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Dr Amelia Barikin
Dr

Amelia Barikin

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Overview

Background

I am a Senior Lecturer in Art History in the School of Communication and Arts. My research often focusses on the relationship between contemporary art and time, working across the areas of philosophy, time studies, art history and critical theory. I completed my art history PhD at the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining UQ, I was ARC Senior Research Associate at the University of Melbourne, and have also worked as a curator and editor with various arts institutions.

My books include the monograph Parallel Presents: The Art of Pierre Huyghe (MIT Press, 2012, winner of AAANZ Best Book Prize 2013); the co-edited anthology and now low-key cult classic Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction (Surpllus, 2015); Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015 (catalogue for the first major solo exhibition of Huyghe's work in Australia); Tom Nicholson: Lines Towards Another (IMA and Sternberg Press, 2018); and Robert Smithson: Time Crystals (Monash University Publishing, 2018), the latter published to accompany a major exhibition of works by Robert Smithson that I co-curated with Chris McAuliffe for presentation at the UQ Art Museum and Monash University Museum of Art. My research has been supported by organisations including the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Australia, Arts Victoria, the Terra Foundation for American Art, City of Melbourne, the Australia Korea Foundation, the Australia Research Council, and the Gordon Darling Foundation, and I also publish widely in arts magazines and exhibition catalogues.

I have presented invited talks on my research at numerous institutions including for the Biennale of Sydney, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale, Wellington City Gallery New Zealand, Marian Goodman Gallery New York, the Australian Center for the Moving Image, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Auckland University of Technology, Institute for Visual Research University of Oxford, Artspace Sydney, and Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Finland. In 2013, I was the recipient of a 2013 Art Gallery of New South Wales residential fellowship at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris.

My current work includes research into the histories of queer art in Australia, as part of the KINK research collective, accessible at queeraustralianart.com. In 2024, KINK were appointed as Adjunct Curators to the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Currently available to supervise art history MPhil and PhD projects: I particularly welcome applications from researchers working in the areas of contemporary art, queer theory, feminisms, geophilosophy, science fiction, Australian art, or time studies (or all of the above!).

Availability

Dr Amelia Barikin is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Melbourne
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

Research interests

  • Contemporary international and Australian art

  • Science fiction

  • Time Studies

  • Queer Australian art histories

Research impacts

2016 Stanislaw Lem Reading Group, Biennale of Sydney, Carriageworks 24 April; 'Everywhere all at once: time travel and contemporary art', public lecture Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand 21 June; 'Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth', public talk Monash University Museum of Art 12 July; 'Frontier Imaginaries', panel discussion QUT Art Museum, Brisbane 13 August; 'Mineral Volumes', Materials of Sound Sympsosium, Artspace, Sydney 24 August; 'Art in the Time of Colony: conversation with Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll', IMA Brisbane 15 October; 'The Future of ARIs', public panel discussion, BARI Festival Brisbane Powerhouse 20 October; 'ACMI Podcast: Philippe Parreno', October 2016; 'Philippe Parreno: In Conversation', ACMI Melbourne 6 Dec, 'Curating Publics, Curating Spaces', University of Melbourne 8 December.

2015 Museums and Galleries NSW Curator Residency Grant, TarraWarra Museum of Art 2015; Public lecture 'In Dreams: Lynch and Surrealism', GOMA March 2015; Panellist, UQ Art Museum 'The Places You'll Go!' March 2015; Presenter, 'Animism and Material Vitality' conference; Auckland AUT June 2015; Curator's tour, TarraWarra Museum of Art, August 2015; Screening and public talk, 'Pierre Huyghe: Untitled (Human Mask)', Australian Centre for the Moving Image, September 2015; Public lecture, 'Being After Time: Towards a Mineral Ontology of Contemporary Art', Mildura Biennale, October 2015; Public lecture, 'Sound Fossils and Arche-Fossils', Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne October 2015; Presenter and co-convenor, 'Time out of Time', TarraWarra Museum of Art, October 2015; Public lecture for 'Worlds within Worlds', Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, December 9 2015.

2014 AGNSW Residency Scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, March-May 2014; Invited panellist, 'Draw Me a Discovery: Café Scientifique', Brisbane, 19 June 2014; Invited keynote respondent 'Art Out of Time' symposium, Oxford University UK, 26 June 2014; Continuing Professional Development Seminar for 'The Melancholic Imagination', University of Queensland, 30 August 2014; public exhibition tour of 'Stuart Ringholt: Kraft', Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 20 Sep 2014; public symposium co-convenor and presenter at 'Triple Oh! Symposium: Art and Object Oriented Ontology' UQ Art Museum, 27 Sep 2014; Session Chair, 'The Life of Things', EMSAH WIP Conference, University of Queensland, 29 Sep 2014; Judge, Dr John McCulloch Memorial Prize, Univeristy of Queensland, 30 Sep 2014; conference paper for public symposium 'The Persistence of Melancholia: Melancholia and the Arts 1514-2014', UQ Art Museum, 23-24 October 2014.

2013 'Making Worlds', public reading and book launch at Motto Melbourne, 5 Sep 2013; 'The Future is Noise', public panel discussion with Greg Hainge and David Toop, IMA Brisbane 22 Aug 2013; 'Art and Science Fiction', radio interview for 4ZZZ, Brisbane, 14 June 2013; 'Making Worlds: Art and Science Fiction', conference paper, ISEA, University of Sydney, 12 June 2013; 'Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere', roundtable with Nikos Papastergiadis, Scott McQuire, Ross Gibson, Cecelia Cmielewski, Audrey Yue and Xin Gu, ISEA, Sydney, 12 June 2013; 'Memories of the Future: On the Time of Art', public lecture, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 11 April 2013; 'The Paper Trail: History and Archives in the Work of Thomas Demand', public lecture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 15 March 2013.

Works

Search Professor Amelia Barikin’s works on UQ eSpace

81 works between 2005 and 2024

1 - 20 of 81 works

Featured

2024

Other Outputs

Queer Australian Art

Barikin, Amelia, Coombs, Courtney, Riley Walsh, Tim, Panigirakis, Spiros and McGrath, Callum (2024). Queer Australian Art. Online [queeraustralianart.com]: KINK.

Queer Australian Art

Featured

2022

Other Outputs

Pierre Huyghe: Variants

Barikin, Amelia (2022). Pierre Huyghe: Variants. Cura Magazine, 39 (Fall Winter 2022-23).

Pierre Huyghe: Variants

Featured

2013

Book

Making worlds: art and science fiction

Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes eds. (2013). Making worlds: art and science fiction. Surpllus, Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Surpllus.

Making worlds: art and science fiction

2024

Other Outputs

Luke Roberts: beyond the great divide

Barikin, Amelia (2024). Luke Roberts: beyond the great divide. Town Hall (2).

Luke Roberts: beyond the great divide

2024

Other Outputs

Visualising time: Daniel Crooks

Barikin, Amelia (2024). Visualising time: Daniel Crooks. Sullivan+Strumpf (24), 50-59.

Visualising time: Daniel Crooks

2024

Other Outputs

Don't forget to remember

Barikin, Amelia, Pangirakis, Spiros, Riley Walsh, Tim, McGrath, Callum and Coombs, Courtney (2024). Don't forget to remember. Queer Australian Art.

Don't forget to remember

2024

Other Outputs

Jarrod van der Ryken, the buds on the trees and the night were still

Barikin, Amelia (2024). Jarrod van der Ryken, the buds on the trees and the night were still. Memo Review.

Jarrod van der Ryken, the buds on the trees and the night were still

2024

Book Chapter

A world undone

Barikin, Amelia (2024). A world undone. Nicholas Mangan: a world undone. (pp. 14-36) edited by Anneke Jaspers and Anna Davis. Sydney and Milan: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Lenz Press.

A world undone

2024

Other Outputs

Unleash yourself!

Barikin, Amelia (2024). Unleash yourself!. Luke Roberts: beyond the great divide. (pp. 63-81) edited by Nicholas Tsoutas and Jonathan McBurnie. Rockhampton, Qld, Australia: Rockhampton Museum of Art.

Unleash yourself!

2023

Journal Article

Queer Australian art history: KINK in the archive

KINK, Barikin, Amelia, Coombs, Courtney, McGrath, Callum, Panigirakis, Spiros and Riley Walsh, Tim (2023). Queer Australian art history: KINK in the archive. Artlink.

Queer Australian art history: KINK in the archive

2022

Other Outputs

Texts for a queer art history

Barikin, Amelia (2022). Texts for a queer art history. un Magazine, 16 (2), 87-96.

Texts for a queer art history

2021

Other Outputs

Ecologies of Time

Barikin, Amelia (2021). Ecologies of Time. On Fire: Climate & Crisis. (pp. 32-36) edited by Tim Walsh. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute of Modern Art.

Ecologies of Time

2021

Other Outputs

Queering time, queering history: Drew Pettifer's A Sorrowful Act

Amelia Barikin (2021). Queering time, queering history: Drew Pettifer's A Sorrowful Act. A Sorrowful Act: The Wreck of the Zeewijk. (pp. 96-99) edited by Drew Pettifer. Perth, Australia: University of Western Australia.

Queering time, queering history: Drew Pettifer's A Sorrowful Act

2019

Journal Article

Script for a nonsite: Robert smithson’s “The Monument”

Barikin, Amelia and McAuliffe, Chris (2019). Script for a nonsite: Robert smithson’s “The Monument”. Archives of American Art Journal, 58 (2), 46-69. doi: 10.1086/706833

Script for a nonsite: Robert smithson’s “The Monument”

2019

Book Chapter

After the end: The temporality of melancholia

Barikin, Amelia (2019). After the end: The temporality of melancholia. The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture. (pp. 107-121) edited by Andrea Bubenik. New York, NY United States: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429468469

After the end: The temporality of melancholia

2019

Other Outputs

Robert Smithson's Crystal Lattices: mapping the shapes of time

Barikin, Amelia (2019). Robert Smithson's Crystal Lattices: mapping the shapes of time. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA: Holt/Smithson Foundation.

Robert Smithson's Crystal Lattices: mapping the shapes of time

2018

Other Outputs

Robert Smithson: Time Crystals

Barikin, Amelia and McAuliffe, Chris (2018). Robert Smithson: Time Crystals. Brisbane, Australia and Melbourne, Australia: University of Queensland Art Museum & Monash University Museum of Art.

Robert Smithson: Time Crystals

2018

Book Chapter

Towards an impossible summit: the journey as decoy in the work of Pierre Huyghe

Barikin, Amelia (2018). Towards an impossible summit: the journey as decoy in the work of Pierre Huyghe. Art as adventure: going beyond. (pp. 76-93) edited by James P. Werner and Rosemary O'Neill. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Towards an impossible summit: the journey as decoy in the work of Pierre Huyghe

2018

Book

Tom Nicholson: Lines Towards Another

Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes eds. (2018). Tom Nicholson: Lines Towards Another. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press.

Tom Nicholson: Lines Towards Another

2018

Book Chapter

Blindness and figuration: the dialectics of picture-making in the work of Tom Nicholson

Barikin, Amelia (2018). Blindness and figuration: the dialectics of picture-making in the work of Tom Nicholson. Tom Nicholson: lines towards another. (pp. 39-52) edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press.

Blindness and figuration: the dialectics of picture-making in the work of Tom Nicholson

Funding

Past funding

  • 2015
    Curator Residency for Amelia Barikin (Museums and Galleries NSW Artist or Curator Residency (ACR) administered by TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria)
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2016
    Science Fiction and Art: Fictionalising the Present
    UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

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Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Angry Penguins and the making of Australian Modernism

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Honorary Professor Nancy Underhill

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Dirt: Dialogues with Earth Matter

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Dirt: Dialogues with Earth Matter

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Emperor's New Clothes: The Printed Revolution of Maximilian I (1494-1519)

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik

Completed supervision

Media

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