Critical Animals  is held during the This Is Not Art (TINA) festival in Newcastle each October long weekend.
It brings together tertiary research students who are working critically in areas covered by the events of TINA and provides an opportunity to present creative research to the largest gathering of young media makers, artists and writers in Australia

This year's Critical Animals panels include: Performance Research Showcase, presenting work from across the spectrum: sound, poetics, performance and video; The Outsider Lineage, Is the act of creativity an act of self exile?; Creative Arts and Media Practice on-line, curating the creative on-line; Writing the Unwriteable, working with daunting, dark and difficult material; Give Unto Caesar, How does creative practice translate into the academic research system?; Body 'Trouble': Body Art and Performance, the use and manipulation of the body in various extreme performance contexts; Obscurity and Obsession, reclaiming space for rarefied discourses, microcosmic research areas and intensive immersions. We are hosting a special panel 'Is TINA a Critical Animal?'; join us as we attempt to shake out a cultural philosophy with Kate Crawford, Gail Priest, Sarah Nicholson and Justine Lloyd. Also tasty book launches by Vanessa Berry and Ivy Ireland.

Critical Animals is excited to announce our program for 2007, for the full This Is Not Art program check out the TINA website

Last years (2006) program

Hear from artists and writers including: Sarah-Jane Norman, Barry Hill, Tessa Needham, Danuta Shaw, Sally Fitzpatrick, Karen Hitchcock, Olivia Crang, Patrick Bryson, Sarah-Mace Dennis, Jack Barton, Hannah Stark, Jon Dale, Christelle Davis, Janet Starr, Dion Oxley, Michelle Jamieson, Nick Powell, Barbara Finlayson, Emma Elita, Ainslie Yardley, Keri Glastonbury, Bethany J Fellows, Jessica Wilkinson & Simon Charles, Jason Wilson, Louise Rollman, Justin Brow.