Papers

This interdisciplinary event will include three keynotes by Janine Antoni, Leslie King-Hammond & Saul Ostrow and over thirty short papers. The schedule of papers and abstracts is available from the conference program

Installations & Performances

Catherine Bell & Martha Mcdonald
Womenfolk: Songs from the Valley Below

Womenfolk: Songs from the Valley Below is a live performance using folk songs passed down from Medieval times, the visual spectacle of Christian martyrdom and penance, and the sensory experience of church rituals to explore ways that contemporary utopian religious sects isolate themselves in self-sustaining communities, or “inner sanctums,” in order to transcend the drudgery of daily life and secure a place in heaven.

Domenico de Clario
Cathedral

Description coming.

Joanna Frueh
Goddess of Roses

Goddess of Roses is a celebration of living wholeheartedly. Using roses as symbols of both spiritual and carnal love, as they have been since ancient times, Frueh explores passion, pleasure, humanity, and divinity. Glamour, elegance, and playfulness characterize the performance. Frueh’s costume embraces and reveals her body, white roses surround her, she enjoys chocolate malts, and she scents herself with Caron’s Rose perfume while speaking as Goddess of Roses, a deity from her imagination. In this performance, Frueh continues to develop a philosophy of pleasure, grounded in passion, love, beauty, and eros, from her experience as a woman and a lover, her research as a scholar, and her thinking and feeling as a person who observes the beauties and vulnerabilities of human beings. Gentleness, struggle, sex, religion, aging, and more all receive the rich observation of Goddess of Roses.

Dominque Hecq
Out of Bounds

'Out of Bounds' is a poetic piece which explores sexual identity from an inter-linguistic and inter-cultural perspective inscribed in a a post-colonial context whilst enacting knowledge as a practice of the letter. It is the central piece of a trilogy also titled OUT OF BOUNDS which is due out later this year under the re.press imprint whose first and third parts are titled 'The Gaze of Silence' and 'The Silence of the Gaze'. It might be said that for this agnostic author one of the surprising findings upon re-reading the whole work is the validation of the premise that god is unconscious.

Lily Hibberd
Bordertown

Bordertown is an installation comprised of a soundtrack that tells a partially fictional narration of two women. The story is located in a community called “Bordertown” that straddles two Australian states: a place renowned for historic conflicts. One woman has been dispatched as migrant labour to an internment camp on the outskirts of town; the other is an angry and disenfranchised young local from the poorest part of the community. Both are witness to escalating antagonism and the social exclusion of women and other minorities in “Bordertown”. Their existence consists of daily confrontations with an impassable barrier: a wall constructed along the border that divides the place into the two territories of North and South – realised at Artspace as a 10-channel surround sound installation housed within a massive black structure, emulating a wall. The work has been especially adapted for Out of Bounds as a small curved construction.

Elisabeth Presa
Big Love: on the couch

Visitors to the installation are invited to join the artist and her daughters, Anastasia and Dom, on the couch to watch and discuss the latest episodes of Big Love. Big Love is a US television drama about a fundametalist Mormon family and focuses on the family's struggles to live their polygamous lifestyle.  The main characters include  Bill Henrickson, his three wives Barb (legal wife/first wife), Nicki (second wife) and Margene (third wife), and their combined family of seven children, all of whom live in three neighbouring houses in a suburb of Salt Lake City.Big Love raises questions of faith, fidelity and love, sharing, friendship and family, but it does so, in often unexpected ways. Conversations will be videoed and will contribute to a broader debate about contemporary values and relationships.

Elif Sezen

description coming

Screenings

Forthcoming Irruptions of the Real: A season of videos by Jalal Toufic including:
‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins, video, 80 minutes, 2002.
The Lamentations Series: The Ninth Night and Day, video, 60 minutes, 2005.
Saving Face, video, 8 minutes, 2003.
Mother and Son; or, That Obscure Object of Desire (Scenes from an Anamorphic Double Feature), video, 41 minutes, 2006.
The Sleep of Reason: This Blood Spilled in My Veins, video, 32 minutes, 2002.

Conference Dinner

A Conference Dinner will be held to conclude the event. We hope that all can attend and enjoy a lovely meal and company.
Saturday 23rd August
6:30pm
H116
Cost: $65 per head
Comprising “Mama Dukes Dinner” including three course meal, wine, soft drinks, tea & coffee, and juice.
The dinner is payable separately to registration and attendance/payment should be indicated on the Registration Form (Link to registration page)

Associated Future Events

Launch of the catalogue/conference proceedings.

For more information and discussion, please see the Out of Bounds blog.

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