ASSEMBLAGE Centre for Creative Arts ASSEMBLAGE ASSEMBLAGE ASSEMBLAGE ASSEMBLAGE IS FLINDERS UNIVERSITY’S RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ARTISTIC ENQUIRY AND ART CREATION. It is the meeting point of art and science, health, technology, engineering, industry and community. We embrace new technologies and ambitious collaborations to dissolve perceived barriers between artforms, disciplines and areas of research to uncover boundless possibilities. We foster a new creative ecosystem where unanticipated interactions and artistic invention are transforming perceptions and experiences of creativity. Through artistic alliances, we are imagining ingenious solutions to challenges facing the arts, industry, the environment and our communities in Australia and around the world. ASSEMBLAGE ASSEMBLAGE DIRECTOR WE ARE CREATIVITY DEPUTY DIRECTOR DEPUTY RESEARCH LEADER RESEARCH DEAN OF RESEARCH DEAN OF Professor Dr Tully Barnett Professor Associate Professor ASSEMBLAGE Garry Stewart Penny Edmonds William Peterson As a society we face complex issues on multiple fronts and the arts play a crucial role in helping us understand and navigate our way through them. Assemblage is a place that facilitates innovative research in the Creative and Performing Arts, BUSINESS BUSINESS maximising the reach, impact and engagement of this exploration. RESEARCH Artists take concepts, data, philosophies and experience, & CREATIVE SECTION HEAD metamorphosing them into transformative encounters that SECTION HEAD radically alter our perception and understanding of the world PERFORMING ARTS and our place in it. Through ambitious collaborations across a WRITING CREATIVE vast range of disciplines, Assemblage supports the generation of Associate Professor Dr Amy Matthews Mr Dan Thorsland Professor unique and unexpected creative arts practices and research. MANAGER DEVELOPMENT Julia Erhart Maryrose Casey Professor Garry Stewart Director — Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts RESEARCH THEMES DIGITAL EMBODIMENT TRANSFORMATIVE STORYTELLING CULTURES OF ARCHIVING THE ARTS This theme negotiates new methodologies in The most significant works of fiction capture This theme develops new ways of understanding exploring the body through the affordances of the zeitgeist of a cultural moment, whether they how we remember, value and categorise the arts digital technology. Research into modalities are created for the page, screen, the stage or and how we capture and categorise performing of visualising the body via Motion Capture, digital simulation environments such as virtual, arts data. Through this theme, Assemblage Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, CGI, robotics, AI augmented or mixed reality and gaming. Such extends the College’s work on cultural value and other digital forms that ally with various stories imagine and re-imagine contemporary and evaluation and considers the benefits of discourses including posthumanities, feminism concerns, examine cultural values, and engage digital humanities for the creative arts. The and subjectivity. in complex and dynamic conversations between theme explores and archives repertoires and artist, audience, industry, histories and futures. genealogies of artistic practice, performance and protest, moving beyond text to consider ARTS IN HEALTH embodied, innovative and practice-based INDIGENOUS CREATIVE ARTS PRAXIS research that responds to stories, memories, Assemblage has brought our arts and health histories and value. researchers together in an alliance to generate a Decolonising Indigenous Creative Arts praxis robust commitment to furthering research in the examines critical anti-racist and transformative growing domain of arts in health. This alliance creative work as a means to respond, reframe, will draw from the existing body of evidence that and transform impacts of colonisation. This demonstrates the integral role that the arts play praxis is grounded in Indigenous creative in the health and wellbeing of our society. We activism and an inter-disciplinary approach that expand upon these practices to include new intersects Cultural Studies, Pacific Studies, technologies. We develop strategies that permit Creative Arts, History, Sociology, Gender us to service the needs of marginalised and Studies, Linguistics and Philosophy. under-represented communities. FEATURED WORKS BY ACADEMICS AUSSTAGE: THE AUSTRALIAN LIVE PERFORMANCE DATABASE AusStage provides an accessible online resource for researching live performance in Australia. Development is led by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and collecting institutions with funding from the Australian Research Council and other sources. AusStage records the significance of these artistic collaborations and stimulates new approaches to collaborative research. By sharing our knowledge through AusStage, we can learn more about Australian performance than ever before. Chief Investigator: Dr Julie Holledge DIGITISATION AND THE IMMERSIVE LOCKDOWN: PLAYWRITING AND THE UNBOUND COLLECTIVE LABORATORY ADELAIDE: PROXIMITY CLINICAL READING EXPERIENCE PARTICIPANT-LED PEDAGOGY THE VALUE OF CULTURE The Unbound Collective brings together years of This research project sees the development Digitisation and the Immersive Reading This project explores best-practice pedagogy for research in a performance that moves through Laboratory Adelaide: The Value of Culture is a of a new rehabilitation tool for patients/users Experience is an ARC DECRA-funded project facilitating a youth/participant-led performance spaces that have historically seen Aboriginal multi-stage, multi-partner project funded by two who have experienced strokes, aneurysms and that aims to investigate how reading and project. As the principal researcher and lead artist, and Torres Strait Islander Australians excluded ARC Linkage grants to develop new knowledge other acquired neurological damage. Using live literature work in the post-print age. Digitisation Dr Sarah Peters is facilitating an 18-month project and reduced to tell untold chapters of Australia’s about the problems of understanding, measuring interactive video effects, Proximity Clinical aims is the future of the preservation of and access with young people engaged in the ExpressWay true history. The Collective is Ali Gumillya and communicating culture’s value in different to restore proprioception, bilateral symmetry to Australia’s literary and cultural record and yet Arts program (an initiative of SA’s premier Baker, Simone Ulalka Tur, Faye Rosas Blanch contexts beyond the economic data, ticket sales and motor acuity. The technology was initially its implementation is not well understood. youth arts organisation, Carclew). While initially and Natalie Harkin. Ali Gumillya Baker shifts and spill-over effects. In 2018, the team published developed by Garry Stewart and French video focused on the theme of violence in schools, the the colonial gaze through film, performance, What Matters? Talking Value in Australian Culture engineer Thomas Pachoud for le Ballet Du Rhin This project investigates forms of digitisation, ensemble is adapting their project in response to projection, and grandmother-stories; (Monash University Publishing). (France) and Australian Dance Theatre. which books, texts and objects are digitised, COVID-19 and are writing a radio play which will Simone Ulalka Tur’s performance and poetics enact an intergenerational transmission of story- who can access them and how these changes then be translated into live performance for the Articles have been published in Cultural Trends, Chief Investigators: Professor Garry work through education; Faye Rosas Blanch influence our reading experiences. Adelaide Fringe in 2021. This research project will The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Stewart, Professor Susan Hilier, engages rap theory to embody sovereignty and contribute towards the co-written chapter ‘Places Society, International Journal of Event and Festival Professor Maria Crotty, Associate Chief Investigator: Dr Tully Barnett shedding of the colonial skin; Natalie Harkin’s to be and belong: Participant-led and Community- Management, Media International Australia, Professor Belinda Lange engaged youth theatre practice’, which Dr Peters is archival-poetics is informed by blood-memory, Griffith Review, Australian Art Education, as well writing in collaboration with theatre makers Alysha haunting and grandmother-stories. as numerous articles in The Conversation. Herrmann and Claire Glenn to be published in Chief Investigators: Dr Natalie Harkin, Chief Investigators: Dr Tully Barnett, the Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young Dr Ali Baker, Associate Professor Simone Professor Richard Maltby, Professor People. Tur, Faye Blanch Julian Meyrick, Professor Robert Phiddian Chief Investigator: Dr Sarah Peters FEATURED POSTGRADUATE WORKS GETTING THEIR ACTS TOGETHER BORDERING NATURE: EXPLORING DOCUMENTARY EMOTIONAL CREATURES OR WARM PROPS? PERFORMING COMMUNITY AT THE LANG-AY FESTIVAL METAPHORS FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE IDENTIFYING THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF OF CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION: THEATRE We live in an age of rapid digital transformation, and the question of THE HUMAN PERFORMANCE COMPONENT IN IN THE NATION, THE NATION IN THE THEATRE how we keep local content alive on the small screen is at the heart of How does the border metaphor in eco-documentaries reflect our wider this project, highlighted by an intensely local observational documentary REAL-TIME DIGITAL ANIMATION PRODUCTIONS sense of place in the planet? This creative, practice-led research