Art Association of Australia & New Zealand 2017 conference:
Art and Its Directions

The conference committee is now inviting proposals for papers for our 2017 conference.
Please see the website for the full list of sessions.

About the Conference
This year’s conference theme Art and its Directions is broadly conceived against the backdrop of debates relating to national sovereignty and globalisation. Rather than purely a focus on politically based art in this context, we turn to the question of directions in art, where directions refer both to geography and chronology. The aim is to investigate artistic production and exchange in relation to the geographical, conceptual and imaginative relationships between north, south, east and west, so as to encompass discussion of transnational and global art histories; and the binaries of centre and periphery, modern and traditional. The theme takes account of the conference location in Western Australia – ranging from perceptions of the west to its distinct collections, and history.

Session Format

- Conference sessions are each timetabled for 90 minutes; consisting of three 20 minute papers plus 10 minutes of questions, discussion, and commentary per paper (except where noted otherwise in the session abstract)
- Session Convenors manage their designated session, prior to and during the conference, with the aim of best addressing the conference theme Art and its Directions
- On Wednesday 6 December, there will be a dedicated Postgraduate Day

Submission Guidelines

- Speakers may apply to present only one paper
- Speakers who convene a session and may also chair another session in which they do not otherwise participate
- A paper that has been published or presented previously may not be delivered at the AAANZ Annual Conference
- Sessions that have indicated they already have the required number of speakers are listed as full in the session abstracts
- Acceptance in a session implies a commitment to present a 20-minute paper at that session in person and payment of the conference registration fee and AAANZ membership fee
- AAANZ memberships will be offered to postgraduate students presenting at the conference (this does not include students presenting in the Postgraduate Day). Information on how to apply will be released shortly.

Submission Process

- Proposals for participation in sessions are to be sent to the Session Convenor whose details appear with the session - Please do not send your proposals to the AAANZ or the
- The deadline for proposals to Session Convenors is Monday 14 August

Send proposals to Session Convenors as per selected session, contact details available with session abstract.

General enquiries: Conference Administrator, Vyonne Walker, confaaanz.info

See our website for more information: http://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2017-conference/