Inaugural Curatorial Lectures 28 Jan 2016
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Inaugural Curatorial Lectures
The expertise of curators, librarians and specialists lies at the heart of any great research library. Recently four new curators joined the Alexander Turnbull Library. During February we introduce them to you in a series of inaugural public lectures. The lectures will be held on Wednesdays on Te Ahumairangi ground floor of the National Library starting at 5.30pm and finishing at 6.45pm.
The events are free
public events but please RSVP to [email protected] telling us
which lecture/s you wi
sh to attend by giving us the
name/s of the speaker/s.
Sir Rex Nan Kivell and
his collections – an exploration in discovery and
access
Dr Oliver Stead; Curator
Drawings, Paintings and Prints
Wed 3
Feb 5.30pm – 6.46pm
Sir Rex Kivell was a New Zealand-born collector and art dealer with a passion for the history of the South Pacific. His collection, numbering hundreds of paintings and drawings and thousands of prints and artefacts, was acquired by the Australian Commonwealth.
This lecture looks at how the Nan Kivell
collection continues to inspire interest and how digital
initiatives have increased its popularity.
Oliver Stead
is the author of a number of books on New Zealand art. He
has held senior and specialist roles in several collecting
institutions including Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the
National Library of Australia.
Couldn’t it have
been the bagpipes? Reflections on the work of Douglas
Lilburn
Dr Michael Brown; Curator
Music
Wed 10 Feb 5.30pm –
6.45pm
New Zealand’s most celebrated composer Douglas Lilburn claimed he grew up with little music on the family farm and at school. But he was in fact exposed to an array of domestic, school and church music. Indeed the Scottish traditions of his parents left a subtle but pervasive mark on his work.
This lecture considers how
music historiography in New Zealand has developed as a
series of silos despite evidence of interconnections among
musicians and musical styles. Lilburn’s work stands as a
prominent example of a more widespread pattern of musical
cross-pollination.
Michael Brown’s Masters and Doctoral
theses explored various aspects of New Zealand music
including folk, Maori performing arts and music
historiography. He has also performed music in a wide range
of styles.
From Wine to Words: A history of the
Gutenberg Bible
Anthony Tedeschi;
Curator Rare Books and Fine
Printing
Wed 17 Feb 5.30pm –
6.45pm
Few books have had as wide-reaching impact on global culture as the Gutenberg Bible. Johann Gutenberg perfected the combination of moveable metal type, printing ink, and a wooden screw press to enable the production of a large number of identical copies. This led to the rapid dissemination of knowledge, to the forming of communities of scholarship and eventually to the literate mass culture of today.
This lecture discusses the history
of the Gutenberg Bible from its creation to its status after
Gutenberg’s death, including some remarkable stories of
ownership, theft and sales.
Anthony Tedeschi was Rare
Books Librarian at Dunedin City Library and Curator of Rare
Books at the University of Melbourne. He holds a Master’s
degree in Library Science and an MA in English
Literature.
Kicking at the Boundaries: The
intersections of art and archive
Dr
Shannon Wellington; Curator
Manuscripts
Wed 24 Feb 5.30pm –
6.45pm
The last decade has seen increasing colonisation of the archive by artists. Collecting institutions have invited artists to remediate, re-conceptualise, and re-purpose their archival holdings. A new genre of art has emerged drawing on documentary heritage resources.
This lecture explores these ideas through case
studies of innovative collaboration between artists and the
archive.
Shannon Wellington lectured in Archival Systems
and Preservation Management at Victoria University of
Wellington and is a teaching Associate for the Museum and
Heritage Studies
Programme.
Bookings
These are free
public events but please RSVP to [email protected]
telling us which lecture/s you wish to attend by giving us
the name/s of the
lecturer/s.
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