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Elizabeth Presa is a Melbourne based artist. She is the Head of the interdisciplinary Centre for Ideas at the University of Melbourne.
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: PhD and M.A. Centre for Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, Monash University; B.A. (Hons) University of Melbourne; Post Grad Sculpt. Phillip Inst; Dip. Sculpt, Victorian College of the Arts.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (since 2000)
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2010 Alliance Francais de Melbourne with Cyrus Tang.
2010 Interior Castle, in collaboration with architect Gregory Burgess, Linden Contemporary Arts Centre, Melbourne.
2009 Journey to the surface of the earth: Atlantis MARS Gallery, Melbourne.
2007 ‘Ark’, MARS Gallery, Melbourne.
2007 ‘Dear Jean Jacques’, Cite International des Arts, Paris.
2006 ‘Calculation of the Rainbow’, MARS Gallery, Melbourne.
2006 ‘Skin and Peel’ sculpture installation with Irene Barberis, St. Johns Lutheran Church, Southbank.
2005 ‘Moon Water’ MARS Gallery, Melbourne.
2005 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival: ‘Papier Machine’, Spacement, Melbourne.
2004 ‘Peel’ Museum de Livre des Artists Contemporain, France.
2004 ‘Peel’, Éditions Galilée, Paris.
2002 ‘Milk River’, Meru Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
2002 ‘A Small Penance’, Performance, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
2002 ‘Ultra sound’ 12 minute film by Kasimir Burgess and Alexander Garcia Duttmann.
2001 ‘TheBook of Refused Words’, Conservatory, St Kilda Botanical Gardens, Melbourne.
2000 ‘The Four Horizons of the Page’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne.
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 2000)
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Forthcoming 2011 ‘Revisitation’ La Trobe University gallery, Bendigo.
2010 ‘duetto’ AEAF /Queens Theatre, Adelaide.
2009 ‘Drought: Cross Cultural Collaborations’, Murray Darling Palimpsest, the Vault, Mildura.
2008 ‘Drought: Cross Cultural Collaborations’, in partnership with the Writers Festival, Federation Square.
2008 ‘Ship of Fools Ship of Hope’, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne.
2007 ‘This Crazy Love’ Linden Gallery, Melbourne.
2007 ‘The Space Between’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery VCA, touring exhibition.
2007 ‘Distibution of Organic Beings: the snails’, Toorak Invitational Sculpture exhibition, Melbourne.
2005 ‘Making Conditions of Love’ MARS Gallery, Melbourne.
2005 ‘Jochen Gertz Die Anthology der Kunst’, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin & ZKM.
2004 ‘For Nothing’, the Bank, Midland, Western Australia.
2004 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival: ‘The Empress’s New Clothes’, Port Jackson Press Gallery, Melbourne.
2003 ‘Makers Mark’, Counihan Gallery Brunswick Town Hall, Melbourne.
2003 ‘Oblique Shadows’ Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria.
2002 ‘Milk River’, Meru Art Gallery, Brooklyn New York.
2002 ‘Shirakawa-go Art Festival’, Japan.
2002 Jochen Gertz Anthology of Art http://www.anthology-of-art.net, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
2002 ‘Oblique Shadows’, VCA Gallery, Melbourne.
2002 ‘Transit Narratives’, Villa Letizia, Italy.
2001 ‘Grounds for Sculpture 1’, McClelland Art Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria.
2001 ‘This Ocean Floor: A sculpture survey’, Goya Galleries, Melbourne.
2001 ‘On the Cross’, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, L’Oreal International Fashion Festival.
2000 ‘Oblique Shadows’, Sculpture Square, Singapore.‘Exquisite Corpse’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria.
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GRANTS and RESIDENCIES:
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2010 Research Fellowship (3 months) Five Colleges Women’s Research Centre, Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts USA.
2009 May, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing.
2006-7 French Government (AFAA) 3-month residency, Cite International des Arts, Paris.
2002 Power Institute, Sydney University Scholarship; Australia Council for the Arts International 6 month residency, Cite International Des Arts, Paris.
2002 Artist-in-Residence, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
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SELECTED CRITICAL ESSAYS and REVIEWS
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2009 Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘L’Atlantide au milieu’ catalogue essay trans. Louise Birchill ISBN: 978-0-646-52275-3
2009 Andrew Benjamin ‘Placing Awaiting Objects’, catalogue essay ISBN: 978-0-646-52275-3
2009 Dimitris Vardoulakis “Beside(s): Elizabeth Presa with Jacques Derrida”, Derrida Today journal, Volume 2. pp. 200-209.
2009 Andrew Stephens, ‘Poetry Cast in Plaster’ Interview, ‘The Age’ newspaper, A2, October 24
2007 Delia Falconer, Phantasmagoria, Book reviews ‘The Australian’, April 7.
2006 Gerald l. Bruns After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism. Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Philosophical review. 2006.08.05
2006 Gail Jones, A Shape, If Only A Shape, Australian book review, August 2006 No. 283
2006 Jean-Luc Nancy, Calculation of the Rainbow, ‘Attention: Fragile’, catalogue essay.
2006 ‘Breath’ photo essay, Mosaic journal, special issue After Derrida, volume 39, number 3
2006 Dimitris Vardoulakis, Critical text for ‘Calculation of the Rainbow’
2005 Andrew Benjamin, ‘There in the Vanishing’ catalogue ISBN 0646451065
2005 Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘Medusa–Jelly’, catalogue ISBN 0646451065
2005 Ian McLean, ‘For Nothing’ Artlink, Vol 25,#1;
2004 Simon Blond “Nothing in the Bank” Arts, Western Australian 24 December.
2004 Domenico de Clario ‘For Nothing’ catalogue, the Bank, Midlands, Perth
2004 Alexander Garçia Düttmann, chapter in Verwisch die Spuren, Berlin: Merve Verlag 2005.
2004 Penny Web, Review ‘Karen Lunn and Elizabeth Presa’ in The Age newspaper, March 17
2003 Julie Chandler Hayes “The Body of the Letter: Epistolary Acts of Simon Hantai, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida” University of Richmond, Virginia Muse issue 503/13.3
2003 Japan Cultural Centre Archive Project, Japan Foundation Sydney.
2002 Jochen Gerz’s Anthology of Art http://www.anthology–of-art.net
2001 Jacques Derrida, La Connaissance des Textes Galilée pp.155-6
2001 ‘World Sculpture News’, volume 7 number 2 p. 63;
2001 Kevin Hart Contretemps: an online journal of philosophy ‘Horizons and Folds’ http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps. February.
2000 Sian E Jay Catalogue ‘Oblique Shadows’
2000 Sian E Jay ‘The Straits Times’, Singapore, ‘ Arts’, 22 November.
2000 Robert Nelson ‘Paper Trail’ Art Review ‘The Age’, 2 August.
2000 Australian Campus Review, 10-16 May.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS, GUEST LECTURES and INTERVIEWS
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2010 ‘Simryn Gill: Translation, materials and processes’ Heide Museum of Art.
2010 ‘Teresa of Avila; materializing an Interior Castle’ Mount Holyoke College Mass.
2009 ‘Making it Visible’ Provosts Summit, University of Melbourne.
2009 ‘Auguste Rodin’ Key Thinkers, University of Melbourne.
2009 Keynote address for ‘Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, Post Disciplinary, Art and Education in the 21st Century’ conference and sculpture workshop EWHA Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.
2009 ‘Sewing with Derrida’ National Gallery of Victoria.
2009 ‘Slow Sculpture’ Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing.
2009 ‘Slow Sculpture’ AAH conference, Manchester.
2008 ‘Image and the Sacred: Jean-Luc Nancy’, Out of Bounds: Art, Faith and Religiosity’ conference, Monash University.
2007 Art Forum, RMIT.
2007 ‘From Day to Day’, ‘Hospitality and Mourning’ conference, University of Queensland.
2007 ‘Work of Mourning’ Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne School of Psychoanalysis.
2007 ‘Sculpting the Mind’ in The Mind in Art, Psychiatry and the Consulting Room conference, Melbourne School of Psychoanalysis, VCA, Melbourne.
2007 Presentation at Research for Early Career Researchers, University of Melbourne. (Coordinated by Vera Mackie).
2007 Guest lecture PhD Research Programme, Department of Visual; Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
2006 ‘Spinoza’s Work’, Wandering with Spinoza Conference, The Victorian College of the Arts.
2005 ‘At the Centre of Ideas?’ Key Note address, Interdisciplinarity in the Arts Conference, Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea.
2005 ‘Making White work’ University of Paris VII, Denis Diderot
2004 ‘White Work’ Blanchot the Obscure International Conference, Monash University & Alliance Francaise, Melbourne.
2004 White Light. Alliance Magazine, June-August, Alliance Francaise de Melbourne. P. 14
2003 ‘Diary: Elizabeth Presa’ Parallax, Routledge, 2003, vol. 9, no. 3, pp.69- 74.
2003 Censorship and Artistic Expression “Snapshot” Arts Management Forum, Melbourne.
2003 Interview commenting upon art as social critique and protest. SBS Radio.
2002 Artist’s floor talk, Meru Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2002 ‘Pedagogy and the Arts’, Public lecture, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
2002 Interview, commenting on the role of an education in the Arts, Radio, Singapore, 11 January 5.30pm.
2002 ‘Forming texuality’, lecture, LaSalle SIA, Singapore.
2002 ‘Installation as art practice’, seminar ‘Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
2001 ‘Four Horizons of the Page’, lecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. USA.
2001 Four Horizons of the Page’, lecture, Purchase College SUNY, NY. USA.
2000 ‘Poetics of the Book in Sculpture’ lecture, National Academy of Fine Art, Singapore.
2000 ‘Derrida and the Poetics of translation’ Monash University, Australia.
2000 Artists floor talk, ‘The Four Horizons of the Page’ Linden Gallery, Melbourne.
1999 Together with Jacques Derrida, interview by Lyn Gallagher, PM, Radio National, 10 August.
1999 Lecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY; lecture Purchase College, State University of New York.
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CONFERENCES, PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS convened and curated:
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2009 ‘Paul Cox, Miracle Maker’, with Victoria Duckett VCAM, University of Melbourne.
2009 ‘do it’: the Philosophy archive, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Susan Hewitt and Sandie Bridie, The George Paton Gallery University of Melbourne.
2009 Journey to the Surface of the Earth , with Elliot Howard, Domain House Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.
2008 ‘do it’ with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Martha Macdonald and students from the Central Academy of Fine Art Beijing, Alliance Francais de Melbourne.
2007 ‘do it’ with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Vikki McIness, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery Melbourne. (Exhibition outcome of ‘do it’ seminar series).
2006 ‘Wandering with Spinoza’ conference, with Dimitris Vardoulakis. Key Note speakers Alain Badiou, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mieke Bal, Andrew Benjamin, Christopher Norris.
2005 ‘Making Conditions of Love’ exhibition MARS Gallery, Port Melbourne.
2004 ‘White Light’ exhibition for Blanchot the Obscure Conference, Monash University & Alliance Francaise, Melbourne.
2003 “The Art of Protest” Symposium, BMW Edge Theatre Federation Square, and seminar series Witnessing Testimony and the Art of Protest, with Julian Burside, Jill Singer, Bishop Hilton Deakin, Dr Tony Birch, Azlan McLennan.
2000 “The Poetics of the Book” interdisciplinary project with VCA students and international artists, academics: Dr. Catherine Malabou (Paris); Dr Yau Suchou (Singapore/Sydney); Kevin Hart (Melb); Domenico DeClario (Brazil/Melb); Bernard Muir (UoM).
1999 ‘Blowing Glas’ Jacques Derrida Prize and Exhibition, VCA Gallery, Melbourne. A series of lectures by Kevin Hart. Student work judged by Jacques Derrida, Mike Parr & Janet Burchill.
1997 ‘Art and Reconciliation’. This three-day VCA symposium formed part of the 1998 Melbourne Festival programme. Speakers included: Colin Tatz, Henry Reynolds, Aunty Joy Murphy, Raimond Gaita, Philip Morrissey, Bishop Hilton Deakin, and Senator Margaret Reynolds.
1997 “Originality, Dependence and Deceit” A two day VCA symposium. Speakers included: Peter Steele, Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Paul Thom, Kevin Hart, Vivienne Johnson, Philip Morrissey.
1997 “Patronage and the Arts” A three day VCA symposium. Speakers included: Michael Lynch and representatives of the Australia Council; Margaret Manion, Mike Parr, Patrick McCaughey, Bill Kent, Judith Ryan.
1997 “In Our Own Write” an exhibition by VCA students at the Baillieu Library, The University of Melbourne.
1996 ‘Culture and Value’ A three day VCA symposium. Speakers: Davis McCaughey, Raimond Gaita, Kerry Murphy, Christopher Cordner, Kevin Hart.
1996 ‘A Very Peculiar Practice: Research, Methodology and the Arts’ A symposium for postgraduate students and researchers at VCA.
1996 ‘The Dante Exhibition and Prize’ VCA Gallery, lectures and an exhibition with the Dante Alighieri Society, Melbourne.