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Amanda Newall left LICA in September 2009 Lecturer: Art
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PG Supervisor
BA Fine Art Studio Practice
Course Convenor: Curatorship and Professional Practice second and third level study: ART203i, ART203ii.
Responsible for the end of year student exhibition.
Studio 3D/installation: ART360, ART361, ART362 and ART260, ART261, ART262. These units constitute two thirds of the weighting of a Fine Art Degree at Lancaster. There are roughly seventy students across both levels. Four academic members of staff contribute to these courses in digital art, drawing, painting, sculpture and combinations of these. The final year Studio Practice show, exhibited in the Scott Gallery and the studios, showcases the work of Art to the university and the wider public. It is an important regional event attracting well over a thousand visitors, often attracting reviews in the local press.
Installation, performance art, sculpture including glass and ceramics, garment and costume, institutional critique, site, postcolonialism, fashion, museums and archives.
· Methodology: ethnographic exploration with culture-specific references to semiotic negotiations of identity via the body. Conflicts of identity and its scope of contestation form the basis for the costume constructions. The latter inform my work as an unrealized and ambiguous state of 'becoming'. In situ instantiations become artifacts combined with other, often found, elements, objects and material. Other combinations that may trigger realizations of works juxtapose or combine digital works/installation/ceramics/garments.
· Positioning and interrogating placement of artifacts interests me as a strand of 'New Museum Theory'. Other related interests revolve around communication and conflicts of identity along with re-examination of habitual sites and practices (Institutional Critique) as a mode to engage a context beyond the museum; digital virtual environments and their communities as a space for questioning new forms of disseminating cultural identity/formation; and ubiquitous forms of display and their reference to a global experience.
CURRENT RESEARCH INCLUDES:
Aboriginal Terraformations (2008). Collaborative video work and research project with sound artist/music technology lecturer Antti Saario (LICA), researchers Ola Johansson (LICA) and Steven Pritchard, Monash University, Australia. The video shows surfaces, objects, and movements in a radically converted (or terraformed) desert space, where the repercussions of colonial transgression still reject intercultural contact, outlaw the use of traditional clothing, and incite sounds of spatial conflict. The video involves cross-disciplinary research to the complex relationship of mapping, perspectives and reterritorialisation of pre-colonial rural landscape within a post-colonial conceptual and aesthetic framework. The cultural, visual and sonic mapping of the dynamics governing the Australian outback and English rural countryside takes place in the age of global citizenship and is informed by: tribal awareness in media and theatre; electronic songlines, GPS mapping, and the ritualistic physicality of Samuel Beckett's Quad, along with critical narratives and costume design.
The Hollywoods: We are Legion - Mixed Reality Jockeying (2007-). An on-going collaborative cross-disciplinary practice-as-research investigation to mixed reality living, social networks and psycho-geographical space as an instrument. The project has been developed in collaboration with sound artist/music technology lecturer Antti Saario (LICA) and psychoanalyst/researcher/new media poet Leon Tan (AUT University, Auckland, NZ). The work utilises costume design, on-line and on-location interaction, fixed media work, plunderphonics, found sound and objects, along theoretical and creative writing, in the creation of non-linear artefacts and interactive environments. Performances, presentations and interventions so far at: Association of Internet Researchers (a.i.o.r.) conference Internet Research 8.0: Let's Play, Vancouver, Oct 2007; Physicality 07, Lancaster University, Sept 2nd, 2007 (http://www.physicality.org/physicality2007/); and at DAW 07 (Digital Arts Week), Zurich, Switzerland, July, 2007, ISEA 2008 (forthcoming). (http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/). Audio content and a profile for the Hollywoods can be found at (www.myspace.com/hollywoodsband).
Inspiration to Order: with a full colour catalogue ISBN: 09773967-7-0, at California State University Art Gallery, The Winchester Gallery, Southampton University, The Gallery, Wimbledon College of Art, and the Art Historians' Annual Conference at the University of Ulster
Tok-Tok (2006) [+60']. Collaborative performance-installation concept with Amanda Newall (LICA) and Phil Dadson (www.sonicsfromscratch.nz). Premiered at the Nuffield Theater, Lancaster, UK on 6th of June, 2006.
Sic Games 1, shown in SOFA Gallery NZ and Sic Games 2 in The New Zealand Film Archive, provided large scale immersive environments involving 'virtual' performers in a ubiquitous networked space consisting of costume, glass sculpture, photography, and networked digital interactive shoot up games that had no score/goal,(catalogue ISSN no. 1176-1164).
LICA: Small grant and conference travel awards. Visiting Scholar fund to bring artist Phil Dadson to LICA. Arts Council of New Zealand: 'New work' Grant (Creative New Zealand), selected finalist Waikato Art Award 2004, Auckland City Council Funding, Manukau Institute of Technology funding, Christchurch Community Trust Awards, selected finalist Rupert Bunny Award (Australia) 1997.
The New Zealand Film Archive, Auckland, NZ (2005), SOFA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ (2005), Edinburgh University, Scotland (2004), Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ (2003) + (2004), 'Storyboard, Naked Lodge' eleven windows on Customs/Commerce street, Downtown Auckland, NZ, High street Project Gallery, Christchurch, NZ, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, NZ, Blue Oyster Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZ.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS INCLUDE:
Selected Group exhibitions/performances include: 'Mostly Harmless' Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ (2006), 'Inspiration to Intelligence' CSUS California USA (2006) , Winchester School of Art London (2007). 'Romantic Seduction and Power' The Nuclear Decommissioning Agency UK (commissioned for FRED site specific series 2006)', 'Tok Tok' Nuffield Theatre, UK (2006), 'The Rough the Ready and the Rotten' urban projection series, on sky rise buildings downtown Auckland (2006), 'Open Hotel' Boquitas Pintadas, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004), 'Extracted' Malt House Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, 'Ampersand' Christchurch, NZ (2004), Room 104 Auckland, NZ, The Moving Image Centre, Auckland, NZ, 'Push the Button' The Physics Room, Christchurch Arts Festival, NZ (2003), COCA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ, 'Oblique' Community Hall, Otira township, NZ, 'Thoroughfare' Christchurch NZ, 'Mr and Mrs Pinks Fabulous collection' Blue Oyster, Dunedin NZ, Christchurch Metropolitan Art Gallery, NZ, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Founder of The Christchurch Metropolitan Art Gallery in 1997. Curator and Director High Street Project Gallery Christchurch, NZ, The Malt House Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, site-specific works in Christchurch, NZ, such as "Canvass" (2000).