Opening weekend program
Brook Andrew | Australia b.1970 | The Island V 2008 | Mixed media on Belgian linen, ed. 1/3 | 250 x 300 x 5cm | Purchased 2009 with funds from the Bequest of Grace Davies and Nell Davies through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation | Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Insights into the ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’ exhibition during the opening weekend are provided through a range of activities, including talks by exhibiting artists and curators, films and tours. Ongoing public programs, including talks, tours and discussions, situate the exhibition in a range of contemporary contexts.
Talks and tours
SATURDAY 18 DECEMBER 2010
11.30am | Artist talk | Brook Andrew
12.30pm | Artist talk | Fiona Hall
1.00pm | In-conversation | Céleste Boursier-Mougenot with Nicholas Chambers, Curator, Conetmporary International art
2.30pm | Artist talk | Isaac Julien
3.30pm | Artist talk | Arlo Mountford
SUNDAY 19 DECEMBER 2010
11.30am | Artist talk | Tony Albert
12.30pm | Curator's talk | Francis Parker, Curator, Contemporary Australian Art
1.30pm | Curator’s talk | Nicholas Chambers, Curator, Contemporary International Art
2.00pm | Curator’s talk | Bruce McLean, Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art
2.30pm | Exhibition tour | Kathryn Weir, Curatorial Manager, International Art and Australian Cinémathèque, and Nicholas Chambers, Curator, Contemporary International Art
Cinema
Over the opening weekend, the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque is screening two contemporary film and video programs: Swiss artist Ursula Biemann’s film essays exploring migration, mobility, technology and gender and two new films by Isaac Julien.
Sat 18 Dec | 3.00pm | Cinema A, GoMA | Sahara Chronicle: A Collection of Videos on Mobility and the Politics of Containment in the Sahara 2006—07 | Sahara Chronicle documents the present sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe | 76 MINUTES, DIRECTOR: URSULA BIEMANN
Sat 18 Dec | 4.30pm | Gallery 3.4, GoMA | The Leopard 2010 | The Leopard concerns journeys made across the seas of the Mediterranean, the journey and stories of the so-called “clandestini” (illegal immigrants) who leave Libya, escaping wars and famines | 20 MINUTES, DIRECTOR: ISAAC JULIEN
Sat 18 Dec | 4.30pm | Cinema A, GoMA | Better Life 2010 | Better Life explores desires and fantasies, examining the ambitions and dreams that drive people to risk everything for a ‘better life’ | 55 MINUTES, DIRECTOR: ISAAC JULIEN
Sun 19 Dec | 3.00pm | Cinema A | X-Mission 2008 | X-Mission explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest extra-territorial zones | 35 MINUTES, DIRECTOR: URSULA BIEMANN
Sun 19 Dec | 4.00pm | Cinema A | The Black Sea Files 2004–05 | Black Sea Files is a territorial research project on the Caspian oil geography: the world’s oldest oil extraction | 43 MINUTES, DIRECTOR: URSULA BIEMANN
