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ItemLiam Fleming: Bringing colour into being(The Guildhouse Fellowship, 2023)"Light and colour is curated by Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, and is accompanied by a printed exhibition catalogue featuring essay by David Sequeira."
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ItemFraming Technologies in the Dramaturgies of Performance(Centre 42, 2023)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableCreating Kaleidoscopic Characters: Working with Performance to Develop Character Stories Prior to Screen Story(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)This chapter draws on practice that begins the filmmaking process with character performance before developing a script. Hence characterisation precedes the script and suggests a viable model of story development and film production. This chapter examines a development process of creating nuanced characters prior to the screenwriting practice through a comparative examination of the methods used by contemporary filmmakers working with actors and performance prior to story or script. The chapter investigates approaches to screen work and methods used by UK filmmaker Mike Leigh and Indie US filmmaker Miranda July and draws from Angie Black’s filmmaking practice in the development of the feature film, The Five Provocations (Black, 2018) as a case study. This chapter highlights the importance of character in story creation and how collaboration with cast at the initial stages of the screenwriting process can play a significant part in capturing compelling screen performances that lead to greater character verisimilitude and emotional integrity in the completed film.
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ItemPink Data: Tiamaterialism and the Female Gnosis of Desire(re.press, 2016)
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ItemDaily Demons and Fabulous Animals(World Crafts Council - Australia, 2018)Tessa Laird’s Quarterly Essay is a quest to find the maker of the marvellous alebrija that she bought last time in Mexico. These alebrijas are elaborately carved animals that reflect the Indigenous belief in the nahual, or animal spirit. Laird has just published a book on bats for the Reaction series. Her interest in the fluid relationship between humans and animals finds so much to share in the rich crafts and beliefs of southern Mexico.
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ItemSpores from Space: Becoming the Alien(Punctum Books, 2018-09-11)The masterpiece of pseudo-science, The Secret Life of Plants (1973) features a chapter on plants’ communication with space. Over a decade ago, the artist Frances Stark penned a love letter to this book in Art / Text, but, she drew the line at this chapter, unable to assimilate the idea that plants, who predate human beings on this planet by hundreds of millions of years, might have developed technologies more sophisticated than those we have managed to create within the last 100 years. This paper proposes that, not only might plants be communicating with space, but that we too might be communing with extraterrestrial life forms via the arcane networked technologies of our chlorophiliac friends, if only we knew it. If neither of these proposals can be conclusively proven, tropes in art, literature, and above all popular culture, frequently feature plants as analogies for alien others. This paper proposes three ways in which we think with plants (and, to be fair, plants think with us): inversion, hybridity, and contagion. Fabulated vegetal worlds feature radically inverted colours and scales; hybrid creatures embody and flout anxieties about racial and species boundaries; contagious plants infect their human hosts with alchemical arsenals, leading to death, or ecstasy, or both. Science fictions of plant sentience and human-plant hybridity divest anthropocentric control, imagining worlds where senses are heightened and interconnectivities flourish. Focusing on an episode of original series Star Trek “This Side of Paradise”, featuring alien flowers which spray the Enterprise’s crew with psychedelic spores, I wish to examine the role of plants and science fiction as mutually compatible vehicles for altered consciousness. Cross-pollinating the spore-infected writings of magic mushroom guru Terence McKenna and anthropologist Anna Tsing this paper propounds vegetalismo (curing with psychoactive plants) in order to “become the alien”.
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ItemVertiginous Viriditas: for a Planthropscene, not a Plantationocene(Art + Publishing, University of Melbourne, 2021)
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ItemThe Butch Monologues: Performance as a Bridge from “Border Wars” to “Playground”(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)In this chapter Alyson Campbell looks at The Butch Monologues (TBM) by Libro Levi (Doc) Bridgeman, directed by JulieMc McNamara (Mack) (2013–present). Based mainly on an interview with the writer and director, and Campbell’s own multiple viewings of the work, the chapter examines how the collection and, more precisely, the productions of it, make an intervention into this very painful contemporary context, and history, of ‘“border wars’ between butch lesbians and trans men” (Mackay in J Lesbian Stud 23:399, 2019b; and see Halberstam, 1998). It is suggested that TBM manage to blur these borders, or at least niggle this negative framing, and Campbell argues that the stories it tells are more relevant than ever, given this current tension.
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Item“Very Much a Laboratory”: Barrie Kosky and the Gilgul Ensemble 1991–1997(Springer, 2021)This chapter surveys the work of the Gilgul Ensemble, an independent theatre company established by Barrie Kosky in 1991 to investigate Jewish identity, history and performance. Across the six-year lifespan of the company, Gilgul created five works that cemented Kosky’s growing reputation as a director and theatre-maker of uncommon vision and boldness. The authors, Yoni Prior and Matthew Delbridge, were members of the original ensemble and the chapter draws on interviews with past ensemble members to consider the idiosyncratic dramaturgy and collaborative working methods that forged the work, and the evolving stage language that developed across the span of the works. The chapter also reflects on the local and international cultural contexts out of which the work emerged, locating it in an historical moment when Australian (and peculiarly Melbournian) theatre artists were responding explicitly to the diversity of the Australian population through investigations of narratives of migration, and the transmutation of languages, accents and traditions of originary cultures. This work tended to the postmodern, multi-modal, multi-lingual and self-reflexive, whilst cannily appropriating and adapting the high theatricality of past performance traditions.
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ItemPlaying an Instrument(Oxford University Press, 2016)Learning to play a musical instrument is one of the most widespread musical activities for children. While much research in the past century has focused on the assessment of musical abilities and the content of their lessons, more recent research has focused on children’s interactions with their social environments and how these interactions impact their ongoing ability and motivation to learn and play music. This chapter explores these social and cognitive developments starting with how children and their parents select an instrument and negotiate the commencement of formal music learning, through to the task related cognitive strategies children use to overcome the difficulties associated with learning and practice, and the ways they may eventually become able to integrate an identity as a musician with their own sense of self. Aspects of self-regulation and self-determination theory are discussed.
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