Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?
Kelly Gellatly is an experienced arts leader, advocate, curator and writer. She has curated more than fifty exhibitions of the work of leading Australian and international artists and has published extensively on contemporary art, Australian modernism and photographic practice. She was director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, and has held curatorial positions at Heide Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Australia.
Bronwyn Johnson is a leading arts producer working across the visual and performing arts. She was executive director of CLIMARTE: Arts for a Safe Climate, directed and produced the CLIMARTE's 2019 ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE II festival and co-produced the 2017 and 2015 festivals. She was CEO and artistic director of the Melbourne Art Fair and MAF Foundation and produced and devised the outdoor performance programs for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts.
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
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Fri 27 June at 12:00PM
Four Seasons Hotel, 199 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Join Chris Hammer in conversation with ABC's Fran Kelly to discuss the updated edition of The River.
Thu 26 June at 6:00PM
Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053
Join us to hear Steve Vizard in conversation about Nation, Memory, Myth.
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Thu 10 July at 6:30PM
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