[csaa-forum] transforming aesthetics

[su b]

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Register for the full conference, one day or the keynote address by 
Nicolas Bourriaud.

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand in association with 
the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Centre for Contemporary Art and 
Politics, UNSW present the Transforming Aesthetics Conference 7-9 July 
2005.
  Key speakers include: Nicolas Bourriaud, Andrew Benjamin, Ernst van 
Alphen, Jane Taylor and Sean Cubitt
  See the website for programme and registration details: 
 http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz

Transforming Aesthetics explores the response of aesthetic theory to 
new forms of art and exhibition practice, emerging in relation to 
post-9/11 politics, globalisation, post-colonialism and the demise of 
Euro-centrism.

The entanglement of art with politics frequently prompts art theorists 
to import concepts from cultural/political theory. But art is not 
simply a field of application for theory; rather, concepts and theories 
may be understood to emerge from the visual. For this reason it is 
crucial to attend to the specifics of visual or aesthetic languages. 
New forms of political and post-colonial practice call for a new set of 
critical terms - for an expansion and re-evaluation of the field of 
aesthetic theory. Thus this conference maps the ongoing transformation 
of aesthetics.

  This project has been assisted by the Federal Government through the 
Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.


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su ballard
research assistant
CCAP Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics
University of New South Wales
PO Box 259  Paddington  NSW 2021
fax: +61-2-9385 0615
ph: +61-2-9385 0697
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