Events

MUMA invites community groups and members of the public to engage in its program of events, including keynote lectures, workshops and forums, film and video screenings, performances, and floor talks by curators and artists. All are designed to expand critical debate and participation in the contemporary visual arts.

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Upcoming public events 2012

MUMA Talks: Mish Meijers and Tricky Walsh

Meijers + Walsh,
Time-ticker-follicle-plug 2010

MUMA Talks: Mish Meijers and Tricky Walsh


Join Hobart-based artists Mish Meijers and Tricky Walsh in conversation with curator Francis E Parker as they discuss The Collector 7: the Processor of Circumstance, part of the ongoing series of project exhibitions commissioned for the Merlyn Myer Gallery, the Monash University Museum of Art, and the latest instalment of their superfiction Henri Papin – the Collector.

Date: Tuesday 24 April
Time:12.30 – 1.30pm
Venue: Monash University Museum of Art

Free

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MUMA Talks: Luke Parker and Spiros Panigirakis

Narelle Jubelin, Vision in Motion
The University of Sydney, 2012 (work in progress)

MUMA Talks: Luke Parker and Spiros Panigirakis


Modernism, art, architecture and collaboration
Join guest curator Luke Parker and artist Spiros Panigirakis in the MUMA exhibition spaces as they discuss modernism, artistic collaboration and the Bauhausian ideal of integrating art and architecture, in the context of the current exhibition Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion.

Date: Saturday 12 May 2012
Time: 12.30 – 1.30pm
Venue: Monash University Museum of Art

Free

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Public Forum: Modernism, art and architecture

Narelle Jubelin, ECRU 1998 (detail)

Public Forum: Modernism, art and architecture


Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion teases out some of the historical and theoretical intersections underpinning contemporary art’s engagement with modernist architectural discourses. Join Vision in Motion guest curator Ann Stephen, who will discuss the exhibition, together with the legacy of modernism on art, architecture and design, with a guest panel including artist Callum Morton and architectural historian, theorist and critic Karen Burns.

Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012
Time: 5.30pm -7.30pm
Venue: Monash University Museum of Art

Free

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MUMA Talks: Kate Daw and Peg Fraser

Narelle Jubelin, BOX 1999(detail)

MUMA Talks: Kate Daw and Peg Fraser


Social history and needlepoint
Artist Kate Daw and Public Historian Peg Fraser will tease out ideas around ‘the subversive stitch’ and discuss the social and cultural history of needlepoint in relation to the MUMA exhibition Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion.

Date: Saturday 16 June 2012
Time: 12.30 – 1.30pm
Venue: Monash University Museum of Art

Free

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