SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation warmly invites you to attend the launch of

Double War: Shaun Gladwell
Visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
by Dr Kit Messham-Muir

Please join Kit Messham-Muir, Shaun Gladwell and Gene Sherman (moderator), as they discuss Gladwell’s time in Afghanistan as an official Australian war artist in 2009.

Simon Mordant AM, Chair, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, will launch the publication following the conversation.

on Thursday, 23 April 2015

6–8 pm
Conversation to commence at 6:30 pm.

at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16–20 Goodhope Street
Paddington NSW 2021

RSVP
02 9331 1112 or bookings@sherman-scaf.org.au

A limited number of pre-release copies of Double War will be available for sale and signing.

Kit Messham-Muir is an art theorist, educator, researcher and presenter based in Newcastle, Australia. He grew up in Wales and moved to Australia in 1990 to study art at the University of Sydney. He graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours Class 1) in 1994 and in 2000 was awarded a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of New South Wales. Kit’s doctoral thesis was titled Toward an Understanding of Affect: Transgression, Abjection and Their Limits in Contemporary Art in the 1990s and examined the role of affect and emotion in political debates surrounding the National Endowment for the Arts’ funding of ‘obscene and indecent arts’ following the 1989 Andre Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe controversies. Since 1997, Kit has taught art history at universities in Australia and Hong Kong and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has won multiple awards for teaching, publishes frequently, is a regular contributor to The Conversation and directs the StudioCrasher video project.