The Image’s Updates
Keynote Session: Rhana Devenport (Eleventh International Conference on The Image)
Beyond the Visual: Artist Expansions of Encounters, Place, Ecologies and Design
Rhana Devenport, Director, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Rhana Devenport ONZM is director of Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide, and she was previously director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2013-2018) and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre (2006-2013), both in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Devenport is a curator, writer, and cultural producer whose career spans art museums, biennales, and arts festivals. Her curatorial interest includes contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific, time-based media, and social practice. In 2017 Devenport was curator for the New Zealand Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia for ‘Lisa Reihana: Emissaries'. She has curated projects with Lee Mingwei, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Yin Xiuzhen, Song Dong, Nalini Malani, Fiona Pardington, and Nam June Paik. From 1994 to 2004, she was senior project officer, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery. In 2018 she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
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Very interesting presentation, thank you Rhana.
Fantastic talk, thank you Rhana. Two of my favourite artists talked about at length! I particularly enjoyed the links made to the ideas of Jane Bennett, who I find exciting as well as quite challenging. I hadn't come across the work of Paul Rabinow, thank you for the introduction to his work which I will look up. Ngā mihi maioha, Tara Winters (Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland).