PAST E-NEWS

Our quarterly newsletter distributed through electronic direct mailout reports activities to a wide audience including Assemblage members, partners, collaborators, industry, and government. Our latest editions include: Autumn 2023, Dec 2022, July 2022, March 2022, Dec 2021 and Oct 2021.

Event Gallery

Assemblage’s calendar of research translation events is carefully curated to ensure alignment with College and University strengths. These events are critical to demonstrating the impact of our work to local, national and international researchers, the arts sector, and the public more broadly. They are mechanisms to build new research collaborations and projects. Events include conferences, grant workshops, research seminars, and presentations that are highly valuable for students and researchers.

Assemblage has attracted over 2000 participants to over 40 research translation events over the period 2021- present.

Hyperaurea

Author and composer Sean Williams (top right), partnering with visual artists Katie Cavanagh and Shane Bevin (top left), presented the first of three multidisciplinary responses to his latest release on US label Projekt Records, the four-hour soundscape Hyperaurea: Echoes of Antarctica (under the name “theadelaidean”).

Recipient of the 2016 Australian Antarctic Divisions’ Arts Fellowship, Sean visited Casey station in the summer of 2016, where he engaged with the people and places that make Antarctica one of the most unique environments on Earth. This new work reaches beyond the written word to capture his experiences in the far south through ambient soundscapes that evoke the ice, sky, water, weather and rock of a precious and hostile landscape that few people ever visit.

Screening the Posthuman

One of Dr Claire Henry's new monographs, Screening the Posthuman (Oxford University Press, 2023), was launched by Assemblage on Friday 30 June. Co-authors Dr Missy Molloy (Victoria University of Wellington) and Dr Pansy Duncan (Massey University) travelled from Aotearoa New Zealand for the event and gave a Q&A following a curated screening. The screening included experimental films by local moving image artist Susan Bruce and BCA(Screen) student Jack Langford, as well as a short film from Kenya and video essays by the authors.

SA History Festival

Assemblage members and CHASS colleagues presented at the SA History Festival on their ARC research, a Special Research Initiative in Australian studies project, ‘Slow’ digitisation, and community heritage at Martindale Hall, Clare Valley'.

Penny Edmonds, Heather Burke, Tully Barnett, and Jarrad Kowlessar showed the new 3D virtual twin of this Georgian mansion and its ‘smoking room’. Important discussions were held around the challenges and ethics of regional and Indigenous histories, archaeology, digitisation, and Indigenous and heritage landscapes in relation to the Hall - a curious assemblage performance of empire planted in the midst of Ngadjuri lands, South Australia.

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19 Weeks’ Australian Premiere

On the 3^rd of April 2023 Assemblage hosted the Australian premiere of the film 19 weeks at the recently-renovated Piccadilly Theatre.

Over 160 guests filled the art deco theatre for an ‘absolute triumph’ by all that were involved with the film – in particular, Emily Steel as writer and director.

The film was a poignant artistic effort, depicting the complexity of a couple's decision to abort a foetus at 19 weeks.

Associate Professor Barbara Baird also led a special Q&A, with Emily Steel, and actor and Flinders’ Drama academic Dr Tiffany Lyndall-Knight.

Guests attended from all sectors of society: women’s studies, health and policy researchers and community, advocacy sector collaborations, health professionals, CHASS undergraduate and post-graduate students, the College Executive and the general public.

Wesley Enoch AM keynote “Making Marks”

On 29 September 2022, in conjunction with the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation, Dania coordinated a sell-out keynote address by Professor Wesley Enoch AM, titled “Making Marks.” Wesley Enoch was then joined by Professor Simone Tur, Flinders Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous, in conversation. The following day, Dania organised Professor Enoch to lead a Masterclass for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives from across Adelaide, funded by Assemblage, and provided a bespoke event for our Indigenous HDR students.

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Arts and Health

Assemblage has played a key role in the successes of the Flinders’ Arts and Health Alliance and its new formation as the Global Arts and Health Alliance.

On Thursday 25 August 2022, the Colleges of HASS and NHS co-hosted a 60-guest Arts in Health (AiH) Cooperation Event with The University of Adelaide and The University of South Australia. Assemblage’s academics were thanked for making significant contributions to the university research underpinning the Alliance.

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We’re delighted to have officially launched Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts on Thursday, 13 May at the Adelaide Festival Centre. It was fantastic to host Government Ministers, industry practitioners and companies, as well as Flinders staff to celebrate our dynamic new research centre, which aims to gain international recognition as an arts incubator and an epicentre of creative arts research and production at Flinders University.