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ACCA Podcast

by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

Conversations and events from Melbourne's flagship contemporary art space

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Episodes

  1. NEW26: Artist Talks and Walkthroughs

    Join us for artist talks with curators Dr Shelley McSpedden and Sophie Prince, alongside NEW26 artists Amanda Bell, Amanda Bennetts, Nicholas Currie, Naveed Farro, Diego Ramírez and EJ Son.

  2. NEW26: Artist Talks and Walkthroughs

    Join us for artist talks with curators Dr Shelley McSpedden and Sophie Prince, alongside NEW26 artists Amanda Bell, Amanda Bennetts, Nicholas Currie, Naveed Farro, Caesar Florence-Howard, Diego Ramírez and EJ Son.

  3. Navigating Emotions Through Art - Panel Discussion

    An engaging panel discussion exploring the relationship between art, emotion, and how creative practices can help young people to navigate complex emotional states. Featuring ACCA Artist Educator Lauren Simmonds, Community Psychologist Trisnasari Fraser, The Torch First People's Mentor Flick...

  4. Artist and Curator Walkthrough: 'Are you lonely tonight? I'm so lonesome I could cry.'

    Join exhibition curators Sophie Prince and Myles Russell-Cook for a tour of 'Are you lonely tonight? I’m so lonesome I could cry.', and hear directly from artists Polly Borland, Kayla Mattes, Callum McGrath, Nick Mullaly, Melissa Nguyen and Patrick Pound as they speak to directly to their work in...

  5. The Lonely Archive: Patrick Pound and Kayla Mattes in Conversation with Myles Russell-Cook

    Join artists Patrick Pound and Kayla Mattes, in conversation with ACCA Artistic Director and CEO Myles Russell-Cook, as they discuss their new commissions for the show. Collecting and working with digital and physical materials, respectively, the artists share their unique approaches to making…

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  6. ACCA x MADA Publication Launch | The Second Studio: Drawing on Contemporary Art in the Gallery

    ACCA and Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) celebrate the launch of collaborative publication, The Second Studio: Drawing on Contemporary Art in the Gallery. Featuring a panel discussion between ACCA Artist Educator Lauren Simmonds; Amélie Scalercio – Lecturer, Coordinator of Drawing…

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  7. Julius von Bismarck: This is not the storm Artist Talks

    Join artist Julius von Bismarck and ACCA's Senior Curator and Head of Exhibitions Shelley McSpedden as they take a tour of 'This is not the storm', on show at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

  8. Labels: Fashion and Identity

    *Please note this podcast contains coarse language ACCA presents Labels: Fashion and Identity, a panel discussion exploring the role of fashion in expressing identity. Featuring ACCA Curator Sophie Prince, Shauna Toohey (P.A.M), Jackie Wu (Wackie Ju) and Ricarda Bigolin (RMIT), the panel…

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  9. We need to talk: with Tourmaline and Sophie Prince

    ‘We need to talk’, is a bold new series of free public conversations that bring together artists, thinkers, and cultural leaders to explore the art world from every angle. For our latest event, acclaimed American artist, filmmaker and writer, Tourmaline joins ACCA curator Sophie Prince for a...

  10. Artist Talk and Book Launch: with r e a, Judith Ryan AM and Myles Russell-Cook

    Listen to our talk with artist r e a, Myes Russell-Cook and Judith Ryan AM on their latest exhibition 'r e a : c l a i m e d'. r e a : c l a i m e d is a focused survey of Gamilaraay, Wailwan and Biripi digital media artist, r e a, highlighting some of their most significant works from a career...

  11. We need to talk: with Tschabalala Self and Myles Russell-Cook

    *CONTENT WARNING: Please note that this podcast includes discussions of genocide. Support is always available: Lifeline 13 11 14, Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 ‘We need talk’, is a bold new series of free public conversations that bring together artists, thinkers, and cultural leaders to explore the…

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  12. Artist Talks: with Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Khaled Sabsabi and Ali Tahayori

    *CONTENT WARNING: Please note that this podcast includes discussions of suicide and genocide. Support is always available: Lifeline 13 11 14, Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 Listen to our latest talk with artists Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Khaled Sabsabi and Ali Tahayori, from our current...

  13. 'Tina Stefanou: You Can't See Speed' - Digital Publication Launch

    Moderated by exhibition curator Elyse Goldfinch, join us as we hear from designer Lloyd Mist, and contributing writers Azza Zein, Fayen d’Evie, Tara Heffernan and Tessa Laird. The talk includes a tour of the interactive digital publication site, and readings from the writers, followed by...

  14. Artist Talk: with Tina Stefanou

    Listen to our talk with artist Tina Stefanou, curator Elyse Goldfinch (and special guests) on her new exhibition 'You Can't See Speed'. This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Saturday 05 April 2025. 'Tina Stefanou: You Can’t See Speed' attends to the interconnected and...

  15. Title wall

    Title wall by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  16. Grief Ramp

    Grief Ramp by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  17. Trickle down

    Trickle down by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  18. Agritemple

    Agritemple by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  19. Centipede

    Centipede by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  20. Toilets

    Toilets by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  21. You Can't See Speed

    You Can't See Speed by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  22. Days in Doreen

    Days in Doreen by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  23. From the hooves

    From the hooves by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)

  24. Concrete Archives Book Launch | Panel Discussion: Yhonnie Scarce & Lisa Radford with Vikki McInnes

    Listen to Yhonnie Scarce and Lisa Radford in conversation with Vikki McInnes, discussing their artistic practice and publication 'The image is not nothing (Concrete Archives)'.. 'Concrete Archives' is the culmination of Radford and Scarce’s fieldwork to local and international sites of nuclear...

  25. Panel discussion: Living Queer Histories

    Listen to our panel discussion focusing on the lineages of queer histories on the present. Featuring the research and practices of three speakers, Angela Hesson, Patrice Sharkey and Elyssia Wilson-Heti, who variously engage with queer subcultures, aesthetics and histories, the panel will consider...

  26. Artist Talks: Andy Butler and Nicholas Smith

    Listen to our talk with artists Andy Butler and Nicholas Smith on their new works presented as part of 'Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions'. This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Saturday 13 July 2024.

  27. Artist Talks: Kim Ah Sam, Teelah George, Joel Sherwood Spring and Salote Tawale

    Listen to our talk with artists Kim Ah Sam, Teelah George, Joel Sherwood Spring and Salote Tawale on their new works presented as part of 'Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions'. This podcast was recorded as part of an Artist Talk at ACCA on Saturday 29 June 2024. Please note the…

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  28. Keynote with Laure Prouvost in conversation with Annika Kristensen

    Listen to ACCA's in conversation with Laure Prouvost and Annikka Kristensen, following a screening of 'They Parlaient Idéale' 2019. This program was recorded on Monday 18 March at ACMI as part of ACCA's exhibition 'Laure Prouvost: Oui Move In You'. Read more about the program here:...

  29. In conversation with Barbara Creed and Lisa French

    Listen to ACCA's in conversation with Barbara Creed, author and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne alongside Lisa French, Professor and Dean in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. This program was recorded on Wednesday 28 February…

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  30. Lecture with Carol Yinghua Lu

    Listen to ACCA's lecture 'Building a post-revolutionary world through the 8th Yokohama Triennale' with Carol Yinghua Lu, art historian, curator, and current Director, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum. Alongside Liu Ding, Carol Yinghua Lu is also co-Artistic Director of the 8th Yokohama Triennale…

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  31. Maria Kozic Artist Talk

    Listen to the artist talk with Maria Kozic speaking about her iconic series 'Calendar Girls' 1999 presented in ACCA’s current exhibition 'From the other side' (9 December 2023 – 3 March 2024). Maria Kozic works across painting, sculpture, photography and film. Her practice has often drawn on the...

  32. Tega Brain & Sam Lavigne Launch of 'Offset'

    Listen to exhibition artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne for a talk about their new digital commission 'Offset' on the ACCA Digital Wing.

  33. Thao Phan Performance lecture: Listening to Misrecognition

    What is the sound of racialisation? How might we listen to misrecognition? What does machine error tell us about the precision of racism? And how can the tools of a racist system be used to transcribe new forms of resistance? This experimental presentation is a collaboration between feminist...

  34. Suvani Suri with Aasma Tulika, Uzma Falak, Shareeka Helaluddin, Mehak Sawhney

    Listen to performance lectures 'Loops, Echoes, Phonophanies, and other Détournments' by Suvani Suri and 'Listening to Misrecognition' by Thao Phan, as well as an Artist Talk with Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne on their new digital commission 'Offset'.

  35. Zach Blas Performance Lecture

    Listen to the performance lecture 'Expositio, Iudicium, Lacrimae, or, Does an AI God Have an Ass?' by exhibiting artist Zach Blas exploring the idea of religious-un/conscious thriving in today’s tech industry. Charting his encounters with various artificial intelligence gods, Blas tells of a...

  36. Lauren Lee McCarthy In Conversation With Jenny Kennedy

    Roe v. Wade is overturned while gene editing is opening entirely new reproductive futures. What does kin mean as reproductive technologies shift our relationships? How much control should we have over a birthing person’s body, and over a life before it begins?. ‘The Surrogate project began with a...

  37. Mimi Ọnụọha Performance Lecture

    Through a series of media and artworks, Mimi Ọnụọha’s performance lecture explores absence, knowledge, and how what is missing is still there.

  38. Laura Raicovich: Undoing and Redoing

    Listen to writer and curator Laura Raicovich discuss the artworks and methodologies that inform Mithu Sen’s exhibition 'mOTHERTONGUE' in relation to Raicovich’s own practice which calls for institutional change to improve cultural spaces. This conversation was recorded at ACCA on Tuesday 16 May,...

  39. Mithu Sen in conversation

    Listen to artist Mithu Sen in conversation with Max Delany, ACCA’s Artistic Director & CEO, alongside special guests Irina Aristarkhova, Professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Digital Studies Institute of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Deepanjana Klein, Director…

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  40. Writing in the Expanded Field IV: Touching Feeling Writing (Audio-only)

    This recording is part of a video commissioned for 'Writing in the Expanded Field IV: Touching Feeling Writing' developed in conjunction with ACCA’s exhibition ‘Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH’ (23 September – 20 November 2022). The digital publishing project exploring new compositional modes and...

  41. Paul Yore In Conversation With Nick Henderson

    Listen to the in conversation with artist Paul Yore and Nick Henderson, volunteer committee member at the Australian Queer Archives, and Curator at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. They will be discussing Yore’s extensive survey exhibition 'Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH', unpacking...

  42. WRITING & CONCEPTS Lecture with Mykaela Saunders

    Listen to the lecture by editor Mykaela Saunders speaking on the critically acclaimed anthology 'THIS ALL COME BACK NOW'. 'THIS ALL COME BACK NOW' is the world’s first anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas…

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  43. Artist Talks: Gian Manik, Jason Phu and Jahnne Pasco-White

    Listen to our Artist Talks with Gian Manik, Jason Phu and Jahnne Pasco-White. This Artist Talk was recorded in association with the exhibition ' Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 4 September 2022.

  44. Artist Talks: Lucina Lane, Betty Muffler and JD Reforma

    This Artist Talk was recorded in association with the exhibition ' Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 4 September 2022. In this Artist Talk we hear from exhibiting artists Lucina Lane, Betty…

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  45. In Conversation: Frances Barrett and Daniel Mudie Cunningham

    This conversation was recorded in association with the exhibition 'Frances Barrett: Meatus', now showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne until 19 June 2022. In this conversation we hear from artist and curator Frances Barrett and from Daniel Mudie Cunningham, who is…

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  46. MTalks—Who’s Afraid of Public Space? Think Tank #4: Movement of People & Safety in Public

    This panel discussion explores ideas of safety, movement, surveillance, physical distancing, visibility and invisibility within Melbourne’s public spaces. Think Tank Moderator Nur Shkembi, artist, curator and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, and Curatorial Advisory Group member for Who’s...

  47. Distribution series #3: Publishing Art Serials

    Listen to Melbourne Art Library for the final in their series of discussions about the values of the public library. Reflecting on the library of written materials on public art, public culture and public space in the Reading Space: The Common Room, Melbourne Art Library discuss the purpose and...

  48. Insurgent modes for urban reconnection: Scaling, augmenting, and counter-mapping public space

    Creative practice researchers: Prof Carol Brown, Dr Troy Innocent, and A/Prof Linda Knight, chaired by Rachel Iampolski addresses how artistic practices offer insurgent modes for developing reconnection with urban spaces after a prolonged lockdown, and sustained anxiety around public spaces. The...

  49. Making Spaces Public

    Urbanists and planners need to engage in broader and messier practices if they are to design inclusive and accessible public spaces. The production of space is as much a social and political process, as a physical one, and identities of places are often latent, contested and invisible. A new…

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  50. Artist Talks: Education Space with Ross Coulter, Eugenia Lim and James Nguyen

    Listen to ACCA’s Artist Educator and Curator of the Education Space Andrew Atchison with artists Ross Coulter, Eugenia Lim and James Nguyen for a discussion about art and working in public space. This program is associated with the Education Space: Creating Art in Public, a hybrid studio…

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