Thursday, October 13, 2011

Hazel Dooney At TEDx Brisbane: Taking The Art Business To Task

Exerpt from Hazel Dooney Studio Notes...


Hazel Dooney is to join the prominent speakers appearing at TEDx Brisbane this Saturday, 15th October, at the State Library of Queensland.

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a nonprofit organisation devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Founded as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. Past TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Created in the spirit of the original TED Conference’s mission, the TEDx program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at a local level. TEDx events such as Brisbane's are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis but in affiliation with TED.

Tickets to TEDx Brisbane are no longer available. However it will be 'livecast' at http://edgeqld.org.au/webcast – the start time of Hazel's speech has not yet been confirmed but it will be posted on her home page on Friday, 14th October.

Hazel will be telling her own story of creating an independent career, in the hope of inspiring students and artists to exert stronger control over their art and careers. She will also explore the new paradigm within which young artists, musicians and writers are eschewing traditional intermediaries (commercial galleries, record companies and publishers) to create a direct connection with their audience. However it will be – as one might expect of one of Australia's controversial female artists – a frank, intensely personal and, at times, confronting account.

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