Various Responses: Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065

Various Responses is an afternoon of talks and conversations coinciding with the finissage of Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065. The program includes presentations from artists, academics, curators and writers - including the artist’s contemporaries - which consider chronology, ontology, re-making and self-referencing in relation to Çerkez’s practice and contemporary art. The program is an opportunity to consider the artist’s complex body of conceptual work, the contexts within which he worked and to celebrate Çerkez’s legacy and influence.

1.00pm: Introduction and welcome, Elise Routledge, Curator, MUMA.

1.05–1.55pm: Exhibition walk through with Mutlu Çerkez’s contemporaries and exhibition advisory panellists, Michael Graf, Rose Nolan and Stephen Bram, including an introduction to a selection of works and histories.

2.00–3.00pm: Lecture and response: Dr Rex Butler (Professor Art History & Theory) and Helen Hughes (MUMA Curator Research).

3.05–3.25pm: Afternoon tea

3.30–4.45pm: Round Table Discussion including Damiano Bertoli, Marco Fusinato, Hannah Mathews, Nikos Papastergiades, Francis Plagne and Elise Routledge. Moderated by Dr Tara McDowell, Associate Professor and Director of Curatorial Practice, Monash University

*Title taken from Çerkez’s series Various Responses (2004)

A playlist for the finissage has been programmed by Francis Plagne

^{Image: Mutlu Çerkez, Untitled: 18 April 2013 2002, oil on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Contemporary Collection Benefactors 2003.}