This forum will explore fear and violence in art, and will involve artists whose practices harness supposedly ‘negative’ behaviours and customs. How can art shake us out of our comfort zone? How do artists negotiate the line between challenging audiences and alienating them?
Supporters: Ian Potter Foundation, 1000 £ Bend.
About the artist/s:
Speakers:
Justin Clemens teaches at Melbourne University and has written extensively on contemporary Australian art and contemporary European philosophy. He is the author of several books of poetry and fiction, including Villain (Hunter Publishing 2009) and The Mundiad (Blackinc 2004). With Christopher Dodds and Adam Nash, he is the creator of two virtual artworks, Autoscopia (2009) and Babelswarm (2008). He is also the co-editor of The Jacqueline Rose Reader (Duke 2011) with Ben Naparstek, Alain Badiou: Key Concepts (Acumen 2010) with A.J. Bartlett, and The Work of Giorgio Agamben (Edinburgh UP 2008) with Nicholas Heron and Alexander Murray.
As part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne-based visual artist Laura Delaney has installed a site-specific work, I’m Fine, at Orygen Youth Health – a centre that provides mental health assessment and treatment services for young adults. Using content from medication instructions, health-related brochures and collective experiences of mental illness, I’m Fine addresses what it means to function in a society that makes little allowance for illness. Delaney’s work has shifted over the past four years, between painting, installation, sculpture and collage, while her core focus has remained steadfast in a dark celebration of human limit.
2010 Next Wave Festival artist Jackson Castiglione is a deviser and performer working in live and screen-based mediums. He has studied theatre arts at Curtin University (Perth), physical theatre with John Bolton (Melbourne) and producing for Film and Television at the VCA (Melbourne). He has been a core member of pvi collective since 2001 and has also devised, performed and produced live comedies. He is currently co-creator and performer of the web-series PrisonPals, selected for the ‘stitch’ comedy development initiative by Film Victoria and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Dr Pete Lentini (BA, Rhode Island; PhD, Glasgow) is Director and Co-Founder of the Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC), Monash University. He has edited Elections and Political Order in Russia (1995), co-edited Regional Security in the Asia Pacific: 9/11 and After (2004), published book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and edited collections on terrorism and extremism, cultural and subcultural politics, and Russian politics. Lentini has been presented with awards and commendations from Monash University and has lectured at Birmingham University and the Central European University (Prague Campus). He is currently involved in a four-year study of radicalization in Australia funded by the Australian Research Council.
