Research presentation
First person point of view: attention and distraction in a survey of live-streamed theatre audiences
Embracing Change: Virtual PG Symposium
Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media, University of York
June 2021
Research presentation
Together apart: how audiences received and reacted to UBU SUX - a live-streamed theatre performance
Thematic analysis of audience survey and interview data.
Teaching Innovation & Research Session
Feb 2021
Symposium Presentation
The tyranny of proximity: expanding live performance to the digital screen for socially distanced audiences. Whitireia & WelTec Research Symposium 2020
Rangahau: Kia eke panuku | Vocational Research: Rising to the challenge
December 2020
Research Project
Expanded performance: blending stage and screen in a performance of a theatrical text
The main objective of this research project is to expand the possibilities of how an audience receives the live performance of a scripted theatrical text to include screen-based strategies. The project adds to the body of work and critical conversations on expanded performance that are emerging due to COVID-19 social distancing measures
Live and Live-streamed Performance
UBU SUX (2020)
Tapere Nui, Te Auaha - 65 Dixon Street ,Te Aro, Wellington
Live streamed via DaCast and on demand at Melbourne Digital Fringe with additional digital content
A riotous dark comedy with political undertones, UBU SUX is a new, multimedia adaptation of Alfred Jarry's classic satire Ubu Rex, adapted, repurposed and amplified for right here, right now.
Expanded performance: blending stage and screen in a performance of a theatrical text
The main objective of this research project is to expand the possibilities of how an audience receives the live performance of a scripted theatrical text to include screen-based strategies. The project adds to the body of work and critical conversations on expanded performance that are emerging due to COVID-19 social distancing measures
Live and Live-streamed Performance
UBU SUX (2020)
Tapere Nui, Te Auaha - 65 Dixon Street ,Te Aro, Wellington
Live streamed via DaCast and on demand at Melbourne Digital Fringe with additional digital content
A riotous dark comedy with political undertones, UBU SUX is a new, multimedia adaptation of Alfred Jarry's classic satire Ubu Rex, adapted, repurposed and amplified for right here, right now.
Art Work
Attention (2019)
live-streamed performance, durational
30 May 2019
Pressing your Face into Feathers, Tuakana exhibition
Te Auaha Gallery, 31st May - 13 June
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Conference Paper #Visibility as power – feminist identity-based art and the online dynamics of recognition, control and spectacle as part of "Community Guidelines”: on artistic responses to social media censorship and potentiality AAANZ Conference – Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, RMIT University Melbourne, Dec 2018 |
Publication
Selfie Surveillance: Who is watching us while we are watching ourselves, in Agency & Aesthetics, ArtMatter02, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2018, pp.142 -155
MFA Dissertation
Self-surveillance: Performing the plurality of my feminine experience of self
A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Fine Art by Research
School of Art, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University, May 2018
Dissertation available online
Self-surveillance: Performing the plurality of my feminine experience of self
A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of Fine Art by Research
School of Art, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University, May 2018
Dissertation available online
Exhibition
Self Surveillance (2018)
Solo exhibition and live mediated performance
5th June, RMIT University, School of Art SITE EIGHT Gallery
Self Surveillance (2018)
Solo exhibition and live mediated performance
5th June, RMIT University, School of Art SITE EIGHT Gallery
Exhibition
Selfie Machine v.4 (2017)
single channel video, broadCAST, RMIT School of Art, 10–21 October.
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Selfie Machine v.4 (2017)
single channel video, broadCAST, RMIT School of Art, 10–21 October.
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Conference Paper
Selfie Feminism: contemporary identity art practices and the complications of #visibility paper for FRANFEST Symposium: Feminism, Art and Activism 40 years Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, Sept 2017 Many young female artists are co-opting the codes of social media creating what is known as ‘selfie feminism’ which claims that posting your own image online is an act of self-empowerment and that creating gender equality can be achieved through online visibility. However, there are a range of other artsits who are seeking to complicate the simplicity of this argument. A new generation of female artists are giving feminism a lot of screen time yet I will contextualise their work within a lineage of feminist artists to assert that the personal is still political. |
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Exhibition
Basseghi, Chi, Godden, Joannides, Manalo, van Beek, Identity Intersection, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 2 -25 June 2017, Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, Melbourne Presented by Triple F collective and curated by Tassia Joannides |
Exhibition
Selfie Machine v.3 (2017)
Live performance and video projection
Performed and exhibited as part of Identity Intersection, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 2 -25 June 2017, Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, Melbourne
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Selfie Machine v.3 (2017)
Live performance and video projection
Performed and exhibited as part of Identity Intersection, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 2 -25 June 2017, Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, Melbourne
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Exhibition Selfie Machine v.2 (2017) exhibited as part of UNA SELFIE VI SEPPELLIRÀ? (A selfie shall bury you?), group exhibition as part of "Fear and Loathing of the online self " conference, 23 May 2017, ESC Atelier Occupato, Via dei Volsci 159, Rome, Italy #selfiESC #fearloathing Artist Talk (via video) Poster session ART & MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS , May 23, 2017, Roma Tre University Via Ostiense 234, Rome, Italy |
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Exhibition
Basseghi, Godden, Joannides, van Beek, The Lines In Between, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 20th April – 5th May, 2017, Seventh Gallery, 155 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne Triple F are a new collective based in Melbourne of international and local female artists creating works about female subjectivity. This exhibition draws out the lines within and between bodies, countries, and cultures so we can have a conversation that acknowledges and attempts to understand and celebrate our different experiences and perspectives. triplefcollective.weebly.com |
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Exhibition Audio Tour, 2017 Self directed audio tour 5 streamed MP3s The Lines In Between, group exhibition Triple F Collective, 20th April – 5th May, 2017, Seventh Gallery, 155 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Melbourne |
Conference Paper
Selfie surveillance: who is watching us when we’re watching ourselves? presentation, Agency & Aesthetics symposium on expanded photography, 1st April 2017, Auckland Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand
Contemporary self-identity seems intimately linked to public visibility yet we become entangled with corporate and governmental agendas when we upload images of ourselves online. From narcissism, to self-empowerment, to selfie as content and selfie as commodity - the readings of selfies are as complex and multidimensional as the faces they present. My research charts the role that contemporary artists have in reinforcing and subverting these changing conditions of the selfie and self identity.
Agency & Aesthetics at Auckland Art Gallery
Selfie surveillance: who is watching us when we’re watching ourselves? presentation, Agency & Aesthetics symposium on expanded photography, 1st April 2017, Auckland Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand
Contemporary self-identity seems intimately linked to public visibility yet we become entangled with corporate and governmental agendas when we upload images of ourselves online. From narcissism, to self-empowerment, to selfie as content and selfie as commodity - the readings of selfies are as complex and multidimensional as the faces they present. My research charts the role that contemporary artists have in reinforcing and subverting these changing conditions of the selfie and self identity.
Agency & Aesthetics at Auckland Art Gallery
Conference Paper
Did the iPhone 4 front facing camera cause the selfie craze? Unpacking the complexities of performing the self, presentation, 6th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium, 30th November 2016, Swinburne University, Melbourne
My research opens a dialogue between social media, feminism, contemporary art and video performance practices. This presentation covers the groundbreaking practices of a number of female artists who use the self as subject matter, as a lens through which to chart shifts in technological, social and cultural circumstances.
Did the iPhone 4 front facing camera cause the selfie craze? Unpacking the complexities of performing the self, presentation, 6th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium, 30th November 2016, Swinburne University, Melbourne
My research opens a dialogue between social media, feminism, contemporary art and video performance practices. This presentation covers the groundbreaking practices of a number of female artists who use the self as subject matter, as a lens through which to chart shifts in technological, social and cultural circumstances.
Exhibition
Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes, exhibition, Alternating Current Art Space, 4 - 26 November 2016, Windsor, Melbourne
This exhibition brings together the individual artistic practices of long-time theatre collaborates Paula van Beek and Gabrielle Leah New. Placing their work together, in the form of installation, projection and screen works, they open a dialogue between social persona and internal states of being.
Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes, exhibition, Alternating Current Art Space, 4 - 26 November 2016, Windsor, Melbourne
This exhibition brings together the individual artistic practices of long-time theatre collaborates Paula van Beek and Gabrielle Leah New. Placing their work together, in the form of installation, projection and screen works, they open a dialogue between social persona and internal states of being.
Art work
Selfie Machine (2016)
Installation - dress, iPhone, chair, light, video monitor, dimensions variable
Created on site in the gallery space Selfie Machine blurs the lines between the physical and virtual, and past and present, a layering that almost erases itself.
Exhibited as part of:Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes
Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, 4 - 26th November 2016
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Selfie Machine (2016)
Installation - dress, iPhone, chair, light, video monitor, dimensions variable
Created on site in the gallery space Selfie Machine blurs the lines between the physical and virtual, and past and present, a layering that almost erases itself.
Exhibited as part of:Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes
Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, 4 - 26th November 2016
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Art work
Recital (2015)
single-take iPhone video, 2.23”
Exhibited as part of:Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes
Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, 4 - 26th November 2016
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Recital (2015)
single-take iPhone video, 2.23”
Exhibited as part of:Surface Reflections | Subterranean Echoes
Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, 4 - 26th November 2016
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Project
Five Cent Cinema, live art cinema project, Fringe Hub: North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival, 16 Sept - 1 Oct 2016, Melbourne.
A personal movie booth screening super-short shorts from some of Melbourne's most exciting video artists and filmmakers curated around the theme of subjectivity. 22 short works, by 19 local artsits create a 40 minute viewing program.
Full program listing on Facebook
Kids vs. Art podcast review via SoundCloud
Five Cent Cinema, live art cinema project, Fringe Hub: North Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Fringe Festival, 16 Sept - 1 Oct 2016, Melbourne.
A personal movie booth screening super-short shorts from some of Melbourne's most exciting video artists and filmmakers curated around the theme of subjectivity. 22 short works, by 19 local artsits create a 40 minute viewing program.
Full program listing on Facebook
Kids vs. Art podcast review via SoundCloud
Art work
The New Diversity, 2016, single channel video (35 sec) looped, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
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The New Diversity Is Definitely For Sale, 2016, Colour photocopy series of 15, high gloss paper, 420x297mm, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
Created as part of Copy, Cut, Post, workshop and public event project, June 2016
The New Diversity, 2016, single channel video (35 sec) looped, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
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The New Diversity Is Definitely For Sale, 2016, Colour photocopy series of 15, high gloss paper, 420x297mm, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
Created as part of Copy, Cut, Post, workshop and public event project, June 2016
Art work
Starewell, 2016, live streamed performance, Trocadero Art Space, 18 May, 2016, Footscray, Melbourne
Site-responsive live performative work, created specifically for Troadero’s Noooky space.
The two hour performance on Wednesday 18th May, was streamed live via Periscope @watchpvb.
Watch documentation of the live-streamed performance
Starewell, 2016, live streamed performance, Trocadero Art Space, 18 May, 2016, Footscray, Melbourne
Site-responsive live performative work, created specifically for Troadero’s Noooky space.
The two hour performance on Wednesday 18th May, was streamed live via Periscope @watchpvb.
Watch documentation of the live-streamed performance
Art work
Self Evident, 2015, multi-channel video installation, as part of One Night Stand: Transient Status (group show), 524 Flinders Exhibition space, 524 Flinders St, Melbourne
Watch documentation of the installation
Watch Not My Best Self - video editing tests that became Self Evident (2015)
Self Evident, 2015, multi-channel video installation, as part of One Night Stand: Transient Status (group show), 524 Flinders Exhibition space, 524 Flinders St, Melbourne
Watch documentation of the installation
Watch Not My Best Self - video editing tests that became Self Evident (2015)
Art work
Hall of Mirrors (work in progress showing), 2015, Thinking Through Practice session, RMIT School of Art
Research group
Thinking Through Practice
Co-coordinator of this bi-monthly peer-peer research opportunity. Tasks include scheduling the presenting artists, assisting with install and de-install, arranging publicity and contributing to the group critiques facilitated by Dr. Domenic Redfern.
Thinking Through Practice
Co-coordinator of this bi-monthly peer-peer research opportunity. Tasks include scheduling the presenting artists, assisting with install and de-install, arranging publicity and contributing to the group critiques facilitated by Dr. Domenic Redfern.
Research Project
The Shape of Things
an exploration of feminine experience/s of self and re-representation.
‘Shape of Things’ (research presentation), 2015, Research Exchange, RMIT Design Hub
In looking at the shadow body, the shapes we cast and the frames we are constrained into, the project seeks to explode the imposed singular reductive reading of what it means to be a woman in today's society. Embracing montage, collage, multiplicity and simultaneity, the project is dedicated to many outcomes across diverse art forms.
outcomes include:
ACMI workshops for Intermix program - Me, My Selfie & Major Tom
SIGNAL project for young women - Me, My Selfie & I
The Shape of Things
an exploration of feminine experience/s of self and re-representation.
‘Shape of Things’ (research presentation), 2015, Research Exchange, RMIT Design Hub
In looking at the shadow body, the shapes we cast and the frames we are constrained into, the project seeks to explode the imposed singular reductive reading of what it means to be a woman in today's society. Embracing montage, collage, multiplicity and simultaneity, the project is dedicated to many outcomes across diverse art forms.
outcomes include:
ACMI workshops for Intermix program - Me, My Selfie & Major Tom
SIGNAL project for young women - Me, My Selfie & I
Art work
Gallery of Her (2013)
She only sees herself in close up (2013)
van Beek, P & Beesley, X 2013, The Shape of Things, creative development residency, Northcote Town Hall, Studio One, 25 Jan - 7 Feb 2013
Watch The Shape of Things project Creative Development showing, 7 Feb 2013
This project was supported by the Darebin Council.
Gallery of Her (2013)
She only sees herself in close up (2013)
van Beek, P & Beesley, X 2013, The Shape of Things, creative development residency, Northcote Town Hall, Studio One, 25 Jan - 7 Feb 2013
Watch The Shape of Things project Creative Development showing, 7 Feb 2013
This project was supported by the Darebin Council.