The Politics of Aesthetics

Date May 24, 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Who Peter Alwast, Tom Melick & Dr Toni Ross
Location COFA, Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd Paddington Lecture Theatre: EGO2

This forum addresses debates about the meaning Tom Melick has an interest in how art, community
of politics in contemporary art, and responds to and collaboration fit together. He is currently teaching
recent contributions to this topic by philosopher at COFA and is a member of Bababa International, an
of aesthetics Jacques Rancière. Rancière’s art collective based in Sydney.
account of political art rejects approaches solely
focused on the content of art works, or the Dr Toni Ross is a senior lecturer in the School of Art
cultural identity of artists. Without discounting History and Art Education at COFA. She teaches
political subject matter, he amplifies how politics and researches in the areas of aesthetics, theories
may be expressed through formal and aesthetic of photography, critical theory, contemporary art
means adopted by artists. Peter Alwast, Tom and politics, design, art and avant-garde cinema.
TAL ARTS Her recent research is focussed on political theory
Melick and Dr Toni Ross will discuss examples
of Australian and international contemporary art in contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on
TAL ARTS
that eschew overt political content and identity the currently influential thinking of aesthetics and
politics, while still engaging with The Politics of politics in the tradition of modern art developed
Aesthetics. by philosopher Jacques Rancière. Her current
research projects include a book on Rancière’s
Peter Alwast is a lecturer in the School of Art History refiguring of the politics of aesthetic modernity that
and Art Education at COFA. His conceptual practice includes cases studies of Australian and international
employs a range of media including video, computer contemporary art practices.
graphics, painting and drawing. Alwast’s video works
and drawings fold different modes and layers of
representation and invoke questions about institutions:
public space, private space, the spectator, new media
and painting. His varying approaches to media probe
the way space, both real and virtual, constructs ideas
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