Monash University Museum of Art A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975–1985

13 October–17 December 2011 Monash University Museum of Art Ground Floor, Building F Monash University, Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia Open: Tues–Fri 10am–5pm; Sat 12–5pm T +61 3 9905 4217 muma@monash.edu www.monash.edu.au/muma

A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975–1985 brings together feminist approaches to temporality in the visual arts, with a focus on late 1970s and early 1980s Australia. Rather than an encyclopaedic summation of feminist practice at that time, selected works reflect prevalent debates and modes of practice; with a focus upon the dematerialisation of the art object, the role of film theory, and the adoption of diaristic and durational modes of practice, including performance, photography and film.

Spanning a decade within two decades, and marking a significant time for feminist art practice in Australia, A Different Temporality presents a materially and politically diverse selection of works by selected artists that engage with temporality as both metaphor and subject. Whilst their respective works may not openly exemplify an overriding logic, their durational emphasis brings together feminist approaches to history and experience, as well as conceptual investigations of cinematic time and montage, ephemerality and event, repetition and flow—forms and ideas which continue to resonate in the present.

Presenting the work of Micky Allan, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Bonita Ely, Sue Ford, Helen Grace, Lyndal Jones and Jenny Watson, A Different Temporality continues MUMA's commitment to considering the recent history of contemporary art since the 1960s and is presented in association with the 2011 Melbourne Festival and with the support of The Gordon Darling Foundation.