There are many buildings in the world, but few can be regarded as works of architecture.

In this lecture, Angelo Candalepas will discuss what makes the difference between a building and a work of architecture.

Angelo Candalepas is the recipient of over 30 awards in architecture and recently won the national design competition for The Fox: NGV Contemporary. His distinctive architecture is applied across a diverse range of public, residential, religious and commercial projects.

The talk will be followed by refreshments in the JAHM apartment.

Dr Anita Archer is an expert in global art markets with particular interest in emerging art markets, international art auctions and the valuation and pricing of contemporary art. Her expertise stems from her university research, as an international art auctioneer and as an independent art consultant.

If you are interested in how the global art market works, what impacts the pricing mechanism of contemporary art and how the art market is changing, particularly in relation to new art such as art generated by artificial intelligence, NFT’s and media art, Anita’s talk is not to be missed.

The talk will be followed by refreshments in the JAHM apartment.

Christian Bök is one of the founders of Conceptualism (the literary movement that explores the ‘limit-cases’ of writing after the advent of the Internet) and for his talk, Bök plans to offer a brief intro to his career as a poet, describing two projects that have earned him global renown.

Christian will discuss the role of monochromic abstraction in the recent legacy of painting, especially works that feature only the colour ‘white’ in their palette and showcase the influence of these paintings upon the poetics of his own literary movement. This will be illustrated by Bok’s work, The Kazimir Effect, currently displayed in the JAHM apartment. He will also perform poetry against the backdrop of these images.

The talk will be followed by refreshments in the apartment.

Following his highly regarded illustrated lecture in 2022, architect and scholar Jarrod Haberfield continues to share his ongoing research into why people collect.

The compulsion to collect appears to be an innately human thing. We are drawn to different types of collecting, and driven to continue, for varied and complex reasons; in the process, our collecting endeavours often become a cornerstone of our identity, both in public and private. This talk will allow Jarrod to share his deep understanding of the diverse motivations for collecting and introduce a selection of art collectors across time whose collecting has somehow changed the world.

The talk will be followed by refreshments in the apartment.

With Sean Godsell - Tuesday 18 April 7:30pm

Sean Godsell received the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 2022, one of his many internationally recognized awards and citations. His uncompromising approach to architecture has produced exquisite buildings that have forged a distinctive voice in the Australian cultural landscape. Sean’s reductive and minimalist oeuvre transforms architecture into art and bears comparison to the work of artist Fred Williams. In addition to the presentation of his work, Sean will discuss the fundamental role that drawing plays in his creative process. 

The talk will be followed by refreshments in the apartment.

With Nathan Jokovich - Tuesday 28 March 7:30pm

Ever wondered how an artwork can possibly be made by Artificial Intelligence and who indeed is the artist? 

Visual and Sound Artist, Nathan Jokovich, will discuss how he uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool to investigate the relationship between language, image and sound in materialising the digital space. Nathan will reference his works, including two which are currently exhibited at JAHM, to demonstrate how language and code can be used, disruptively, as tools for abstraction. His artistic practice will be contextualised in the historic framework of painting in a Post-Internet context. 

The talk will be followed by refreshments in the apartment.