Index
Dr Dominic Redfern
|
Position |
Senior Lecturer |
|---|---|
|
School / |
Art |
|
Contact Details |
+(61 3) 9925 2022 |
|
Location |
Building: 7 |
|
College/Portfolio |
Design & Social Context |
Key Activities
In 2009 I have exhibited a collaborative project with John Wolseley and choreographer Siobhan Murphy in the Palimpsest Regional Arts Festival. I have also taken part in a public art project, Sleeper, on the Dandenong railway line; a large solo show at PICA in W.A; and a live performance work, again with Siobhan Murphy as well dancers Michaela Pegum and Jo White. In 2008 I visited Europe for a solo exhibition at the Art Centre d’Marnay in rural France, as well as to undertake developmental work on two additional French projects for 2009/10, and to spend time working on a project funded by the Finnish government. I also took part in a group show in Melbourne entitled My Fragile Mind and the Figuring Landscapes program which has been exhibited at a variety locations including the Tate Modern. In the last few years I have also had solo shows at Melbourne’s CCP, Adelaide’s EAF and the Chulalongkorn Art Centre in Bangkok. My work has also been seen in group show’s at Te Tuhi Centre for The Arts, New Zealand, ACMI, in the US at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of New Art, Detroit and Art in General in New York, Sparwasser HQ, the Interface festival and Hamburger Bahnof in Berlin; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, in the UK at Norwich Gallery and Bristol’s FACT, the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul as well as Gallery Minami, Tokyo Wonder Site, and Remo Gallery in Japan. I have undertaken artistic residencies in the US, Europe and Asia and my work has been funded by state, national and international funding bodies. I am actively involved in my community; I was a committee member at West Space Artist-Run organization between 2000 and 2004 and I am currently a member of their board. I’ve also undertaken committee work for numerous art organizations including Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Next Wave and Arts Victoria.
Qualifications
BA (Television Production) 1991; BA (Media Arts) 1996; MA (Media Arts) 1998, Currently Pursuing Ph.D (Media Arts).
Research
I create performative video works at the intersection of site, screen and identity. Often depicting myself in some unresolved narrative of existential precariousness, I have experimented with a range of strategies to complicate and explicate the relationship between site and psyche. Over recent years, as my negotiations of site have developed, I have begun extending beyond the exhibition space and into the geo-cultural environment to render the charge of what is in front of the camera, not just what is behind it. Exhibiting in festivals, galleries and live performance I utilise humour and a variety of self-reflexive devices to complicate the relationship between artist, representation and viewer. In this sense the technology of video is both subject and medium for my work, which gives critical expression to the complexity of everyday screen-mediated experience. Literalised through these encounters with screen technology my practice addresses the mutable, multiple and contingent nature of contemporary identity.
School of Art Research Cluster
Research Outputs
|
Solo Exhibitions |
|
|
Group Exhibitions |
|
Research Supervision
Prapon Kumjim, DFA, Second Supervisor, “My Time is Not Your Time”
James Geurts, MA, Senior Supervisor, “Blue Print”
Tintin Wulia, MA, Senior Supervisor, “Border Security, Human Connectivity”
Philipa Murray, MA, Second Supervisor, “The Floating World”