Lecture Me: Dirk Yates + Tutorial ~ Kathy Mackey

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2PP presents a lecture on Contemporary art from Dirk Yates and follow up tutorial with Kathy Mackey.2PP presents a lecture on Contemporary art from Dirk Yates and follow up tutorial with Kathy Mackey.

After their debut project in late Spring 2025, 2PP continue their programming with a series of contemporary art lectures on the Gold Coast. Identifying a gap left by the higher education sector, the series will continue the organisation’s focus on providing a platform for contemporary art and ideas in the city and establishing 2PP as an independent voice for contemporary practice in the region.

Lecture Me continues 2PP’s commitment to ambitious programming. Rather than artist talks or panel conversations, the series seeks to champion the ‘Lecture’ as a critical form. As such, it will feature practitioners (academics, artists, or thinkers) who are engaged with the pressing issues and ideas of today.

• Lecture 1, Dirk Yates ~ The Living Dog & the Dead Lion: Contemporary Exhibitions and the Legacy of Museum Standards, Tuesday 25 August
• Tutorial 1 with Kathy Mackey, Tuesday 8 September

The program aims to send audiences away with a fresh sense of engagement, armed with new avenues of exploration. Each lecture will have an accompanying recommended reading list to encourage continued learning and further enforce the lecture as a specific and valuable format.

Each lecture will have an accompanying Tutorial, facilitated a fortnight after the lecture by a local artist/arts worker. In this…