Lewis Gittus

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Lewis Gittus

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Tina Stefanou

I am exploring how information sings across species, knowledge systems, communities and mediums. What I call Voice in the Expanded Field.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Tina Stefanou

I am exploring how information sings across species, knowledge systems, communities and mediums. What I call Voice in the Expanded Field.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Donna Lyon

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.

Program

PhD (Film and Television)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Tina Stefanou

I am exploring how information sings across species, knowledge systems, communities and mediums. What I call Voice in the Expanded Field.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Moonis Ahmad Shah

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Katy McKeown

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.

Program

PhD (Dance)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Donna Lyon

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.

Program

PhD (Film and Television)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chris Parkinson

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?

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Hamish McIntosh

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.

Program

PhD (Dance)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Sophie Morrow

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Andrew O'Keefe

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.

Program

PhD (Film and Television)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Rachel Gresswell

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Program

Institution or Affiliation

Rob McHaffie

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Elnaz Sheshgelani

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*.

Program

PhD (Theatre)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Katie Paine

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Matthew Crosby

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Theatre)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Katie Paine

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Corinna Berndt

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Claire Marshall

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Dance)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Ethan Tsang

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chelsea Coon

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Claire Marshall

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Dance)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Monica Li

Program

Institution or Affiliation

Donna Lyon

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.

Program

PhD (Film and Television)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Russell Kerr

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chris Parkinson

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?

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Andrew O'Keefe

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.

Program

PhD (Film and Television)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Sarah Rudledge

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Jen Valender

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Jen Valender

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Emily Siddons

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Katie Paine

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Katie Paine

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Katie Paine

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Clare Rae

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chelsea Coon

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chelsea Coon

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Claire Marshall

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Dance)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Therese Keogh

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Alison Kennedy

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?

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Emmanuel Rodriguez-Chaves

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Emmanuel Rodriguez-Chaves

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Clare Rae

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chelsea Coon

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Clare Rae

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Clare Rae

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Andrew O'Keefe

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.

Program

PhD (Film and Television)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Jonathan Graffam

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Theatre)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Corinna Berndt

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Danica Karaičić

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Corinna Berndt

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Clare Rae

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Simon Bowland

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.

Program

Master of Fine Arts (Theatre)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chris Parkinson

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?

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chris Parkinson

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?

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Chris Parkinson

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?

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Andrew O'Keefe

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.

Program

PhD (Film and Television)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts

Kellie Wells

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.

Program

PhD (Visual Art)

Institution or Affiliation

Victorian College of the Arts