“AS IF: Echoes from the Women’s Art Register”
Women’s Art Register
2 Oct → 7 Nov 2015
As If: Echoing Workshop - Slide Night
Slide Night is an experimental project that showcases slides presented by invited artists within a slide night format. The inaugural Slide Night was held at Rae & Bennett in July 2013, and has since become a semi regular event at various venues across Melbourne. For the As If: Echoing Workshop slides will be selected from the Women’s Art Register by an invited panel, drawing on the immense collection of over 20, 000 images the Register has collated since 1975.
Tuesday October 13, 6-8.30 pm
Facilitators: Danica Chappell, Ross Coulter, Danielle Hakim, Clare Rae
Speakers/Artists: Ross Coulter, Eleanor Butt, Anne Marsh, Elizabeth Gower
Danielle Hakim, Clare Rae and Jill Orr
Graham Cornish room, level 2, Union House, University of Melbourne
Seats are limited – please email slidenights@gmail.com to rsvp. www.slidenights.com
As If: Echoing Workshop – Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Art+Feminism is a campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, and to encourage female editorship. The first Edit-a-thon was held in New York City in 2014 and since then over one hundred events have been held globally. Through a collaborative process of learning and support, feminist communities around the world are filling in the gaps, writing new histories and sharing new knowledge. This event will be the first Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon held in Melbourne.
Previous experience is not required, BYO laptop, registrations preferred for pre-workshop induction.
Saturday, October 31st, 11am-4pm
Facilitators: Caroline Phillips and Juliette Peers
State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston St. Melbourne
Bookings – http://womensartregister40years.info/echoing-workshop-wiki/
As If: Echoes from London
This special closing event for AS IF: Echoes from the Women’s Art Register is curated by Laura Castagnini and features a new work EEA:(PR) by Australian artist Holly Ingleton. Holly is a cultural worker and feminist sound studies scholar whose transdisciplinary performative practice explores sound in an expanded and often dematerialised field, through archives, conversations, interventions, hidden histories and historical amnesias, tuning into feminist frequencies within sites of the juxtapolitical. Holly is involved as archivist and educator for the Her Noise Archive, editor of www.hernoise.org and founding co-collaborator of Sound:Gender:Feminism:Activism. Holly currently lives in London and is Associate Lecturer Sound Arts at LCC.
For AS IF: Echoes from London, Holly Ingleton will present a new performance made in response to a box of Women’s Art Register ephemera that made its way to the archives of the Women's Art Library (WAL) at Goldsmiths College in London. In dialogue with Laura Castagnini, Holly has been considering the metaphor and implication of the geographical relocation of materials from Australia to London, and how this might intersect with broader ideas of immigration, race, and forgotten histories. Holly is performing the WAR commissioned work at Wysing Annual Music Festival in Cambridge on Sept 5th. The work enacts the artist's own immigration application to the UK which is due in October through a performance score developed from the “EEA:(PR) Version 07/2015 Application for a document certifying permanent residence or permanent residence card under the EEA Regulations” form in collaboration with colleagues Ain Bailey and Johnny Pavlatos. It involves a set of readings by three performers investigating the embedded hegemony of normative sexuality and racial politics within the document as well as within immigration procedures more generally.
As if: Echoes from London: http://womensartregister40years.info/echoes-from-london/
As if: 40 years and beyond: http://womensartregister40years.info/
The Women’s Art Register is a ‘Museum without walls’ established by a group of women artists including Lesley Dumbrell and Erica McGilchrist, and the then directors of the Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne University, Kiffy Rubbo and Meredith Rogers. It began with one hundred women artists contributing slides of their work and has evolved to include paper documentation, articles and ephemera which has been continually collected, collated and filed for access by the public. In 1978 the first catalogue of holdings within the Women’s Art Register was published and the total collection was moved to Richmond Library (originally called Carringbush Library) where it remains today. AS IF: Echoes from the Women’s Art Register is part of a special program As if: 40 years and beyond – Celebrating the Women’s Art Register. This year marks 40 years of the Women’s Art Register persisting and insisting that women’s art matters. To honour this remarkable achievement, Women’s Art Register is presenting six events across five venues in the City of Melbourne, as part of the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival.