Kirsten Reese
Berlin-based German composer and sound artist
Kirsten Reese creates experimental music for
electronics and instruments, audiovisual
installations, and performative works with
electronic media. She will present some of her
recent work, including Hallenfelder, an
audio-video installation incorporating
state-of-the-art wave field synthesis
spatialisation technology, as well as works for
mobile loudspeakers in environmental settings.
Reese is a visiting artist in Photography and
Media Arts.

Silvia Levenson
Argentine-born Silvia Levenson lives in Italy,
where she has forged an international reputation.
Her pastel cast glass works explore the uneasy
currents at work in childhood memory and domestic
life. In 2004 she won the prestigious Rakow
commission, initiated by the Corning Museum to
sponsor innovative work from major glass artists.
Levenson is a visiting artist in the Glass Workshop.

Julie Gough
Julie Gough’s art practice draws on her Tasmanian
Aboriginal heritage and her diverse experience as
a ranger and curator to engage with conflicting
and subsumed histories. Gough is currently on
leave from her lectureship in Visual Arts at James
Cook University in Townsville, undertaking an
Australia Council Visual Arts Board Fellowship.

Dr Damian Skinner
Dr Damian Skinner is a curator and art historian
based in Gisborne, New Zealand. His research
interests include modernism and cross-cultural
contact in the visual arts, and questions of
identity in settler countries. He has written
about a number of contemporary jewellers in
Aotearoa. His exhibition, 1839 Exchanges:
Jewellery by Jason Hall, is currently being shown
at Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre.

Dr Frazer Ward
Note venue: Fairfax Lecture Theatre
National Gallery of Australia

The author of a major book on Vito Acconci, Frazer
Ward’s lecture will focus on the role and
persistence of performance in contemporary art. Dr
Ward, who lectures in the Art History Department
at Smith College, Massachusetts, is visiting
Australia to participate in the Performance Space
symposium to mark the end of Barbara Campbell’s
durational web-based performance 1001 nights cast.

Floortalk: Vivienne Binns
Note venue: Drill Hall Gallery

Vivienne Binns has been at the forefront of
contemporary art practices since the 1960s, making
a substantial contribution to the feminist art
movement and to community arts in Australia in the
1970s. Her more recent work has concentrated on
easel painting. Binns teaches in the Painting
Workshop of the ANU School of Art and will speak
about her first major survey exhibition, curated
by Merryn Gates.

John Reid
John Reid is the Co-ordinator of the Environment
Studio of the ANU School of Art. He was recently
awarded an ARC Linkage Grant for his project
Engaging Visions, which investigates ways to bring
artists together with regional communities to help
explore environmental issues.

Jude Rae
Jude Rae explores traditional painting practices
in a contemporary context. She has said of her
work that she “thinks of painting as a series of
material experiments with tradition and
perception”. Her portrait Large Interior (Micky
Allan) won the Portia Geach Memorial Award in
2005. She has exhibited widely in Australia and
New Zealand and is currently a visiting artist in
the Painting Workshop.

Elisabeth Holder
Elisabeth Holder has a long and distinguished
career as a contemporary jeweller and designer.
She has exhibited widely in Europe, the United
Kingdom and the US and is currently professor of
jewellery design in the department of design at
the Fachhochschule Dusseldorf. She is a visiting
artist in the Gold and Silver Workshop.

Floortalk: Stephen Procter: Lines through Light
Note venue: Canberra Museum and Gallery

The late Stephen Procter was a major figure in the
international contemporary glass world and the
Head of the Glass Workshop at ANU School of Art
from 1992 to 2001. This is the first major
retrospective of his work, much of which is drawn
from his own collection. The exhibition also
features a significant body of paintings and
prints, which he made over his lifetime.