ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
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Conversations and events from Melbourne's flagship contemporary art space
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Recorded talks connect contemporary artworks to queer history, colonial representation, technology and the bodily knowledge involved in making and experiencing them.
ACCA Podcast brings public arts programming to the microphone through artist conversations, panel discussions, performance lectures and publication launches.
At ACCA, a fashion panel can take you from a sheer nightgown to colonial propaganda.
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A thoughtful gallery conversation about art, memory, and the afterlife of Marsha P. Johnson.
Sophie Prince opens Tourmaline Transcendent with welcome, acknowledgement, and a clear frame before the talk moves into Marsha P. Johnson, community memory, and the exhibition itself.
An ACCA conversation that links trans-rights urgency with r e a's use of photography to challenge colonial positioning.
The ACCA framing is the real entry point: acknowledgment of Country, a direct account of why the paired exhibitions matter now, and a conversation that keeps circling back to trans rights and visibility.
A grounded conversation about beauty, work, and resistance.
ACCA's new We Need to Talk series starts with a conversation about beauty as work, value, and resistance. The discussion stays close to the artist's own references: the natural world, arts education, and the move to upstate New York in 2023.
A live artist panel where grief, faith, and material practice stay closely entwined.
ACCA's gathering of four artists from Five Acts of Love reads less like a polished interview and more like a public conversation, with work, grief, memory, belief, and care all kept in view.
A book launch that becomes a live conversation about archival method, with just enough looseness to feel earned.
This launch plays less like a formal presentation and more like a live argument about art, memorialisation, and truth-telling. Scarce and Radford move from acknowledgements and institutional framing into fieldwork, and that shift matters: place, encounter, and reproduction are…
A thoughtful artist talk that links making, inherited histories, and country.
ACCA's Future Remains and the 2024 McFarlane Commissions stay close to the practical and reflective work of making art. Shelley McSpedden presents the program as a recurring platform for emerging to mid-career artists, with support for ambitious new work, while the artists speak…
Feminist film theory becomes a live conversation about horror, bodies, and the ideas around them.
ACCA's launch for Barbara Creed's Return of the Monstrous Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema feels like a public talk first and a lesson second.
Horror and art-making meet in a live talk shaped by lived experience.
Maria Kozic's artist talk is framed by Jessica Clark and Elise Goldfinch, who open with a Wurundjeri-country acknowledgement and position the exhibition around horror as a needed, cathartic release.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Jennifer Dasal narrates art history's overlooked lives, from Picasso's police file to Rauschenberg and Twombly's romance.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
ACCA starts with place and inheritance.
Laure starts with movement.
It starts with an invitation.
ACCA begins with country, context, and thanks.
A forgotten trunk opens the archive.
At ACCA, fashion works like a social language.
Rain sets the room.
An acknowledgement opens the room.
ACCA keeps the room audible.
ACCA begins with place and acknowledgement.
ACCA begins with country.
ACCA starts in the room.
Concrete Archives starts in the room.
A rainy Saturday opens with acknowledgements.
ACCA opens in formal mode.
ACCA keeps the room in view.
Jessica Clark starts by settling the room.
Mimi starts with absence and lets it do the talking.
Artists Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne present their project 'Offset,' which reimagines geoengineering through artistic interventions that critique carbon markets.
An ACCA gathering on Wurundjeri land.
A performance leaves the room changed.