Critical Animals Creative Research Symposium 2017 // Criticism in ActionÂ
28 Sept - 1 Oct 2017
Presented by Critical Animals as part of TiNA, produced by Octopod.

CRITICAL ANIMALS CREATIVE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2017
CRITICISM IN ACTION
28 SEPTEMBER - 3 OCTOBER 2017
Three Page Story Tuesday 26 September - Thursday 28 September
10am - 5pm
Hunter Street TAFE
Ex-student of Newcastle Art School, Stephanie Gobor initiates an exhibition involving collaboration between art students and creative writers.
Exhibition opening:
Thursday 28 September 2pm – 4pm
TAFE NSW Hunter St students and writers
Curated by Stephanie Gobor
Co•–st•–l W•–ve Tr•–nsl•–tor
Thursday 28 September - Sunday 1 October 10am - 5pm
Newcastle Museum - Workshop Way Forecourt
A live sound installation converting wave data collected from buoys near Australia’s offshore detention centres into an unrepentant, face-melting siren. Kynan Tan Devon Ward Sticker Protest Thursday 28 September - Sunday 1 October 10am - 5pm
Roving through different locations Visual artist Nina Ross invites audiences to engage with ongoing issues of fair pay for artists through a playful sticker protest in unexpected locations throughout the festival.
Nina Ross
SADISCO Thursday
28 September - Sunday 1 October 10am – 5pm
See online program
Conflating sad, sadism and disco, SADISCO explores an excruciating fusion of pleasure with politics, singing with liberation, glitter with guts. Ingrid Stiertzel Jane Polkinghorne
Speculative Memories: Part #4 The Objectorium
Thursday 28 September - Sunday 1 October 7pm - 10pm
University House Loading Dock
This digital interactive piece investigates notions of personal and public memory. This work looks at ideas of distortion, identity, control and social construction. Kate Cross
Artist-led
Friday 29 September 10am - 11am
The Lock-Up
Artist-led discusses the tactics artists use to comment on the community they produce work within. This panel will be recorded and broadcast on FBi Radio’s
Canvas: Art & Ideas on Sunday 1 October.
Abdul Abdullah Aurora Scott Zoe O'Mahoney Sabrina Sokalik
The 'Real' World
Friday 29 September 1pm - 3pm
The Lock-Up
Get diagnosed at the door and experience the interface with the 'real' world. An immersive, sensory journey explore disability advocacy. Kerri Shying Danny Gentile Andrew Spannenberg
Intoxication
Friday 29 September 3.30pm - 4.30pm
The Lock-Up
Intimacy is dead, and we’re partying with its corpse. Intoxication is a post-dramatic patchwork about the fear of being alone. Christopher Bryant Emma Palackic
Critical Animals X Newcastle Art Gallery Last Fridays ft.
Kevina-Jo Smith: Planet Protest
Friday 29 September 5pm - 8pm
Newcastle Art Gallery Critical Animals guest programs Newcastle Art Gallery's Last Fridays program with Kevina-Jo Smith's immersive installation Planet Protest.
Kevina-Jo Smith
Critical Suburbia
Saturday 30 September 10am - 11:45am
The Lock-Up Launch of Karen Lowry’s “Chamberlain Street” (suburban poetry game) and discussion of Digital Humanities as Critical Theory with Bill Pascoe. Karen Lowry Bill Pascoe.
a complified unified theory of you (me)
Saturday 30 September 12pm - 3pm
Newcastle Museum Part-performance, part-sly-participatory event, part-song-and-dance trance, artists Vidya Rajan & Nithya Nagarajan invite you to create a completely unified theory of them. Vidya Rajan Nithya Nagarajan
These Romans Are Crazy: How Asterix and Obelix can help us understand the age of alternative facts
Saturday 30 September 12.30pm - 1.30pm
The Lock-Up
A performance lecture addressing how being historically hoodwinked as children has made us a passive audience to the lies our leaders tell us. Matt Abotomy
Waking Up
Saturday 30 September 2pm - 3.45pm
The Lock-Up
In a world where socially engaged art is more important than ever, how do artists work ethically with communities? Kate Richards Madalyn Trypas Kevin Bathman Isabella Capezio
Critical Mass
Saturday 30 September 3pm - 4pm
The Lock-Up
Join Perth based performance poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) for Critical Mass, an experimental, immersive poetry walking tour that aims to not only transform Newcastle, but you as well. Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Feminist Pop Tarts: (De)constructing Pop Culture
Sunday 1 October 10am - 12pm
The Lock-Up
Four academics and artists talk about the intersections between pop culture and feminism – the good, the bad and the debatable. Erin Fae Emily Francine Palmer Patricia Pender Kali Myers
Criticism for Accountability
Sunday 1 October 12.30pm - 2.30pm
The Lock-Up
What is the responsibility of the critic to advocate for change? Three cultural commentators discuss the current state of arts criticism. Cassie Tongue Dee Jefferson Sarinah Masukor
Questions of everyday feeling: media and the shaping of gender
Sunday 1 October 3pm - 5pm
The Lock-Up
This panel focuses on how gender and affects (such as joy, laughter and fear) are (re)produced through physical/mediated spaces. Elianne Renaud Megan Sharp Dr Akane Kanai
Ceremony for Lost Natural Connections
Sunday 1 October 5pm - 7pm
Civic Park
In this temporary activation, mosquito coils are burnt at dusk as part of a ritual exploring lost connections to nature. Marisa Georgiou
Once More With Feeling
Sunday 1 October 6pm - 9pm
Watt Space Gallery
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Buffy The Vampire Slayer with an interactive sing-along spectacular celebrating the classic musical episode. Patricia Pender