Lectures, Forums, Public Programs

'All Art is a Conversation', lecture with Djon Mundine, AAANZ Conference, RMIT University, Melbourne, December 2018
Presentation at AICA Annual Congress at Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, October 2018
2018 Facilitator, 4A Curators’ Intensive with Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, forthcoming
2018 Convene Masterclass with international curator, David Elliott at VCA, University of Melbourne
2018 Convene conversation with 21^st Biennale of Sydney artists, Tiffany Chung (Vietnam) and NS Harsha (India) at Federation Hall, Melbourne
2017 Convene dialogue between artist, John Young and author, Brian Castro in conjunction with the launch of the publication Macau Days, Art + Australia, MPavilion, Melbourne
2017 Deliver paper for ‘Australia Now Germany: Museums as Activators’, DFAT program at Aedes Laboratory, Berlin
2017 Art Forum, Federation Hall, VCA, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2017 Guided tours of Tracey Moffatt: My Horizon, 587^th Venice Biennale, Italy
2017 Masterclass, postgraduate students in Curatorial Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2016 Floor talk, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta
2016 Floor talk, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2016 In conversation with artist, Tracey Moffatt, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2016 In conversation with artist, Tracey Moffatt, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2015 Convene a conversation with Indian trio Raqs Media Collective, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2014 Curate A Day in the Valley, a one-day program of performances, talks and events, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne
2014 Floor talk, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2014 Lecture at Concert Hall as part of 13^th Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Korea
2013 Deliver keynote at Curatorial Intensive, PGAV, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2012 Lemuria: cultural entanglements between Australia and India, forum with Nikhil Chopra, Emily Floyd, Dr Chaitanya Sambrani, Gigi Scaria, Asialink and Melbourne Festival, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2012 As above | as below, Discussing regional connectivity, reciprocity and the space between, panel with Yusaku Imamura, Director, Tokyo Wonder Site; Tan Boon Hui, Director, Singapore Art Museum and artists Tiffany Singh and Yun-fei Ji, Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2011 Panel presentation, Contemporary Asian Art Exhibitions: Curatorial strategies in the wake of the “Asian Century”, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
2011 Public interview with Bill Henson, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2011 Contribute to international panel Platforms for Regional Engagement: creativity, politics and emergent curatorial practices, International Speakers’ Program, India Art Fair, New Delhi
2011 Convene Intimate Publics Forum with Tan Boon Hui, Director, Singapore Art Museum; Sunjung Kim, Agent for Documenta and Co-Artistic Director, Gwangju Biennale; Yusaku Imamura, Director, Tokyo Wonder Site, Asialink, University of Melbourne in partnership with Melbourne Festival, Asialink, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2010 Participate in ‘Photography and Globalization’ roundtable, CCP, Melbourne
2008 Participate in Australian Art Criticism Symposium, Monash University, Melbourne
2006 Collaborations Forum, 15^th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2006 ‘Found in Translation: Curating Outside Comfort Zones’, Melbourne Art Fair Forum, NGV International, Melbourne
2006 Lecture on Destiny Deacon, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2004 Lecture on contemporary Australian photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
2002 Guest talk for Neo-Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2000 ‘Asia, Australia-where are we now?’, Forum with John Young, Tony Scott & Catherine Woo, Melbourne Art Fair 2000,
2000 ‘Contemporary Photography’, Art Now, Tokyo
2000 Chair Arts Session at Mobilising Asia Conference, organised by The Asialink Circle, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne
2000 ‘This is a trip of a lifetime!: the politics of cultural collaboration’, panel forum with Brenda L. Croft (AGWA) & Thomas Mulcaire (South Africa) Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Articulations Conference, Perth
1999 Floor talk, John Young, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1999 ‘Tokyo Pop and Contemporary Japanese Photography’, Ogaki - Glen Eira Japanese Festival, Melbourne
1998 Case Study Presentation, Australia-Japan Seminar, City of Melbourne, Melbourne
1997 Keynote Lecture at Barbie Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
1997 ‘Contemporary Curating’, Swinburne, Melbourne
1997 The Export of Cultural Expertise, Museums Australia Forum, RMIT, Melbourne
1997 ‘Professional Practice’, RMIT Masters Program, Melbourne
1996 ‘Contemporary Installation Art’, NETS Workshop, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996 ‘3D: Decor, Design and the Domestic’, Annual Duldig Lecture on Sculpture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996 Art Organisations: Success or Failure?, The Third Art: Information Forums, RMIT, Melbourne
1995 ‘Rozalind Drummond: Peeping Tom’, Support Women Image Makers, Stop 22, Melbourne
1995 ‘Methodologies of Legitimacy: Contemporary Issues in Art Curation and the Museum’, RMIT Masters of Fine Art Seminar, Melbourne
1995 ‘Artists and the Museum in the 60s’, Guest Lecture, Melbourne University Department of Fine Arts, Melbourne
1994 ‘Curatorship: Noble Vessel or Ship of Fools?’, Gertrude Street Forum, Melbourne
1994 ‘Focus on Asia: Alison Carroll & Natalie King’, deliver paper at Museums National Forum, Melbourne
1993 Deliver a paper and chair the conference ‘Present and the Future - Personal Accounts’ for the Jewish Festival of Arts Seminar Program, Melbourne