The Australian Art Field

Tony Bennett is Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory in Western Sydney University’s Institute for Culture and Society, and a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the UK Academy of the Social Sciences. Deborah Stevenson is Professor of Sociology and Urban Cultural Research in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. Fred Myers is the Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Tamara Winikoff OAM is a cultural advocate and commentator, policy adviser and senior arts manager. Currently working as an arts consultant, Tamara was previously CEO of the national peak body for the Australian visual arts sector, the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).

Introduction: The Australian Art Field — Fractures and Frictions
Deborah Stevenson, Tony Bennett, Fred Myers and Tamara Winikoff

Part 1: Framing the Arts

Introduction: Tony Bennett

1. The Australian Visual Arts Exhibitionary Complex - Terry Smith

2. Mona and the Political-Cultural Economy of Independent Galleries - Adrian Franklin

3. On the Possibility of Another Australian Art History - Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson

4. ‘Craftsperson’, ‘Artist’, ‘Designer’: Problematising the ‘Art Versus Commerce’ Divide Within Australian Creative Fields Today - Susan Luckman

5. Feminist Effects: Australian Visual Artists Past, Present, Future - Julie Ewington

6. Australian Working-Class Art Field: Its Making and Unmaking - Tony Moore

7. Liking Australian Art, Liking Australian Culture - Tony Bennett and Modesto Gayo

Part 2: Governance, Institutions and the Social

Introduction: Deborah Stevenson

8. Cultural Policy in Australia: Key Themes in the Governance of the Arts - Deborah Stevenson

9. Experiments with Arts Institutions: The Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation and Frontyard - Laura Fisher and Alexandra Crosby

10. Art Education and the Maker Movement: Identity, Wellbeing, Community, and Entrepreneurship - Kylie Budge

11. Why We Need to Talk about Race in the Arts or the Limits of Aspirational Diversity - Rimi Khan

12. Artist Activism in a Cultural Policy Void - Cecelia Cmielewski

13. Gaming the Data: The Evaluation of Cultural Activities and the Tensions for Public Policy - Hilary Glow and Katya Johanson

14. Arguing Value: Attitudes and Activism - Tamara Winikoff

Part 3: Indigenous Art

Introduction: Fred Myers

15. The Work of Art: Hope, Disenchantment and Indigenous Art in Australia - Fred Myers

16.Indigenising the Australian Artworld: National Culture and State Sovereignty - Ian McLean

17.Approaching the Sovereign: From Art Centres to Art Fairs - Jennifer Biddle

18.Indigenous Curatorial Interpellations: Insistence and Refusal - Stephen Gilchrist

Part Four: Artist's Voices

Introduction: Tamara Winikoff

19.Danie Mellor: Speaking of an Unquiet Country

20 Julie Gough: Testing the Ground: Art and ‘Difficult’ Histories

21 Hossein Valamanesh: In Between

22 Julie Shiels: Cultural Democracy in Action

23 Julie Rrap: Body Disclosures

24 Ben Quilty: Labour and Ritual

25 Deborah Kelly: Futile Fighting, Fanciful Folly