Public Programs archive

Art Crit :: Personal Best Saturday December 15, 1:00pm-3:00pm Verge Gallery Free // All welcome Verge Gallery’s Art Crit — this participatory critical discussion will cover key themes in each individual artwork as well as the overarching themes within the exhibition Personal Best. Personal Best (install shot), 2018. Verge Gallery, photo: Zan Wimberley

Talkin’ About Talkin’ About Art Presented by Runway Magazine in partnership with Verge Gallery Wednesday December 5, 6pm-8pm Tickets available via Eventbrite Runway – Australian Experimental Art Journal and Verge Gallery present a writers round-table facilitated by Tai Mitsuji and special guest Judy Annear. The two writers will first unpack their approach to writing, before […]

The Failure Debate 21.11.18, from 6:30pm Facilitated by Sophie Penkethman-Young The Failure Debate answers the question ‘Is it good to fail?’. The Failure Debate explores hard work and the joys of losing from the six unique point of views. Join us on Wednesday 21 November to hear two teams of winning professionals compete to prove […]

ARTISTS WORKING WITH ORAL HISTORY/ORAL HISTORIANS WORKING WITH ARTISTS Presented by Oral History NSW in partnership with Verge Gallery Saturday November 3, 11am – 1pm Tickets available via Eventbrite Oral history – like the visual arts – is a diverse, co-constructed practice that challenges conventional autonomous production and identities* A morning discussing ways in which […]

Art Crit :: Emotions invented by the Internet and Human Jerky: meatbags through the eyes of technology Saturday September 22, 1:00pm-3:00pm Verge Gallery Free // All welcome Verge Gallery’s Art Crit — a participatory critical discussion around themes explored within the current exhibitions. The discussion will cover key themes in each individual exhibition as well as the overarching […]

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES 2018 After School Ed. Presented by Kudos Gallery and Verge Gallery + Aug 14 – Install Workshop – Kudos + Aug 30 – Grants Presentation – Verge Cost: Each workshop and presentation: Arc & Access members $5 (+ booking fee), Concession $8 (+ booking fee), General admission $12 (+ booking fee) SEMESTER […]

Talk :: Machine aesthetics of the human body Saturday August 18, 11:30am – 1pm Verge Gallery FREE // RSVP via Eventbrite HERE This talk discusses the models that various emerging technologies use to understand the human body. As technologies emerge that allow the machine to move beyond abstract interaction and into more direct engagement with […]

Art Crit :: Critical Bodies Saturday August 11, 1:00pm-3:00pm Verge Gallery Free // All welcome Verge Gallery’s Art Crit — a participatory critical discussion around themes explored within the current exhibitions.  The discussion will cover key themes in each individual artwork as well as the overarching themes within the exhibition Critical Bodies.  

Reading Group Presented by Kathleen Linn Dates: + Saturday May 26, 1-3pm + Saturday June 23, 1-3pm + Saturday August 4, 1-3pm Join writer and curator Kathleen Linn in a series of reading group gatherings. Over the last two sessions of Creative Reading Group we have read ‘Curatorial Activism’ by Maura Reilly. The final section of […]

Panel :: The pervasiveness of the body in art Thursday August 2, 6pm – 8pm Verge Gallery FREE // All welcome Critical Bodies considers the pervasiveness of the body in art and therefore it’s locus as central to critical discourse. The artists in Critical Bodies demonstrate the extent to which the body in art can continue […]