Beyond Curatorship Reading Group 

We are delighted to partner with the Melbourne Art Curatorship Society to facilitate an exciting new reading group on art and curatorship. 

Open to all interested students, whether studying curatorship or something else, this group is designed to create an informal space to share ideas with your peers, discuss new perspectives from an array of carefully selected texts, and to expand our horizons and learning beyond the structure of the classroom.

RSVP and more info:  https://events.humanitix.com/beyond-curatorship-reading-group

Schedule of Readings

WEEK 4
Wednesday March 25 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Arts Lab

Sophie Lewis. “With-Women: Grieving in Capitalist Time.” e-flux Journal, no. 111 (2020).
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/111/343916/with-women-grieving-in-capitalist-time.

WEEK 6
Wednesday April 15 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Arts Lab

Jodie Napurrula Ward “The Marrapinti Women’s Camp.”
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Hetti Perkins “The Stories I Can Tell: Hetti Perkins in Conversation with Fred Myers and Henry Skerritt.” In Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past & Present Together: Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, edited by Fred Myers and Henry Skerritt, 75–84. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022.

WEEK 8
Wednesday April 29 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Arts Lab

Zayaan Khan, Joss Hamilton Allen, and Marleen Boschen. “A Grain of Wheat, Saltwater Crocodile and Warrior Spirit Seed: Custodianship as Artistic Practice.” In Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practice, 106–125. MUMA / Monash University Publishing, 2025.

Bawaka Country, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, and Paul Hodge. “Meeting across Ontologies: Grappling with an Ethics of Care in Our Human–More-than-Human Collaborative Work.” Narratives of educating for sustainability in unsustainable environments, Michigan University Press.

WEEK 10
Wednesday May 13, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
ARTS LAB/GPG

Yuanyin Wang. “Beyond Departure, Return, and Rootedness: Seeing the Southwest Chinese Women through the Independent Lens.” 艺术界 LEAP, 2025.
https://www.leapleapleap.com/2025/10/beyond-departure-return-and-rootedness-seeing-the-southwest-chinese-women-through-the-independent-lens/

Noeng Naz. “Voiceless Drifters in Blindfolds and Tik-Toking Workhorses on Reels: Chinese Workers in Non-Fiction Cinema.” 艺术界 LEAP, 2025.
https://www.leapleapleap.com/2025/02/voiceless-drifters-in-blindfolds-and-tik-toking-workhorses-on-reels-chinese-workers-in-non-fiction-cinema/