This talk will focus on two of Michael Snelling’s photographic projects: The first is Nervous Eaters, a road trip across America and back. It includes an accompanying fiction text. The second is Stair, a series travelling up and down a stair.
This talk will focus on two of Michael Snelling’s photographic projects: The first is Nervous Eaters, a road trip across America and back. It includes an accompanying fiction text. The second is Stair, a series travelling up and down a stair.
The talk will focus on where these works fit in the scheme of things historically, the binaries of interior/exterior; time; forms of presentation (exhibition, book, performance) and other things.
Michael Snelling is a photographer, writer and curator. He has an extensive professional background in arts management, artistic direction and education. He was Director and CEO of the National Art School, Sydney before relocating to Hong Kong. He was founding Director of the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair and previously CEO of Major Brisbane Festivals, CEO and Artistic Director of the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane and the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, and Director of the Australian Centre for Photography Workshop in Sydney. He managed the visual arts and crafts National Infrastructure and Projects Portfolios in the Australia Council.
He has held lecturing positions at universities in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. He was AJAN Resident at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan. He has been publisher, editor and managing editor of titles in the areas of art history and criticism, monographs and exhibition catalogues. He has also been a board member of the Bundanon Trust, La Boite Theatre, ELISION Ensemble, Artbank, a selector for Australia’s representation at three Venice Biennales and the Indian Triennale, Chair of the New Media Arts and Acting Chair of the Visual Arts/Craft Boards, and a Councillor, of the Australia Council. He is currently a board member of Kaldor Public Art Projects and sits on the Hong Kong Arts Centre School Advisory Committee.
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