Melbourne Exclusive
World Premiere
Power to the People:
Contemporary
Conceptualism and
the Object in Art
(International)
Presented by Melbourne Festival and
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
With the arrival of the late 1960s came the
rise of people power. The Vietnam War, the
emergence of the civil rights movement, the
strikes of Paris ’68 – the political and social
landscape was primed to explode into a
new consciousness, a new era of community
involvement and self-determination.
A Different Temporality
Aspects of Australian Feminist
Art Practice 1975–1985 (Australia)
Art in turn responded by breaking
down established hierarchies. Actions,
happenings and interactive audience
projects replaced the precious and discrete
art object to create a new artistic landscape
of dynamic situations and installations.
Presented by the International
Federation of Arts Councils
and Culture Agencies,
and the only event of its kind,
the World Summit on Arts
and Culture in 2011 comes
to Melbourne.
Now, in a new century, contemporary artists
revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in art that seeks a
reconsideration of the object and an active,
participatory audience.
Featuring a program of Festival
productions showcasing some of
Australia’s most exciting artists, the World
Summit will bring together government
and cultural leaders from around the
globe to explore the engagement of art
with our everyday lives.
Audacious and unfettered, this is art that
continues to be fuelled by the power of
the people.
Warning Occasional full-frontal nudity
Talks and screenings happening every
Wednesday evening throughout the
exhibition. See accaonline.org.au
for more details.
Artists Peter Friedl, Olaf Nicolai,
Dora Garcia, Roman Ondak, Fiona
Macdonald, Jonathan Monk, Kirsten
Pieroth, Stuart Ringholt, Ján Mančuška,
Seth Price, Natasha Johns-Messenger,
Mario Garcia Torres, Goldin+Senneby,
Lucas Ihlein & Ian Milliss, Derek Sullivan,
Agatha Gothe-Snape, Matthew Shannon.
Curator Hannah Mathews
Presented by Monash University Museum
of Art (MUMA) in association with
Melbourne Festival
Special Festival hours
10am – 8pm daily
A salute to women who contributed to a
ground-breaking decade in Australian art,
A Different Temporality considers time as
subject and metaphor in Australian feminist
art practice from 1975 through to 1985. A
period when women artists were agitating
for recognition in the broader Australian
art community, this was a remarkable time
of change both for women and for Australia
as a whole. Politically diverse, A Different
Temporality unearths the flash points of a
powerfully influential period.
From 24 Oct
Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm
Sat – Sun & Public Holidays 11am – 6pm
Mon by appointment
Encompassing time-based media such as
performance, photography and film, this
exhibition is a provocative series of intrusions
from a time of uncommon artistic fecundity.
FREE
Artists Micky Allan, Janet Burchill and
Jennifer McCamley, Bonita Ely,
Sue Ford, Helen Grace, Lyndal Jones
and Jenny Watson
Guest Curator Dr Kyla McFarlane
Event Information
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt St, Southbank
Thu 6 Oct – Sun 20 Nov
melbournefestival.com.au
accaonline.org.au
ACCA is supported by The Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria and
City of Melbourne
Event Information
Monash University Museum of Art
(MUMA)
900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East
Official Opening
Sat 15 Oct at 3pm
Held from 3 to 6 October i