Merlinda Bobis
Tel: 02 4221 5694
Email: mbobis@uow.edu.au
Project Title: Novel: ‘To Fall in Love with Time’
Description: This project is a continuation of my research
for writing a novel on the internment (WWII) by the
Japanese Army of foreign expatriates at the University
of Santo Tomas, which was run by the Spanish Dominican
Order at the time. I will weave wartime internment with
the Spanish colonisation of the Philippines to reflect
the concept of ‘the internment of history’.
I am examining not only narratives about internment
at wartime, but also the concept of personal histories
being suppressed, ‘interned’ so to speak,
by an overarching narrative created and controlled by
the colonising or occupying power. I am researching
the Spanish archives plus the background of the Spanish
priest-architect who designed the University. PLUS:
In Barcelona, I am presenting a paper ‘Power and
the Migrant Story’ at the ‘Human Movements
and Immigration World Congress’ (31 August –
24 September 2004)
Shady Cosgrove
Tel: 02 4221 4827
Email: shady@uow.edu.au
Project Title: Performing the Writer/Teacher Duality
Description: Presentation of a conference paper on 'Performing the Writer/Teacher Duality' at the Ninth Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) 25-28 November 2004.
Often overlooked, notions of performance are key to effective teaching.
Consider the example of Dr Fox, a professional actor in the 1970s who taught in several US university medical faculties. He managed to score very well in student surveys; in particular, students were impressed with his thorough command of the subject matter. As it turned out, he had never been trained in the medical field and his lectures - though exciting - contained intentionally meaningless information cobbled together from various journals.[1]
This example illustrates obvious faults with the student survey system, but it also highlights the importance of presentation and performance in light of teaching. Inspired by R Keith Sawyer's ideas about teaching as improvisational performance, my paper examines teaching as performing within the tertiary context; specific issues that arise in teaching Creative Writing; how one 'performs' as a writer; and the binary of performing as a teacher and a writer within the Creative Writing classroom.
[1] Naftulin, Donald, J. E. Ware, Jr. and F. A. Donnelly (1973), "The Doctor
Fox lecture: A paradigm of educational seduction," Journal of Medical
Education, 48, 630-635.
Houston Dunleavy
Tel: 02 4221 4428
Email: dunleavy@uow.edu.au
Project Title: Intercultural Creativity
Description: I attended and participated in an Inter-University
Postgraduate Conference entitled ‘Intercultural Creativity:
Asian-American-Australian Sound-Dance and Multimedia Connections’
at the University of Western Sydney from 15-16 July 2004.
The Conference was co-ordinated and funded in conjunction
with the University of Wollongong. It featured some of
the most distinguished artisans, musicians and dancers
from Asia, America and Australia. At the conference I
chaired two panels, gave a paper and performed in the
concert on July 15th.
Marius Foley
Tel: 02 4221 5329
Email: marius@uow.edu.au
Project Title: New Media Display
Description: This project involves consultation with new
media arts/design practitioner Tim Gruchy on methods to
establish appropriate new media display methods for electronic
art in the Faculty. Research will be conducted in conjunction
with Brogan Bunt's successful Research infrastructure
Block Grant (RIBG) for research into portable new media
display facilities.
Penny Harris
Tel: 02 4221 5553
Email: penny_harris@uow.edu.au
Project Title: Exhibition: "Our House in Winter"
Description: This exhibition will be held from 29 August
to 1 October 2004 at Capilano College Gallery, Vancover,
Canada. It comprises a series of digital prints that work
with water damaged photographs which explore the notion
of loss and disappearance and the movement between a degraded
photographic image and the postcard from which the image
is peeling off.
A second exhibition will involve working with cast bronze
domestic objects and equipment used for detecting electrical
current. I will be working with the notion of recording
the sounds made by objects and the memories objects have
of the body. The sounds and memories to be recorded. I
am hoping to experiment with a sound component with this
work.
In addition I am curating an exhibition of historical
photography at the Barr Colony Cultural Centre, Lloydminster,
Sask. Canada. I am also scanning a large collection of
photographs for the Centre’s archives.
Finally, I am in discussion with Lashburn Centennial Museum,
Lashburn, Sask. Canada regarding a second curated exhibition
of photography. The museum is also interested in photographic
images to be included in their archives.
Stephen Ingham
Tel: 02 4221 4593
Email: singham@uow.edu.au
Project Title: Australasian Computer Music Conference,
Wellington NZ, July 1-3 2004
Description: At this Conference I presented a joint-authored
refereed conference proceeding on the Faculty’s Configurable
Hemispherical Environment for Spatialised Sound (CHESS),
which was launched by the PVC(R) Professor Margaret Shiel
in 2003. Apart from raising the Faculty's research profile
in an international expert forum, the visit may also be
useful in attracting prospective postgraduate applicants.
Liz Jeneid
Tel: 02 4271 2460
Email: ejeneid@ozemail.com.au
Project Title: Artist Book Exhibition: 'Undercover'
Description: This exhibition of artists books will comprise
work of students and staff work from the University of
South Australia and the University of Wollongong. It will
be shown in 2004 in three venues:University of South Australia:
July 26th - August 26th, University of Wollongong: September
1 - October 6 Art Gallery of NSW Library: October 10 –
December.
The catalogue to go with the exhibition was designed by
Francisco Flores and Daniel Moynahan and the exhibition
curated by Chia-Ming Cheng and Rachel Liang, Visual Arts
and Design from the University of Wollongong.
Amanda Lawson
Tel: 02 4221 4611
Email: alawson@uow.edu.au
Project Title: A Vision for a University Gallery
Description: This project is to develop a report which
outlines a vision for a University of Wollongong gallery
which would not only house the University’s Permanent
Collection, but also provide an exhibition space of international
standing for the campus and city, as well as professional
teaching opportunities. The report will be used to commence
discussions leading to a full feasibility study.
James Taylor
Tel: 02 4221 3774
Email: jtaylor@uow.edu.au
Project Title: Boxkite 3/4
Description: A double volume of the acclaimed journal
of writing and poetics, 'Boxkite' was published and
will be launched in the Faculty in 2004. Boxkite offers
a selection of new and innovative work from Australasia
and around the world. The journal is edited by James
Taylor who is currently studying for his Doctor of Creative
Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong.
"One of the liveliest, most elegant, cutting-edge
poetry journals available today. It juxtaposes Australian
poetries and poetics with those of the US and UK so
as to make very interesting connections. Beautifully
produced, it is a feast for the eye as well as the mind."
Marjorie Perloff
Jelle van den Berg
Tel: 02 4221 4273
Email: jellev@uow.edu.au
Project Title: Conversation #1: Pacific
Description: This exhibition was a collaborative project
between Professor Ross Gibson (University of Technology
Sydney) and Jelle van den Berg (University of Wollongong)
held at Cross Art Projects, 33 Roslyn St. Kings Cross.
The exhibition was a part of the Parallel Program of the
Biennale of Sydney, On Reason and Emotion, curated by
Isabel Carlos and supported by public programs Manager
Craig Judd. It was held from 3 - 26 June 2004 with Artist’s
Talks on 26 June 4. The exhibition comprised van den Berg's
paintings of the ocean's horizon-line and Gibson's looped
film containing footage of a highly ambiguous encounter
between indigenous and incursive people on a Torres Strait
Island in the early years of the Twentieth Century.
Last reviewed: 10 September, 2007
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