QUT Writers and Ideas at QUT

Writers and ideas at QUT

Writers and Ideas at QUT brings together writers, academics, and industry figures to discuss key debates and ideas animating the field of contemporary creative writing.  Open to all, these free seminars invite speakers and audience members to engage with a spectrum of ideas about what it means to be a writer today, and debate the cultural factors contributing to our ideas of writing and publishing.

In August, the seminar will be at the QUT Art Museum for a special collaboration with Salon de Fleurus, a contemporary reconstruction of Gertrude Stein's Parisian salon.  Champagne and light refreshments will be served.

Salon De Fleurus installation view, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane 2018 - Photo: Carl Warner

Seminar 3:

Questions of Taste

The idea of having 'good taste' in art and literature is sometimes associated with snobbery or exclusivity. But do notions of high-, middle- and low-brow art still have an impact on the way that books and other art forms exist in the world?These very popular seminars are free and seats are limited.  Register your attendance.  If you find you're unable to attend, please cancel your registration so that those on the wait list can attend.

Featuring:

Susan Johnson was shortlisted for the 1991 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel Flying Lessons, shortlisted for the 1994 National Book Council's Banjo Award for the novel A Big Life and shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2000 for her memoir A Better Woman. Her other books include Hungry Ghosts, Messages from Chaos, and Women Love Sex (editor and contributor). The Broken Book was shortlisted for the 2005 Nita B Kibble Award; the Best Fiction Book section of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award; the Westfield/Waverley Library Literary Award, and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal Award for an Outstanding Australian Literary Work. She works as a journalist at Qweekendmagazine.

Chris Saines CNZM is Director of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane. He has worked for over 35 years in leading galleries in Australia and New Zealand. As Director of QAGOMA since 2013, he has overseen major exhibitions by leading international artists, driven a reimagined presentation of the Gallery’s Australian collection and steered the eighth and ninth editions of the renowned Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Chris is Chair of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors and a board member of the Australia-Japan Foundation. He was previously Director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki from 1996 to 2013.

Craig Bolland is an award-winning playwright and a short film maker. He is the author of the novel I Knit Water and has worked as a film and book critic. He lectures in Creative Writing at QUT. His current research looks at the field of Stylistics, which marries Linguistics and Psychology to account for the ways in which readers respond to language. He is particularly interested in the ways language generates empathic experiences.

Panel Chair: Kári Gíslason

Associate Professor Kári Gíslason is a writer and academic who lectures in Creative Writing at QUT. Kári was awarded a doctorate in 2003 for his thesis on medieval Icelandic literature. He is the author of The Promise of Iceland, The Ash Burner, and co-author with Richard Fidler ofSaga Land: The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World. 

Have questions about Questions of Taste? Contact QUT Creative Industries

QUT Art Museum 
2 George Street 
QUT Gardens Point 
Brisbane, Qld 4000
Australia 

Thursday, August 23, 2018 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (AEST)

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