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Item168° 58’ 37” W: A Cold War Memorial(Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2018)This text is a material conduit, or vehicular medium, through which to imagine a work of art located on a stretch of intermittently frozen sea ice in the Bering Strait, at 168° 58’ 37” W. This ‘work’ is offered as a memor- ialisation of the consequences of collectively imagined fear—in this case the Cold War. Its ephemeral material existence—somewhere between this page and an expanse of sea ice located elsewhere in space and time— also seeks to perform something of the mutual insufficiency of material and contextual elements in artistic expression more generally.
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ItemProject Anywhere: Problems of Representation and Evaluation(Society of Artistic Research, 2017)Artistic research, like the world of a work of art, is presented in multiple ways in its often-uneven passage from conception through production to dissemination. And like a work of art, it can manifest across a complex distribution of materialisations. This complexity invariably presents challenges. Given the indeterminate nature and material manifestations that might constitute a single project, it can be particularly difficult to determine how and when it is best represented. This state of affairs can invite the question: are there more or less appropriate moments in the passage from conception to “realisation” in which to evaluate and represent artistic research? Although most established models tend to focus upon evaluating a project at its perceived point of realisation or conclusion (documentation/experience), Project Anywhere’s focus is instead directed toward the task of evaluating and representing artistic research at the proposal stage (speculation). Significantly, Project Anywhere regards a project’s potential produce new knowledge as something that might indeed. exist in its imagined or hypothetical potential rather than any tangible or measurable outcome. Moreover, by removing direct aesthetic experience as an evaluative mode, a very different sense of a new knowledge capacity is potentially introduced.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableParatext and the world of a work in public space: Eisenbach and Mansur’s Placeholders(Unlikely Publishing, La Trobe University and Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, 2016)