"Artist–in-residence/ Artist interventions in museums”

Museum & Gallery Services Qld (M&GSQ) is pleased to present their 2009 seminar in partnership with The University of Queensland Art Museum and The University of Queensland’s Museum Studies program (in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History):
"Artist–in-residence/ Artist interventions in museums”
The University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia, Brisbane
Wednesday 5 August 2.00pm- 5.30pm followed by drinks 5.30pm- 6.30pm.

Speakers:
Fiona Hall explores the artist-in-residence projects she has undertaken with The University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute and her interest in science and natural history collections and the artwork this has inspired.

Yenda Carson outlines the artist-in-residence program for schools she is working on with Education Queensland.

Janet Laurence reviews some of the projects where she has been invited by museums to intervene in their collections such as Birdsong with Ross Gibson, Object Gallery, Sydney, 2006, based on her research into the ornithological collection of the Australian Museum; Stilled Lives, Museum Victoria, 2000; Muses. Janet Laurence: artist in the museum, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, 2000; and the permanent installation at the ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’, Australian War Memorial, 1993.


Dr Jennifer Barrett presents key findings from her major research project “Australian Artists and the Museum" including the relationship between contemporary Australian artists and the museum, the museum as a site for artistic intervention, the impact of artists on the museum, new ways that artists interpret collections for the public and the expectations of the museum in engaging artists to interpret its collections.

Enquiries Kerri Laidlaw e: kerri.laidlaw@magsq.com.au or phone 07 32150844
Registration Form is available at http://www.magsq.com.au.

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