The Art Association of Australia & New Zealand [NSW Chapter] in association with the Art Gallery of NSW and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW present the 2005 Conference
Transforming Aesthetics

7-9 July 2005, Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.

Transforming Aesthetics explores the response of aesthetic theory to new forms of art and exhibition practice, emerging in relation to post-9/11 politics, globalisation, post-colonialism and the demise of Euro-centrism.

The entanglement of art with politics frequently prompts art theorists to import concepts from cultural/political theory. But art is not simply a field of application for theory; rather, concepts and theories may be understood to emerge from the visual. For this reason it is crucial to attend to the specifics of visual or aesthetic languages. New forms of political and post-colonial practice call for a new set of critical terms – for an expansion and re-evaluation of the field of aesthetic theory. Thus this conference maps the ongoing transformation of aesthetics.

Key Speakers

* Nicolas Bourriaud
* Ernst van Alphen
* Andrew Benjamin
* Jane Taylor
* Sean Cubitt

Registrations open now