School of Communications and Arts. Creative Works and Performances

Devotion

Ffion Murphy — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:07:38 PDT

Devotion questions prevailing views and assumptions concerning the efficacy of ‘writing the self’ by illuminating a complex and shifting interplay of seduction and resistance in confessional discourse, the power of delusion, motives of evasion and self-preservation, as well as problems of privacy and its invasion, voyeurism and its technologies, and gender dynamics in medicine. It also contributes original representations of female friendship, parenting, postnatal depression, suicide, disability and suburban family life.

Unlike Anything

Gregory Pryor — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:50:13 PDT

This piece of creative writing formed part of Barbara Campbell’s online durational performance 1001 nights Cast. From a prompt posted on the internet taken from the day’s news of events in the Middle east, each story (this was one of ten contributions I made between 2005 and 2008) could utilize up to 1001 words. This story was then read live on the internet at sunset. The whole performance took place over 1001 consecutive nights and explored how the internet can summon the creative power of writers all around the word to support a work of mourning.

Bernard

Ffion Murphy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:38:19 PDT

The work deals with loss, mourning and remembrance. It also contributes to discourse on a key figure in the teaching and appreciation of Australian literature, Bernard Hickey. Professor Hickey, with Anna Rutherford, established the study of Australian literature in Europe. He worked for several years at universities in Rome and then Venice, and, from 1990 to 2009, was Professor of New Literatures and English at the University of Salenta in Lecce. He was notable for his extraordinary enthusiasm and vitality as an ambassador for Australian literary studies for more than thirty years.

The edge of the world

Marcella Polain — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:23:25 PDT

The Edge of the World is a powerful, monumental story of an Armenian family, spanning one hundred years, five countries and several generations. A family fragmented by genocide, exile and emigration, but which, through extraordinary acts of courage and compassion, is eventually brought together again, albeit utterly changed. A compelling, imaginative and beautifully written story of a remarkable family.

Voices of the West End

Brogan Bunt et al. — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:54:18 PDT

Voices of the West End explores issues surrounding cultural identity, landscape and subjectivity - how our collective memories constitute a sense of space/time as place. Current developments in Web 2.0 internet technologies are also extending and blurring the boundaries of this real/virtual space and cultural memory.