CoVA’s research priorities align with the University of Melbourne’s aims of engagement-led research that value s invention and innovation. They serve to build strong research collaborations with industry partners and are explicitly conceived to bring about positive change to local communities, Australia and the world.
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
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Postnational Art Histories
During the past 50 years, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged deeply with the many postnational challenges to national sovereignties yet the nation state and nationalisms are as strong and influential as ever.
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Asian Art Research
This program aims to produce a new understanding of cultural alliances across the Asia Pacific region with programs specifically focused to facilitate collaboration between institutions and individuals across Australia, Indonesia and India.
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Communicative Cities
Contemporary society, and public culture, is no longer formed by values and practices that arise from and remain bound to a homogenous group, but has multiple origins, addresses diverse communities, and flows across territorial boundaries.
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Feminism and Intersectionality
The Feminism and Intersectionality program is designed to challenge dominant narratives and ideologies, and propose new frameworks in which to continue making and legitimising forms of knowledge and cultural production that are otherwise rendered invisible.
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Art + Science
The CoVA Art and Science program, supported by Science Gallery Melbourne, facilitates vital, national and international research projects in this space, building relationships between the University of Melbourne and scientific and creative research institutions across the world.
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Creativity & Community Resilience Studio
Strengthening community resilience through innovative creative arts-led strategies, this project situates the arts and creative practice at the centre of resilience strategies.
Recent Projects
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Art + Ecology Residency has now launched
with inaugural resident George Egerton-Warburton Feb 7 - 25, 2022
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Creativity & Community Resilience Studio
Strengthening community resilience through innovative creative arts-led strategies.
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MEMORY Conference 2021
2 - 3 September, online. Click for Information + Registration
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Archipelagic Encounters, NOV 5 2020
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Mentoring Matters Seminar
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On Kindness and Care
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ERASURE
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JUNE 17: ERASURE | Artists + Curator Talk
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WATCH: Which Resilience, Why Resilience, Whose Resilience?
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25 MAY: Which Resilience, Why Resilience, Whose Resilience?
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20 APRIL: Performance Artist STELARC
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20 MARCH: Art Anywhere? [Postponed]
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27 NOVEMBER: Approaching Pedagogy Through and with Contemporary Art Practices
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19 + 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Unlocking Creativity
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14 OCTOBER: 'Branches from the Same Tree-Integrating Arts and Humanities with STEMM in Higher Education' with Prof Gunalan Nadarajan
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Dialogues
Online seminar series September - November 2021
cova-research@unimelb.edu.au