[Stills] Peggy and Fred in Hell, Leslie Thornton
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[AP] Research Groups
Are you looking for a place to deepen your practice or writing research interests?
We will help you fashion an organised program of online or in-person critical discussions, with fresh and up-to-date readings, seminars structured to your own needs, and flexible delivery and group sizes
Contact Jan Bryant artprogrmme68@gmail.com
Current Example :
Walter Benjamin reading group (monthly & in person), with an emphasis on resistance to received histories, understanding capitalism, the role of aphorisms and essays
Angela Brennan, Spooky Action at a Distance (2025) Oil on linen 200 x 200 cm
ANNOUNCEMENT
upcoming // December 2026Ruth Höfflich & Art Programme are holding an Intensive filmmaking workshop in December for artists working with screen technologies.
Link to Dates, Location and Costs
The workshop will allow for group discussions and crits on participants own projects. All stages of development are welcome — conceptual, production, editing, post-production. You are also welcome if you choose not to bring a project in development.
For this intensive, Ruth is going to focus on a cycle of films by Leslie Thornton, PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL. This will allow for a deeper dive into editing choices, concept, photography and filmic development.
Leslie Thornton will join for a Q&A session by Zoom.
The workshop is hosted by Fernando Trentcini & Cristea Zhao from The Third Brim.
The Third Brim isA non-profit public program space for shared enquiries and collective learning. We work to bring different kinds of knowledge, practice and experience into conversation through curated program series, peer-to-peer workshops, learning intensives, and other forms of gathering.
Information about our Org
Art Programme [AP] is a small, arts' organisation based in Naarm/ Melbourne, Australia.
AP was formed in 2021 by artists and writers for artists, writers, thinkers, and filmmakers to come together to critically
explore contemporary ideas and developments in studio practice, art, film, politics, and philosophy.
AP is a non-exploitative employer that respects the knowledges and specialisations of all its facilitators and participants.
We aim to keep our costs as low as possible, without compromising a fair renumeration for our presenters and guests. We support the Code of Practice established by the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) (Australia).
Our ethos
[AP] is a post-institutional collective with years of experience and specialist knowledges.
We recognise the limitations that institutions and bureaucracies place on creative thinking and are intent on maintaining a supportive environment in which all participants feel free to explore new ideas in confidence and without judgement.
This extends to our studio pracs and crits which are led by experienced artists who ensure that all feedback is constructive, empathetic, and relevant in the context of current contemporary art practices.
[AP] functions as a flexible organising system of unranked independent elements that can be arranged/rearranged, depending on the task at hand. As a ‘heterarchy’, we actively resist hierarchical ordering.
Art Programme operates on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri of the Kulin Alliance and acknowledges and pays respect to their Elders past and present.