2023
Climate Aware Creative Practices Keynote Lecture
Thursday 23 February 2023, 5–7.30pm
Rivermouth: Exhibition Walkthrough and Discussion
Saturday 11 March 2023, 3–5pm
Book Sale & Bubble Tea
Wednesday 15 March 2023, 12–3pm
2022
Book Launch: Let's Go Outside: Art in Public
Friday 18 February 2022, 3.30–4pm
Vivienne Binns closing event: exhibition walkthrough, performance and discussion
Saturday 9 April 2022, 3–5pm
Melbourne Knowledge Week 2022: Collective Movements Film Screening
Wednesday 11 May 2022, 6–7pm
Collective Movements Film Screening
Wednesday 1 June 2022, 12.30pm
Shelley Lasica: WHEN I AM NOT THERE Closing Event and Celebration
Saturday 27 August 2022, 4–6pm
2022 Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History: Erika Wolf
Friday 2 December 2022, 6.30–8pm
Form x Content
Online, on-campus and on the Big Screen
Caulfield and Clayton Campuses
Various dates throughout Semesters 1 & 2
2021
Form x Content
Wednesdays 4, 11, 18, 25 August 2021
1, 8, 15, 22 September 2021
6 October 2021
MUMA Screens #4: Gabriella Hirst
Online screening
MUMA Screens #3: James Lynch and Dr Jennifer Windt in conversation
Online screening
2021 Margaret Plant Annual Lecture in Art History
Tuesday 7 September 2021, 6.30–8pm (AEST)
Live via Zoom
MUMA Screens #2: Charlie Sofo
Online screening
INFRACTIONS: Film screening and introduction by artist Rachel O’Reilly
Wednesday 10 March 2021, 2pm
Saturday 20 March 2021, 3pm
The Urban Forest: Ciaran Frame
Thursday 25 March 2021, 4pm, 5.30pm & 7pm
The Tree School
Thursday 11 – Tuesday 23 March 2021
2020
Precarious Movements: Conversations
Tuesday 20, 27 October & 3 November 2020, 8pm
Live online talks
Artist Talk: Adam Linder
Pre-recorded talk
Unsettling Scores
2, 16 & 30 September 2020
Screening: Hannah Brontë, Umma’s Tongue—Molten at 6000°, 2017
Wednesday 27 May – Thursday 16 July 2020, 9am–5pm
MADA Art Forum: A Constructed World
Friday 24 April 2020, pre-recorded talk
MADA Art Forum: Hayley Millar-Baker
Monday 27 April 2020, pre-recorded talk
MADA Art Forum: Samson Young
Friday 24 April 2020, pre-recorded talk
Sound Spaces: Closed Beginnings
Thursday 26 March 2020, 8–9pm via livestream
2019
MADA Art Forum: Adam Cruickshank
Wednesday 11 September 2019, 1–2pm
Two Readings from Olaf Nicolai & Jan Wenzel’s Four Times Through the Labyrinth
Wednesday 4 September 2019, 6pm
MADA Art Forum: Olaf Nicolai
Wednesday 4 September 2019, 1–2pm
Let’s Go Outside: Making Art Public (Symposium)
Friday 30 & Saturday 31 August 2019
MADA Art Forum: Ella Sutherland
Wednesday 31 July 2019, 1–2pm
Adam Cruickshank: Terms & Conditions
Various times during Bookworks, 2019
Finnisage, Screening and Talk: Anna Parlane, Shaping Young Minds: On Religion, Pedagogy and the Art of Michael Stevenson
Saturday 6 July 2019, 2.30–5pm
The Glen Eira Storytelling Festival: Film Screening—A Scanner Darkly
Saturday 6 July 2019, 2.30pm
The Glen Eira Storytelling Festival: Film Screening—Art School Confidential
Saturday 29 June 2019, 2.30pm
Lonnie Holley with Special Guests: I Snuck Off the Slave Ship
Sunday 2 June 2019, 5–8pm
Screening: Ernie Gehr's 16mm film Serene Velocity 1970
Wednesday 22 May 2019, 5.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Michael Stevenson
Wednesday 22 May 2019, 1–2pm
MADA Art Forum: Nicholas Tammens, Jef Geys and The School
Wednesday 17 April 2019, 1–2pm
Shapes of Knowledge Closing Party: Burgers, Beats & Live Radio Broadcast
Saturday 13 April 2019, 5–8pm
Pan African Space Station live broadcast from MUMA
Thursday 11 April 2019, 3–8pm
Friday 12 April 2019, 3–8pm
Saturday 13 April 2019, 12–5pm
Asia Art Archive: Workshop led by Anthony Yung, Senior Researcher
Thursday 4 April 2019, 10.30am–12pm
A Centre for Everything: Fossil Fuels & the Arts Roundtable
Wednesday 3 April 2019, 6.30–8pm
MADA Art Forum: Asia Art Archive, Art Schools from Asia (Part 2—China)
Wednesday 3 April 2019, 1–2pm
THREEFOLDparallelperformance: Space or Place?
Wednesday 27 March 2019, 6.30pm
MADA Art Forum: A Centre for Everything
Wednesday 27 March 2019, 1–2pm
Roundtable: Lucas Ihlein and guests, Soil and the Carbon Economy
Saturday 23 March 2019, 2–4pm
THREEFOLDparallelperformance: Fictitious Commodity?
Wednesday 20 March 2019, 6.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Lucas Ihlein
Wednesday 20 March 2019, 1–2pm
MADA Art Forum: Asia Art Archive, Art Schools from Asia (Part 1—Japan)
Wednesday 13 March 2019, 1–2pm
Lucas Ihlein: Soil Sampling Field Trip
Saturday 9 March 2019, 10am–4pm
THREEFOLDparallelperformance: Where is the University?
Wednesday 6 March 2019, 6.30pm
Alex Martinis Roe: Our Future Network Salon
Saturday 16 March 2019, 2–4pm
MADA Art Forum: The Mulka Project
Wednesday 6 March 2019, 1–2pm
Performance: Kym Maxwell, Objects are a Limbic System Embrace the Logic
Saturday 23 February 2019, 2pm
Live Demonstration: Lucas Ihlein, Soil Carbon Testing with the Yeomans Carbon Still
Tuesday 12 & Wednesday 13 February 2019, 10am–3pm
Thursday 7 & Friday 8 March 2019, 10am–3pm
Thursday 21 & Friday 22 March 2019, 10am–3pm
A Centre for Everything: Coal as Ice
Saturday 9 February 2019, 3–5pm
Wednesday 27 February 2019, 12–1.30pm
Book Launch: Annette Krauss, Unlearning Exercises
Wednesday 6 February 2019, 6–8pm
Sound Spaces: France Jobin and Heinz Riegler
Saturday 2 February 2019, 3pm
Bookworks Closing Event
Saturday 21 September 2019, 3–5pm
MADA Art Forum: Mariana Castillo Deball
Wednesday 25 September 2019, 1–2pm
In Conversation with Marion Verboom
Monday 25 November 2019, 6–7.30pm
Book Launch: Permanent Recession—A Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance
Thursday 28 November 2019, 3–5pm
Sound Spaces: MSHR
Saturday 30 November 2019, 3–5pm
2018
Finissage event: Pip Wallis: ‘Affinity in the State of Emergence’ | Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival
Saturday 15 December 2018, 2.30–5pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Gabi Ngcobo: Working with the unknown
Sunday 9 December 2018, 2.30–4pm
Sound Spaces: Aftermath: a dawn happening by the Australian Art Orchestra
Sunday 11 November 2018, starting at dawn, 6.04am; concluding at 11:11am
Boiler Room Lecture: Lili Reynaud-Dewar: TEETH, GUMS, MACHINES, FUTURES, SOCIETY
Monday 8 October 2018, 6–7.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Alicia Frankovich
Wednesday 3 October 2018, 1–2pm
Fiona Macdonald: FILM PERFORMANCE (Act 3) 2018
Thursday 27 September 2018, 6pm
Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques
Thursday 20 September 2018, 6.30pm
Focus Points: an evening of films in conjunction with Robert Smithson: Time Crystals
Wednesday 19 September 2018, 6pm
MADA Art Forum: Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques
Wednesday 19 September 2018, 1–2pm
Crystal Constructs: an evening of films in conjunction with Robert Smithson: Time Crystals
Wednesday 5 September 2018, 6pm
MADA Art Forum: Amelia Barikin and Chris McAuliffe: Robert Smithson: Time Crystals
Wednesday 29 August 2018, 1–2pm
Symposium: Robert Smithson: A Crystalline World
Saturday 25 August 2018, 1–6pm
Against Entropy: an evening of films in conjunction with Robert Smithson: Time Crystals
Wednesday 22 August 2018, 6pm
WinterFest 2018: Sci-Fi Movie night
Wednesday 15 August 2018, 5.30–10.30 pm
Sound Spaces: Beatriz Ferreyra
Saturday 11 August 2018, 3pm
Monash Open Day: Caulfield Campus
Sunday 5 August 2018, 10am–4pm
Sound Spaces: Ensemble Offspring: Game On
Saturday 21 July 2018, 3pm
The Gender Diversity in Music Making Conference
Friday 6 & Saturday 7 July 2018
Sunday 8 July 2018
Boiler Room Lecture: Walking on Bones, Empowering Memory: Brook Andrew and guests
Tuesday 26 June 2018, 6–8pm
Sound Spaces: Erik Bünger and Aodhan Madden
Saturday 30 June 2018, 3–5pm
Various Responses: Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065
Saturday 14 April 2018, 1–5pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Amelia Jones: Essentialism, Feminism, and Art
Tuesday 20 March 2018, 6–7.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Michael Graf & Francis Plagne in conversation: Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065
Tuesday 13 March 2018, 1–2pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Samson Young: extreme loudness over a long distance
Thursday 8 March 2018, 6pm–8pm
Sound Spaces: Breadwoman Variations: Anna Homler & Special Guests Lilian Steiner and Samuel Karmel
Sunday 28 January 2018, 6–9pm
2017
Boiler Room Lecture: Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley
Wednesday 13 December 2017, 6–7.30pm
Screening Program: Nathaniel Mellors, Ourhouse (2010- )
Every Tuesday and Saturday, from 21 November until 16 December 2017
Sound Spaces: Chloe Alison Escott with Makiko Yamamoto vs. Magic Steven
Saturday 18 November 2017, 3–5pm
Sound Spaces: Australian Art Orchestra: ELECTRO acoustic
Sunday 5 November 2017, 3–5pm
The Humours: Special floor talk
Sunday 22 October 2017, 11am–12pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Ayoung Kim – Porous, Perplex, Plastic
Monday 9 October 2017, 6–7.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Barbara Cleveland (Frances Barrett)
Wednesday 20 September 2017, 1–2pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Kitty Scott – Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful world, where are you?
Tuesday 26 September 2017, 6–7.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Rose Nolan in conversation with Charlotte Day
Wednesday 13 September 2017, 1–2pm
Sound Spaces: Félicia Atkinson [FR] and Gail Priest
Saturday 5 August 2017, 3pm
WRITING & CONCEPTS: Yhonnie Scarce - Product of his Majesty
Thursday 6 July 2017, 6pm
Sound Spaces with Room40: Klara Lewis with guests Jessica Ekomane and Jasmine Guffond
Saturday 24 June 2017, 3pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Ritual intimacy
Thursday 18 May 2017, 6–7.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Christian Thompson
Thursday 4 May 2017, 1–2pm
Dance Remains
Various dates, 2017
Bus Tour to Wil-im-ee Moor-ing (Mount William greenstone quarry, Lancefield)
Saturday 11 March 2017, 10am–5pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Mami Kataoka
Wednesday 1 March 2017, 6–7.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in time
Wednesday 1 March 2017, 1–2pm
MADA Fine Art Postgraduate Symposium Closing Keynote: Raimundas Malašauskas – What spills
Thursday 16 February 2017, 6.30–7.30pm
MADA Fine Art Postgraduate Symposium Opening Keynote: Agatha Gothe-Snape
Thursday 16 February 2017, 9.15–10.15am
In conversation: Open Spatial Workshop with Matt Poll
Saturday 11 February 2017, 2–3pm
2016
Boiler Room Lecture: Turn! Turn! Turn! Reconsidering Art as Historiography, Dieter Roelstraete
Thursday 15 December 2016, 6–7.30pm
Judy Watson and Kimberley Moulton in Conversation
Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11am–12noon
Sound Spaces: Signal
Saturday 5 November 2016, 3pm
Boiler Room Lecture: The Artist as Quarry, Tirdad Zolghadr
Thursday 3 November 2016, 6–7.30pm
MUMA Artists & Thinkers Talk: Tamsin Green and Leslie Eastman
Tuesday 18 October 2016, 1–1.45pm
Under the Wire
Thursday 13 – Saturday 15 October 2016, 7.30pm
Sound Spaces: Rob Thorne
Saturday 8 October 2016, 2pm
Screening: DDR/DDR by Amie Siegel
Monday 26 September 2016, 6pm
MADA Art Forum: Gerard Byrne
Thursday 22 September 2016, 1–2pm
Screening: Blind Matter – Artists on the Economy of Images, curated by George Clark
Sunday 7, 13, 20 & 27 August 2016
Saturday 3, 10 & 17 September 2016
Wednesday 14 September 2016
MADA Art Forum: Nicholas Mangan
Thursday 11 August 2016, 1–2pm
Open Day 2016
Sunday 7 August 2016, 10–4pm
MUMA Artists & Thinkers Talk: Nicholas Mangan & George Clark
Tuesday 2 August 2016, 1–1.45pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Felicity D. Scott: Outlaw Territories
Wednesday 29 June 2016, 6–7.30pm
Sound Spaces with Room40: John Chantler with guest Andrew Tuttle
Saturday 18 June 2016, 3pm
Borders, Barriers, Walls: Panel Discussion
Wednesday 18 May 2016, 6–7.30pm
Borders, Barriers, Walls: Reading Group
Wednesday 11 & 25 May 2016, 5.30pm
The Least of the Doorkeepers (It is Possible but Not at the Moment)
Wednesday 4 May 2016, 6–8pm
MADA Artforum: Judy Watson
Wednesday 4 May 2016, 1pm
MUMA Artists & Thinkers Talks: Karen Black
Tuesday 3 May 2016, 1–2pm
Sound Spaces with Room40: Norman Westberg with guest Bonnie Mercer
Saturday 16 April 2016
Rebecca Baumann: Improvised Smoke Device
Monday 21 March 2016, 7.20pm
Boiler Room Lecture: André Lepecki
Monday 21 March 2016, 6–7.30pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Céline Condorelli
Thursday 10 March 2016, 6–7.30pm
Hippy Hippy Shake: Minna Gilligan’s Fabulous Fashion Workshop for Kids
Saturday 5 March 2016, 10.30am–1pm
Creative Collaborations: Francis Upritchard and Karl Fritsch in conversation
Saturday 13 February 2016, 2–3pm
2015
Boiler Room Lecture: Stephanie Rosenthal
Wednesday 9 December 2015, 6:30–7.30pm
Sound Spaces: Australian Art Orchestra: Martin Ng and Austin Buckett present RELAY
Saturday 24 October 2015, 3pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Slavs and Tatars
Thursday 22 October 2015, 6–7.30pm
Sound Spaces with Liquid Architecture: TX/RX
Saturday 17 October 2015, 3pm
Generational gestures: contemporary artists and their fathers
Saturday 5 September 2015, 2–4pm
Sound Spaces: Eugene Carchesio and Ross Manning
Saturday 22 August 2015, 3–5pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Jalal Toufic
Tuesday 11 August 2015, 6–7.30pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Raqs Media Collective
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 6–7.30pm
Spectral Stories: A Melbourne Spiritualist’s carte-de-visite album
Saturday 13 June 2015, 2–3.30pm
Spectral Stories
Saturday 13 June 2015, 2–3.30pm
Sound Spaces: Rorschach Audio / Disinformation
Thursday 4 June 2015, 6:30-8pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Ryan Gander
Tuesday 2 June 2015, 6–7.30pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Charles Esche
Friday 22 May 2015, 6.30–8pm
MUMA Artists & Thinkers Talks: Anita La Pietra and Bryan Spier
Saturday 2 May, 2–3pm
MUMA Artists & Thinkers Talks: Kathy Barry and Dr Jan Bryant
Tuesday 21 April 2015, 12.30–1.30pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Matt Mullican
Monday 20 April 2015, 6–7.30pm
MADA Artforum: Sanné Mestrom
Wednesday 25 March 2015, 12.30pm
Sound Spaces: Peter Knight & Vanessa Tomlinson
Saturday 14 March 2015, 3–5pm
Justene Williams: Hypnofantasy Workshop
Wednesday 4 March 2015, 6–7.30pm
MADA Artforum: Justene Williams
Wednesday 4 March 2015, 12.30pm
Appreciation vs. Appropriation: Is Everything up for Grabs in Fashion?
Saturday 28 February 2015, 2–3.30pm
Curtain Couture: Children's Fashion Workshop with Justene Williams
Saturday 21 February 2015, 10.30am–1.30pm
2014
Boiler Room Lecture: Claire Bishop
Wednesday 17 December 2014
Boiler Room Lecture: Nathaniel Mellors
Thursday 23 October 2014, 6–7.30PM
Doing Things With Art: Performances and Readings
Saturday 11 October 2014, 2–4pm
Rooms for Thought: Radical Uses of Museum Collections Symposium
Friday 12 September 2014, 6–7.30pm
Book launch: Nanni Balestrini Vogliamo Tutto
Thursday 28 August 2014, 6pm
MADA Art Forum: Masato Takasaka & Dr Jan Bryant
Tuesday 19 August 2014, 12.30–1.30pm
David Grubbs
Thursday 14 August 2014, 7.30–9pm
Boiler Room Lecture: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Monday 11 August 2014, 3–4.15pm
MADA Art Forum: Nikki Kalms & Helen Johnson
Tuesday 5 August 2014, 12.30–1.30pm
Monash University Open Day: Nick Selenitsch 'Training'
Sunday 3 August 2014, 10am–4pm
Book Reading and Discussion: Andrea Goldsmith and Kathy Temin: Monuments, Memorial Sites and Memory
Saturday 21 June 2014, 2–3.30pm
Maria Tumarkin and Geraldine Barlow in conversation: The Geography of Trauma
Tuesday 17 June 2014, 12.30–1.30pm
Panel Discussion: Concrete
Wednesday 11 June 2014
MADA Art Forum: Fiona Connor
Wednesday 28 May 2014, 12.30–1.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Saskia Doherty and Tom Nicholson
Tuesday 27 May 2014, 12.30pm
MADA Art Forum: Callum Morton & Nicholas Mangan
Tuesday 13 May 2014, 12.30–1.15pm
Stuart Ringholt in conversation with Charlotte Day
Wednesday 9 April 2014, 12.30–1.30pm
Naturist Tour with Stuart Ringholt
Wednesday 2 April 2014, 5.30–7.30pm
Imagining Chanel
Wednesday 26 March 2014, 6.30pm / 7.30pm / 8.30pm sessions
Reveal/Conceal
Saturday 15 March 2014, 2–3pm
Boiler Room Series: Lars Bang Larsen
Monday 3 March 2014, 6–7.30pm
Club Purple
14 February – 17 April 2014
Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5pm daily
2013
Weave Jam
Saturday 16 November 2013, 1–3pm
Boiler Room Series: Juan A. Gaitán
Wednesday 6 November 2013, 6–7.30pm
Found Sound: Joyce Hinterding and Lawrence English
Saturday 26 October 2013, 3pm
Found Sound: LOUD+SOFT and Sarah Byrne
Saturday 19 October 2013, 3pm
Found Sound: "is" and Improvisation
Saturday 12 October 2013, 3pm
Artists in Conversation: Sanne Mestrom & George Egerton-Warburton
Tuesday 27 August 2013, 12.30–1.30pm
Boiler Room Series: Biljana Ciric
Tuesday 13 August 2013, 5.30–7pm
Artists in Conversation: Nicholas Mangan
Tuesday 13 August 2013, 12.30–1.30pm
National Science Week Lecture: Richard Gillespie
Saturday 10 August 2013, 2–3pm
Boiler Room Series: Simon Starling
Thursday 18 July 2013, 5.30–7pm
Party, Food, Politics
Saturday 6 July 2013, 5–8pm
Artist Talk: John Miller
Saturday 6 July 2013, 2–3pm
The House: Plein Air Drawing Workshop
Saturday 8 June 2013, 1–4.30pm
Forum: Real Democracy Australia
Tuesday 4 June 2013, 5.30–7.30pm
Forum: Disobedience
Wednesday 22 May 2013, 5.30–7.30pm
Roundtable: Alternative Education
Saturday 11 May 2013, 2–4pm
DAMP: Collaborative Drawing
Saturdays 27 April, 25 May and 22 June 2013, 2–4pm
Roundtable: Mapping South
Wednesday 10 April 2013, 10.30–12pm
Boiler Room Series: Richard Bell
Friday 15 March 2013, 5.30–7pm
2012
Seniors’ Week Event: Between Fact and Fiction, History and Mythology: the Writing of a Gallipoli Story
Wednesday 10 October 2012, 10am–11.30am
Symposium: Paul Taylor
Saturday 1 September 2012, 9.30am–5.30pm
Lecture: John C. Welchman on Mike Kelley
Wednesday 22 August 2012, 10am–12noon
Forum: The Archive and the Limits of Representation
Tuesday 14 August 2012, 5.30–7pm
MUMA Talks: Kate Daw and Peg Fraser
Saturday 16 June 2012, 12.30–1.30pm
Public Forum: Modernism, art and architecture
Wednesday 23 May 2012, 5.30pm–7.30pm
MUMA Talks: Luke Parker and Spiros Panigirakis
Saturday 12 May 2012, 12.30–1.30pm
MUMA Talks: Mish Meijers and Tricky Walsh
Tuesday 24 April 2012, 12.30–1.30pm
Public Lecture: Ute Meta Bauer
Wednesday 21 March 2012, 6–7.30pm
Public Lecture: Jan Verwoert
Tuesday 6 March, 6–7.30pm
Casting Workshop with Claire Lambe
Saturday 3 March 2012, 1.30–4.30pm
2011
The Gift: Redaction and Decontamination
Saturday 23 July 2011, 3.30–4.30pm
Bodily Algorithms
Monday 4 April 2011, 3–6pm
Punkasila Forum
Tuesday 17 May 2011, 6–7.30pm
Punkasila Live at Ding Dong Lounge
Thursday 5 May 2011, 8pm
Public Discussion: Networks (cells & silos)
Wednesday 16 March 2011, 5–6.30pm
2010
Keynote Lecture: Robert Storr
Friday 6 August 2010, 10am
Keynote Lecture: Bill Henson
Monday 2 August 2010, 6pm–7.30pm
MUMA Housewarming
Saturday 6 November 2010, 2pm