Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
For this ‘Detours’ Event, The Common Guild presents a talk by Juliana Engberg, Artistic Director of ACCA, Melbourne.
Juliana has commissioned and curated numerous exhibitions, including: Pipilotti Rist: ‘I Packed the Postcard in My Suitcase’; Yael Bartana: ‘TRILOGY’; Nathan Coley ‘Appearances; Mortality’; Joseph Kosuth ‘Texts for Nothing’, Samuel Beckett in Play; Plenty Ought To Be Enough: Barbara Kruger and Richard Billingham: People Places Animals. In 1999 she was the Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed Melbourne International Biennial 1999 Signs of Life,
This talk takes place at The Trades Hall of Glasgow, designed by Robert Adam in 1791-94 and now – the medieval cathedral aside – the oldest building in Glasgow still in regular use for its original purpose.
This event is a collaboration with Glasgow School of Art and presented in association with VAGA (Visual Arts and Galleries Association).
Event Details
‘Detours’ is a series of talks introducing views from elsewhere by leaders in the visual arts. Speakers discuss the relationship between practice and context: how institutions and professional practice develop in response to specific situations, both geographic and cultural.
