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Past Projects

  • Diluvial

    Naomi Siderfin

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    What differentiates an artist who develops an identity as a curator as part of a broader artistic practice and a curator who sees his/her practice as art?

  • Removal

    Ioana Marinescu

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    How are places remembered and interpreted? How can we open up a dialogue between past and present, between individual experiences and collective memories?

  • Abstract photograph - grey/blue and white textured clouds?

    Yein Son

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    My PhD research analyses material and process exploration within my art practice and corresponding historical painting context. This research involves the physical analogies of skin and its relevant metaphors and meanings

  • Witch

    Anna Bunting-Branch

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    This thesis considers feminist science fiction as a methodology to approach the question of sexual difference raised by Luce Irigaray.  As something that has not yet happened—the stubborn embodiment of that speculative potentiality of the “what if…?” which resists the...

  • Christina Della Giustina

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    you are variations is a ten-year study of tree water-cycles in which scientific climate change research has provided environmental data on sap flow that is transposed into a musical score

  • Water Gas Car

    Nick Laessing

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    This research project is an artistic investigation into the element hydrogen and its agency in the context of ecological art2. In light of the recently proposed Anthropocene epoch, I will produce a series of installation works to test...

  • Crude Ashes, mother, child

    Leni Dothan

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    Through my research I ask if Renaissance art created a set of Visual Contracts, and I hypothesize that its legacy continues to control our social, political, and religious behaviour to this day. Is it possible to challenge representations of women...

  • Iterations

    Philip Thompson

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    The past ten years has seen a sudden rise in the number of academic texts addressing issues surrounding a digital ontology. Ranging from reproduction (Groys 2008), materiality (Blanchette 2011), error (Nunes 2011), and circulation (Steyerl 2009) understanding the digital world...

  • Wunderkammer I

    Laura Kuch

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    For my research project I decided to enliven the German Early Romantics’ enduring search for the Wunderbare and ineffable – symbolized by the Blue Flower – through my own practice.

  • Volcano Duck and Three Moo Boxes

    Jin Han Lee

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    My desire to enact a reappraisal of ekphrastic hope and fear is motivated by the differences I have identified between Korean and Western understandings of time in relation to abstract painting, and of how the artist deploys his ‘life experiences’...

  • A spark kept alight

    Elisabeth S. Clark

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    My research seeks to further elucidate notions and questions circling the ‘event’ both in contemporary art practices and art writing. But what constitutes an artwork as event? And is the ‘event’ an act or trace or the inevitable dichotomy of...

  • Installation photograph of two black and white artworks hanging on a wall.

    Feiyi Wen

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    Drawing from Western and East Asian philosophical traditions, this thesis aims to compare different concepts of ‘Pathos’ as present in Chinese, Japanese and European traditions of art, and in particular photography. 

  • Documentation of Ghost Ethics in the Black Board Cafe

    Nir Segal

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    The Flat Diamond is a conceptual and theoretical object that operates as a proposition and invitation to explore the values of collaborative art practice; the work’s central concern is exploring the roles of the author and of narrative in the...

  • Well Wheel

    Nayoung Jeong

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    The tension of contemporary life exists as a paradox: In an era of increasing migration, both forced and chosen, we are at once radically global and yet culturally divided. As an artist with international experiences, I have personally navigated national...

  • Installation view, viva presentation

    Yvonne Feng

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    My PhD research Tracing the Unspeakable: Painting as Embodied Seeing originates from the dramatic incident of my mother’s imprisonment and my state of disorientation caused by it.

  • Dawn Gaietto

    Dawn Gaietto

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    What is happening here? [exploits of the nonhuman] is a practice-led research project introducing the proposition of anthrodecentric art as conceptual framework.

  • Folds

    Sophie Bouvier Ausländer

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    What is the particular status of the hand in world making? To what extent can analytic philosophy and phenomenology of perception clarify the image of the world epitomised through sculpture, its becoming, its recovering?

  • Making Up in the Petrie Museum

    Errol Francis

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    My thesis is concerned with cultural articulations of space, from the point of view of philosophy and from the perspective of artists responding to museums as key sites of cultural heritage.

  • from Crash site

    Dana Ariel

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    Identity that refuses to identify,

  • Tourist

    Sarah Fortais

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    My practice-led research aims to define what it means to call a person or thing ‘cool’. Methodologically, my fine art practice is bricolage: disassembling, repurposing, and modifying objects or ideas to generate new wholes and understanding. As a bricoleur, I...

  • The Darkest Points: Loop

    Paul Magee

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    A digital fine art practice is at the nexus of some powerful dichotomies. The digital vs the analogue, the natural vs the artificial, the subjective vs the objective, the emotions vs reason, and art vs science among them. This research...

  • Rationality

    Kay Tabernacle

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    Imagination is neglected in studies of Hannah Höch.  The related ideological and partial interpretation of Höch’s work has resulted in distorted understandings that obscure her aims. Höch theorises imagination as a radical force that can change people’s perception, and in...

  • The Other Room

    Patricia Townsend

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    I work with video, photography and installation and am interested in the interface between the external world and the internal world of the imagination. Much of my work explores our emotional relationship with landscape - the ways in which landscape...

  • Your Neck

    Meng Ju Shih

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    I'm interested in place and the relationships it produces between people. I'm curious about how the ownership of culture power in Taiwan has progressed in painting domain, landscape, especially.