PROGRAM OF EVENTS
Panel
Archives, collections & imagined histories
Thursday 2nd October: 9:30am - 11:00am
A discussion on the processes, techniques & eccentricities of the artistic archive & collections. The preservation of a local zine history, the fetishised curiosities of...
2020: Arbitrary figures & advocating real cultural change
Thursday 2nd October: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
In the afterglow of the 2020 Summit we look at what a new government can mean for the "creatives". Is the answer really in creativity...
Chick-lit: A Mr Darcy of One's Own
Thursday 2nd October: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Enter the hot-pink ghetto of Chick-lit. Is it a retrograde celebration of anti-feminist longing, urging girls to laugh off sexual politics & just, like, consume?...
Thursday 2nd October: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Editors - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. In this ninety minute truce, editors put down their red pens & writers shelve their...
Age, sex & the negotiation of selves
Friday 3rd October: 10:00am - 10:00am
A discussion about sexuality, gender performance, age & the experience of the self. With a specific focus on educational institutions, the academy, masochism, paralysis &...
Collectivity, collaboration & solitude
Friday 3rd October: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
A conversation about the various compositional tensions of collaboration & solitude. Artists discuss the nature of collaboration & talk about collectively composed works, as well...
Feminism, aesthetics & the body
Friday 3rd October: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Three artists engage in various nuances of feminist discourse: the woman in literature, postfeminism, queer verse, the comic woman, the female body, motherhood & the...
Friday 3rd October: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
I laughed so hard I almost wet myself; stop making me laugh it hurts; was it funny funny ha ha or just funny? What makes...
Sleeping with Strangers: Getting Close to your Characters
Friday 3rd October: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
For some authors, writing good characters means going to bed with, & waking up next to, the fictional people in your head. Novelists talk about...
Cottage Industries (Presented by AIR POCKET)
Friday 3rd October: 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Removing niche from last gasp business attempts & making it a natural by-product of passion, it's the indies that make music more interesting. But how?...JOIN IN
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