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Opening Week Forum

Power, Poverty, Equality and Freedom (and how we relate to art...)

Our Opening Week Forum is unfortunately fully booked, but we'll have some audio and video content from the event coming soon.

This two-day forum relates to the core elements around which the 17th Biennale of Sydney – THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age – has been built. In it the question is asked: how can aesthetic values in different cultures be paradigmatic of qualities we all can recognise? This is amplified by artists presenting their own work. Moving between the ideas and language or pre-modernity, modernity and now, consider art's positive power and critical role, how this relates to different cutures, and how it has been used as a means of reinforcing or subverting ideas of materialism and property, or, alternatively, as an expression of non-material or metaphysical value.

Event Information

Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Free Event
Friday, 14 May 9.30 am – 5.30 pm - FULLY BOOKED
Saturday, 15 May 9.30 am – 5.30 pm - FULLY BOOKED
 

The 17th Biennale of Sydney Forum is organised in collaboration with the International Curators Forum (ICF ); the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS);
the United States Studies Centre (USSC) at The University of Sydney; and the Faculty of Arts and The Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture, The University of Sydney.

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