Art, Archives and social justice.

Presented by Drew Pettifer

Hosted by AGSA
11/08/2021
Talk #114

Image: Drew Pettifer, Untitled (Archive), chromogenic prints, installed dimensions variable, 2020. Photo: Bo Wong

DREW PETTIFER presents ‘Art, Archives and Social Justice’

In partnership with Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Archival art practices have the potential to challenge dominant historical accounts of events. Seeking to reclaim and make visible these hidden histories, Pettifer will use his own recent projects interrogating obscured queer narratives as case studies for the pursuit of social justice through art.

Drew Pettifer is an artist, (non-practicing) lawyer and a Senior lecturer in the School of Art at RMIT. University. His art practice works across photography, video, print, installation and performance and engages with histories of queerness, photographic theory, archival art practices, and social politics.