The Lock-Up

EXHIBIT A SYMPOSIUM

31st October, 2015

EXHIBIT A SYMPOSIUM

A free event exploring topics of crime, criminality and the criminal subject.

SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER FREE EVENT

Accompanying the exhibition Exhibit A is the Exhibit A Symposium, a free event which explores topics of crime, criminality and the criminal subject with artists, academics and curators. Moderated by Dr Andrew Frost.

Dr. Andrew Frost is a researcher in science fiction, cinema and contemporary art, the art critic for Guardian Australia and a lecturer in the Dept. Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.

PANEL 1 – DIGNITY OF RISK

9.30AM – 10.30AM

Panelists: Dani Marti (artist), Tina Havelock Stevens (artist), Carolyn McKay (artist and academic), Kit Messham-Muir (academic).

With the current interest in interdisciplinary art practices that sometime involve ‘community engagement’ with marginalised and vulnerable individual and groups, ethical questions inevitably arise about the cultural safety of these people.

The question becomes: to what extent do the rights conferred on artists – their right to practice outside the constraints of a risk society, to not play it safe, to ensure their own dignity of risk – compete and conflict with the rights of the vulnerable subjects who are sometimes the subjects of their work?

Tea and coffee break.

PANEL 2: SEX SELLS AND CRIME PAYS

11.00AM – 12 NOONPanelists: Daniel Mudie Cunningham (artist), Elvis Richardson (artist), Carrie Miller (curator).

Shifting ideas about sex, gender and sexuality are deeply implicated in the identity politics that pre-occupy many contemporary art practices. But these practices exist in a broader contemporary context of public concern fuelled by populist politics around issues such as the sexualisation of children, gay marriage, gender non-conforming identities, even the resurgence of feminist ideals.

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