Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies
Events
MMCCS welcomes artist-in-residence
Dr Aneesh Pradhan, scholar and music activist from Mumbai.
Dr Aneesh Pradhan, a celebrated North Indian musician, scholar and music activist from Mumbai will be artist in residence in the Department of Media, Music, Cummunication and Cultural Studies from the 3rd of May 2011 to the 17th May.
He will be providing master classes for our post graduate performance students, but will also be presenting a performance and a research seminar.
Tuesday 10 May 2011
A Research Seminar for the India Research Centre - 'Developments in the Music Culture of Contemporary India'
12.30pm - 2.00pm
Building Y3A, Room 210
Thursday 12 May 2011
A special lunchtime concert - 'Aneesh Pradhan - tabla solo'
1.10pm - 2.00pm
Drama Studio
Room 187, Building Y3A
Free and open to all
A disciple of tabla maestro Nikhil Ghosh, Aneesh Pradhan is one of India's leading tabla players. From his beginnings as a televised child artist, to his global touring schedule as a solo performer Aneesh's performances are in high demand across the world. Aneesh's interests in pushing and experimenting with the boundaries of sound have seen him write for film, television, theatre and dance.
Aneesh is also director of Underscore Records established with Shubha Mudgal. Together they also curate the festival, Baajaa Gaajaa, Music from 21st Century India. Aneesh's skill and dedication as a tabla player of the highest order rank him with the world's elite musicians.
For more information on Dr Pradhan's visit to Macquarie University, his classes or the public events, please contact MMCCS via Dr Adrian McNeil - adrian.mcneil@mq.edu.au or 02 9850 2196
Sydney Film Festival has announced a cross-section of films in the lead-up to taking over the city's silver screens from 8 - 19 June.
Three Official Competition Films have been revealed; the critically acclaimed adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood; award-winning Greek drama Attenberg and the highly-anticipated second feature from the director of Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July's The Future.
FlexiPass tickets are now on sale, a convenient and affordable way to go. Available in 10, 20 or 30 film passes that you can share with your friends and save. Buy your FlexiPasses and check out the full selection of teaser films at sff.org.au
Visual Essays: Water and the environment - International artist Husan Fuat Sari
| Event Name | Visual Essays: Water and the environment - International artist Husan Fuat Sari |
| Start Date | 30th Mar 2011 10:00am |
| End Date | 22nd Apr 2011 5:00pm |
| Duration | 23 days and 8 hours |
| Description |
Visiting Finnish artist in residence from the University of Turku, Hasan Fuat Sari, will present new sculptural work in response to, and site specific to, the exhibition space. This is a joint initiative between the University Art Gallery and the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, and highlights the links between art, research and teaching.
Details
Dates: 30th March 2011 - 22nd April 2011 Opening Hours: 10:00am-5:00pm Venue: Macquarie University Art Gallery, Building E11A Costs: FREE
For more information please contact the Art Gallery on 9850 7437 or artgallery@mq.edu.au. Alternatively, please visit: www.artgallery.mq.edu.au |
Conference "The Unacceptable"
29th April - 1st May 2011
Host: Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
Venue: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
It wasn't so long ago that with heroin chic and SM clubbing, what had been considered unacceptable became a voguish pretext for mass marketing. Now, with global moral panics fuelled by paedophilia and violent computer games and increasing calls for internet censorship, the unacceptable is being reinvented as an object of policing.
The issue of what is 'fit to present' has always haunted culture, especially in its relationship with social institutions: the proscription of heresy, the erasure of bodies (because of their age, race or gender), the silencing of sexualities, the purging of languages, the classification of desires as pathologies . . . marking things as unacceptable has been a key strategy in governing the media, education, the arts as well as the practice of everyday life. Conversely, resistance to the banning of texts and practices has long been one of the hallmarks of movements for liberalisation.
Understanding how bodies, images and practices are judged unacceptable is key to understanding how culture, communication and creativity fit into society.
Issues:
- What is now unacceptable?
- Did the unacceptable ever go away or did it merely shift from what was outlaw to an object of voyeurism?
- How does what is deemed unacceptable reflect the racial, gender and sexual fault-lines of a society?
- From incineration to pathologization: how have strategies for policing the unacceptable evolved?
Sponsored and hosted by the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia.
For more details and keynotes:
http://www.mmccs.mq.edu.au/events/
http://unacceptableconference.wordpress.com/