Dominic Redfern

Associate Professor Dominic Redfern

Associate Professor

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dominic Redfern creates video works at the intersection of site, screen and identity, which give critical expression to the complexity of screen-mediated experience. Over recent years, his practice has become increasingly focused on the history of natural history and contemporary understandings of place. These interests are expressed with a self-conscious approach to the technology and culture of video, making it both subject and medium for his work.

Over the last couple of years, Dominic has had exhibitions at home as well as in Tokyo, Stockholm and Shanghai, and he has undertaken research in Orkney and Mull as well in La Rochelle for future projects.

Over the last decade his work has also been seen at venues including:

• Tate Modern, Norwich Gallery and Bristol’s FACT, UK

• Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, New Zealand

• Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane; Perth International Arts Festival; Perth Institute for Contemporary Art

• Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of New Art, Detroit, and Art in General in New York, US

• Sparwasser HQ, the Interface Festival and Hamburger Bahnof, Berlin

• Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

• Bangkok Experimental Film Festival

• As a finalist in the 2011 ReelDance awards

• Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul

• Gallery Minami, Tokyo Wonder Site, and Remo Gallery in Japan.

Personal website: www.dominicredfern.net

Supervisor projects

  • Revisiting Lifeworld: Gaining Affective and Environmental Engagement through Socially Engaged Art between China and Australia
  • 21 Feb 2024
  • Examining Chinese-Australian bi-cultural identity in relation to cultural bereavement through video essays informed by autoethnography and critical realism
  • 10 Jan 2024
  • Walking with Buckwheat : Site-Specific Performance and Social Change
  • 26 Oct 2022
  • Plant Autonomy: entangled presence, perception, and intelligent behaviour
  • 23 Aug 2022
  • Funny weird or funny haha? Subversive tactics for approaching anxiety in contemporary art
  • 3 Aug 2022
  • Being Weird: Collaboration, Contamination, and Worlding with Nonhumans
  • 25 Jul 2022
  • The ElectroPoetics : performing co-created being-hoods in the electronic world
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Voices to Sing and Hands to Create: Expressions of Authentic Difference
  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Porosity of the Frame: material experiments on the boundary between art and everyday life
  • 6 Aug 2021
  • A new curatorial; method, care and the feminine
  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Toward Equitable Entanglements:A Methodology for a Posthuman Approach in Socially Engaged Artistic Practice
  • 7 Jan 2019
  • Fluid to Arid: Exploring the Notions of Life and Loss Through the Lens of the Lut Desert Geography
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • Ocean Observatory: A Proposition for a Marine Dwelling
  • 1 Mar 2017
  • Trauma, Dissociation and the Boarding School Experience
  • 1 Mar 2017
  • Adjacencies and distances: Sculptural site intervention
  • 27 Oct 2016
  • Self Surveillance: Performing the plurality of my feminine experience of self.
  • 2 Mar 2015
  • Narratives of Emergence: Revealing an Image of Female Iranian Rebellion
  • 3 Feb 2014
  • Among My Souvenirs: The Role of Site, Artefact and Embodiment as Tools of Remembrance in Material and Visual Culture
  • 4 Mar 2013
  • Halfway to Paradise: documenting people and place, fictional constructs and considerations for post-documentary
  • 27 Feb 2012

Teaching interests

Dominic is currently senior supervisor to five doctoral students.

Research interests

video art, video installation, performance & video, site-based art, place-based art, art and environment
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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.