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 21st 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, 587th 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 13th 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, 15th 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