Engagement

School Activities (2010-2011)

Between 2010 and 2011, staff engaged in 403 activities: 17 public creative works; 29 press articles; leadership roles in 117 cultural and government organisations; 195 public presentations and 45 media interviews. These include: keynote lectures in Beijing, Tokyo, New York; recitals, readings and panel discussions at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne Writers Festival, Adelaide Festival, Past Matters and Next Wave Festival; dramaturgies in Malaysia and Indonesia; and, as judges in 22 writing, film and art competitions in Australia. Appointed by ministerial and cultural boards, staff were media, arts policy, design and history consultants, as well as commissioners to international creative industry biennales and exhibitions. The School also continued to lead as advisors, guest lecturers and examiners across the VCE curriculum.

Highlights include:

  • Applied Industry Research and Knowledge Transfer: Two ARC Linkage Projects ($1.2million) were successfully funded at the end of 2010 that included partnerships with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, AMES, Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Victorian Multicultural Commission and the City of Whittlesea.
  • Internships and MOU: The graduate programs of Cultural Management, and Media, Communications and Publishing have established dedicated internships with at least 40 local, inter-state and international government and commercial arts organisations including Melbourne Film Festival, Färgfabriken (Sweden) and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The Cultural Studies program signed a Memorandum of Understanding with 24 universities in Asia and Australia to form the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Consortium to develop a joint PhD program and shared graduate coursework.
  • As official war photographer, Charles Green’s ‘Framing Conflict’ received the highest profile with multiple exhibitions, media interviews and lectures in Canberra, Venice, Melbourne, Brisbane and Washington, and on the ABC and SBS.
  • Keynotes, lectures, readings and recitals at: Seymour Centre, VCA, Flinders Asia Center, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Beijing Biennale, The Frick Gallery, New York, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Adelaide Festival, Melbourne Club, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne Shakespeare Society, Artspace, Geelong Gallery, Singapore Polytechnic, Goldsmiths College, London and Asialink.
  • Media interview and writings: The Weekend AustralianThe Saturday AgeThe AustralianThe Big Issue, real time, Madman DVD, Radio RRR, ABC Radio National, ABC Television, Channel 7 Today/Tonight, SBS National News, Herald Sun, SINA.com, Fox FM
  • Dramaturgies, curatorial development and creative works: Chi Vu’s ‘Banh Chung’—tet new year performance; Dramaturgies #4: new ecologies for theatrical practice in the twenty-first century; 'The Chinese Film Project', Creative Industries Expo, Shanghai.