Peggy Phelan visits the University of Wollongong for a Public lecture and Seminar

The School of Art & Design, Faculty of Creative Arts, in partnership with the Biennale of Sydney, invites you to participate in the Australian visit of:

Peggy Phelan
Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts at Stanford University

Peggy Phelan is one of the leading theorists in the arts and humanities in America today. After 17 years at New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, she took up the Ann O'Day Maples chair in the arts at Stanford University in 2002. Among her books are Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993), Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories (1997), Art and Feminism (2001), Acting Out: Feminist Performances (co-edited with Lynda Hart, 1993) and the forthcoming Death Rehearsals: the Performances of Andy Warhol and Ronald Reagan.
Her visit to the university consists of a public lecture and a seminar and represents a great opportunity to hear and interact with an internationally renowned scholar.

Thursday 24 June , 12 noon
University of Wollongong public lecture
Seeing Double: Photography and 9/11
Creative Arts building 25, room 128

Seminar: An opportunity for an indepth discussion on areas of live culture, performance, visual culture, feminism and aesthetics. The seminar will focus on Phelan's seminal essay, "The Ontology of Performance" (from Unmarked), and a recent interview in which she reflects on themes and topics 'at the heart of her writing and practice...for Phelan most of these themes touch on mourning, death and love'.

Thursday 24 June, 2.30 - 4pm
FCA Building 25, room 128
Seminar - A conversation with Peggy Phelan

To register for the seminar and collect essential readings, contact
Beth Dray 4221 5853 or e-mail edray@uow.edu.au (office near the Long Gallery, building 25).

Prior to the talks in Wollongong, Peggy Phelan is giving a keynote address at the Biennale of Sydney, Tuesday 22 June, 1.00 - 3.00pm

Biennale of Sydney keynote address
Beckett and Nauman Once Again
Repetition, Waiting, and Confinement in Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of NSW Domain Theatre

«http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/2004/whats_on.html»