Panel Discussion: Concrete
Panel: Rueben Berg, Dr Nurin Veis and Professor Alistair Thomson
To coincide with Concrete this panel discussion will interrogate some of the exhibition’s key themes and concerns.
Guest panellists include: Rueben Berg, co-founder and Director of Indigenous Architecture Victoria, Dr Nuris Veis, Manager Scienceworks and Professor Alistair Thomson, Head of School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University. The panel discussion will be convened by Geraldine Barlow, Senior Curator MUMA.
Date: 6:30-8:30pm, Wednesday 11 June 2014
Venue: Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield campus
FREE event, bookings required muma.rsvp@monash.edu or 03 9905 4217
Book Reading and Discussion: Maria Tumarkin and Geraldine Barlow: The Geography of Trauma
Author Maria Tumarkin and MUMA Senior Curator, Geraldine Barlow will discuss how artists in Concrete have engaged with sites affected by trauma. The session will include a reading by Maria Tumarkin from her bookTraumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy (Melbourne University Publishing, 2005).
Venue: Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield campus
FREE event, bookings requiredmuma.rsvp@monash.edu or 03 9905 4217
Book Reading and Discussion: Andrea Goldsmith and Kathy Temin: Monuments, Memorial Sites and Memory
Kathy Temin will discuss the way in which her art practice engages with themes of remembrance, familial history, loss and hope. Temin is the child of Holocaust survivors and as part of her art practice she has made monuments since the mid-1990s. Her installation My Monument (White Forest) 2009 is a white maze-like garden inspired by visits to Eastern European memorial sites.
Goldsmith’s encounter with Temin’s work in 2009 at the Heide Museum of Modern Art inspired both the major theme of The Memory Trap, and a central character named Nina Jameson, an international consultant on memorial projects. Goldsmith says: ‘I’ve long been fascinated by monuments, by the attempt to render concrete what is essentially abstract.’
FREE event, bookings requiredmuma.rsvp@monash.edu or 03 9905 4217
