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Reading Group #4
2pm, Sunday 16 May, 2021
Seminar Room 1, Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library - hosted by Savannah Smith
There are two short readings this month which focus on the theme of labour. Both are taken from Permanent Recession: a Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance. The first, 'Artists' Labour and the Speculation Economy,' is a discussion piece that broadly considers the uncertainty associated with committing to a career in the arts. The second, 'Women's Labour as the Culture Sector's Invisible Dark Matter,' is a republished essay by Macushla Robinson which interrogates the notion of women's labour as an act of love within both private and public spheres.
Please contact savannah@melbourneartlibrary.org.au for more information, or to sign up.
Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with the NGV:
'Reading Aloud' with Caliper Journal
11am, Saturday 27 March, 2021
Expanding Culture Through Publication
'Reading Aloud' with OFFICE
2pm, Saturday 27 March, 2021
The City as a Resource: How We Can Learn From Urban Fabric
'Reading Aloud' with Dr Ben Byrne and
11am, Sunday 28 March, 2021
Engaging Community Through Place-Based Design and Creative Practice
'Reading Aloud' with Kate Rhodes and Nick Selenitsch
2pm, Sunday 28 March, 2021
Playing Together
Reading Group #3
2pm, Sunday 14 March, 2021
Collingwood Yards - hosted by Savannah Smith
Responding to The Politics of Public Space, Volume Two. This publication is part of a quarterly publication by OFFICE which brings together transcripts from their public lecture series, 'The Politics of Public Space.' The second volume collates a series of global perspectives in order to address the effects of COVID-19, including the sudden changes in the way we interact and view our public spaces.
Reading Group #2
2pm, Sunday 7 Feb, 2021
Collingwood Yards - hosted by Savannah Smith
Responding to Dr. Gary Foley's Goori Reader No.1: History, Memory and the Role of Cultural Organisations in Entrenching Colonisation in Australia and Beyond.
Reading Group #1
6pm, Monday 14 Dec, 2020
Zoom - hosted by Savannah Smith
Discussion around Ksenia Cheinman's Creating Alternative Art Libraries quickly lead to a more general conversation around developing the potential of the MAL model and it's collection. A brilliant first text, we will likely revisit this article as a starting point again.
