SAM Talks: Vinyl, Music & Our Desire to Collect with Jon Dale

Name: SAM Talks: Vinyl, Music & Our Desire to Collect with Jon Dale
Start: 2025-09-18T08:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-18T09:15:00+10:00
Location: 530 Wyndham St, Shepparton, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3630

Schedule

Thu Sep 18 2025 at 08:00 am to 09:15 am

UTC+10:00

Location

530 Wyndham St, Shepparton, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3630 | Shepparton, VI

If you're an old soul with a love for physical media in the digital age, you're invited to join us for an exciting iteration of SAM Talks, led by music journalist and University of Melbourne senior tutor Jon Dale.
This talk unspools a thread from critic Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay, Unpacking My Library, to examine what it means to collect records for their status both as objects themselves and as carriers of recorded culture. Using artist Brett Whiteley’s famed record collection as an example, this talk considers the desires that underpin the chaos and order of the collection – and of the collector.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Date + time: Thursday 18 September, 6pm to 7.15pm
Location: Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton
Price: Free – registrations essential
Register now via Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/sam-talks-unpacking-my-collection-vinyl-music-and-our-desire-to-collect