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Audio Archive

Khaled Sabsabi speaks. The Lebanese-born Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi joins The Art Show exclusively to talk about the profound impact of the decision to unceremoniously dump him as Australia’s representative artist to the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Kwatja Etathaka / Living Water, Curator Marisa Maher and artists Vanessa Inkamala and Kathy Inkamala

Conversation: Dr Catriona Moore, art historian, with Neale Towart, Trades Hall Librarian and historian and artists Alison Alder and Fiona MacDonald.
At Sydney Trades Hall, Wednesday 26 March at 1pm.

Opening talk of The Ancestral Tide by Howard Morphy (Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and founding Director of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University. Audio recording by Iain Wilson.

Opening Conversation: Maureen Nampijinpa O’Keefe (poet and convenor of Running Water Community Press, Mparntwe/Alice Springs), Valerie Nakamarra Nelson (artist), Harry Price (Arlpwe Art and Culture Centre, Ali Curung) and Alex Vaughan (Arid Lands Environment Centre, Mparntwe/Alice Springs)

Conversation: Artists Jack Green and Alana Hunt interview with Saar Amptmeijer, 18 May 2024.

‘Censorship and Dissent: Human rights law in public arts institutions—does it exist?’ with speakers Dr Randa Abdel Fattah (Palestinian Australian sociologist and author), Dr Paula Abood (writer, educator, community cultural organiser), Emeritus Professor Andrea Durbach (Former director of the Australian Human Rights Centre (now Institute) UNSW Law, member of the advisory committee of the Australian Human Rights Institute and Jewish Council of Australia), Lux Eterna(Palestinian Australian interdisciplinary artist and educator), in conversation with Alissar Chidiac(creative producer, community arts worker).

Conversation: ‘HEAT’, 9 March 2024, The Cross Art Projects: A look at contested, sometimes controversial spaces in relation to Indigenous identity, queerness and the archive. With Myles Russell-Cook (Senior Curator, Australian and First Nations Art, NGV), Tristen Harwood (Indigenous writer, cultural critic and researcher) and Jane Clark (Senior Research Curator, MONA), in conversation with Gary Lee and Maurice O’Riordan.

Louise Loh, Savour Labour. 2021

Conversation: Angelina Karadada Boona and Betty Bundamurra from Kira Kiro Artists in Kalumburu with Emilia Galatis, co-curator, Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley, Art Gallery WA, 2019

Charles Perkins Memorial Oration: Marion Scrymgour – whose national emergency?

Judith White speaking at the launch of her book ‘Culture Heist: Art Versus Money’

Dr Seán Kerins, Saturday 29 October 2016

Interview with Jacky Green by Miriam Charlie, 2016

Mabel Juli ‘Birds’, 2015

Dr Maura Reilly: Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating – 24 October 2014

Aboriginal Art Centre Movement – 27 October 2012

Art in the Expanded Field – 27 August 2011

Deborah Kelly, ‘Whistling Woman and Crowing Hen, 2008-2012’, performance reading – August 2011

Interview with Mini Graff and Jason Wing – 9 March 2011