NAS Art Forum | Dr Liz Bradshaw

Chaosophy and the body: the body that makes, that writes, that sings, that desires

Chaosophy sets up an intergenerational dialogue between artists. It is a provocation about language, especially that designed to make us invisible, and how we remake, reclaim, name, and create with it. It is also a recontextualisation of queer visual histories that explores the relationships between art and activism, poetry and performance, marginalisation and the mainstream. While the exhibition is about language as a material and the queering of language as a form of activism, the works also share a nuanced engagement with the complex, mutually reinforcing intersections of systemic and social forms of violence.

Dr Liz Bradshaw

Bradshaw is an artist, cultural researcher, and lecturer and is the curator of Chaosophy (February 14 – March 8, 2025) at NAS.

She currently teaches sculpture at NAS; and on the Masters of Design program at UNSW Art, Design, and Architecture. She has recently curated exhibitions including I want a future that lives up to my past (NAS, Queer Contemporary, 2022); A thousand beautiful things (Clifford Chance, 2023), Ward 17 South (Qtopia, in partnership with St Vincent’s Hospital, NAS 2023). She was the lead curator for the opening exhibitions of Qtopia Sydney (February 2024) the largest queer museum in the world.

Art Forum

The NAS Art Forum is a weekly public lecture intended to enrich the school community with contributions by guest speakers on a broad range of subjects considered to be of interest to NAS staff, students and the public.

Previous speakers have included notable art industry professionals on subjects covering visual arts, cultural theory and humanities.

NAS Forum lectures are held Wednesday lunchtime from 12.45 – 1.30pm during teaching weeks.