Keating’s work over the last decade has concerned itself with everyday issues: with waste as prod... more Keating’s work over the last decade has concerned itself with everyday issues: with waste as product, the economic-heavy goals of manufacturing, concepts around labour production, consumerism and social status, all embroiled in a kind of anthropomorphised ‘market’ discussed in the media ad nauseam, as though it were an endangered species undergoing constant emergency medical treatment.
This essay covers key video works by Ash Keating, selected for a survey exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia in Adelaide from 30 January – 15 February 2015.
21 artist-run initiatives (ARIs) around Victoria presented a simultaneous program of exh... more 21 artist-run initiatives (ARIs) around Victoria presented a simultaneous program of exhibitions, forums, performances and workshops designed to celebrate the diversity of this network and their contribution to Australian contemporary art. Making Space was collaboratively developed in 2007 by the Victoria Initiatives of Artists Network (VIA-n) and was initiated by the Australia Council and Arts Victoria. This publication collects documentation, interviews, histories and essays by those involved in the sector.
Din Heagney talked to the creative minds behind recent biennial events in Australia, the Biennale... more Din Heagney talked to the creative minds behind recent biennial events in Australia, the Biennale of Sydney, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the Experimenta Biennial of Media Art to elicit their thoughts on how experimental these events can be.
This project asks how blindness can inform art writing practice to bridge an experiential gap bet... more This project asks how blindness can inform art writing practice to bridge an experiential gap between sighted and non-sighted art audiences. Initially focussed on reducing cultural isolation and increasing inclusion in visual culture for people with low or no vision, this project later shifted into practice-led research. Based on the Vislan concept devised by Brisbane linguist Geoffrey Munck, the work is directly informed by the lived experience of blindness, and aims to translate visual objects and spaces to assist in comprehension. The context of project explores my own practice in art writing as a form of critique and ongoing learning. After experimenting with ekphrasis, didactics and visual literacy, the methodology settled on formal observation and dialogic learning. The outcomes of a pilot project, iC2, created text translations of public art works in Melbourne and a custom built website (vislan.net), made with the support of City of Melbourne Arts Projects. The pilot was presented at the Performing Mobilities symposium in 2015 and tested in public spaces with various participants on a walking tour, before being published online for testing. The full texts from the pilot project are included here as the creative component of this work. The final discussion suggests a generative language system as an adaptive tool for observing, verifying and writing about visual objects.
University of Melbourne Collections
Centre for Cultural Partnerships - Theses
Minerva Elements Records
Din Heagney talked to the creative minds behind recent biennial events in Australia, the Biennale... more Din Heagney talked to the creative minds behind recent biennial events in Australia, the Biennale of Sydney, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the Experimenta Biennial of Media Art to elicit their thoughts on how experimental these events can be.
We Are Here was a three-day symposium organised by the National Association for the Visual Arts (... more We Are Here was a three-day symposium organised by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) and First Draft in Sydney. Din was invited as a guest speaker, replying to the question posed: how do we measure success in artist-run practices...
PLACE MADE was the Fifth Australian Print Symposium held at the National Gallery of Australia, Ca... more PLACE MADE was the Fifth Australian Print Symposium held at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in April 2004. This paper focussed on street art and stencilling, an area with little academic research at the time, as an artistic and historical context to build a framework around the collection of Australian street artists. Presented in a panel with Andy Mac (Citylights/Until Never) and James Dodd. This panel helped build momentum for the national Space Invaders collection and exhibition of Australian street artists, launched at the NGA in 2010.
Keating’s work over the last decade has concerned itself with everyday issues: with waste as prod... more Keating’s work over the last decade has concerned itself with everyday issues: with waste as product, the economic-heavy goals of manufacturing, concepts around labour production, consumerism and social status, all embroiled in a kind of anthropomorphised ‘market’ discussed in the media ad nauseam, as though it were an endangered species undergoing constant emergency medical treatment.
This essay covers key video works by Ash Keating, selected for a survey exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia in Adelaide from 30 January – 15 February 2015.
21 artist-run initiatives (ARIs) around Victoria presented a simultaneous program of exh... more 21 artist-run initiatives (ARIs) around Victoria presented a simultaneous program of exhibitions, forums, performances and workshops designed to celebrate the diversity of this network and their contribution to Australian contemporary art. Making Space was collaboratively developed in 2007 by the Victoria Initiatives of Artists Network (VIA-n) and was initiated by the Australia Council and Arts Victoria. This publication collects documentation, interviews, histories and essays by those involved in the sector.
Din Heagney talked to the creative minds behind recent biennial events in Australia, the Biennale... more Din Heagney talked to the creative minds behind recent biennial events in Australia, the Biennale of Sydney, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the Experimenta Biennial of Media Art to elicit their thoughts on how experimental these events can be.
This project asks how blindness can inform art writing practice to bridge an experiential gap bet... more This project asks how blindness can inform art writing practice to bridge an experiential gap between sighted and non-sighted art audiences. Initially focussed on reducing cultural isolation and increasing inclusion in visual culture for people with low or no vision, this project later shifted into practice-led research. Based on the Vislan concept devised by Brisbane linguist Geoffrey Munck, the work is directly informed by the lived experience of blindness, and aims to translate visual objects and spaces to assist in comprehension. The context of project explores my own practice in art writing as a form of critique and ongoing learning. After experimenting with ekphrasis, didactics and visual literacy, the methodology settled on formal observation and dialogic learning. The outcomes of a pilot project, iC2, created text translations of public art works in Melbourne and a custom built website (vislan.net), made with the support of City of Melbourne Arts Projects. The pilot was presented at the Performing Mobilities symposium in 2015 and tested in public spaces with various participants on a walking tour, before being published online for testing. The full texts from the pilot project are included here as the creative component of this work. The final discussion suggests a generative language system as an adaptive tool for observing, verifying and writing about visual objects.
University of Melbourne Collections
Centre for Cultural Partnerships - Theses
Minerva Elements Records
Din Heagney talked to the creative minds behind recent biennial events in Australia, the Biennale... more Din Heagney talked to the creative minds behind recent biennial events in Australia, the Biennale of Sydney, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and the Experimenta Biennial of Media Art to elicit their thoughts on how experimental these events can be.
We Are Here was a three-day symposium organised by the National Association for the Visual Arts (... more We Are Here was a three-day symposium organised by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) and First Draft in Sydney. Din was invited as a guest speaker, replying to the question posed: how do we measure success in artist-run practices...
PLACE MADE was the Fifth Australian Print Symposium held at the National Gallery of Australia, Ca... more PLACE MADE was the Fifth Australian Print Symposium held at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in April 2004. This paper focussed on street art and stencilling, an area with little academic research at the time, as an artistic and historical context to build a framework around the collection of Australian street artists. Presented in a panel with Andy Mac (Citylights/Until Never) and James Dodd. This panel helped build momentum for the national Space Invaders collection and exhibition of Australian street artists, launched at the NGA in 2010.
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This essay covers key video works by Ash Keating, selected for a survey exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia in Adelaide from 30 January – 15 February 2015.
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University of Melbourne Collections
Centre for Cultural Partnerships - Theses
Minerva Elements Records
This essay covers key video works by Ash Keating, selected for a survey exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia in Adelaide from 30 January – 15 February 2015.
University of Melbourne Collections
Centre for Cultural Partnerships - Theses
Minerva Elements Records