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- [New Book] The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation
- CCR achieves top ranking for Cultural Studies in the ERA 2010
- CCR ARC Discovery Success
- World-Renowned Cultural Studies Professor Joins CCR
- UnSTINTing CCR-Sweden Connection
- CCR Professor Honoured with Distinguished Title
[New Book] The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation
Edited by Elaine Lally, Ien Ang and Kay Anderson, the book investigates a number of contemporary art projects which brought together artists, businesses, other organisations, and communities, under the label of C3West. The aim was to find new and sustainable models for site-specific creative production that is genuinely collaborative and engages with the challenges of economic, social and regional development.
Projects were undertaken with a range of business partners in Western Sydney, including Penrith Panthers and the waste company SITA, and the artists commissioned include Australian artists, Craig Walsh and Ash Keating; and international artists, Sylvie Blocher and Jeanne van Heeswijk.
The book is an outcome of the CCR led project The Art of Engagement: Exploring C3 West, a Contemporary Arts-Business Collaboration Around Western Sydney. The project was funded by an ARC Linkage Grant - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (MCA), Casula Powerhouse and Penrith Performing & Visual Arts were partners in the Linkage grant and, with Campbelltown Arts Centre, were the organisations behind C3West.
CCR achieves top ranking for Cultural Studies in the ERA 2010
The University of Western Sydney has received the highest ranking for research quality in Cultural Studies (Excellence in Research Australia 2010). The Centre would like to congratulate its members for their efforts in helping achieve this excellent result.
CCR ARC Discovery Success
Congratulations to CCR researchers on two ARC Discovery successes in the 2010 round. Professor Kay Anderson's project is entitled, Decolonising The Human: Towards a Postcolonial Ecology. Professor Tony Bennett and Dr Fiona Cameron (with Dr Rodney Harrison, Professor Conal McCarthy, Professor Nelia S. Dias, and Dr Ira Jacknis) will be working on the project, Museum, Field, Metropolis, Colony: Practices of Social Governance. The projects will commence in 2011.
World-Renowned Cultural Studies Professor Joins CCR
We are pleased to announce that Professor Tony Bennett has recently joined CCR, where he has been appointed Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory. Tony has published extensively in the areas of literary and aesthetic theory, cultural studies, museology and cultural sociology. His main books include Formalism and Marxism (1979), Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero (1987, with Janet Woollacott), Outside Literature (1991), The Birth of the Museum (1995), Culture: A Reformer's Science (1998), Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (2004), and Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals (2007). He is also a co-author of Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (1999, with Mike Emmison and John Frow) and Culture, Class, Distinction (2009, with Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright). With energetic collaborative discussions and projects already in the pipeline, we look forward to Tony's considerable collegial, intellectual contributions to everyday life at CCR.
UnSTINTing CCR-Sweden Connection
CCR and ACSIS (The Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden), together with the Department of Cultural Studies (Tema Q) at Linköping University have successfully applied for a four-year STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) Institutional Grant. The project explores the interfaces between culturalisation and globalisation in four focal areas - cultural policy and cultural production, uses of history and museums, urban tourism, and media and popular culture. Reciprocally-hosted workshops have already commenced and have allowed participants to begin discussing aspects of their research in dynamic and interactive contexts. In doing so, it is intended that the two Centres will develop a strong and multilevel collaboration in research and higher education.
CCR Professor Honoured with Distinguished Title
Professor Ien Ang, the founding Director of CCR, has had the title of Distinguished Professor conferred on her by the University of Western Sydney in recognition of her outstanding research record and eminence. She is the first person at UWS to be conferred with this honour. Congratulations Ien!
