Gabriella and Silvana Mangano
If... so... then 2006 (still)
DVD, 7:47min
Monash University Collection - purchased 2007
Courtesy of Monash University Museum of Art
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Collaboration has fostered ground-breaking innovations in the visual arts during the 20th and 21st centuries. This symposium focuses on the dynamics of reciprocal exchanges and collaborative experiments by modern and postmodern artists. How might we situate creative partnership within its social and historical contexts, discursive and ideological frames, and the ‘instabilities’ of gender? What new methodologies can we bring to the study of artistic collaboration? In addressing these questions, this symposium seeks to shed light on both creative co-operation and politicized critiques of traditional models of authorship.
The symposium consists of both invited talks and reviewed submissions. We welcome expressions of interest from potential audience members and speakers.
Possible topics include:
- Intersubjectivity and paradigms of reciprocity
- Collective representation and issues of authorship
- Avant-garde or Neo-avantgarde team projects
- 1960s and 1970s protest art
- Collective political engagement
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Joachim Pissarro, Hunter College (USA)
Intersubjectivity in Modern Art
Professor Joachim Pissarro's most recent book is Cezanne/Pissarro, Johns/Rauschenberg, Comparative Studies on Intersubjectivity in Modern Art (2006). He curated the landmark exhibition 'Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro' at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 2005. He is Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries, New York.
Find out more about Professor Pissarro
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr Janine Burke, Monash University (Australia)
Imagine: The Art of Yoko Ono and John Lennon
Dr Burke is an art historian, curator, critic and novelist. The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection (2006) is the first full-length account of Freud's obsession with art collecting and antiquities. Source: Nature's Healing Role in Art and Writing will be published in November. She is a Monash Research Fellow in the Schools of English, Communications and Performance Studies, and Political and Social Inquiry. Dr Burke's current project is Being Geniuses Together: Artist Couples, Communities and Collaborations, which explores the creative partnerships of, amongst others, Berlin Dada, Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, Yoko Ono and John Lennon and the Papunya Tula Aboriginal community.
Dr Jill Carrick, Carleton University (Canada)
Daniel Spoerri's Suitcase: Collaborating Outside the Box
Jill Carrick teaches art history and cultural theory at Carleton University, Canada, where she is an Assistant Professor in the department of Art History and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture. Her research interests include collaborative art and interdisciplinary theory. Her book Nouveau Réalisme, 1960s France, and the Neo-avantgarde: Topographies of Chance and Return is appearing shortly with Ashgate Press. Her other publications include: “The Assassination of Marcel Duchamp: Collectivism and Contestation in 1960s France”, The Oxford Art Journal, 2008; “Le Nouveau Réalisme: un détournement de la profusion des choses”, in Le Nouveau Réalisme, Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2007; and “Phallic Victories? Niki de Saint-Phalle’s Tirs”, Art History, 2003.
Dr Carrick's Nouveau Realisme will be published later this year.
more information on Dr Carrick
Dr Desmond Rochfort (Canada)
Mexican Revolutionary Muralists
Dr Desmond Rochford is Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta, Canada. He is a leading art historian of Mexican mural painting and public mural art, and a respected and sought-after teacher and visiting lecturer in his field. He has curated or consulted on many art exhibitions in the United Kingdom and Canada, including key exhibitions on Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Desmond Rochfort’s books include The Murals of Diego Rivera and Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros.
more information on Dr Rochfort
Registration and Inquiries
Register for the Collaborations symposium
For all other inquiries, please email collaborations@arts.monash.edu.au
Conference Organizers
Dr Janine Burke
School of Political and Social Inquiry
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
Dr Jill Carrick
School for Studies in Art and Culture
413 St. Patrick’s Building
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
