Talk: Not for the Sake of Something More

Speakers

• Kiron Robinson (AU)

  Kiron Robinson is an artist who lives and works out of Melbourne. He loves photographs but does not trust them. He uses a number of photographic strategies in different mediums to interrogate the image. His work circulates around a set of ideas that he recognises in the photograph – belief and doubt in the ability to believe except through doubting.

   

  Since 2003 Robinson has exhibited his work widely both nationally and internationally. He has held recent solo exhibitions at Sarah Scout Presents and the Centre for Contemporary Photography. He has curated a number of exhibitions questioning the current photographic condition including at West Space and Benalla Art Gallery. His work is held in a number of public and private collections.

   

  His favourite gum was Hubba Bubba grape flavour.

• Ali McCann (AU)

  Ali McCann lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne. She completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, in 2017. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Since the early 2000s she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Οι νέοι, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2019), Having an Experience/ Energy Organisation, Melbourne (2019), Masks for Magicians, Caves, Melbourne (2018); Polytechnic, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, (2018); An Introduction to Liminal Aesthetics, c3 contemporary art space, Melbourne (2017); and Throwing off the Hump, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne (2017). Her work has previously been shown at West Space, Melbourne; Bus Projects, Melbourne; TCB Art Inc., Melbourne; Home@735, Sydney; Chalk Horse, Sydney; and China Heights Gallery, Sydney. She currently teaches Photography & Photo Imaging at the Northern College of the Arts and Technology, Melbourne.

• Sanja Pahoki (AU)

  Born Osijek, Croatia
  Lives and works Melbourne, Australia

  Sanja Pahoki uses photography, video, neon and text to explore observations from everyday life. Existential issues such as the nature of self, identity and the role of anxiety are recurring themes in her work. As the autobiographical is the initial inspiration for much of Sanja’s work, humour is often employed as a strategy to direct attention away from the personal to shared universal concerns. In 2018, Sanja was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University. Pahoki’s artwork has been exhibited both nationally (ACCA @ Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney) and internationally (Brussels, Japan, Shanghai, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Rotterdam). Pahoki is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She is represented by Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne.