
Overview
Background
I am an Associate Professor 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, 2013); 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, science fiction, Australian art, or time studies (or all of the above!).
Availability
- Associate Professor Amelia Barikin is:
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Melbourne
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Research interests
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Contemporary international and Australian art
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Science fiction
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Time Studies
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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
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2018
Other Outputs
Robert Smithson: time crystals
Barikin, Amelia and McAuliffe, Chris (2018). Robert Smithson: time crystals. Robert Smithson: time crystals. (pp. 5-36) edited by Amelia Barikin and Chris McAuliffe. Melbourne, Australia: Monash University Publishing in association with Monash University Museum of Art.
2017
Book Chapter
Sound fossils and speaking stones: towards a mineral ontology of contemporary art
Barikin, Amelia (2017). Sound fossils and speaking stones: towards a mineral ontology of contemporary art. Animism in art and performance. (pp. 253-275) edited by Christopher Braddock. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-66550-4_13
2016
Book Chapter
Mobile methods and large screens
Papastergiadis, Nikos, Barikin, Amelia, Gu, Xin, McQuire, Scott and Yue, Audrey (2016). Mobile methods and large screens. Ambient screens and transnational public spaces. (pp. 131-208) edited by Nikos Papastergiadis. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2016
Book Chapter
Chronophobia, presence and presentness in the work of Liam O'Brien
Barikin, Amelia (2016). Chronophobia, presence and presentness in the work of Liam O'Brien. New16. (pp. 54-55) edited by Annika Kristensen and Margaret Farmer. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
2016
Book Chapter
Conclusion: ambient screens
Papastergiadis, Nikos, Barikin, Amelia and McQuire, Scott (2016). Conclusion: ambient screens. Ambient screens and transnational public spaces. (pp. 211-238) edited by Nikos Papastergiadis. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2016
Book Chapter
Introduction: screen cultures and public spaces
Papastergiadis, Nikos, Barikin, Amelia, McQuire, Scott and Yue, Audrey (2016). Introduction: screen cultures and public spaces. Ambient screens and transnational public spaces. (pp. 3-27) edited by Nikos Papastergiadis. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
2016
Other Outputs
Psychotropicalism: A manifesto in search of a manifestation
Barikin, Amelia (2016). Psychotropicalism: A manifesto in search of a manifestation. un Anthology 2004 - 2014: A decade of art and ideas. (pp. 145-150) edited by Ulanda Blair, Rosemary Forde and Phip Murray. Melbourne, Australia: un Projects.
2015
Other Outputs
Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015
Barikin, Amelia and Lynn, Victoria (2015). Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015. Healesville, VIC, Australia: TarraWarra Museum of Art.
2015
Book Chapter
Ambient aesthetics: altered subjectivities in the new museum
Barikin, Amelia, Papastergiadis, Nikos, Radywyl, Natalia and McQuire, Scott (2015). Ambient aesthetics: altered subjectivities in the new museum. The international handbooks of museum studies. (pp. 417-436) edited by Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms120
2015
Journal Article
Ambient perspective and endless art
Papastergiadis, Nikos and Barikin, Amelia (2015). Ambient perspective and endless art. Discipline, 4, 80-91.
2015
Book Chapter
The museum in hiding: framing conflict
Barikin, Amelia, Green, Charles and Brown, Lyndell (2015). The museum in hiding: framing conflict. International handbooks of museum studies. (pp. 485-510) edited by Sharon Macdonald and Helen Rees Leahy. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms123
2015
Book Chapter
Quantum entanglements and the construction of time: do we need a science-fictional history of art?
Barikin, Amelia (2015). Quantum entanglements and the construction of time: do we need a science-fictional history of art?. Soleil double. (pp. 17-24) edited by era-unavailable. Paris, France: Editions Dilecta.
2015
Other Outputs
Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015
Barikin, Amelia and Lynn, Victoria (2015). Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015. Healesville, VIC, Australia: TarraWarra Museum of Art.
2015
Book Chapter
Ambient perspective and the citizen's moving eyes
Barikin, Amelia and Papastergiadis, Nikos (2015). Ambient perspective and the citizen's moving eyes. Future publics (the rest can and should be done by the people): a critical reader in contemporary art. (pp. 90-115) edited by Maria Hlavajova and Ranjit Hoskote. Utrecht, Netherlands: BAK: base for active knowledge.
2014
Journal Article
Round Table On the Critical Archive
Holert, Tom, Baumann, Stefanie, Blom, Ina, Basilio, Miriam, Puric, Biljana, Hsu, Claire, Boudry, Pauline, Lorenz, Renate, Barikin, Amelia and Gomez-Moya, Cristian (2014). Round Table On the Critical Archive. Artmargins, 3 (3), 3-20. doi: 10.1162/ARTM_a_00091
2014
Journal Article
Translating gesture in a transnational public sphere
Barikin, Amelia, Papastergiadis, Nikos, Yue, Audrey, McQuire, Scott, Gibson, Ross and Gu, Xin (2014). Translating gesture in a transnational public sphere. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 35 (4), 349-365. doi: 10.1080/07256868.2014.913014
2014
Journal Article
We have begun to communicate with the animals, and the stars: speaking the future in Neil Beloufa's Kempinski
Barikin, Amelia (2014). We have begun to communicate with the animals, and the stars: speaking the future in Neil Beloufa's Kempinski. West Space Journal, 1 (3).
2014
Book Chapter
Public screens and participatory public space
Barikin, Amelia, Papastergiadis, Nikos, McQuire, Scott and Yue, Audrey (2014). Public screens and participatory public space. Art in the Asia-Pacific Intimate Publics. (pp. 161-172) edited by Larissa Hjorth, Natalie King and Mami Kataoka. New York, NY, USA: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315858104
2014
Book Chapter
Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 11
Barikin, Amelia (2014). Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 11. Five Centuries of Melancholia: Exhibition Catalogue. (pp. 63-63) edited by Andrea Bubenik. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.
2014
Journal Article
no more stars (star wars): ra di martino
Barikin, Amelia (2014). no more stars (star wars): ra di martino. Broadsheet, 43 (1), 33-35.
Funding
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Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Dirt: Dialogues with Earth Matter
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli
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Doctor Philosophy
Between Myth and History: Angry Penguins and the development of an Australian avant-garde
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Nancy Underhill
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Doctor Philosophy
Angry Penguins and the making of Australian Modernism
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Nancy Underhill
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Doctor Philosophy
Indigenising the educational turn: A relational, pedagogical approach to decolonising curatorial practice
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Levon Blue
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Doctor Philosophy
Dirt: Dialogues with Earth Matter
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
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Doctor Philosophy
The Emperor's New Clothes: The Printed Revolution of Maximilian I (1494-1519)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik
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Doctor Philosophy
There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Resistant Mediations: The Colonial Camera and the Art of Indian Pilgrimage
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Manu P. Sobti
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
The Historiographic Role of Puppets in Contemporary Art
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Butler
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2019
Master Philosophy
Towards A Nuclear Aesthetics: Maralinga and the Art of Jonathan Kumintjara Brown and Yhonnie Scarce
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik
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2017
Master Philosophy
Drones and Night Vision: Militarised Technology in Paintings by George Gittoes and Jon Cattapan
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Between Communism and Fascism: The Entangled History of Political Photomontage in Italy, 1925-45
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli
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2022
Master Philosophy
Appropriations of Renaissance and Baroque Art in Contemporary Australia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Innovation, Culturepreneurship and Arnhem Land's Contemporary Art
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Butler
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2019
Master Philosophy
An Aetiology of Racism: Gordon Bennett's Archive and Affective Conceptualism
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Sally Butler
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2016
Master Philosophy
"Being With:" Establishing Co-presence Between Multimedia Images and Performers in Multimedia Performance.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Joanne Tompkins
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