ACCA Podcast

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 – exploring personal and global experiences of the...

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 Room, and Project Space: The Hoarding.

Speakers: Biljana Ciric and iLiana Fokianaki In 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 her curatorial journey in establishing the non-pr...

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/

Ecological: Practices and challenges of sustainability Speakers: José Roca and Keg de Souza In 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 processes, curatorial considerations and some o...

Electronic: Modelling the digital present and tools for the future Speakers: Seb Chan and Sahej Rahal Seb 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 & Emerging Media, at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Desi...

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/

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 entanglement in contemporary art. Daphne, the nymph...

Employment: Art, labour and changing modes of working This 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 and scaling-up the artist’s studio in the context...

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'.

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, the nymph who turned into a tree to evade the as...

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, with ruangrupa and The Unbound Collective, as pa...

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 Camakaris and Ed Service. ACCA is pleased to co-...

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 Yhonnie Scarce, Kristel Britcher and Lisa Slade,...

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.'

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: Missile Park', on view at ACCA until 14 June.

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, produced in association with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile...

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, Peta Murray, Diego Ramirez, Autumn Royal, Audrey Sc...

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 with 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park', on view at ACCA...

Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices Session Three: Friday 19 March 2021 Chair: Dr Marnie Badham, Senior Research Fellow, CAST, RMIT School of Art SPEAKERS: Unbound Collective: Sovereign Acts of (Anti)Memorial Love Djon Mundine: Remembering and Forgetting –Forgiveness and Not Forgetting More information: https://acca.melbourne/counte...

Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices Session Two: Thursday 18 March 2021 Chair: Genevieve Grieves, Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne SPEAKERS: Dr Fiona Foley: Honouring our Aboriginal Warriors Carol Que and Joel Sherwood Spring: Mutually assured construction Lilly Brown, Dianne Jones and Dr Odette Kelada: Mass E...

Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices Session One: Wednesday 17 March 2021 Chair: Associate Professor Sana Nakata, co-founder of the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration, University of Melbourne: SPEAKERS: Genevieve Grieves and Dr Amy Spiers: Counter-monuments: An introduction Dr Julie Gough: MISSING or DEAD: reinstating the hid...

Education: Alternatives and the Academy with Emily Floyd and Gridthiya Gaweewong This program is part of ACCA’s 2021 Lecture Series, Experimental Institutionalism: Contemporary Art and Curatorial Ecologies and features two short lectures by Emily Floyd and Gridthiya Gaweewong, followed by a conversation with ACCA’s Artistic Director and CEO Max Delany. 'Loose Objects and Situated Knowledge', a lec...

Listen to a conversation between exhibiting artist Yhonnie Scarce and exhibition curator Max Delany about Scarce’s major new commission, 'Missile Park'. 'Missile Park' extends Scarce’s research into the impacts of nuclear testing on the land and the people of South Australia, and the architectural legacies of past and ongoing international military presence in the region. ​Image: Yhonnie Scarce, '...

Listen now to Yhonnie Scarce in conversation with Daniel Browning, producer and presenter of Awaye! on ABC Radio National, as they unpack a range of ideas in Scarce’s practice and consider the works on display in the artist’s major solo survey, 'Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park'. Yhonnie Scarce is an artist known for sculptural installations which span architecturally-scaled public art projects to int...