Public lectures
- 17 November: Amelia Douglas - Pierre Huyghe and the Association of Freed Time
- 25 November: Professor Arja Ropo - Leading by the Gaze in Theatre
Pierre Huyghe and the Association of Freed Time
Amelia Douglas
Recipient of 2009 Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD, University of Melbourne
The Fine Arts Network - Art History Postdoctoral Lecture 2009
6.00 pm Tuesday 17 November (drinks from 5.30)
Prince Philip Theatre, Architecture Building, University of Melbourne
All Welcome
Pierre Huyghe is one of the most significant artists of the 21st century. His work – encompassing film, architecture, situations, installations and events – has been shown at the TATE Modern, Centre Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum, the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and recently at the Biennale of Sydney (2008), where Huyghe transformed the Opera House into a tropical rainforest. This lecture focuses on a few of Huyghe’s major works, including A Journey That Wasn’t (2005) and Streamside Day Follies (2003) and will include clips from several of Huyghe’s works not previously exhibited in Australia, courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris.
What is at stake in the making and recording of history, and what does it mean for a contemporary artist to work as an historiographer? The contemporary French artist Pierre Huyghe is well-known for his multi-faceted works that operate in the gaps between history and story. In this lecture, Huyghe’s practice is shown to facilitate a new model of contemporary history. History as a discursive concept is pliable; its meaning shifts depending on contexts. In presenting an historiographic reading of Huyghe’s practice, this lecture reflects upon how the coalescence of story and history may be a key factor in pulling together the diverse strands of Australian and international art histories.
See Parkville Campus building number 133, grid reference F18
Leading by the Gaze in Theatre
Professor Arja Ropo, School of Business Administration, University of Tampere
November 25, 2009
6.00 pm to 7.00 pm (then to the bar for refreshments)
Lawler Studio, The MTC Theatre, 140 Southbank Boulevard Southbank
rsvp: Dr Kate MacNeill
The management of creativity and the characteristics of leadership in relation to creative teams are of growing interest to scholars and practitioners of both management and creative practice. Arts and cultural organizations, such as theatres and orchestras have become a potential source of learning for other types of professional and knowledge based organizations that call for intensive collaboration and team work of talented and creative people.
Professor Ropo and her colleagues observed rehearsal processes in theatre with a view to determining the impact that the interaction between the director and the actors had on the theatrical production. They noted that it was the sensuous, bodily practices, such as the way the director and the actors cast looks on each other in the course of the rehearsal that particularly influenced the quality of the artistic process. This kind of interactive and influential looking is encompassed by the concept of the “gaze”. In this presentation Professor Ropo sheds light, both empirically and conceptually, on how leadership by the gaze occurs in the theatre rehearsal process and its implications for the artistic outcome of the production.