Double Dialogues # 5: Art and Pain

Friday May 9 - Saturday May 10, 2003

The Open Stage
University of Melbourne
Arts Centre Building,
Cnr Grattan and Swanston Sts
Carlton  3010
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Program
Friday May 9
8.30 - 9.30 Registrations: Open Stage foyer
9.30 - 9.40
Ann McCulloch (Deakin): Welcome
9.40- 10.10
Keynote Speaker:
Angela O'Brien, Head, School of Creative Arts, Univ of Melbourne
: Art Through Pain: The Panacea
10.10 - 10.30
Anthony Green (Deakin): Good Grief - The Ghost as Concrete
10.30 - 10.50
Julie Millowick (La Trobe, Bendigo): A Year in our Lives
10.50 - 11.10 Scott Rawlings (Deakin): Waking from the Porcelain Dream: the role of government in reducing anthropocentricism
11.10 - 11.30 Questions
11.30 - 11.50 Break
11.50 -12.20
Tim Mehigan (Melbourne): Pain and the Sublime
12.20 - 12.40
Rob Haysom (Deakin): Pain & discomfort in non-figurative art
12.40 - 1.00
Denise Varney (Melbourne): Pain and the theatre of Heiner MlŸller
1.00 - 1.15 Questions
1.15 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 2.35
Paul Monaghan (Melbourne): The Spectacle of Violence in Ancient Rome
2.35 - 2.55
Helen Macdonald (Melbourne): The Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dissecting Murderers in London, 1800 - 1832
2.55 - 3.15
Sarah Austin (Melbourne): Suck My Code, Baby: Linda Dement & the Injured Body
3.15 - 3.35 Questions
3.35 - 3.55 Break
3.55 - 4.15
David Ritchie (Deakin): Loss, Grief and Representation: 'getting on with it'
4.15 - 4.35
Peta Tait (La Trobe): The Aerialist: the physical and emotional pain
4.35 - 4.55
Peter Eckersall (Melbourne): Theatres of discipline in the age of consensual euphoria
4.55 - 5.15 Questions
TBA Dinner / drinks together, for those who want to, in East Hawthorn
7.00 - 9.30
Art and Pain Visual Arts Exhibition

Gardner Contemporary Art, 635 Burwood Road, East Hawthorn
7.45 Launch by Michael Meehan, Head, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
 8.00 approx Alison Richards: The Bride Stripped Bare (a performed paper)
   

Saturday May 10
8.30 - 9.30 Registrations: Open Stage foyer
9.30 - 10.35
Keynote Speakers:
Ann McCulloch, Ron Goodrich, Justin Clemens (Deakin)
:Depression and Expression - a three-part presentation
10.35 -10.55
Peter Davis (Deakin): The Silent Scream: reporting pain and the pain of reporting - dilemmas in photojournalism
10.55 -11.15 Questions
11.15 -11.40 Break & Launch of 'Moon Babies', a new play by Patrick Van de Werf (Deakin)
launch by Judith Rodriguez
11.40 -12.35
Amy Espeseth Turner and group of 5 (Melbourne): Writing the Ache
12.35 - 12.55
Kathy Mueller (RMIT): 'Ravaged Kingdom': Approaching Pain through Gameplay  
12.55 - 1.15 Questions
1.15 - 2.10 Lunch
2.10 - 2.30
Steve Goddard (Deakin): Anecdotes and Antidotes: stories as balms, storytelling as healing
2.30 - 3.00
Kevin Brophy, Myron Lysenko, Eddie Paterson (Melbourne): Three Poets talk about pain, art & poetry
3.00 - 3.20
Anna Huenecke (Univ of Western Sydney): Entering the Mysteries: Art and the creative process
3.20 - 3.40 Questions
3.40 - 4.00
Break
4.00 - 4.20
Clare Bradford (Deakin): Art, Pain, Children: Utopian and Dystopian Discourses in Picture Books
4.20 - 4.50
Kathleen Mary Fallon (Melbourne): All Her Chickens (a reading)
4.50 - 5.10
Estelle Barrett (Deakin): Reconciling Differences: Art as Reparation and Healing
5.10 - 5.30
Questions
5.30 - 5.40 Wrap up
   

Double Dialogues # 5 : Art & Pain is kindly hosted by the School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne, and co-presented with the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.

Double Dialogues is convened by Ann McCulloch (athena@deakin.edu.au), Paul Monaghan (pmonag@unimelb.edu.au) & Ron Goodrich (godric@deakin.edu.au).

For fast 'Art & Pain' information, ring Paul Monaghan on 8344 8289 or 0409 865 861.