{"id":15697,"date":"2020-09-04T21:52:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jcg.curtin.edu.au\/?p=15697"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T04:11:03","slug":"the-australian-gothic-nalda-searles-and-theo-costantino-in-conversation-with-andrew-nicholls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/2020\/09\/the-australian-gothic-nalda-searles-and-theo-costantino-in-conversation-with-andrew-nicholls\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: The Australian Gothic:  Nalda Searles and Theo Costantino in conversation with Andrew Nicholls, WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><h1>The Australian Gothic: Nalda Searles and Theo Costantino in conversation with Andrew Nicholls<\/h1>\n<h2><strong>John Curtin Gallery<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>Wednesday 23 September 12:30pm &#8211; 1:30pm<\/h2>\n<p>Andrew Nicholls is an Australian\/British writer, artist and curator whose practice draws upon historically marginalised aesthetics, cultural appropriation, imperialist tendencies, and recurrent artistic tropes. Join Andrew in conversation with Nalda Searles and Theo Costantino, two artists whose early lives were spent in Western Australia\u2019s remote Goldfields region, for a discussion of their art practices in relation to the Australian Gothic.<\/p>\n<p>Nalda Searles creates fibre and textile works that reflect upon the lives of those who dwell within the Western Australian landscape. Her haunting Grass Skull 2, (2008) features in the 50fifty:2020 exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Theo Costantino works with sculpture, drawing, video, photography and written prose. Their artwork often draws upon colonial histories, typically in a grotesque manner, as in the works from their Daughters of Midas series (2016) which also feature in the exhibition. Theo is the Executive Director of ART ON THE MOVE, WA\u2019s only organisation dedicated to touring<br \/>\ncontemporary visual art.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,155,157,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-support4waartists","category-50fifty2020","category-50fifty2020-pp","category-floor-talk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15918,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions\/15918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umsites.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}