MUMA Talks: Luke Parker and Spiros Panigirakis

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.

Luke Parker is an artist and curator and guest curator (with Ann Stephen) of Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion. In 2010 he co-curated, with Ann Stephen, Kent State: four decades later, for the University Art Gallery, and he has curated two exhibitions for Penrith Regional Gallery & the Lewers Bequest. In 2008 he collaborated with Jubelin on the installation superimpositions, Mori Gallery, Sydney. His work has been included in exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, and Campbelltown Arts Centre. He is the Exhibitions Officer, Sydney University Museums.

Spiros Panigirakis is a Melbourne-based artist and educator. In 2011 he completed a practice-driven PhD in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University. Entitled Studio Conditions, the research was a site-driven art project that explored how institutional structures and subjective identities frame one another. As a visual artist Panigirakis works with groups in both a curatorial and collaborative capacity. He is interested in how presentational devices, furniture and organisational frameworks influence the construction of meaning, form and sociability. He is represented by Sarah Scout, Melbourne.

^{Image: Narelle Jubelin, BOX, 1999 (detail). Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1946–51. Photo: Anna McMahon}