Defining Moments: Peter Cripps & Channon Goodwin – Permanent Recession: Art Labour & Circumstance

This conversation between Peter Cripps and Channon Goodwin considers the contemporary relevance of ideas of 'recession art', and follows on from the the lecture by Cripps and response from Goodwin, addressing the 1985 exhibition 'Recession art and other strategies' 1985 at the IMA, curated by Cripps, and the 2019 publication 'Permanent Recession', edited by Goodwin. This conversation is part of ACCA's Lecture Series Defining Moments: Australian Exhibition Histories 1968–1999. Listen to the lecture by Peter Cripps, and response by Goodwin here: https://soundcloud.com/acca_melbourne/defining-moments-peter-cripps-on-recession-art-and-other-strategies Read more about the lecture series here: https://acca.melbourne/series/defining-moments ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Peter Cripps is an artist and a former Director of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane (1984–86). As an artist has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally since the 1970s, with recent major individual survey exhibitions including Peter Cripps: Endless Space at the IMA, Brisbane in 2012, and Peter Cripps: Towards an Elegant Solution, ACCA, Melbourne in 2010. Between 1973 and 1988, Cripps worked as a curator and various other roles within a number of major Australian museums, galleries and alternative art spaces, as well as in a freelance capacity. Channon Goodwin is an artist and arts-worker based in Melbourne. Goodwin is the Director of Bus Projects, founding Convener of the All Conference network, and makes films and podcasts for Fellow Worker.