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The People’s Museum for Prince: inverting the curatorial lens from artist to audience
(2018)
This practice-based research explores an alternative model for an artist’s museum focusing on the impact of the artist on their audience. It takes form as a dissertation, and an exhibition which was held in Minneapolis, ...
Art & meaning in videogames
(2018)
This practice led interdisciplinary research explores intersections between videogame design and technology, the creative arts and philosophy. Through the development of a new interactive art work the project brings ...
Naked awareness: the private performance of inscribing skin
(2018)
This practice-led research reflects upon the testimonies and engagement of participants and audience in my art practice, The Letting Go, which is performed both privately and in galleries and is informed by the intersections ...
Being occupier: a white Australian visual art practice that engages with the nature of belonging to settler culture
(2018)
This interdisciplinary, art-practice led research explores the relationship between art and questions of awareness, guilt and racism towards Indigenous people in this country. It asks how an art practice can help facilitate ...
The remains of decay: composing auditory afterimages
(2018)
This autoethnographic critical exploration reflects on an accompanying folio of music compositions created between early 2013 and late 2016: Suite from The Bloody Chamber for three harps, Rung for electric guitar, contrabass ...
Agency and affect: curating political change
(2017)
'Agency and affect: curating political change' is a practice-led research project that considers the relationship of art to political change, and the critical possibilities for agency in this relationship. To establish ...
Assisted solo: navigating relational & representational failure in music-dance collaboration
(2017)
This practice-based research asks how failure can be harnessed as a generative tool for locating, articulating and extending creative capacity in Assisted Solo music-dance collaboration. Throughout this research, the term ...
The poison garden
(2017)
In their three 'Memories of a Sorcerer' passages in 'A Thousand Plateaus', Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari identify as sorcerers instead of as philosophers, and draw a line between the practice of sorcery and writing ...
This is my body: re-imagining the mother and the sacred in art and ordinary life
(2017)
This art practice-led project re-examines traditional images of the maternal body in Christian visual culture in order to generate new motifs that more ethically imagine the mother and the sacred for our time. Traditionally, ...
The seam: from/of construction to deconstruction
(2017)
The seam is the principal construction technique employed by the contemporary fashion industry. It produces both garments and, in turn, the semiotic or fashioned body. The implications of the semiotic relationship - between ...