March 2020
The Future of Fire
The Future of Fire IPCS Projects for Coexistence: The Future of Food Please join us for the first in a series of four panel discussions associated with a new IPCS research project, the Future of Food. In this discussion experienced…
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Itemise the past / Dream the future
Itemise the past / Dream the future Public space and territories of practice in Yogyakarta and Timor-Leste Join Bayu, Fitri DK (SURVIVE! Garage), Alfe RM, Chris and Fikaris (Animatism) in conversation as they reflect on their practice, the restyling of urban subjectivities,…
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Food, Water and Community
Food, Water and Community: A critical case study of the north-west Join us for our final public event for 2019. Please note the special time for the event. The north-west region of Victoria is one of Australia’s major food bowls. In…
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Anak Araw | AFW+IPCS Film Screening
ANAK ARAW (Albino), directed by Gym Lumbera, Philippines, 2012, 63 minutes. Ának Araw follows a Filipino albino who, believing he is of American descent, teaches himself English using a dictionary. Set in the 1950s, the film integrates original celluloid footage with…
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Creative Disasters
Creative Disasters What roles for artists in the coming disaster? The number of “natural” disasters are increasing globally. Yet, disaster research is often trapped in a reductive paradigm couched in paternalistic and technocratic language of “solutions”, which are complicit with…
Find out more »Staying with Antigone
Staying with Antigone Disobedience, morality and art in an unjust world Antigone is the protagonist of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, paying with her life the choice of rebelling against an ethically inadmissible law. Her tragedy highlights the question of disobedience when…
Find out more »Writing to Cross
Writing to Cross A workshop on migration and multilingualism in writing Ubah Cristina Ali Farah was born in Italy to a Somali father and an Italian mother, grew up in Mogadishu, and currently lives in Brussels. She is a writer, performer,…
Find out more »Postdevelopment in practice
Postdevelopment in practice 25 years ago postdevelopment critique destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and aims, but it has been necessary to push beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice. Join our panel Elise Klein (Uni. Melbourne), Katharine McKinnon…
Find out more »Big Boy
B i g B o y (2012, 89 min) Film Screening Artist Film Workshop + Institute of Postcolonial Studies 78-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne Friday 11 October 2019, 7.30 pm - cost $5 Filmmaker Shireen Seno will join Audrey Lam (AFW) and Camila Marambio via Skype…
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Contempt
Contempt, A Theatrical Rendition of the Section 377 Hearings Performed by Ade Suharto, Adil Hasan Khan, Danish Sheikh, Darshan Datar, Divya Patpatia, Johanna Commins and Tarun Khaitan Over a period of two months in 2012, the Supreme Court of India…
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