Tertiary Update

Start second semester with thought-provoking lectures and symposia at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Internships

The Gallery is pleased to announce internship opportunities for Semester 2 of 2012.

• ARTEXPRESS (Public Programs) • Conservation • Registration • Curatorial (Contemporary art) • Curatorial (Photography)

Applications close this Friday, 17 August.

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Cities in transition symposium

Photography in Paris and Australia at the turn of the 20th century

Saturday 25 August 2012, 1pm–4.45pm

In conjunction with the exhibition Eugène Atget: Old Paris

Cities in transition explores the early 20th-century documentary photography of Eugène Atget and assesses its relevance to an Australian context.

Cost for tertiary students: $15

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Photography symposium

Borderlands: photography and cultural contest

Saturday 31 March 2012, 10.30am–4.30pm

This is the second of a new series of annual symposia exploring current approaches to photographic history and theory. It explores the role of photography in constructing and transgressing social, cultural and temporal boundaries.

Cost for full-time students $25

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Sydney students speak

about the 18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations

Wednesdays 1 August – 12 September 2012, 6pm

Sydney’s art students present short talks about their favourite Biennale works. Hear a fresh perspective from the next generation of artists and art historians.

15 August Yun-Fei Ji The Three Gorge Dam Migration 2009
Micheal Do, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales

22 August Jon Wolseley Ventifacts from Mallee Scrub after Fire 2007–12 + Postcommodity Do you remember when? 2012
Clementine Barnes, National Art School

29 August Gao Rong The static eternity 2012
Sophie Hopmeier, National Art School

5 September Yuken Teruya Constellation 2012
Hayley Hamilton, University of Sydney

12 September Hassan Sharif Suspended objects 2011
Georgia Saxelby, National Art School

Free

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Student specials

The Art Gallery Society continues to offer student specials on their major lecture series.
 

Arts of Asia lecture series 2012: Love
Tuesdays, 1pm

$5 tickets at the door (subject to availability)

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Absolutism to enlightenment
Wednesdays, 6pm

$10 tickets at the door – available Wednesday evenings only

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Image: Kamisaka Sekka Flowers of the twelve months 1920–25