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The Finest Art Seminar Series Tonight (FASST)

PanOptic Press | Little Tokyo Two | Reach Media | SoFA, 36 Mein Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane, QLD.

Associate Professor Rex Butler’s current research projects include A History of UnAustralian Art (with A.D.S. Donaldson), a critical biography of Colin McCahon (with Laurence Simmons) and a book on Stanley Cavell. He has recently completed a book on Deleuze and Guattari’s What is Philosophy? 


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Susan Best is an art historian with expertise in critical theory and modern and contemporary art. Her book, Visualizing Feeling: Affect and the Feminine Avant-garde, focuses on four women artists of the 1960s and 70s: Eva Hesse, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

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William Platz is an artist and writer whose research, teaching and practice concern life drawing, portraiture and pedagogies of drawing, with an underlying focus on the studio transactions that occur between artists and models. This research brings theatrical and performative…

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  • Complete FASST YouTube Playlist


    View the selection of art historical lectures sourced from Panoptic Press’s FASST series of events. All Interviews, editing and archival processes have been undertaken for Panoptic Press by Simon Marsh. The playlist can be accessed via the menu located on the top left of the media player.



Dr Laini Burton is a Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University where she convenes Studio Art and Honours within the Bachelor of Digital Media. Her research centres on body politics, bio-art and design, fashion theory, performance and body/spatial relations. Laini’s professional activities work across both…


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Angela Goddard is an art historian | curator. Having worked extensively with the Australian art collection at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Angela is now the current Director of Griffith University Art Museum. She introduced Susan Best’s talk: Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography.


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Dr Courtney Pedersen is the Head of Visual Arts at QUT and a Senior Lecturer in Art History. Her research interests include the position of women in art, feminist methods in creative practice and visual arts pedagogy. She has also been a practicing artist for over 20 years, with her primary training in photography at Prahran College.


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Header image: A.M Zombie, 2013, Crayon on Paper courtesy Dr William Platz, who delivered Life Drawing, Yawning Zombies and The Dragan Ilic Affair at our FASST II seminar, 1 November 2015. Music Courtsey: Maurice Gendron, Ombra mai fu, George Frideric Handel.