Marnie Badham

Dr. Marnie Badham

Associate Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Marnie is Associate Professor at the School of Art at RMIT University in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.

With a twenty-five-year history of art and social justice in Australia and Canada, Marnie's research sits at the intersection of socially-engaged art practices, participatory methodologies and the politics of cultural measurement.

Through aesthetic forms of encounter and exchange, her work brings together disparate groups of people in dialogue to examine and affect local issues.

Her current focus includes a series of creative cartographies registering emotions in public space; expanded curation projects on the aesthetics and politics of food; and a book project The Social Life of Artist Residencies: connecting with people and place not your own.

www.marniebadham.com

Research fields

  • 360103 Art theory
  • 3606 Visual arts
  • 450213 Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges, histories, culture, country, perspectives and ethics in education
  • 470201 Arts and cultural policy

UN sustainable development goals

  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 17 Partnerships for the Goals
  • 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 4 Quality Education

Supervisor projects

  • Sweet Enough, an Ephemeral Blown Sugar Sculpture
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • From The River Delta: A Journey to Understand my Bangladeshi-Australian Identity through an Interdisciplinary Art Practice by Employing Auto-Ethnography Method.
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Calling to Country: Weaving Sounds and Stories of Movement
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • How Do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Creative Cultural Practitioners in the South East Assert the Multiple Values of Their Culture and Practice to Challenge the Discourse of Indigenous Authenticity Within the Arts and Cultural Ecologies?
  • 11 Aug 2021
  • We Care a Lot: Artist-led Strategies Towards a New Commons for the Visual Arts
  • 11 Aug 2021
  • The Unshakable Destiny: a disjointed thread through diasporic moving image of Hong Kong
  • 22 Jul 2020
  • Revisiting Lifeworld: Gaining Affective and Environmental Engagement through Socially Engaged Art between China and Australia
  • 30 Jan 2020
  • Youll Know It When You Feel It: developing a trauma integrated framework for long-form contemporary documentary practice
  • 12 Dec 2019
  • I Used to Walk so Softly on this Land
  • 1 Mar 2019
  • Formalising the Informal? Investigating the intangible cultural heritage of repurposed public space
  • 2 Jan 2019
  • A Cuppa and a Yarn: Reclaiming Known Materialism and Collaboration as Sites of Resistance and Connection in Photo-Media
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • Transitory Encounters: Embodied Artistic Research to Understand the Lived Experiences of Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
  • 12 Feb 2018
  • Fields of Resonance: Towards Embodied Forms of Listening and Looking 
  • 14 Sep 2017
  • Self Surveillance: Performing the plurality of my feminine experience of self.
  • 24 May 2017

Teaching interests

Socially engaged arts practice and theory,

Contemporary art and photography

Creative and cultural production

Community and cultural development,

Evaluation, Cultural value, Politics of cultural measurement,

Community planning and deliberative democracy,

Cultural policy.

Research interests

Visual Arts and Crafts, Art Theory and Criticism, Policy and Administration, Performing Arts and Creative Writing, Curriculum and Pedagogy.

Practice led research, teaching studio and theory, research supervision, ethics committee, industry partnership projects.
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.