Dr Kate MacNeill
Lecturer and Coordinator, Arts Management
Biography
Kate MacNeill has extensive research, teaching and training experience in the government, non-government and university sectors in the areas of law and the arts and communications. Her doctorate explored issues of performativity, identity and contemporary art in Australia. Kate's current research interests are the reception of art in the public sphere; censorship and notions of artistic merit and public art.
Publications
Refereed articles
- MacNeill, Kate and Tonks, Ann, 'Co-leadership and gender in the performing arts', Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management (forthcoming Nov 2009)
- MacNeill, Kate, ‘Pina Bausch, Creative industries and the materiality of artistic labour’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 15, no. 3, 2009, pp. 301–313
- Alix Hunter and Kate MacNeill (2008), ‘Art on the outside: Thoughts on legal aspects of institutionalised art production’, Media and Arts Law Review vol. 13, no. 4 2008, pp. 468–479
- MacNeill, Kate, ‘“How can this be art?” Framings of Contemporary Art in the News Media’, eJournalist: A Refereed Media Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1–21
- MacNeill, Kate, ‘When historic time meets Julia Kristeva’s women’s time: the reception of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party in Australia’ Outskirts, Vol 18, May 2008, online at http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume18/macneill
- MacNeill, K., 'Art that matters', in Horstkotte, Silke and Esther Peeren (eds), The Shock of the Other. Situating Alterities, Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2007
- MacNeill, K., 'Undoing the Colonial Gaze: Ambiguity in the Art of Brook Andrew,' Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Vol. 6, no. 2, 2006 and Vol. 7, no. 1, 2007
- MacNeill, K., 'Silence=Death? Misplacing the art of Mathew Jones in the discourse of AIDS activism', Traffic, Vol 6, University of Melbourne, 2005
- MacNeill, K., 'Arguing Cultural Identities: the 'Us' and 'Them' of the Cultural Industries' Campaign in the Bilateral Australian-US Free Trade Negotiations', Australian Perspectives, Vol. 1, Latrobe University, Melbourne 2005
- MacNeill, K., 'Art a form of expression – but unlike any other?' The Drawing Board, Sydney University, Vol 3, No 2: March 2002.
- MacNeill, K., 'Siting art – location as a determinant of obscenity in visual art', Media and Art Law Review, Vol 6, No 3: September 2001
- MacNeill, K., 'Self-regulation, rights and remedies - the telecommunications experience', in Sunrise or Sunset? Administrative Law in the New Millenium, (Australian Institute of Administrative Law: Canberra, 2001)
Other publications
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Carole Wilson: Contained Worlds', Dianne Tanzer Gallery, catalogue essay, Melbourne, 2008
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MacNeill, Kate, ‘Once Upon a Time … When Art was Confined to the Walls of a Gallery’, Art + Law, Newsletter of the Arts Law Centre of Australia: Sydney, 2008
- MacNeill, K., 'A decisive moment for photography?', FLASH, Melbourne: Centre for Contemporary Photography (June-September 2006)
- Kenyon A.T. and MacNeill K., Freedom of Expression and Media Freedom within Pacific Island Nations: A Report for the Pacific Media and Communications Facility, Centre for Media and Communications Law, Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2005
- MacNeill, K., 'Unwelcome Disclosures of Self,' Antithesis forum, Vol. 1, 2004, University of Melbourne
- MacNeill, K., 'Does Ownership Matter? Issues of ownership arising in Such Fertile Ground', commissioned by Regional Arts Victoria, ABC online, 2002
- MacNeill, K., Counting the Cost: Low income households and telecommunications, Melbourne: Communications Law Centre, 2002
- Casson C., MacNeill K. and Wilding D., One size fits none: Australian household telecommunications use, Sydney: Communications Law Centre, 2002
- Funston A. and MacNeill K., Mobile Matters: Young people and mobile phones, Melbourne: Communications Law Centre, 1999
- MacNeill K. and Marles V., 'The right to know and the freedom to speak', 150 Communications Update 20, 1998
- Pine J., Jackson S. and MacNeill K., Shaping the Future: The Future of Work Discussion Kit, Melbourne: Brotherhood of St Laurence, 1996
- MacNeill K., Reading the Signs: a survey of trends affecting the future of work, Melbourne: Brotherhood of St Laurence, 1995
- MacNeill, K., Labour market programs and policy beyond Working Nation, Melbourne Brotherhood of St Laurence, 1995
- MacNeill, K., Regulation of Consumer Markets, Ministry of Consumer Affairs: Melbourne, 1991
- MacNeill, K. and Pond, C., (eds), Britain Can't Afford Low Pay: A programme for a national minimum wage, London: Low Pay Unit, 1988
Conference and seminar papers (1999 to date)
- Creative industries and the visual arts', Creative China - Harmonious World, Communications University of China, Bejing, October 2009
- 'Co-leadership and gender in the performing arts' (with Ann Tonks), 10th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management, Dallas, July 2009
- ‘Judith Butler’, Key Thinkers Public Lecture Series, University of Melbourne, May 2009
- 'Who are the Public of Public Art?', Private Agenda, Public Spaces, AAANZ Conference, Brisbane November 2008
- ‘Pina Bausch, Creative industries and the materiality of artistic labour’, 15th International Conference on Cultural Economics, Boston, June 2008
- 'Mixed Messages: the media treatment of contemporary art,' International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management, University of Valencia, July 2007
- 'The political (im)possibilities of collaboration: the work of Anne Mosey and Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels,' Indigenous Studies Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, May 2006
- 'Identity's in between', Eye Site, Sydney, AAANZ conference December 2005
- 'Ambiguity in the art of Brook Andrew', Indigenous Studies Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, August 2005
- 'Keeping the Silence', Sonic Interventions, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, March 2005
- 'Misplacing the work of Mathew Jones in the discourse of AIDS activism', AHCCA Research Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, September 2004
- 'Arguing Culture', Australian Perspectives, Latrobe University, September 2004
- 'Art that Matters', Identity and Alterity, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, March 2004
- 'Unwelcome Disclosures of Self', Secrecy – what will you tell? Ashworth Program Colloquium, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2003
- 'Public art and private interests: artistic expression and free speech', City of Melbourne Conversation Series, Melbourne Town Hall, October 2002
- 'Caught looking: obscenity law and the disclosure of self', Law and Literature Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 2002
- 'Privacy and the obscene in visual art', Law and Society Conference, Victoria University, Melbourne 2001
- 'Art – A form of expression but unlike any other', Right to Know Conference, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2001
- 'One size fits none: Australian household telecommunications', Communications Research Forum, Canberra, September 2001 (research by Casson C., MacNeill K. and Wilding D.)
- 'Ring me - mobile phones and young people', Communications Research Forum, Canberra, September 1999 (research by Funston, A. and MacNeill, K.)