The Castlemaine State Festival and La Trobe University present, At This Time, a full day symposium which brings together a range of interdisciplinary artists, and arts professionals to explore the relationship between arts institutions, artists and audiences, biennials and triennials as a phenomenon, and art as performance.

Speakers will provide an insider’s view, reporting on their experiences, their current and upcoming projects, and commenting on the challenges they face, At This Time.

SESSION ONE: Keynote Speakers: 10am – 12:30pm

Professor Charles Green: Reader in Contemporary International and Australian Art, Faculty of Arts and Communication, Melbourne University: Bienniales of the South

Lisa Dempster: Director, Melbourne Writers Festival: At this time

Tony Elwood: Director of the National Gallery of Victoria

SESSION TWO: Panel One, Visual Arts Practice: 1:30pm – 3pm

Deborah Ratliff: Panel Chair: Curator of Periscope, Castlemaine State Festival Visual Arts Biennial

Rhett D’Costa: Cross-disciplinary artist, educator, currently undertaking his PhD at RMIT

Bindi Cole: Award winning, cross-disciplinary Indigenous artist

Andrew Goodman: Cross-disciplinary artist encompassing sculpture, sound, light and video

Tim Craker: Painter, sculpture and installation artist now living in Georgetown, Malaysia

SESSION THREE: Panel Two, Performance Arts Practice: 3:15pm – 4:45pm

David Lloyd: Panel Chair: Manager, The Capital, Bendigo’s Performing Arts Centre

Terrence Jaensch: Poet, curator of Castlemaine State Festival Literature Program

Jacques Sodell: Bendigo based sound artist

Sara Dandois: Director and performer of Belgian Company Time Circus

Jason De Santis: Director, Wulamanyuwi and the Seven Pamanui