[Reader-list] [Announcements] Illustrated talk by Dr.Charles Merewether .

[Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics]

Dear Friend ,
 

You are cordially invited to attend an illustrated talk by Dr.Charles Merewether .  

 

Taking Place: Acts of Survival for a Time to Come 
2006 Biennale of Sydney" and its concept 'zones of contact 

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 5.30 pm 
The School of Art and Aesthetics Auditorium, JNU

 

Organized by The Biennale Society in association with the School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU , and supported by the Australia India Council.

 

Dr. Charles Merewether was Artistic Director and Curator of the 2006 Biennale of Sydney and is currently Senior Research Fellow, at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University. A curator and art historian, he was Collections Curator at the Getty Center in Los Angeles (1994-2004). 

 

Born in Scotland and educated in Australia, he has taught at taught at the University of Sydney, Australia, Universidad Autonoma, Barcelona, Universidad Ibero-americana in Mexico City and University of Southern California.  He received several research fellowships, including at Yale University and the Japan Foundation. His most recent publications are Zones of Contact (Biennale of Sydney 2006), The Archive, and Ai Weiwei: Beijng 1993-2003. His forthcoming projects include an exhibition and book, Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, to be held at and published by the Getty Center , Los Angeles, in 2007. He is currently writing a book on the cultural history of looting (Melbourne University Press) and is the Editorial Director of a new magazine on contemporary Asian art, to be launched in 2007.








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