As Australia considers the implications of Truth-telling and a proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, join us for this special symposium reflecting on the power of art to interrogate this nation’s troubled history, to stimulate our national consciousness in resolving current challenges and creating equitable futures. Through in-person and hybrid-presentation panels we explore the role of art in activism, caring for Country, and unpack how art contributes to the action of Truth-telling.

The Out of the Everywhen symposium is a free program responding to the works, ideas and challenge contained in the exhibition of the same name at the Plimsoll Gallery.

Session 1: Right Here Right Now: In Conversation

Please note: This event is sold seperately via Plimsoll Gallery

Friday 5 May 2023
5pm  
Plimsoll Gallery (37 Hunter Street, Hobart)

Right Here Right Now: In Conversation – In-gallery informal conversation with Right Here Right Now artists and Rachael Rose

Theme: Remembering 1988, and Art Activism Now

Right Here Right Now artists will share their recollections of the Bicentenary and the rise of the art collectives which were a potent heart of social activism.

Artists Julie Shiels, Marie McMahon, Marla Guppy, Alice Hinton-Bateup, Sue Anderson, Toni Roberston and Steve Fox will be in conversation with curator Rachael Rose. They will be delving into their individual creative practice during the 1980’s and discuss their trajectories in the 35 years since.

Session 2: Right then and now: Print media and activism

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Saturday 6 May 2023
10am   
Ian Potter Recital Hall (19-27 Campbell St, Hobart)

A look into the thriving ecology of print media organisations in the 1970s and 1980s and its intersections with a growing political and social activism through networks of art cooperatives, exhibitions, protests, critical writing, and art practices that led to the Right Here Right Now – Australia 1988 exhibition.

• Dr Lee-Anne Hall
• Alison Alder
• Dr Ron Radford AM
• Julie Ewington
• Moderator: Professor Kate Darian-Smith

Session 3: Art caring for Country

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Saturday 6 May 2023
12pm
Ian Potter Recital Hall (19-27 Campbell St, Hobart)

How do artists refocus our gaze from ‘landscape’ towards land? Join us for this panel discussion to explore the role of art, writing, and research, in environmental activism and caring for Country.

• Raymond Arnold
• Mandy Quadrio
• Dr Tyson Yunkaporta
• Moderator: Dr Toby Juliff

Session 4: Truth-telling: Voices for the Future

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Saturday 6 May 2023
2:15pm
Ian Potter Recital Hall (19-27 Campbell St, Hobart)

In the leadup to the referendum for a Voice to Parliament, we unpack what is truth-telling? And what does a future in Australia where a treaty is possible looks like? Join us for this panel on how art, art history, and law-making navigate the complexities of truth-telling and share ways in which we can work towards a more just and equitable society.
 

• Chips Mackinolty
• Professor Greg Lehman
• Kait James
• Karla Dickens
• Moderator: Emeritus Professor Kate Warner