Transversal Practices Matter Ecology and Relationality
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<strong>Transversal</strong> <strong>Practices</strong>:<br />
<strong>Matter</strong>, <strong>Ecology</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Relationality</strong><br />
VI International Conference<br />
on New Materialisms<br />
27—29 September 2015<br />
The Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne, Australia
SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER<br />
FEDERATION HALL 1 CINEMA 2 2 HUB SEMINAR ROOM 3 FOUNDERS GALLERY 4 ART AUDITORIUM 5<br />
9:30 — 10:00 Coffee <strong>and</strong> Registrations<br />
10:00 — 10:15 Welcome to Country<br />
Boonwurrung Elder Aunty Carolyn Briggs<br />
Chair <strong>and</strong> Founder of the<br />
Boon Wurrung Foundation<br />
10:15 — 11:15 Keynote: Professor Brian Martin<br />
Shifting the Lens: Embodied<br />
Memory, Culture <strong>and</strong> Practice<br />
Chair: Estelle Barrett<br />
11:15 — 11:45 Morning Tea<br />
11:45 — 1:45 Relational Objects,<br />
<strong>Transversal</strong> Methodologies<br />
Chair: Estelle Barrett<br />
Crafting Relations,<br />
Practicing Activisms<br />
Katve-Kaisa Kontturi<br />
Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Object Relations,<br />
Transformational Encounters<br />
in the Studio Archive<br />
Rachael Haynes<br />
Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space<br />
I <strong>and</strong> I is We, Us<br />
Amaara Raheem<br />
RMIT University<br />
“Writing to” to Get Between:<br />
Traversing Materials Through<br />
the Real <strong>and</strong> Imagined<br />
Tania Spława-Neyman<br />
RMIT University<br />
1:45 — 2:45 Lunch<br />
2:45 — 4:45 Indigenous Aesthetics<br />
Chair: Barbara Bolt<br />
Transversing Truganini Track:<br />
Materiality <strong>and</strong> Sensation<br />
in Drawing the L<strong>and</strong><br />
Jan Hogan<br />
Tasmanian College of the Arts,<br />
University of Tasmania<br />
Memory, Image, <strong>Matter</strong>: Trauma<br />
<strong>and</strong> Acts of Un-forgetting<br />
Estelle Barrett<br />
Institute of Koorie Education, Deakin University<br />
Liquid Life<br />
Chair: Barbara Bolt<br />
Ecologies of Spirit in Timor Leste<br />
Lisa Palmer<br />
School of Geography,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Queering Deep Time: Water as<br />
a Planetary Archive of Feeling<br />
Astrida Neimanis<br />
University of Sydney<br />
Bodying Language:<br />
Languaging Body<br />
Chair: Justy Phillips<br />
Tending Deathwards<br />
Sarah Jones<br />
University of New South Wales,<br />
Art <strong>and</strong> Design<br />
Twirl-Whirling Lyric Essays<br />
from a Post-Cartesian Body<br />
Mattie Sempert<br />
RMIT University<br />
Let Me Tell You a Story.<br />
Inside This Body There<br />
is a Heart Just Like Yours.<br />
Justy Phillips<br />
RMIT University<br />
The Texture of Rolling Forward<br />
Csenge Kolozsvari<br />
Senselab<br />
Spatial <strong>and</strong> Temporal Politics,<br />
Social Textures<br />
Chair: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi<br />
Diffraction & Dissensus:<br />
Diffraction Methodologies<br />
for Dissensual Art Making<br />
Tal Fitzpatrick<br />
Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Crafting Asylum: Text, Textiles<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Materiality of Hope<br />
Margaret Mayhew<br />
White House Institute of Design, Melbourne<br />
Walking a Trail of Paper <strong>and</strong><br />
Gravel: The Grit <strong>and</strong> Grime<br />
of Arts Activism<br />
Louise Phillips <strong>and</strong> Scotia Monkivitch<br />
The University of Queensl<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> Walking Borders<br />
Vitalist Progress(ion):<br />
Feminist Temporality,<br />
Corporeality <strong>and</strong> Connection<br />
Karin Sellberg<br />
Centre for the History of European Discourses,<br />
University of Queensl<strong>and</strong><br />
4:45 — 5:15 Afternoon Tea<br />
6:00 onwards Weather Patterns, Where Forces Meet<br />
Exhibition opening <strong>and</strong> off campus panel discussion<br />
Rubicon Gallery, Level 1, 309 Queensberry Street, Melbourne<br />
Chair: Sam Spurr, Presenters: Erin Manning Concordia University <strong>and</strong> SenseLab, Andrew Goodman<br />
University of New South Wales, Sam Spurr University of New South Wales Art <strong>and</strong> Design<br />
The Sidestep: <strong>Transversal</strong>ity<br />
in Neighbourhood Art Projects<br />
Chair: Janine R<strong>and</strong>erson<br />
The Chasing Fog Club (Est. 2014):<br />
Free Participation, Free T-Shirt<br />
Layne Waerea<br />
Art <strong>and</strong> Design, AUT University<br />
Making as Currency,<br />
Connecting the Everyday Social<br />
Monique Redmond<br />
AUT University<br />
Ecologies of Practice:<br />
Seawater <strong>and</strong> Dust<br />
Janine R<strong>and</strong>erson<br />
Art <strong>and</strong> Design, AUT University<br />
Sonic Spaces, Vocal Relations<br />
Chair: Erin Stapleton<br />
SPEAK!<br />
Julieanna Preston<br />
College of Creative Arts, Massey University<br />
Bodily Collisions: Towards<br />
a New Materialist Underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
of Art as Energy<br />
Dorota Golanska<br />
University of Lodz<br />
<strong>Practices</strong>, Trajectories <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Travels of Musical Instruments<br />
Alej<strong>and</strong>ro Mir<strong>and</strong>a<br />
University of Western Sydney<br />
Ears to the Ground:<br />
New Materialist <strong>Practices</strong><br />
of Voice in Contemporary Art<br />
Norie Neumark<br />
Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Experimental <strong>Practices</strong><br />
Chair: Laura Woodward<br />
Carceri: Prisons of Invention<br />
Tero Nauha <strong>and</strong> Karolina Kucia<br />
COST Action IS1307<br />
Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki<br />
Elastic Perspective:<br />
The Diagonal Line <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Production of Deep Space<br />
Rochelle Haley<br />
University of New South Wales<br />
Imag(in)ing the Impossible<br />
—A Case Study in Drawing<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Process of Designing<br />
States of Experience<br />
Luke Tipene<br />
Whitehouse Institute of Design, Australia<br />
The Performance Lecture<br />
Mark Shorter<br />
Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Digital Ecologies,<br />
Digital Materialities<br />
Chair: Ilona Hongisto<br />
The Shifting Context of Clouds,<br />
<strong>Matter</strong> <strong>and</strong> Aesthetics<br />
Paul Thomas<br />
University of New South Wales<br />
Art <strong>and</strong> Design<br />
Expressive Collisions:<br />
Art <strong>and</strong> Particle Physics<br />
Chris Henschke<br />
Monash University <strong>and</strong> Australian Synchrotron
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER<br />
FEDERATION HALL 1 CINEMA 2 2 HUB SEMINAR ROOM 3 FOUNDERS GALLERY 4 ART AUDITORIUM 5<br />
8:30 — 9:00 Coffee <strong>and</strong> Registrations<br />
9:00 — 10:00 Keynote: Professor Karen Barad<br />
Special Presentation<br />
via Video Link<br />
Chair: Barbara Bolt<br />
10:00 — 10:30 Morning Tea<br />
10:30 — 12:30 Vibrant <strong>Matter</strong>, Kinetic <strong>Practices</strong><br />
Chair: Estelle Barrett<br />
Animate Materiality<br />
Gyungju Chyon<br />
RMIT University<br />
Agential Relationships of Time,<br />
<strong>Matter</strong>, Movement <strong>and</strong><br />
Experience in System-based<br />
Kinetic Sculpture (using Luc<br />
Besson’s "Lucy" as a <strong>Transversal</strong><br />
Testing Ground)<br />
Laura Woodward<br />
Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Performing Objects:<br />
Working in the Space Between<br />
Materiality <strong>and</strong> the Imagination<br />
Lynne Kent<br />
LaTrobe University<br />
Dancing with the Nonhuman<br />
Petra Gemeinboeck<br />
University of New South Wales<br />
12:30 — 1:30 Lunch<br />
1:30 — 3:30 The Work of the Work of Art<br />
Chair: Barbara Bolt<br />
Incidents <strong>and</strong> Situations:<br />
Artworks as Empirical<br />
Case Studies<br />
Ash Tower<br />
University of South Australia<br />
Surface Activations<br />
Andrea Eckersley<br />
Monash University<br />
With an Eye to Four Walls<br />
<strong>and</strong> Two Ears to the Ground:<br />
Making Art by Moving<br />
Through a House<br />
Lyndal Jones<br />
RMIT University<br />
More Than Material<br />
Terri Bird<br />
Monash University<br />
Non-Human<br />
Relationalities<br />
Chair: Barbara Bolt<br />
Anthropocene Interventions<br />
Susie Lachal<br />
RMIT School of Art<br />
Diffractions <strong>and</strong> Intra-actions<br />
for Multispecies Aesthetics<br />
Madeleine Boyd<br />
Sydney College of the Arts,<br />
University of Sydney<br />
Performing L<strong>and</strong>scape<br />
— Swinging Together<br />
Annette Arl<strong>and</strong>er<br />
University of the Arts Helsinki<br />
Space, Textiles <strong>and</strong><br />
Knowledge Making<br />
Chair: Robyn Creagh<br />
Textile Practice a Dialogue<br />
with Time <strong>and</strong> Space<br />
Al Munro<br />
Australian National University<br />
Listening with Knots:<br />
Making as Ethnography<br />
<strong>and</strong> Ethnography as Making<br />
Rachel Morgain<br />
Australian National University<br />
Spatial Interrelations:<br />
Exploring Collaborative<br />
Material Thinking<br />
Robyn Creagh<br />
Curtin University<br />
Lucy Irvine<br />
Spatialities of Playing, Learning<br />
<strong>and</strong> Vocal Expression<br />
Chair: James Oliver<br />
Children Post-Digital Play <strong>and</strong><br />
the Aesthetics of Recruitment<br />
Bjorn Nansen, Darshana Jayemanne<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Thomas Apperely<br />
University of New South Wales<br />
Surface Accretions:<br />
Prototyping Posthumanist<br />
Learning Environments<br />
by Walking <strong>and</strong> Mapping<br />
an Immersive Cartography<br />
David Rousell<br />
Southern Cross University<br />
Ecocriticisms in Literature<br />
<strong>and</strong> Theatre<br />
Chair: James Oliver<br />
Material Ecocriticism <strong>and</strong><br />
Posthuman Ethics in the<br />
Language of Theatre:<br />
Caryl Churchill’s “The Skriker”<br />
Mohebat Ahmadi<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Deleuze, New Materialism<br />
<strong>and</strong> an Australian Literature<br />
for Crises of Ecologies?<br />
David Harris<br />
Deakin University<br />
Architectural Atmospherics<br />
Chair: James Oliver<br />
The Energy Between Us: Two<br />
Affective <strong>and</strong> Intertwined Space<br />
Times Evoked by Architecture<br />
as Prelude to a Proper Sharing?<br />
Andrea Wheeler <strong>and</strong> Aniket Nagdive<br />
Iowa State University,<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Film <strong>Matter</strong>s<br />
Chair: Ilona Hongisto<br />
Peter Gidal’s Challenge<br />
to the New Materialisms<br />
Kari Yli-Annala<br />
Aalto University, Helsinki<br />
Film-making with Objects:<br />
Relational Cinema<br />
Bogna Konior<br />
Hong Kong Baptist University<br />
Gestures of Diffraction:<br />
Cell Division <strong>and</strong> the Film Edit<br />
Kim Sargent-Wishart<br />
Victoria University<br />
Framing as Immanent Evaluation:<br />
Performative Entanglements<br />
in Post-Soviet Eastern<br />
European Documentary<br />
Ilona Hongisto<br />
University of Turku, Finl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
The University of Melbourne, Australia<br />
Cultural <strong>Practices</strong>,<br />
<strong>Transversal</strong> Spaces<br />
Chair: Ilona Hongisto<br />
At the Barricade: Borderline<br />
Events <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Transversal</strong><br />
Spatial Condition<br />
Dorita Hannah<br />
University of Tasmania<br />
On the <strong>Relationality</strong> of Mental<br />
<strong>and</strong> Material Forms Among<br />
Tibetan Nomads<br />
Gillian Tan<br />
Deakin University<br />
Between Steps: Exploring<br />
the Transformative<br />
Relationships Between<br />
Pilgrimage, Person, <strong>and</strong> Place<br />
Catherine Montes<br />
University of Queensl<strong>and</strong><br />
Mapping Disappearance through<br />
<strong>Transversal</strong> Material <strong>Practices</strong><br />
in the Contemporary Hong Kong<br />
Spatial Politics<br />
Jo Law<br />
University of Wollongong<br />
<strong>Transversal</strong> Techniques<br />
<strong>and</strong> Group Subjects<br />
Laboratorium - 90 minutes<br />
Anna Munster<br />
University of New South Wales<br />
This h<strong>and</strong>s-on laboratorium looks to activate<br />
processes of “listening in” differently to the<br />
transmission of real time. Participants are<br />
asked to bring along their own internet<br />
connected device (phone/tablet/laptop)<br />
<strong>and</strong> headphones/earbuds.<br />
Experiential Laboratory<br />
of Co-attuning Voice<br />
Laboratorium - 90 minutes<br />
Heidi Fast<br />
Aalto University School of Arts <strong>and</strong> Design<br />
This experiential labortorium will explore<br />
how we co-emerge with other humans <strong>and</strong><br />
the surrounding non-human world through<br />
embodied sonority. This enquiry examines<br />
the relation of voice as vibrant matter <strong>and</strong><br />
relational event to sensibility, by developing<br />
a vocal participatory framework.
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER<br />
FEDERATION HALL 1 CINEMA 2 2 HUB SEMINAR ROOM 3 FOUNDERS GALLERY 4 ART AUDITORIUM 5<br />
3:30 — 4:00 Afternoon Tea<br />
4:00 — 5:30 Indigenous Ontologies<br />
Chair: Estelle Barrett<br />
Thingly Power: A Ta Moko<br />
Signature on Paper<br />
Te Kawehau Hoskins <strong>and</strong> Alison Jones<br />
Te Puna Wanaga, The Faculty of Education<br />
The Sense of the <strong>Matter</strong><br />
Debra Dank<br />
Institute of Koorie Education,<br />
Deakin University<br />
Crossing an Uncommon Commons<br />
Stephen Turner<br />
University of Auckl<strong>and</strong><br />
7:30 onwards Conference Dinner at ‘Cookie’<br />
252 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000<br />
Please note: all food <strong>and</strong> drink<br />
at individuals' own cost.<br />
Design, Fashion, Co-creativity<br />
Chair: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi<br />
Unruly Measurements, Viscous<br />
Time <strong>and</strong> Sensitive Screens<br />
—Thinking Through Elasticity<br />
Bettina Bruder<br />
University of New South Wales<br />
Zigzagging Fast <strong>and</strong> Slow:<br />
The Continuous Movement<br />
Between Fast <strong>and</strong> Slow<br />
Thinking Within a Creative<br />
Site—A Methodology that<br />
<strong>Transversal</strong> <strong>Practices</strong> Call For<br />
Haya Cohen<br />
Queensl<strong>and</strong> College of Art, Griffith University<br />
How does <strong>Matter</strong> Comes to <strong>Matter</strong><br />
in a 21st Century Fashion System?<br />
Rachel Matthews<br />
Monash University<br />
Affect, Pedagogy <strong>and</strong> Spatial<br />
Encounters: Re-thinking<br />
Education as a Materialist Practice<br />
Chair: Stephanie Springgay<br />
Playgrounds as Sites of Radical<br />
Encounters: A Mapping of<br />
Material, Affective, Spatial,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Pedagogical Collisions<br />
Linda Knight<br />
Queensl<strong>and</strong> University of Technology<br />
The Post-human ‘I’<br />
in "Love Your Lagoons"<br />
Margaret Somerville<br />
University of Western Sydney<br />
The Artist’s Soup Kitchen:<br />
Desire <strong>and</strong> Hope<br />
as Radical Hospitality<br />
Stephanie Springgay<br />
University of Toronto<br />
TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER<br />
8.30 — 9:00 Coffee <strong>and</strong> registrations<br />
9:00 — 10:00 Keynote: Curator Joshua Simon<br />
Neomaterialism: Debt <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Materiality of the Dividual<br />
This keynote is presented in<br />
partnership with West Space<br />
Chair: Laura Woodward<br />
10:00 — 10:30 Morning Tea<br />
10:30 — 12:30 Body Environments<br />
Chair: Barbara Bolt<br />
The <strong>Matter</strong> of Thought:<br />
New materialism<br />
in 2 Places @ 1nce<br />
Jondi Keane<br />
Deakin University<br />
On Consciousness <strong>and</strong><br />
Virtual Lines of Affection<br />
Ana Ramos<br />
Université de Montréal<br />
Daydreaming <strong>and</strong> Dissociation:<br />
Physical Encounters as Cognitive<br />
Strategies in Sculptural Practice<br />
Fleur Summers<br />
RMIT University<br />
Sculptural Occurrences <strong>and</strong><br />
Other Abfunctional Potentials<br />
Simone Slee<br />
Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
12:30 — 1:30 Lunch<br />
Science <strong>and</strong> Diffractive<br />
Technologies<br />
Chair: Laura Woodward<br />
Who knows? A New Materialist<br />
Approach to the Agency<br />
of Discovery<br />
Maaike Bleeker<br />
COST Action IS1307<br />
Utrecht University<br />
Props for Autonomous<br />
Architecture<br />
Stanislav Roudavski<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Denatured Painting <strong>and</strong> Idea<br />
of an Aesthetic (re) Fold<br />
Andre Brodyk<br />
University of Newcastle<br />
Cultural Production<br />
<strong>and</strong> Aesthetic Practice<br />
Chair: Glenn Wallace<br />
Environment-movement:<br />
a Creative Exploration of Travel<br />
as Collective Movements with/in<br />
Immersive Environments<br />
Kaya Barry<br />
Deakin University<br />
City Rhythms Picturing<br />
the (affective) Materialities<br />
of Urban Spaces<br />
Katie Rochow<br />
Victoria University of Wellington<br />
Activating the <strong>Transversal</strong> City:<br />
Public Art <strong>and</strong> its Uses<br />
Glenn Wallace<br />
Sydney College of the Arts,<br />
University of Sydney
TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER<br />
FEDERATION HALL 1 CINEMA 2 2 HUB SEMINAR ROOM 3 FOUNDERS GALLERY 4 ART AUDITORIUM 5<br />
1:30 — 3:00 Technologies of the Body,<br />
<strong>Transversal</strong> Embodiments<br />
Chair: Estelle Barrett<br />
Gender Failure,<br />
Trans-poetics <strong>and</strong> Change<br />
Lotta Kähkönen<br />
University of Turku, Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
(Un)subjects: Diffractive<br />
Making at the Borderlines<br />
Ardath Whynacht<br />
Mount Allison University<br />
Geographical <strong>and</strong> Materialist<br />
Constructions of<br />
Therapeutic Space<br />
C<strong>and</strong>ice Boyd<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Education, Affect, Learning<br />
Chair: Mary Dixon<br />
Bullying Affect <strong>and</strong><br />
Productive Schooling<br />
Melissa Wolfe<br />
Monash University<br />
Working With Young People’s<br />
Emergent Becomings in<br />
School-based Sexuality<br />
Education Programmes<br />
Kathleen Quinlivan<br />
University of Canterbury<br />
Materialising Learning<br />
Mary Dixon<br />
Deakin University<br />
Material Transients<br />
Chair: Julieanna Preston<br />
Interrogating Time <strong>and</strong> Meaning:<br />
Art Conservation, Scientific<br />
Analysis, Historical Context<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Missing Links<br />
Robyn Sloggett<br />
The Grimwade Centre for<br />
Cultural Materials Conservation<br />
On Mythbustin’ Macleay <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Case of the Curious Kianpraty<br />
Skull or Colonial Cryptozoology<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Bunyip<br />
Oliver Smith<br />
Sydney College of the Arts<br />
Destroying Nothing: the Material<br />
Transience of the Digital Archive<br />
Erin Stapleton<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
<strong>Ecology</strong>, Ethics, Aesthetics<br />
Chair: Andrew Lavery<br />
<strong>Matter</strong> at the Coalface<br />
Hartmut Veit<br />
Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Mining <strong>Matter</strong>: Materialist<br />
Methodologies in the<br />
L<strong>and</strong> Art of Robert Smithson<br />
<strong>and</strong> Lara Almarcegui<br />
Andrew Lavery<br />
Sydney College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Sydney<br />
The Invisible H<strong>and</strong>: <strong>Transversal</strong><br />
Thinking with New Materialism<br />
in Curriculum Design<br />
Lucinda McKnight<br />
Deakin University<br />
This participatory workshop seeks to question<br />
how knowledge around curriculum is produced,<br />
<strong>and</strong> to document the ways in which our work<br />
as educators is part of a continuous becoming.<br />
Though not essential, participants are invited<br />
to bring photographs of the teaching spaces<br />
for which they are designing curriculum,<br />
<strong>and</strong> any other relevant curriculum materials<br />
as stimulus.<br />
3:00 — 3:30 Afternoon Tea<br />
3:30 — 4:30 Keynote: Professor Hayden Lorimer<br />
Pet Project<br />
This keynote is supported<br />
by COST Action IS1307<br />
Chair: James Oliver<br />
4:30 — 5:00 Break<br />
5:00 — 6:00 Keynote: Prof. Erin Manning<br />
Carrying the Feeling<br />
This keynote is supported<br />
by the Macgeorge Bequest<br />
Chair: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi<br />
This keynote lecture is open to the public<br />
6:00 — 6:15 Conference Close<br />
Barbara Bolt <strong>and</strong> Tal Fitzpatrick<br />
CREATIVE<br />
INSTALLATIONS<br />
SHOWING THROUGHOUT<br />
THE CONFERENCE<br />
FEDERATION HALL 1<br />
FOYER<br />
Urban Swarming<br />
A video Installation with an online element<br />
accessible through QR code<br />
Patricia Adams<br />
QUT Creative Industries<br />
Print Cultures: The Microbiotic<br />
Colony as Feral Writing<br />
Technology<br />
An installation of agar-infused pages<br />
of text that collect microbial matter from<br />
the environment. This matter then assists<br />
in composing <strong>and</strong> editing the texts over<br />
the course of the conference.<br />
Kay Rozynki<br />
Wearable L<strong>and</strong>scapes:<br />
Affectual Artifacts Collection<br />
Spring/Summer 2015<br />
An interactive wearable art experience,<br />
open from early until lunch time every day<br />
Alice Lewis<br />
RMIT University<br />
MARGARET LAWRENCE 6<br />
GALLERY<br />
The Material Turn<br />
Major exhibition featuring the work of<br />
Sarah CrowEST, 3-ply, Carolyn Eskdale,<br />
Nathan Gray, Bianca Hester, Helen Johnson,<br />
Katie Lee, D103, Lizzy Newman, Sophie<br />
Takach, <strong>and</strong> Isadora Vaughan.<br />
Curated by Rebecca Coates.<br />
What influence does critical theory have on<br />
contemporary art <strong>and</strong> artists? Conceived<br />
as an exp<strong>and</strong>ed proposition, this exhibition<br />
explores one of the current ‘critical turns’,<br />
New Materialisms. What is this New<br />
Materialisms beyond a literary or theoretical<br />
series of positions <strong>and</strong> how might it inform<br />
an artistic process? How does the material<br />
practice of art speak back to critical theory?<br />
The exhibition examines the dialogue between<br />
practice <strong>and</strong> theory through the lens of new<br />
materialisms within an academic, practice-led<br />
research context <strong>and</strong> gallery space.<br />
The exhibition is open Tuesday to Saturday<br />
12pm to 5pm until 3 October 2015<br />
RUBICON GALLERY<br />
Level 1, 309 Queensberry Street, Melbourne<br />
Weather Patterns,<br />
Where Forces Meet<br />
Exhibition featuring the work of<br />
Prof. Erin Manning, Andrew Goodman<br />
<strong>and</strong> Sam Spurr.<br />
Opening event Sunday 27 September<br />
—See program listing. The exhibition is open<br />
Wednesday to Saturday 12pm to 5pm<br />
until 10 October 2015
CREDITS<br />
HOW TO GET THERE<br />
CALL FOR PAPERS<br />
Studies in Material Thinking (SMT)<br />
Special Volume — Volume 17<br />
How <strong>Matter</strong> Comes to <strong>Matter</strong> through<br />
<strong>Transversal</strong> Practice: <strong>Matter</strong>,<br />
<strong>Ecology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Relationality</strong><br />
Studies in Material Thinking (SMT) Auckl<strong>and</strong> University of Technology is calling for<br />
submissions to a special volume of research articles to be published late 2016, in<br />
collaboration with the organisers of <strong>Transversal</strong> <strong>Practices</strong>: <strong>Matter</strong>, <strong>Ecology</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Relationality</strong>, the sixth Conference on New Materialisms <strong>and</strong> the ISCH COST Action<br />
New Materialism: Networking Scholarship on ‘How <strong>Matter</strong> Comes to <strong>Matter</strong>.’<br />
Researchers in all fields are increasingly seeking engagements across disciplines<br />
using multiple conceptual <strong>and</strong> methodological frameworks. This transversal activity<br />
affects the way in which creative research practices evolve. We are increasingly<br />
networked with other practices, exposed to broader realms of knowledge <strong>and</strong><br />
faced with expectations arising from pervasive ecological concerns <strong>and</strong><br />
technological complexity.<br />
This post-conference volume is aligned with the original conference stimulus.<br />
We are interested in research <strong>and</strong> research practice that addresses<br />
the two conference questions:<br />
How do transversal practices<br />
work <strong>and</strong> how can we account<br />
for or conceptualise them?<br />
What kinds of methodologies<br />
do they necessitate,<br />
or call for?<br />
We encourage critical approaches that transversally cross the following: collectivity,<br />
corporeality/incorporeality, materiality/immateriality, Indigeneity, individual/group<br />
subjectivity, knowledge-production/onto-epistemologies, language, temporality,<br />
transdisciplinarity, processes of making art/philosophy/activism, <strong>and</strong> the three<br />
Ss—spatiality, sociality <strong>and</strong> the sensorium.<br />
SMT 17 is open to innovative format options. We would like to encourage contributions<br />
that explore experimental, innovative ways of communicating the value <strong>and</strong> significance<br />
of speculative, pedagogical or applied design thinking. In particular we welcome<br />
film/video documentation of processes <strong>and</strong> image cycles used in a positive, active,<br />
discursive manner. We would like to produce a post-conference on-line volume that<br />
values <strong>and</strong> supports researchers, artists, designers <strong>and</strong> design educators to explore<br />
a strongly visual form of argumentation.<br />
Co-editorial Team<br />
Prof Estelle Barrett, A/Prof Barbara Bolt, A/Prof Nancy De Freitas,<br />
Dr Kaisa Kontturi <strong>and</strong> Dr Laura Woodward.<br />
Submission Process<br />
Conference Dates<br />
27 – 29 September 2015<br />
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Volume Editors for SMT 17 invite all those who presented at the conference during<br />
27 – 29 September 2015 to submit full-length papers based on their conference<br />
presentations with visual <strong>and</strong> graphic material included by 31 January 2016<br />
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Selection notifications by 29 February 2016<br />
Peer Review, Revisions <strong>and</strong> Preparation of Final Drafts March to August 2016<br />
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Copy-editing <strong>and</strong> Final Formatting<br />
September - October 2016<br />
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Expected Publication Date<br />
November/December 2016<br />
Submission Guidelines (Style Guide <strong>and</strong> Template)<br />
https://www.materialthinking.org/submission-guides-<strong>and</strong>-electronic-form<br />
NewMats2015 Convening Committee<br />
A/Professor Barbara Bolt<br />
The Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Professor Estelle Barrett<br />
Institute of Koori Education,<br />
Deakin University<br />
Dr James Oliver<br />
Centre for Cultural Partnerships,<br />
The Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Dr Katve-Kaisa Kontturi<br />
McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow,<br />
The Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Dr Ilona Hongisto<br />
School of History, Culture <strong>and</strong> Arts Studies,<br />
University of Turku, Finl<strong>and</strong>;<br />
The Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Dr Laura Woodward<br />
The Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
Tal Fitzpatrick (Conference Coordinator)<br />
PhD C<strong>and</strong>idate, The Victorian College of the Arts,<br />
The University of Melbourne<br />
NewMats2015 Reference Group<br />
Professor Julieanna Preston<br />
College of Creative Arts, Toi Rauwharangi<br />
Massey University, New Zeal<strong>and</strong><br />
A/Professor Iris van der Tuin<br />
Department of Media <strong>and</strong> Culture Studies <strong>and</strong><br />
the Research Institute for History <strong>and</strong> Culture,<br />
Utrecht University, Universitair Hoofddocent<br />
Dr Jondi Keane<br />
Faculty of Arts <strong>and</strong> Education,<br />
Deakin University<br />
Andrew Lavery<br />
Contemporary Art, The University of Sydney<br />
Dr Terri Bird<br />
Faculty of Art, Design <strong>and</strong> Architecture,<br />
Monash University<br />
Dr Milla Tiainen<br />
University of Helsinki, Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
Publication<br />
Publication Front Cover<br />
“Five” (detail) by Laura Woodward, 2014<br />
Publication Design<br />
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How to Submit your Paper<br />
Please do not submit papers via the SMT website.<br />
All submissions for this special volume to be emailed to admin@newmats2015.net<br />
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<strong>Transversal</strong> <strong>Practices</strong> focuses on how things, subjects, collectives, politics <strong>and</strong><br />
disciplines are in the making; how they take-form <strong>and</strong> transform in relation to<br />
other elements, both human <strong>and</strong> nonhuman. <strong>Transversal</strong> <strong>Practices</strong> are concerned<br />
with ecologies where intensities of movement are aligned with <strong>and</strong> embrace<br />
h<strong>and</strong>s-on attitude <strong>and</strong> artistic, scientific, ethnographical, philosophical<br />
<strong>and</strong> activist praxis.<br />
We offer three keywords to inspire thinking <strong>and</strong> to carve out the specificities<br />
of practice. <strong>Matter</strong> refers to ubiquitous, vibrant <strong>and</strong> continuous becoming that<br />
is one of the central concerns of New Materialism: practices are always material,<br />
<strong>and</strong> surprising in nature. <strong>Ecology</strong> indicates an open <strong>and</strong> continuously<br />
transforming system, which depends upon how its components relate to each<br />
other. <strong>Relationality</strong>, for its part, is the moving principle of being in the world,<br />
or with the world. We become in relation to others. We co-emerge, as do<br />
artworks, ideas <strong>and</strong> collectives.<br />
We question: How do transversal practices work <strong>and</strong> how can we account or<br />
conceptualise them? What kind of methodologies do they necessitate, or call for?<br />
We encourage critical approaches that transversally cross the following: collectivity,<br />
corporeality/incorporeality, materiality/immateriality, indigeneity, individual/<br />
group subjectivity, knowledge-production/onto-epistemologies, language,<br />
temporality, transdisciplinarity, processes of making art/philosophy/ activism,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the three Ss—spatiality, sociality <strong>and</strong> the sensorium.<br />
The NewMats2015 Conference is sponsored by the Faculty of the VCA <strong>and</strong> MCM<br />
at the University of Melbourne in co-operation with ISCH COST Action New<br />
Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How <strong>Matter</strong> Comes to <strong>Matter</strong>’
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