Listen to our panel discussion focusing on the lineages of queer histories on the present. Featuring the research and practices of three speakers, Angela Hesson, Patrice Sharkey and Elyssia Wilson-Heti, who variously engage with queer subcultures, aesthetics and histories, the panel will consider how these legacies have shaped or reshaped the diver…

Listen to our talk with artists Andy Butler and Nicholas Smith on their new works presented as part of 'Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions'.This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Saturday 13 July 2024.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Listen to our talk with artists Kim Ah Sam, Teelah George, Joel Sherwood Spring and Salote Tawale on their new works presented as part of 'Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions'.This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Saturday 29 June 2024. Please note the quality of this podcast is interrupted towards the end of th…

Listen to ACCA's in conversation with Laure Prouvost and Annikka Kristensen, following a screening of 'They Parlaient Idéale' 2019.This program was recorded on Monday 18 March at ACMI as part of ACCA's exhibition 'Laure Prouvost: Oui Move In You'.Read more about the program here: https://acca.melbourne/program/screening-and-keynote-with-laure-prouv…

Listen to ACCA's in conversation with Barbara Creed, author and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne alongside Lisa French, Professor and Dean in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.This program was recorded on Wednesday 28 February as part of the official book launch of Barbara Creed's …

Listen to ACCA's lecture 'Building a post-revolutionary world through the 8th Yokohama Triennale' with Carol Yinghua Lu, art historian, curator, and current Director, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. Alongside Liu Ding, Carol Yinghua Lu is also co-Artistic Director of the 8th Yokohama Triennale 2024.Read more about the program here: https://acca.melb…

Listen to the artist talk with Maria Kozic speaking about her iconic series 'Calendar Girls' 1999 presented in ACCA’s current exhibition 'From the other side' (9 December 2023 – 3 March 2024).Maria Kozic works across painting, sculpture, photography and film. Her practice has often drawn on the depictions and tropes of women, monsters and creatures…

Listen to exhibition artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne for a talk about their new digital commission 'Offset' on the ACCA Digital Wing.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance?This experimental presentation is a collaboration between feminist technoscience researcher Thao Phan and Machine Listening, …

Listen to performance lectures 'Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies, and other Détournments' by Suvani Suri and 'Listening to Misrecognition' by Thao Phan, as well as an Artist Talk with Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne on their new digital commission 'Offset'.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Listen to the performance lecture 'Expositio, Iudicium, Lacrimae, or, Does an AI God Have an Ass?' by exhibiting artist Zach Blas exploring the idea of religious-un/conscious thriving in today’s tech industry. Charting his encounters with various artificial intelligence gods, Blas tells of a computational world of divine judgment and devout submiss…

Roe v. Wade is overturned while gene editing is opening entirely new reproductive futures. What does kin mean as reproductive technologies shift our relationships? How much control should we have over a birthing person’s body, and over a life before it begins?.‘The Surrogate project began with a desire to serve as a surrogate. During the pregnancy,…

Through a series of media and artworks, Mimi Ọnụọha’s performance lecture explores absence, knowledge, and how what is missing is still there.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Listen to writer and curator Laura Raicovich discuss the artworks and methodologies that inform Mithu Sen’s exhibition 'mOTHERTONGUE' in relation to Raicovich’s own practice which calls for institutional change to improve cultural spaces.This conversation was recorded at ACCA on Tuesday 16 May, 6–7pm and is presented with the support of Kiran Nadar…

Listen to artist Mithu Sen in conversation with Max Delany, ACCA’s Artistic Director & CEO, alongside special guests Irina Aristarkhova, Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Digital Studies Institute of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Deepanjana Klein, Director of Acquisitions and Development, Kiran Nadar Museum of…

This recording is part of a video commissioned for 'Writing in the Expanded Field IV: Touching Feeling Writing' developed in conjunction with ACCA’s exhibition ‘Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH’ (23 September – 20 November 2022). The digital publishing project exploring new compositional modes and publics for art writing will be released in early 2023.Cr…

Listen to the in conversation with artist Paul Yore and Nick Henderson, volunteer committee member at the Australian Queer Archives, and Curator at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. They will be discussing Yore’s extensive survey exhibition 'Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH', unpacking the past fifteen years of his practice, with a focus …

Listen to the lecture by editor Mykaela Saunders speaking on the critically acclaimed anthology 'THIS ALL COME BACK NOW'.'THIS ALL COME BACK NOW' is the world’s first anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories,…

Listen to our Artist Talks with Gian Manik, Jason Phu and Jahnne Pasco-White.This Artist Talk was recorded in association with the exhibition ' Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 4 September 2022.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

This Artist Talk was recorded in association with the exhibition ' Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 4 September 2022.In this Artist Talk we hear from exhibiting artists Lucina Lane, Betty Muffler and JD Reforma.…

This conversation was recorded in association with the exhibition 'Frances Barrett: Meatus', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 19 June 2022.In this conversation we hear from artist and curator Frances Barrett and from Daniel Mudie Cunningham, who is head of Programming at Carriageworks. 'Frances Barrett: M…

This panel discussion explores ideas of safety, movement, surveillance, physical distancing, visibility and invisibility within Melbourne’s public spaces.Think Tank Moderator Nur Shkembi, artist, curator and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, and Curatorial Advisory Group member for Who’s Afraid of Public Space?, is joined by esteemed local cu…

Listen to Melbourne Art Library for the final in their series of discussions about the values of the public library. Reflecting on the library of written materials on public art, public culture and public space in the Reading Space: The Common Room, Melbourne Art Library discuss the purpose and complexities of developing a community library collect…

Creative practice researchers: Prof Carol Brown, Dr Troy Innocent, and A/Prof Linda Knight, chaired by Rachel Iampolski addresses how artistic practices offer insurgent modes for developing reconnection with urban spaces after a prolonged lockdown, and sustained anxiety around public spaces.The panel shares their practical and creative approaches f…

Urbanists and planners need to engage in broader and messier practices if they are to design inclusive and accessible public spaces. The production of space is as much a social and political process, as a physical one, and identities of places are often latent, contested and invisible. A new genre of artists and creative practitioners are engaging …

Listen to ACCA’s Artist Educator and Curator of the Education Space Andrew Atchison with artists Ross Coulter, Eugenia Lim and James Nguyen for a discussion about art and working in public space. This program is associated with the Education Space: Creating Art in Public, a hybrid studio, classroom and gallery designed to promote active participati…

Listen to Melbourne Art Library for the first in their series of discussions about experimental modes of sharing information.Reflecting on the library of written materials on public art, public culture and public space in the Reading Space: The Common Room, Melbourne Art Library unpack the role of the contemporary art librarian.Forum Series: Distri…

Join artists Jon Campbell, Guled Abdulwasi, and Laresa Kosloff at ACCA as they discuss their commissioned works as part of Who’s Afraid of Public Space? offsite projects.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Join Melbourne Art Library for the second in their series of discussions about experimental modes of sharing information as part of Who's Afraid of Public Space?.The forum panel includes: Nell Fraser (Melbourne Art Library), Caroline Phillips (Womens Art Register), and Nick Henderson (Australian Queer Archives).…

Join artists Sean Lynch and Mikala Dwyer, and writer Alicia Sometimes for a panel discussion about public art, presented in association with the recent launch of two major City of Melbourne temporary public art commissions in University Square, Carlton.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Join artists Simona Castricum, Michael Candy, Hoang Tran Nguyen, and Callum Morton at ACCA as they discuss their commissioned works as part of Who’s Afraid of Public Space? offsite projects.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Listen to a panel discussion on Melbourne-based collective APHIDS’ new moving-image work 'DESTINY' with artist Eugenia Lim, and worker-performers Cher Tan and Wasay, moderated by Amelia Wallin. 'DESTINY' 2021 is a moving-image work made in collaboration with on-demand or ‘gig economy’ workers – rideshare drivers, food delivery riders and cleaners –…

Listen to N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM, Sarah Lynn Rees, Andrew Atchison, Stephanie Pahnis, Lauren Crockett, Nicola Cortese, Timothy Moore, and John Tanner as they share their approaches to transforming ACCA’s four galleries to become civic spaces: Gathering Space: Nargee Djeembana, Education Space: Creating Art in Public, Reading Space: The Common R…

Speakers: Biljana Ciric and iLiana FokianakiIn this lecture, curator and researcher Biljana Ciric discusses her educational platform What Could/Should Curating Do? and long-term project 'As you go... the roads under your feet, towards a new future' as experimental models for cross-cultural collaborations. Writer and curator iLiana Fokianaki shares …

Listen now to a panel discussion on A Poem and a Mistake, written by Cheri Magid, with Alexis Grenell, Cheri Magid, Stephanie McCarter, Sarah Baskin and Tamila Woodard. Read more here: https://acca.melbourne/program/a-poem-and-a-mistake-by-cheri-magid/By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Ecological: Practices and challenges of sustainabilitySpeakers: José Roca and Keg de SouzaIn this lecture, we are joined by José Roca, Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, and artist Keg de Souza, with a focus on the practices and challenges of sustainability. Roca’s presentation questions whether biennales are sustainable, sharing the…

Electronic: Modelling the digital present and tools for the futureSpeakers: Seb Chan and Sahej RahalSeb Chan is the Chief Experience Officer (CXO) at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image where he is responsible for a holistic, multi-channel, visitor-centred design strategy for the institution. Until August 2015, he was Director of Digital & E…

Listen now to Cheri Magid and Stephanie McCarter on ‘A Poem and a Mistake’, presented between 27 August – 12 September at acca.melbourne as part of the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne.' Read more here: https://acca.melbourne/program/a-poem-and-a-mistake-by-cheri-magid/By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Listen now to Mihnea Mircan in conversation with artists Erik Bünger, Inge Meijer, and Katie West to discuss their works featured in the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne'.A Biography of Daphne’ is a curatorial project that revisits the Classical myth of Daphne as the starting point for an investigation of trauma and metamorphosis, symbiosis and en…

Employment: Art, labour and changing modes of workingThis program is part of ACCA’s 2021 Lecture Series, Experimental Institutionalism: Contemporary Art and Curatorial Ecologies and features two short lectures by Alana Kushnir and Julieta Aranda followed by a conversation with ACCA Curator Miriam Kelly.Alana Kushnir explores collaboration, labour a…

Listen to curator Mihnea Mircan in conversation with artists Ho Tzu Nyen, Jill Magid, and P. Staff and Candice Lin to discuss their works featured in the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne'.By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Listen to artists Lauren Burrow and Nicholas Mangan as they discuss their works featured in the exhibition 'A Biography of Daphne'.​‘A Biography of Daphne’ is a curatorial project that revisits the Classical myth of Daphne as the starting point for an investigation of trauma and metamorphosis, symbiosis and entanglement in contemporary art. Daphne,…

What similarities and alliances can be drawn across borders, and how do we work and learn differently in response to the specificities of locality, place, culture and community? Can we work better together? What futures are possible or likely for the contemporary art ecology?Listen now to Expanded: Collectivity and Solidarity in Changing Times now,…

Listen now to the third conversation in the Think Tank series as part of the forthcoming exhibition Who’s Afraid of Public Space?Presented in partnership with Art Projects Australia (APA), this session will be moderated by ACCA’s Public Programs Coordinator Bianca Winataputri and include contributors Dewi Cooke, Eleanor Jackson, Sim Luttin, Michael…

Listen now to a conversation between between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia, Mykaela Saunders, writer, teacher, and community researcher and Dimity Hawkins, Australian activist, researcher and academic.This podcast concludes the series produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', including Glass with …

Listen now to a conversation between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia and Lisa Radford, artist and writer about their collaborative project 'Concrete Archives.'Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park.'By ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Listen now to a conversation between Hannah Presley, currently curator of Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Victoria and inaugural curator for the Yalingwa program at ACCA, and Lisa Waup, artist and co-curator of 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park.'Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Miss…

Listen now to a conversation between ​Louis Anderson Mokak, a Djugun man from West Kimberley and interdisciplinary designer, Mikhail Rodrick, architect at Wood Marsh and Yhonnie Scarce's long-term collaborator, and Kim Bridgland, a director at Melbourne based architecture studio Edition Office. ​Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produ…

ACCA and the non/fictionLab at RMIT are pleased to present a live snapshot of outcomes and processes from the 2021 program of Writing in the Expanded Field Volume 3: Overlapping Writing, developed in conjunction with ACCA’s summer show Overlapping Magisteria. Program participants: Des Barry, Anna Kate Blair, Alisa Blakeney, Sophia Cai, Kate Jama, P…

Listen now to a discussion about the medium of glass between Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha and Nukunu artist from South Australia, Kristel Britcher, artist, designer and head of the Jam Factory glass studio, and Lisa Slade, Assistant Director at the Art Gallery of South Australia.Stay tuned for further podcasts to be released, produced in association wit…