VCA Research & Practice respectfully acknowledges the Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations, the First Peoples of the Country on which the Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne’s Southbank campus stands.
We pay respect to their Elders past and present, and acknowledge the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Culture for their guidance of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music’s creative research on Aboriginal land.
We extend our respects to all First Nations people on lands where our work is created and shared.
Platform concept and Executive Producer:
Dr Danny Butt, Associate Director (Research) VCA.
Creative Producer:
Claire Bredenoord.
Technical and Design Direction:
Anthony Kolber, http://kolber.info.
Technical Developers, Second Stage:
Ze Wang & Junyao Zhao
Design:
Ethan Tsang (lead designer),
Zhengzheng Li,
Tsunenori Murata.
Technical Developer Intern:
Nicolas Montorio.
User Testing:
Chelsea Coon,
Kellie Wells,
Claire Marshall.
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VCA Research & Practice is a platform for graduate researchers (PhD and MFA) across the disciplines at Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.
On this platform you will find profiles of the researchers and documentation of their creative and scholarly works.
You can view projects by year or image.
On the navigation on the right side of the screen, you can view projects by discipline, at the top left, you can search by name, title, or keyword.
The platform includes image galleries, video, PDFs and texts.
We hope you enjoy your experience of these amazing projects!
As this platform is a pilot, we welcome all feedback to inform future developments.
Contact: vca-grplatform@unimelb.edu.au
If you are a graduate researcher looking to share your work on the platform, please email us.
This pilot platform is generously supported by
funding from the VCA Foundation.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
sound, text, music, installation, Gothic studies
email:
lewiscancut@gmail.com
instagram:
@lewiscancut
A Shadow Gliding, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2023
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
sound, text, music, installation, Gothic studies
email:
lewiscancut@gmail.com
instagram:
@lewiscancut
Through Peat and Pebbled Earth, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2022
I am exploring how information sings across species, knowledge systems, communities and mediums. What I call Voice in the Expanded Field.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
voice, sound studies, multispecies performance, commoning, more-than-art, process philosophy, elderhood, poet(h)ics, more-than-wealth, more-than-English, more-than-research
email:
ms.tinastefanou.com
Not-Another-Field-Recording : The Holy Epiphany, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
I am exploring how information sings across species, knowledge systems, communities and mediums. What I call Voice in the Expanded Field.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
voice, sound studies, multispecies performance, commoning, more-than-art, process philosophy, elderhood, poet(h)ics, more-than-wealth, more-than-English, more-than-research
email:
ms.tinastefanou.com
The Longest Hum, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
I am a producer and use my practice to lead my research. My PhD offered a firsthand, self-reflexive account into the practice of film producing and how it can be applied to the development and realisation of a digital archive project. I produced a digital archive belonging to VCA Film and Television to create new audiences and contexts across the nexus of teaching, learning, research and industry engagement and contribute to the development of practice. I am interested in the idea of living archives, cultural memory, and the recontextualisation of stories/experiences to create new/alternative narratives.
PhD (Film and Television)
Victorian College of the Arts
digital archives, film school, creative arts, wellbeing, writing and boxing, micro budget
email:
donna.lyon@unimelb.edu.au
twitter:
@thisisdonnalyon
facebook:
donna.lyon.16
instagram:
@donnalyonsworld
linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnalyon
Left / Write // Hook, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
I am exploring how information sings across species, knowledge systems, communities and mediums. What I call Voice in the Expanded Field.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
voice, sound studies, multispecies performance, commoning, more-than-art, process philosophy, elderhood, poet(h)ics, more-than-wealth, more-than-English, more-than-research
email:
ms.tinastefanou.com
Wake for Horses, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
My practice-led research through the intersection of art, philosophical speculation and historical enquiry seeks to contemplate the emergence of new worlds and heretical flights of time and objects to critically address the questions of territory, language, belonging, gatherings and borders.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
landscape, militant, being, archive, speculatory objects, gathering
email:
moonis.shah@gmail.com
instagram:
moonisahmadshah
linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/moonis-shah-146553161
The Accidentally Miraculous Everyday from that Heaven, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Research has included a Master's which focused on literacy in the teaching of choreography to secondary students and her current research focuses on investigating ontologies alternative to colonial dance curricula through Boonwurrung Ngargee (#boonwurrungngargee), a pre-tertiary youth dance group for First Nation's students based at VCA. Katy is primarily concerned with research that investigates dance in the 21st Century through pedagogy and social action whilst making artworks that appear in traditional and non traditional contexts with anyone that wants to dance. Research interests include challenging dance, teaching and performance hegemony, definitions of dance and dancers and the elephant in the room of using the term 'inclusivity' too broadly and without action or accountability.
PhD (Dance)
Victorian College of the Arts
contemporary dance, first nations, pre-tertiary, community participatory, pedagogy, boonwurrung
email:
katy.mckeown@student.unimelb.edu.au
instagram:
#boonwurrungngargee
Boonwurrung Ngargee, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
I am a producer and use my practice to lead my research. My PhD offered a firsthand, self-reflexive account into the practice of film producing and how it can be applied to the development and realisation of a digital archive project. I produced a digital archive belonging to VCA Film and Television to create new audiences and contexts across the nexus of teaching, learning, research and industry engagement and contribute to the development of practice. I am interested in the idea of living archives, cultural memory, and the recontextualisation of stories/experiences to create new/alternative narratives.
PhD (Film and Television)
Victorian College of the Arts
digital archives, film school, creative arts, wellbeing, writing and boxing, micro budget
email:
donna.lyon@unimelb.edu.au
twitter:
@thisisdonnalyon
facebook:
donna.lyon.16
instagram:
@donnalyonsworld
linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnalyon
VCA Film and Television Digital Archive Project, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Chris Parkinson's PhD research explores the practices of artists - collectively and independently - in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Dili, Timor-Leste, seeking to interrogate their visual and spatial politics and practices of community building. How do these artists perceive their relationship to art and the political in their specific social context? To what extent do local restrictions and global networks allow a regional proposition of urbanity, creativity and identity in the context of a pandemic?
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
atmosphere, affect, rhythm, social practice, publics, region
twitter:
chrsprknsn
instagram:
chrsprknsn
ZOOMKRONG, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Hamish's current research explores how concepts of death, as understood through queerness, might help us understand the nature of dance as a traditionally live form.
PhD (Dance)
Victorian College of the Arts
dance, queer theory, death, gender, pedagogy
twitter:
@hamishmcintosh_
LSdlr, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
body, mess, feminism, speech, queerness, institution
instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/sometimes_sophie/
From The Throat , Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
This practice-led research involves design and application of the Thematic Intensity Graph (TIG) throughout the production of an original feature-film. The TIG is a tool, derived from a movie’s theme, which emboldens the director and their collaborators to maintain individual creative expression whilst working towards a cohesive unified vision.
PhD (Film and Television)
Victorian College of the Arts
film, cinema, film directing, visual subtext, storytelling, film production, screenwriting, screenplay
email:
info@apocfilms.com
twitter:
apocfilms
facebook:
apocfilms
instagram:
apocfilms
vimeo:
apocfilms
linkedin:
apocfilms
Crime and Punishment, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
My practice is founded in drawing, with a particular focus on the study of figurative movement through drawing, often for moving image and animation works. My research considers the role of faith in the creative practice, and how it manifests in the ‘everyday’ of artmaking and thinking for artists, within the Australian contemporary visual arts context.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Drawing, visual art, stop motion, moving image, animation, everyday, faith, figurative
email:
rachel.gresswell@gmail.com
instagram:
rachelgresswell
I wash your hands, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Anchorite Passing, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Breathing in the Dark, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Witches Ladder, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
My research explores how the space of figurative painting reflects the relationship we have to our surroundings. This investigation uses observational responses to everyday places, photography, social media, art history, and personal narrative to produce paintings that visually communicate fragmented stories that reflect on contemporary life.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
painting, place, figurative, being-in-the-world
instagram:
@robmchaffie
The Modern World as our Natural Habitat, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Naghali is one of the most ancient surviving forms of Persian dramatic performance and focuses on storytelling. Severe restrictions were imposed after the Islamic conquest of Persia (c. 651 AD) and Naghali was recently placed on UNESCO’s *”List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding”.* Only scant information remains about its pre-Islamic form. However, the subsequent changes were substantial because Islam proscribes many of the aspects that are believed to have been a part of pre-Islamic Naghali, such as dance, female performers, puppets, masks and music. My research adopted a practice-led approach to creatively reconstruct some of the lost aspects of Naghali, thereby synthesising new knowledge from the limited set of clues found in ancient illustrations from the Shahnameh (Persian Book of Kings). Because illustrations formed the main source of information used for the reconstruction, my research focused on the gestural aspects of pre-Islamic Naghali and a major research output of this project was the creation of the *Naghali Gestural Vocabulary* (NGV). The potential contribution of Naghali to Western dramatic arts was demonstrated through Naghali-based performance of Shakespeare’s *Romeo and Juliet*.
PhD (Theatre)
Victorian College of the Arts
dance, theatre, storytelling
email:
elnaz@theatre-playroom.com
instagram:
@elgelani
A CREATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF PRE-ISLAMIC NAGHALI, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
This research investigates the question: how can the discourse of hauntology be used as a methodology to critically consider spaces of indeterminacy within the semiotic realm? The project investigates the sign whose meaning is slippery: the elusive image or the inscrutable text and the narrative function of the spectral sign.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Hauntology, Installation, Semiotics, Narrative, Ficto-criticism, Magical Realism
email:
katielouisepaine@gmail.com
instagram:
@dreamsofspeaking
The Cruel Endeavours of Knowledge,, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
The search for methodology in my MFA project has itself been an assemblage. Like a kid locked overnight in the lolly-shop, I had to suck all the gobstoppers to chart just the right line of flight, realising in the end that mine is a case study reflexing what Jacques Rancière calls 'the third object'. It's an idea that allows the subjectivities of art creators and their audience to consider the shared art-object actively–by corollary, with agency. The methodology taste-test has provided me with sharper focus to reflect on my theatre practice in our The Thursday Group. The project traces a transformation of collaboration that follows Elizabeth LeCompte's idea that she is director not 'of' but 'in' The Wooster Group. So, over the past two years our group has been transforming towards a co-creative practice. The attached video is an example of our last in-real-life open-rehearsal of the forthcoming Orpheo Machine, which examines the equality of expression between muse and poet, and which hopefully displays actors authoring their own performances.
Master of Fine Arts (Theatre)
Victorian College of the Arts
email:
mdcrosby@iinet.net.au
twitter:
@thursday_group
facebook:
@thursdaygroupmelbourne
instagram:
@thursdaygroupmelbourne
vimeo:
@crosbeee
linkedin:
www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-crosby-author
Orpheo Machine, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
This research investigates the question: how can the discourse of hauntology be used as a methodology to critically consider spaces of indeterminacy within the semiotic realm? The project investigates the sign whose meaning is slippery: the elusive image or the inscrutable text and the narrative function of the spectral sign.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Hauntology, Installation, Semiotics, Narrative, Ficto-criticism, Magical Realism
email:
katielouisepaine@gmail.com
instagram:
@dreamsofspeaking
On The Myopic Gaze of a Surrogate Eye, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
feminist posthumanism, poetics, photogrammetry, metaphor, media nostalgia, glitch, memory
email:
cberndt@student.unimelb.edu.au
instagram:
corinna_berndt
Promises of Cyborgs, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Shared Breath in Isolation [Witches Bottles], Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
My research investigates storytelling in the hybrid form of dance film by testing ideas formed from intuitive and experiential knowledge of dance film in my practice. Comprising 50% written exegesis, and 50% creative output, my research is practice-led, employing reflexive research strategies to substantiate outcomes and to validate findings.
Master of Fine Arts (Dance)
Victorian College of the Arts
email:
claire.marshall@gmail.com
facebook:
clairemarshallprojects
vimeo:
clairemarshall
Love Song, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
email:
ethantsang301@gmail.com
Napalm Girl, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2021
Chelsea Coon is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She addresses the body as undergoing continuous states of transformation, and how through performance, the body is a disruptive force in relation to time and space.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
performance, performance art, live art, experimental, liveness
email:
ccoon@student.unimelb.edu.au
facebook:
chelseacoon
instagram:
all_anything
vimeo:
chelseacoon
sexdeathlovepain, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
My research investigates storytelling in the hybrid form of dance film by testing ideas formed from intuitive and experiential knowledge of dance film in my practice. Comprising 50% written exegesis, and 50% creative output, my research is practice-led, employing reflexive research strategies to substantiate outcomes and to validate findings.
Master of Fine Arts (Dance)
Victorian College of the Arts
email:
claire.marshall@gmail.com
facebook:
clairemarshallprojects
vimeo:
clairemarshall
Void, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
email:
monicatianna@gmail.com
Nüshu Typeface, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
I am a producer and use my practice to lead my research. My PhD offered a firsthand, self-reflexive account into the practice of film producing and how it can be applied to the development and realisation of a digital archive project. I produced a digital archive belonging to VCA Film and Television to create new audiences and contexts across the nexus of teaching, learning, research and industry engagement and contribute to the development of practice. I am interested in the idea of living archives, cultural memory, and the recontextualisation of stories/experiences to create new/alternative narratives.
PhD (Film and Television)
Victorian College of the Arts
digital archives, film school, creative arts, wellbeing, writing and boxing, micro budget
email:
donna.lyon@unimelb.edu.au
twitter:
@thisisdonnalyon
facebook:
donna.lyon.16
instagram:
@donnalyonsworld
linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnalyon
Disclosure, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
When representing Social Design projects in printed publications how might experimental graphic design be used to critically evaluate, present and discuss social design? This research aims to examine Elliots Earls proposed five defining elements of 1990's Experimental Graphic Design and their relevance to Social Design in 2021 and beyond.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
social design, social practice, experimental, graphic design
email:
plasticypographica@gmail.com
twitter:
SocialDesignPhD
instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/plastictypographica/
TBA, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
Chris Parkinson's PhD research explores the practices of artists - collectively and independently - in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Dili, Timor-Leste, seeking to interrogate their visual and spatial politics and practices of community building. How do these artists perceive their relationship to art and the political in their specific social context? To what extent do local restrictions and global networks allow a regional proposition of urbanity, creativity and identity in the context of a pandemic?
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
atmosphere, affect, rhythm, social practice, publics, region
twitter:
chrsprknsn
instagram:
chrsprknsn
One Hour Photo, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
This practice-led research involves design and application of the Thematic Intensity Graph (TIG) throughout the production of an original feature-film. The TIG is a tool, derived from a movie’s theme, which emboldens the director and their collaborators to maintain individual creative expression whilst working towards a cohesive unified vision.
PhD (Film and Television)
Victorian College of the Arts
film, cinema, film directing, visual subtext, storytelling, film production, screenwriting, screenplay
email:
info@apocfilms.com
twitter:
apocfilms
facebook:
apocfilms
instagram:
apocfilms
vimeo:
apocfilms
linkedin:
apocfilms
Bagold, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
My research investigates daily rituals, tactics and actions for artistically reimagining lived experience. Using a variety of distributed, site orientated and lens-based methods, I speculate upon ways that daily routines can be utilised as forms of restoration, resistance and care.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Site-orientated, feminist methodologies, lens based, post conceptual art, folly, repetition, relational practice, performance
email:
Sarah.rudledge@gmail.com
instagram:
sarah.rudledge
Remembering Matsushima Island, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Conversation Table, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Listening in the Dark, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Bind in isolation (Rope Clock Tests), Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Ursula’s Dance, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
jen valender is an Australasian artist whose practice-led research explores moving image, sound and psyche. Influenced by her experience of living with cross-dominance, she applies the sonic and psychological concept of cognitive dissonance to examine self-discrepancies.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Cross-dissonance, lecture performance, relational ethics, moving image, dark peculiarities, practice-led research, materiality
email:
jen.valender@outlook.com
instagram:
jenvalender
Played as they lay, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
jen valender is an Australasian artist whose practice-led research explores moving image, sound and psyche. Influenced by her experience of living with cross-dominance, she applies the sonic and psychological concept of cognitive dissonance to examine self-discrepancies.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Cross-dissonance, lecture performance, relational ethics, moving image, dark peculiarities, practice-led research, materiality
email:
jen.valender@outlook.com
instagram:
jenvalender
Resting with: a primer for a world without Chantelle cream, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
Emily Siddons' research explores the definitional limits of what constitutes a museum in order to offer a new model of engagement that is more readily adaptable to the conditions of contemporaneity; an era in which contexts are rapidly and continuously shifting, and in which technical innovation is radically disrupting how audiences engage with cultural content. Her research examines three core areas: the current wave of museum studies and theorists seeking to define the role of a museum in a contemporary context; museum definitions coined by international governing bodies; and museum practices that challenge perceptions of traditional museums. New Museum's unique museum-led incubator model is compared and contrasted with other emergent models across physical and digital spaces that offer experimental modes of producing and disseminating cultural content, leading to the creation of a conceptual framework that is able to be tested across different contexts. With the recent creation and launch of born-digital museum Subspace, this research offers a new model of engagement that frames the museum as a collaborative facility and reconsiders the traditional delineations between a museum’s space, archive and collection.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Museums, Born-digital, Engagement, Digital, Emerging technologies, Curator
email:
Emily@emilysiddons.com.au
instagram:
@subspaceart
Subspace, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
This research investigates the question: how can the discourse of hauntology be used as a methodology to critically consider spaces of indeterminacy within the semiotic realm? The project investigates the sign whose meaning is slippery: the elusive image or the inscrutable text and the narrative function of the spectral sign.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Hauntology, Installation, Semiotics, Narrative, Ficto-criticism, Magical Realism
email:
katielouisepaine@gmail.com
instagram:
@dreamsofspeaking
An optic trajectory- to scour the terrain of an image [After Anton Chekov’s The Black Monk], Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
This research investigates the question: how can the discourse of hauntology be used as a methodology to critically consider spaces of indeterminacy within the semiotic realm? The project investigates the sign whose meaning is slippery: the elusive image or the inscrutable text and the narrative function of the spectral sign.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Hauntology, Installation, Semiotics, Narrative, Ficto-criticism, Magical Realism
email:
katielouisepaine@gmail.com
instagram:
@dreamsofspeaking
Twin Spectres OR An Unintended Doubling, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
This research investigates the question: how can the discourse of hauntology be used as a methodology to critically consider spaces of indeterminacy within the semiotic realm? The project investigates the sign whose meaning is slippery: the elusive image or the inscrutable text and the narrative function of the spectral sign.
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Hauntology, Installation, Semiotics, Narrative, Ficto-criticism, Magical Realism
email:
katielouisepaine@gmail.com
instagram:
@dreamsofspeaking
Indelible Apparition, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Unfolding in isolation, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2020
Clare Rae is an artist and current PhD candidate in visual art at the VCA. Her practice engages performance and gesture within the photographic field to present an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body, usually the artist’s own.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
feminism, photography, archives, the body
email:
contact@clarerae.com
instagram:
clarerae
work in progress, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
Chelsea Coon is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She addresses the body as undergoing continuous states of transformation, and how through performance, the body is a disruptive force in relation to time and space.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
performance, performance art, live art, experimental, liveness
email:
ccoon@student.unimelb.edu.au
facebook:
chelseacoon
instagram:
all_anything
vimeo:
chelseacoon
sexomuerteamordolor, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
Chelsea Coon is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She addresses the body as undergoing continuous states of transformation, and how through performance, the body is a disruptive force in relation to time and space.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
performance, performance art, live art, experimental, liveness
email:
ccoon@student.unimelb.edu.au
facebook:
chelseacoon
instagram:
all_anything
vimeo:
chelseacoon
all star, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
My research investigates storytelling in the hybrid form of dance film by testing ideas formed from intuitive and experiential knowledge of dance film in my practice. Comprising 50% written exegesis, and 50% creative output, my research is practice-led, employing reflexive research strategies to substantiate outcomes and to validate findings.
Master of Fine Arts (Dance)
Victorian College of the Arts
email:
claire.marshall@gmail.com
facebook:
clairemarshallprojects
vimeo:
clairemarshall
Splat, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Through Catherine, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
Therese’s research explores the socio-political conditions and materialities of knowledge production, through narrative writing, studio-based experiments, and interdisciplinary fieldwork projects. She works collaboratively – through exhibitions, publishing, and teaching – across sculpture, landscape architecture, archaeology and geography. Her current research engages the narrative and material excesses of extraction, using methods of situated writing and speculative fabulation.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
extraction, narrative, materiality, excess, writing practice, speculation
email:
keogh.t@unimelb.edu.au
Imaged in Absence, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
I combine technology, malfunction, artistic labour and hand media in my practice to reveal what is hidden, often pausing to ask "when does something make sense?
Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
technology, malfunction, printmaking, 3d
email:
alk@bigpond.com
instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/the_alison_kennedy/
SelfieLand, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
His research examines the role that memory and narrative play within discourses of conflict and the construction of histories. Specifically, how contemporary art establishes and negotiates relationships between philosophical aspects around the manipulation of images and socio-political imaginaries (the values, systems and symbols common to a particular social group) to construct new narratives.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Image Theory, Expanded Painting, Cultural Studies, Latin America, Image Interpretation, Painting Theory
email:
info@emanuelrodriguez.net
facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/www.emanuelrodriguez.net
instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/emmanuelrodriguez_chaves/
linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-rodriguez-chaves-8782b119a/
1 de julio 1981, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
His research examines the role that memory and narrative play within discourses of conflict and the construction of histories. Specifically, how contemporary art establishes and negotiates relationships between philosophical aspects around the manipulation of images and socio-political imaginaries (the values, systems and symbols common to a particular social group) to construct new narratives.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Image Theory, Expanded Painting, Cultural Studies, Latin America, Image Interpretation, Painting Theory
email:
info@emanuelrodriguez.net
facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/www.emanuelrodriguez.net
instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/emmanuelrodriguez_chaves/
linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-rodriguez-chaves-8782b119a/
A Naïve Faith in Images: Indexicality, Silence and Fabrication in the Construction of Narrative (detail of Installation view), Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2019
Clare Rae is an artist and current PhD candidate in visual art at the VCA. Her practice engages performance and gesture within the photographic field to present an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body, usually the artist’s own.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
feminism, photography, archives, the body
email:
contact@clarerae.com
instagram:
clarerae
Untitled Actions (South Laundries), Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
Chelsea Coon is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She addresses the body as undergoing continuous states of transformation, and how through performance, the body is a disruptive force in relation to time and space.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
performance, performance art, live art, experimental, liveness
email:
ccoon@student.unimelb.edu.au
facebook:
chelseacoon
instagram:
all_anything
vimeo:
chelseacoon
Phases of the Imminent, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
Clare Rae is an artist and current PhD candidate in visual art at the VCA. Her practice engages performance and gesture within the photographic field to present an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body, usually the artist’s own.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
feminism, photography, archives, the body
email:
contact@clarerae.com
instagram:
clarerae
Design Archive, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
Clare Rae is an artist and current PhD candidate in visual art at the VCA. Her practice engages performance and gesture within the photographic field to present an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body, usually the artist’s own.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
feminism, photography, archives, the body
email:
contact@clarerae.com
instagram:
clarerae
Untitled Self Portrait (Life Drawing) II, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
This practice-led research involves design and application of the Thematic Intensity Graph (TIG) throughout the production of an original feature-film. The TIG is a tool, derived from a movie’s theme, which emboldens the director and their collaborators to maintain individual creative expression whilst working towards a cohesive unified vision.
PhD (Film and Television)
Victorian College of the Arts
film, cinema, film directing, visual subtext, storytelling, film production, screenwriting, screenplay
email:
info@apocfilms.com
twitter:
apocfilms
facebook:
apocfilms
instagram:
apocfilms
vimeo:
apocfilms
linkedin:
apocfilms
Seven Snipers, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
Jonathan Graffam investigates intersections of queerness and fatness in live performance. His work addresses an important gap in the current scholarship, identifying a set of performance strategies, or ‘fat dramaturgies’, to argue that performance can offer a particularly powerful way to encounter fatness as lived experience.
Master of Fine Arts (Theatre)
Victorian College of the Arts
fat dramaturgies, fat activist performance, fat activism, fat studies, queer dramaturgy, queer theatre, queer performance, cabaret-theatre
email:
jonathan.graffam@gmail.com
facebook:
jonathan.graffam.1
instagram:
jonathangraffam
Cake Daddy, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
feminist posthumanism, poetics, photogrammetry, metaphor, media nostalgia, glitch, memory
email:
cberndt@student.unimelb.edu.au
instagram:
corinna_berndt
Collision Level, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
three skins, incorporeality, body-clothes, space-making, wearing space, sharing space
email:
danica.r.karaicic@gmail.com
instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/incorporeal_architecture/
[In]Corporeal Architecture, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
feminist posthumanism, poetics, photogrammetry, metaphor, media nostalgia, glitch, memory
email:
cberndt@student.unimelb.edu.au
instagram:
corinna_berndt
Travel through alpha space, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2018
Clare Rae is an artist and current PhD candidate in visual art at the VCA. Her practice engages performance and gesture within the photographic field to present an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body, usually the artist’s own.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
feminism, photography, archives, the body
email:
contact@clarerae.com
instagram:
clarerae
Les Blanche Banques, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2017
My research is based on an exploration of current, accessible, digital technology and the impact it is having on visual elements of scenic design for live performance. It focuses on the usefulness of digital projection and other visual technologies to effectively create a performance environment, and the quick adaptability of these technologies in the development and staging of low budget productions. The project component was an exemplar low budget performance, titled: Absolute Uncertainty. The final outcome of this project saw the development of adaptable, lightweight, easily configurable projection surfaces for use as scenic elements and processes for incorporating visual programming and sequencing software.
Master of Fine Arts (Theatre)
Victorian College of the Arts
drama, theatre, performance studies
email:
simon@i4detaildesigns.com.au
facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/i4detaildesigns
instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/i4detaildesigns/
vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/4298140
linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-bowland-8900443a/
Absolute (Un)certainty, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2017
Chris Parkinson's PhD research explores the practices of artists - collectively and independently - in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Dili, Timor-Leste, seeking to interrogate their visual and spatial politics and practices of community building. How do these artists perceive their relationship to art and the political in their specific social context? To what extent do local restrictions and global networks allow a regional proposition of urbanity, creativity and identity in the context of a pandemic?
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
atmosphere, affect, rhythm, social practice, publics, region
twitter:
chrsprknsn
instagram:
chrsprknsn
Re:Marks from East Timor, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2017
Chris Parkinson's PhD research explores the practices of artists - collectively and independently - in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Dili, Timor-Leste, seeking to interrogate their visual and spatial politics and practices of community building. How do these artists perceive their relationship to art and the political in their specific social context? To what extent do local restrictions and global networks allow a regional proposition of urbanity, creativity and identity in the context of a pandemic?
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
atmosphere, affect, rhythm, social practice, publics, region
twitter:
chrsprknsn
instagram:
chrsprknsn
Animatism, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2012
Chris Parkinson's PhD research explores the practices of artists - collectively and independently - in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Dili, Timor-Leste, seeking to interrogate their visual and spatial politics and practices of community building. How do these artists perceive their relationship to art and the political in their specific social context? To what extent do local restrictions and global networks allow a regional proposition of urbanity, creativity and identity in the context of a pandemic?
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
atmosphere, affect, rhythm, social practice, publics, region
twitter:
chrsprknsn
instagram:
chrsprknsn
Peace of Wall: Street Art from East Timor, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2010
This practice-led research involves design and application of the Thematic Intensity Graph (TIG) throughout the production of an original feature-film. The TIG is a tool, derived from a movie’s theme, which emboldens the director and their collaborators to maintain individual creative expression whilst working towards a cohesive unified vision.
PhD (Film and Television)
Victorian College of the Arts
film, cinema, film directing, visual subtext, storytelling, film production, screenwriting, screenplay
email:
info@apocfilms.com
twitter:
apocfilms
facebook:
apocfilms
instagram:
apocfilms
vimeo:
apocfilms
linkedin:
apocfilms
The Independent, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2008
Kellie Wells (born Lutrawita/Tasmania) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work in performance video, sculpture, painting and photography explores the interconnections between inherited spiritual narratives and material and immaterial expressions of the body.
PhD (Visual Art)
Victorian College of the Arts
Autotheory, subjectivity, multiplicity, the body, mysticism, embodiment, decentering, memory, reliquary, archive, performance video, sculpture, painting, drawing , photography
email:
kelliewells52@gmail.com
Contact Lens Archive, Naarm/Melbourne: Victorian College of the Arts, 2001