C u r r i c u l u m   V i t a e

Elizabeth Presa

Email: epresa@unimelb.edu.au

Nationality: Australian.

Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, the University of Melbourne, SOUTHBANK 3006 Melbourne Australia.

 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

PhD; M.A. Centre for Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, Monash University; B.A. (Hons) University of Melbourne; PG Dip. (Sculpture), Phillip Inst; Dip. Sculpture Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

 Academic Employment::

2003-2018 Head and Academic co-ordinator of the interdisciplinary Centre For Ideas, VCA, the University of Melbourne. 

Current: Senior lecturer in Sculpture and Critical Theory, VCA, The University of Melbourne.

Research supervisions:

As principal supervisor I have supervised over 35 PhD and MFA projects to successful completion.

Solo Exhibitions:

2022 Theorem, sculpture installation Mejia Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.

2020 Muckleford Garden project ongoing, Muckleford, on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people, Australia.

2017 Nov ‘Garden of small nuptials’ for the Aberrant Nuptials, Deleuze Studies conference, Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

2017 July, Matyrium and Reliquary, Articulate Project Space, Sydney.

2016 Nov ‘This is childhood but it must not be my childhood’, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

2015 ‘Life must imitate Matter’, Dark Precursor, International Deleuze Studies conference, Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

2014 Apian Utopia, Beijing. Minzu University, Beijing.

2014 Apian Utopia, Beehive Village, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, curator Julie Collins, Victoria Australia

2013 Apian Utopia: Melbourne, Westpace Gallery, Melbourne.

2013 Apian Utopia: Precarity”; Tokyo with Ginpaci beehives, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo.

2013Apian Utopia; Glass hives; Pilchuck Glass School, USA.

2012 ‘Screen Test 508 Elizabeth Presa and Christopher Koller, ScreenSpace, Melbourne.

2011  ‘Vanishing and Reappearance’ curated by Dimitris Vardoularkis, Alliance Francais,  Melbourne.

2010 Interior Castle in collaboration with Architect Gregory Burgess,  Linden contemporary Arts space, Melbourne.

2009 Journey to the surface of the earth: Atlantis MARS Gallery, Melbourne;

2007 ‘Ark’ MARS Gallery Melbourne.

2007 ‘Dear Jean Jacques’, Cite International des Arts, Paris.

2006 ‘Calculation of the Rainbow’, MARS Gallery Melbourne.

2006‘Skin and Peel’ sculpture installation St. Johns Lutheran Church, Southbank. Melbourne.

2005‘Moon Water’ MARS Gallery, Melbourne.

2005 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival: ‘Papier Machine’, curator Kirstan Rann, Spacement, Melbourne.

2004‘Peel’ Museum de Livre des Artists Contemporain, France.

2004 ‘Peel’, Éditions Galilée, Paris.

2002 ‘Milk River’, Meru Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

2002 ‘A Small Penance’, Performance Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

2001‘TheBook of Refused Words’, Conservatory, St Kilda Botanical Gardens, Melbourne

2000‘The Four Horizons of the Page’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne.

Group Exhibitions:

2021 ‘My teapot is listening’, 2SP Fitzroy

2020 ‘Toys r Us’ 2SP Fitzroy

2019  ‘Holy Honest Confluences’, curated by Rebekah Pryor, ACU Gallery Fitzroy , Melbourne.

2016-17 ‘Views for the Future’ Vol. 16 (bricolage)’, curator and master printer M.Matsumara, October, 2016 Gallery TEN, Tokyo-Yanaka; 9 Jan-9 Feb 2017 Art Space Mooni, Morioka, Japan.

2016 ‘Animal, Artist, Human’ curated by Janine Burke, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria.

2015 ‘Creaturely Feelings’, Dax Gallery, the University of Melbourne.

2014 ‘Topoligies of Sexual Difference’, curated by Caroline Philips, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University.

2014 Lorne Sculpture Biennale, curated by Julie Collins, Lorne, Victoria.

2013 ‘The Body” part 2, curated by Wilma Tobaco Langford 120, Melbourne.

2012 Seeing Artists Books as Research, curated by Dr Anne Bennett, The Royal Society of Victoria Heritage Library. Melbourne

2012 Living every day by Art, curated by Utako Shindo, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo.

2012 Contemporary Australia drawing, curated by Irene Barbaris, University of the Arts, London. 2012 I’m not in Love, Mars Gallery, Melbourne.

2011 ‘Telepathy Show’  curated by Veronica Kent, West Space Gallery, Melbourne.

2011  ‘Telepathy Show’ , curated by Veronica Kent, Aust Council Studio, Barcelona Spain.

2011  Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Installation for sculpture trail, curator, Julie Collins, Lorne, Victoria.

2010 ‘Sexuate Subjects’, curator Jane Rendell, The Bartlett School of Architecture,UC, London.

2010  ‘duetto’ , curator, Domenico De Clario , AEAF /Queens Theatre, Adelaide.

2009 ‘Drought: Cross Cultural Collaborations’, curator Leila Carridi, Palimpsest, The Vault, Mildura; 10 Days on the Island, Tasmania.

2008‘Drought: Cross Cultural Collaborations’, in partnership with the Writers Festival, Federation Square. Melbourne.

2008 ‘Ship of Fools Ship of Hope’, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne.

2007‘This Crazy Love’ curated by Jan Duffy, Linden Gallery, Melbourne.

2007‘The Space Between’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, touring exhibition. 

2007 ‘Snail hotel’ Toorak Invitational Sculpture exhibition, Melbourne.

2005‘Making Conditions of Love’ MARS Gallery, Melbourne.

2005 ‘Jochen Gertz Die Anthology der Kunst’, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin & ZKM Karlsruhe, Gemany.

2004 ‘For Nothing’, the Bank, Midland, Western Australia.

2004L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival: ‘The Empress’s New Clothes’, curated by Kirstin Rann, Port Jackson Press Gallery, Melbourne.

2003 ‘Makers Mark’, curated by Nik Papas, Counihan Gallery Brunswick Town Hall, Melbourne.

2003‘Oblique Shadows’ Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria.

2002 ‘Milk River’, Meru Art Gallery, Brooklyn New York.

2002 ‘Shirakawa-go Art Festival’, Japan.

 2002 Jochen Gertz Anthology of Art http://www.anthology-of-art.net, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

2002 ‘Oblique Shadows’, VCA Gallery, Melbourne.

2002 ‘Transit Narratives’, Villa Letizia, Italy. 

2001‘Grounds for Sculpture 1’, McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria.

2001‘This Ocean Floor: A sculpture survey’, Goya Galleries, Melbourne.

2001‘On the Cross’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, L’Oreal International Fashion Festival. Melbourne.

2000‘Oblique Shadows’, Sculpture Square, Singapore.

2000 ‘Exquisite Corpse’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.

International Residencies and teaching:

2019 Research Fellowship, Emily Dickinson Archive, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA.

2018 Visiting Artist, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

2014 Visiting Lecturer/artist, Minzu University for the Ethnic minorities, Beijing, China.

2013 Masterclass presenter with Lienors Torre, Pilchuck Glass School, Washington state, USA.

2013 Artist –in-Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Washington State, USA.

2013 Artist-in-Residence, Youkobo Art space, Tokyo, Japan

2010 Art and Philosophy Project, Myer Foundation.

2010  Research Fellowship ( 3 months) Five Colleges Women’s Research Centre, Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

2009 Visiting Artist, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing     

2006-7  Artist in Residence, French Government (AFAA) 3-month residency at he Cite International des Arts, Paris.

2004 Residency, Citè International Des Arts, Paris (one month)

2002 Artist in Residence, Power Institute, Sydney University Scholarship to Cite International Des Arts, Paris.

2002 Artist-in-residence, Cite International des Arts, Australia Council for the Arts International residency, Paris.

 2002 Artist-in-Residence, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

2001 Visiting Artist, Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Singapore

2000 Visiting Artist, Purchase College, State University of New York, USA

2000 Visiting Artist, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

PUBLICATIONS:

PRESA.,E.P., conference paper for Conceptual Lines conference, 2018 Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing.

PRESA.,E.P., Garden of Small Nuptials, chapter in Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research, Leuven University Press, 2019. SBN: 9789462702028

PRESA.,E.P. -‘Birth to Sartorial Presence’, catalogue essay, Sui Jianguo, The Birth of Legacy Mantle, Beijing, (2017)

PRESA.,E.P. -‘Ways of Being’, The Winnicott Tradition: Lines of Development, Eds. Margaret Boyle Sepleman and Frances Thomson-Salo, Karnac Books, London: pp. 315-326. (2015) ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-007-9

PRESA.,E.P.  -The Evolution of do it, do it the compendium, Eds.,Hans Ulrich Obrist and Kate Fowle, ISBN: 978-1-938922-01-5, pp. 423-436, D.A.P/Distributed at Publishers INC: New York [2013]

PRESA.,E.P. – Matters of Fact, Architectural theory Review, vol. 17 No.1 April 2012. Routledge, pp.134-139. [2012] ISSN 1326-4826

PRESA., E.P.-Breath, Mosaic Journal, “After Derrida”, Vol. 39 No.3 September October, Manitoba University,

Canada: pp. 69 –79. (2006)

PRESA., E.P - White Work. Beyond Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy', eds. Leslie

Hill, Brian Nelson, Dimitris Vardoulakis, University of Delaware: Pp.257-269. (2006)

PRESA., E.P. - Establishing a Research Culture in a College for the Arts. Innovation in Australian Arts, Media

and Design, eds Rod Whissler Brad Hasseman, QUT Press. pp. 171-180. (2004)

PRESA., E.P. -‘He said…’ volume 24 Number 1&2 2005, ISSN 01118889 ‘Access: Critical Perspectives on

Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies’. Ed. Elizabeth Grierson. Pp.99 (2005)

PRESA., E.P.- ‘Diary’ Parallax, Routledge, vol. 9, no.3, pp.69 – 74. (2003)

CRITICAL TEXTS, ESSAYS, REVIEWS:

2021       Doing Feminism, MUP. Anne Marsh

2017       Rita Wilson, ‘Sailing into History: Displacements and Arrivals, exhibition’, Volume 7, Number 2, of the Italian American Review.

2017     Carol Schwarzman ‘Presence and Non-Presence; Inside and Outside’,  Eyeline, Journal, Australia.

2017      Art+Australia, Review: Animal/Human/Artist –Art inspired animals’, by Lynn Mowson,http://www.artandaustralia.com/online/discursions/review-human-animal-artist-art-inspired-animals  2017.

2016      Review by Gabriella Coslovich, Spectrum section of The Age newspaper, 19 November, 2016.

2016     Human/Animals/Artist: Janine Burke’s Exhibition Explores the Lines Between’, Gabriella Coslovich, the Sydney Morning Herald, Nov.18, 2016.

2016      Human/Animal / Artist, by Janine Burke, Catalogue, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria Australia.

2015     Anne-Gaelle Saliot, The Drowned Muse, Oxford University Press, UK(2015) pp. 17-19; pp. 326-328.

2014       Thomas Hirschhorn, ‘Letter to Elizabeth (Inventing my own terms)’, Critical Laboratory: The Writings of Thomas Hirschhorn, edts. Lisa Lee and Hal Foster, MIT Press.

2014     Carol Schwarzman, ‘Review Lorne Sculpture Biennale’, Sculpture magazine, USA. Dec 2014 Vol 3 No. 10.

2012       Alexander Garcia Duttmann, ‘In Participation’ Screen Test 508 catalogue, Screen Space Gallery , Melbourne.

2011     Andrew Benjamin, ‘There is the vanishing’, Writing and Architecture, Re-Press, 2010 pp.143-154.

2010     Lisa Harms, Duetto review, Art Link Vol 30, No3

2010     Alexander Garcia Duttmann ‘Elizabeth and the Peacock’ Interior Castle: catalogue,; Linden Contemporary Art, Melbourne.

2010     Andrew Benjamin ‘Mattering’ Interior Castle catalogue, Linden Contemporary Art, Melbourne.

2010     Geoffrey Bennington, Not Half No End, Edinburgh University Press, 2010. p. 165

2010     Andrew Benjamin, Writing Art and Architecture, Re. Press, 2010 pp. 143-154

2009     Dimitris Vardoulakis, Beside(s): Elizabeth Presa with Jacques Derrida, Derrida Today volume 2, Edinburgh University Press

2009     Andrew Stephens, ‘Poetry Cast in Plaster’ Interview, ‘The Age’ newspaper

2007     Delia Falconer, Phantasmagoria, Book reviews ‘The Australian’ newspaper, April 7.

2006     Gerald l. Bruns After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism. Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Philosophical review. 2006.08.05

2006     Gail Jones, A Shape, If Only A Shape, Australian book review, August 2006 No. 283

2006     Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘Attention: Fragile’, catalogue essay for Calculation of the Rainbow, MARS Gallery ‘.

2006      Dimitris Vardoulakis, catalogue essay for ‘Calculation of the Rainbow’

2005     Andrew Benjamin, ‘There in the Vanishing’ catalogue ISBN 0646451065

2005       Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘Medusa–Jelly’, catalogue Moon Water exhibition, ISBN 0646451065

2005     Ian McLean, 'For Nothing' Artlink, Vol 25,#1;

2004       Simon Blond “Nothing in the Bank” Arts, Western Australian 24 December.

2004       Domenico de Clario ‘For Nothing’ catalogue, the Bank, Midlands, Perth

2004      Alexander Garçia Düttmann, Verwisch die Spuren, Berlin: Merve Verlag.

2004        Penny Web, Review ‘Karen Lunn and Elizabeth Presa’ in The Age newspaper, March 17

2003        Julie Chandler Hayes “The Body of the Letter: Epistolary Acts of Simon Hantai, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida” University of Richmond, Virginia Muse Issue 503/13.3

2003        Japan Cultural Centre Archive Project, Japan Foundation Sydney.

2002       Jochen Gerz’s Anthology of Art http://www.anthology–of-art.net

2001        Jacques Derrida, La Connaissance des Textes,  Editions Galilée, Paris. pp.155-6

2001        ‘World Sculpture News’, volume 7 number 2 p. 63;

2001        Kevin Hart Contretemps: an online journal of philosophy ‘Horizons and Folds’            http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps. February.                  

2000        Sian E Jay Catalogue ‘Oblique Shadows’

2000        Sian E Jay ‘The Straits Times’newspaper, Singapore, ‘ Arts’, 22 November.

2000         Robert Nelson ‘Paper Trail’ Art Review  ‘The Age’newspaper, 2 August.

2000        Australian Campus Review, 10-16 May.

Conference papers and public talks:

2022 ASCP conference Panel convenor and presenter Sculpture and Philosophy, the University of Melbourne.

2022 Irigaray circle conference, Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia USA. ‘Firegarden’

2022 Art and Human Rights conference and workshops Canada, Seville University, Concordia University, Invited speaker

Jan 14 ,Workshop#1, What are Human Rights in the Post Human Age of the  Anthropocene?. Jan 28,  Workshop #2, The Arts and Human Rights in the Context of Being Cyborgs, Living Speculative Futures,

2021 Birds and Language Conference, University of NSW. ‘Of Gods and birds’

2020 Where is Art?  Curated by Sean Lowry  ‘Muckleford Garden’.

2019 ASCP University of Melbourne.  ‘Toys-r-Us: Giorgio Agamben’

2019 Minzu University, Beijing, Conference, The Belt and Road, International Forum of Ethnic Fine Arts, keynote address.

2018 Aberrant Nuptial Arts : Deleuze and Art. Orpheus Institute Ghent. ‘Small Garden’

2016 ‘What children Say’ paper for 10th International Deleuze Studies conference, University of Rome Tre, Italy.

2015  Artists talk for the Dark Precursor conference, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium.

2015 ‘Life must follow Matter’, conference paper, Daughters of Chaos, 8th International Deleuze Studies conference, Konstfack University, Stockholm, Sweden. July

2015 “Labyrinths: saying yes to experimentation’ Key note paper, Interdisciplinary Arts conference, Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada. March

2014 ‘Guest Lecture,  Minzu, University, Beijing, China. December

‘Guest Lecture’ Renmin University, Beijing, China.

Guest Lecture’  Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

2014  Paper title: “Practices for Art?: Deleuze, Agamben and St Francis of Assisi, Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy, ACU, Melbourne. Dec.

2014  ‘Skin Deep’ International conference on the Image, Freie Universitat, Berlin. Oct.

2014  ‘Beatitude: a peculiar practice’ Deleuze Studies conference, ITU, Istanbul. july

2013    ‘Artist talk’ Wespace gallery, Melbourne for Apian Utopias Exhibition

2013 July ‘Artists talk’ Pilchuck Glass School, Washington, USA

2013 May “Beatitude: A Way of living”, paper for ‘Animate Camera: Life Performing’ symposium, Auckland University, New Zealand.

2013 April ‘Artists talk’ Youkobo Art space, Tokyo, Japan

2012 June ‘Floor Talk’ Living Everyday by Art Youkobo Arts Space, Tokyo , Japan.

2012 April ‘Skin Deep’,  ‘Animals in Art and Philosophy’, symposium VCA the University of Melbourne.

2011 September ‘Mysticism and Making: Giving an Image to St Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle’, International conference on the Image, San Sebastian, Spain

2011 ‘Post-partum images’, Picturing Mother and Child exhibition Cunningham Dax Centre, Melbourne.

2011 ‘Decreation: Simone Weil’ Exhibition West Space Gallery Melbourne

2010 “Interior Castle; Mysticism and the Image” Five Colleges Women’s Research Centre, Mt Holy Oak USA

2009 June Key note address ‘Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, Post Disciplinary, Art and Education in the 21st Century’, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

2009 May, ‘Slow Sculpture’ Central Academy of fine Art, Beijing

2009 April,  ‘Slow Sculpture’ AAH conference, Manchester

2008 August, Out of Bounds: Art, Faith and Religiosity’ conference , Monash University.

2007 Sept,  Artist lecture, Art forum, RMIT

2007 July,   ‘From Day to Day’, ‘Hospitality and Mourning’ conference, University of Queensland

2007 July,   ‘Work of Mourning’ Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne School of Psychoanalysis

2007 June , ’ Sculpting the Mind’ The Mind in Art, Psychiatry and the Consulting Room conference, Melbourne School of Psychoanalysis, VCA

2007 June,  Presentation at Research for Early Career Researchers, University of Melbourne. (Coordinated by Vera Mackie)

2007 January, Guest lecture PhD Research Programme, Department of Visual; Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

2006 ‘Spinoza’s Work’, Wandering with Spinoza Conference, The Victorian College of the Arts.

2005 ‘At the Centre of Ideas?’ Key Note address, ‘Interdisciplinarity in the  Arts’ Conference, Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea.

2005 January ‘Making White work’ University of Paris VII, Denis Diderot

2004 Aug  ‘White Work’  Blanchot the Obscure International Conference, Monash University & Alliance Francaise, Melbourne

2004  White Light. Alliance Magazine, June-August, Alliance Francaise de Melbourne. P. 14

2003   Censorship and Artistic Expression “Snapshot” Arts Management Forum, VCA, Melbourne.

2003  Interview commenting on the role of art as social critique and protest. SBS Radio.

2002 Nov. Artist’s floor talk, Meru Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2002 Jan.  ‘Pedagogy and the Arts’, Public lecture, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

2002   Interview, commenting on the role of an education in the Arts, Radio, Singapore, 11 January 5.30pm

2002 Jan. ‘Forming texuality’, lecture, LaSalle SIA, Singapore.

2002 Jan.’ Installation as art practice’, seminar ‘Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.

2001 Oct.‘Four Horizons of the Page’, lecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. USA

2001 Oct.‘Four Horizons of the Page’, lecture, Purchase College SUNY, NY. USA

2000 Nov. ‘Poetics of the Book in Sculpture’ lecture, National Academy of Fine Art, Singapore

2000 Nov.‘Jacques Derrida and the Poetics of translation’ Monash University, Australia

2000 Aug. Artists floor talk, ‘The Four Horizons of the Page’ Linden Gallery, Melbourne

2000 Together with Jacques Derrida, interview by Lyn Gallagher, PM, Radio national, 10 August  

CONFERENCES, RESIDENCIES AND EXHIBITIONS organized and curated:

 2012 Writers Masterclass with Nick Drake(UK) and Raimond Gaita for the film ‘Romulus My Father’. VCA.

2012  In Flesh and blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy, a symposium series in 3 parts: with key note speakers: Peter Singer, Raimond Gaita and Andrew Benjamin. VCA.

2011 ‘Decreation: Simone Weil’ Exhibition and lectures,  West Space Gallery, Melbourne

2011 Keith Wilson (Oxford- CFI artist residency, one semester, public lecture, Arts Council of England)VCA.

2010 Ewa Ziarek, public lecture and seminar, VCA.

2010 Christina Mackie, (Oxford- CFI artist residency, one semester, Public Lecture,  Arts Council of England)VCA.

2009 Daniel Gustav Cramer, (Oxford- CFI artist residency, one semester, Public Lecture,  Arts Council of England)VCA

2009 J.Hillis Millar, public lecture and seminars VCA.

2009 ‘Paul Cox, Miracle Maker’, VCAM University of Melbourne .

2009 ‘do it’  the Philosophy archive, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, The George Paton Gallery University of Melbourne.

2009 Journey to the Surface of the Earth , Domain House Royal botanic Gardens , Melbourne

2008 ‘do it’ with Hans Ulrich Obrist and students from the Central Academy of Fine Art Beijing, Alliance Francais de Melbourne.

2008 Eduardo Cardava, Public lecture and seminars

2007 Jalal Toufic, Public lecture, seminars and Video festival, VCA.

2006   2007 ‘do it’ with Hans Ulrich Obrist, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. (Exhibition outcome of ‘do it’ seminar series) VCA.

2006  Louise Wilson (Oxford- CFI artist residency, one semester, Public Lecture,  Arts Council of England)VCA.

2006 ‘Wandering with Spinoza’ International conference, Key Note speakers:Alain Badiou, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mieke Bal, Andrew Benjamin, Christopher Norris. VCA.

2005 ‘Making Conditions of Love’ exhibition MARS Gallery, Port Melbourne.  

2004  Paul Rooney (UK) (Oxford- CFI artist residency, one semester, public lecture, Arts Council of England)VCA.

2004  Richard Foreman, Public Lecture and events, VCA.

2004  ‘White Light’ exhibition for Blanchot the Obscure International Conference, Monash University & Alliance Francaise, Melbourne.

2004 Stewart Home public lecture and events, VCA

2004 Yvonne Rainer; Public lecture and Yvonne Rainer film festival, VCA.

2003 “The Art of Protest” Symposium, BMW Edge Theatre Federation Square, and seminar series Witnessing Testimony and the Art of Protest, with Julian Burside, Jill Singer, Bishop Hilton Deakin, Dr Tony Birch.

2002  Catherine Malabou, Public Lecture and seminars, VCA, Melbourne.

2000 “The Poetics of the Book” interdisciplinary project with VCA students and international artists, academics: Dr. Catherine Malabou (Paris) Dr Yau Suchou (Singapore/Sydney) Prof. Kevin Hart; (Melb) Domenico DeClario (Brazil/Melb), Bernard Muir (UoM) VCA.

1999   “Blowing Glas” Jacques Derrida, Public Lecture and Exhibition, VCA.