Research
Public Art Commission draws on the expertise of key Deakin researchers, HDR candidates and external research fellows to drive new thinking about art in public places and the ways that arts engage the public.
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Article
by David Cross
| 2021
Of the many changes brought about by COVID-19, our forced connection to local public spaces is one of the few positive elements. No longer is there the sense that outdoor play…
Publication
by Various
- David Cross
- Cameron Bishop
‘Six Moments in Kingston Town’ was an art project developed by the Public Art Commission in May 2019 that sought to collectively speak to the diverse cultures and shared histories…
Symposium
by David Cross
| 2020
In 2011, Hobart-based artist Anthony Johnson developed a new commission for a public art series across Tasmania called Iteration Again. The work Eclipse consisted of a series of…
Conference Paper
by Various
- David Cross
- Cameron Bishop
The role of the university in building professional development opportunities for creative arts HDR candidates has changed in recent times. Where the notion of academic research…
Article
by Various
- Katya Johanson
- Hilary Glow
Claire Bishop argued that the ethical lens applied to socially engaged arts practice encourages ‘authorial renunciation’ in favour of collaboration and limits the opportunity to…
Article
by Various
- Katya Johanson
- Hilary Glow
Dedicated arts centres were a common outcome of the great expansion of the public sphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the early twenty-first century, however,…
Publication
by David Cross
| 2017
At a time of increasing inequality and social tension, what role can art play in bringing people together? Can artists working in public spaces shift perceptions and attitudes?…
Publication
by Various
- Katya Johanson
- Hilary Glow
For two years we were involved in a large-scale evaluation of a state-funded arts programme in Victoria, Australia, which supported a range of activities selected for their capacity…
Article
by Various
- Katya Johanson
- Hilary Glow
Arts policy has a longstanding relationship with the concept of “quality” and the ways in which organisations measure, evaluate and account for it. Culture Counts, an evaluation…
Conference Paper
by David Cross
| 2017
One of the more pejorative labels often levelled at socially engaged practitioners is the tag of cultural missionary. Whether it be the implication that communities are seen as…
Article
by Cameron Bishop
| 2017
Digital technologies are pervasive and ubiquitous. Not only are mobile technologies on the rise, but so too are computing and social software which are embedded in objects, space…
Publication
by Cameron Bishop
| 2016
The concepts, ideas, and material experiments that much contemporary art engages with rarely examine the commercial realities of the system that supports its exhibition. From the…
Article
by Various
- David Cross
- Cameron Bishop
We live in denial of the foreigner within due to the (often feigned) dexterous self-regard we bring to our social and spatial encounters. You, as the literal foreign body in your…