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Associate Professor Amelia Barikin
Associate Professor

Amelia Barikin

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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:
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

21 - 40 of 81 works

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.

Robert Smithson: time crystals

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

Sound fossils and speaking stones: towards a mineral ontology of contemporary art

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.

Mobile methods and large screens

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.

Chronophobia, presence and presentness in the work of Liam O'Brien

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.

Conclusion: ambient screens

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.

Introduction: screen cultures and public spaces

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.

Psychotropicalism: A manifesto in search of a manifestation

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.

Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015

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

Ambient aesthetics: altered subjectivities in the new museum

2015

Journal Article

Ambient perspective and endless art

Papastergiadis, Nikos and Barikin, Amelia (2015). Ambient perspective and endless art. Discipline, 4, 80-91.

Ambient perspective and endless art

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

The museum in hiding: framing conflict

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.

Quantum entanglements and the construction of time: do we need a science-fictional history of art?

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.

Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015

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.

Ambient perspective and the citizen's moving eyes

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

Round Table On the Critical Archive

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

Translating gesture in a transnational public sphere

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).

We have begun to communicate with the animals, and the stars: speaking the future in Neil Beloufa's Kempinski

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

Public screens and participatory public space

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.

Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 11

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.

no more stars (star wars): ra di martino

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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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Dirt: Dialogues with Earth Matter

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Paolo Magagnoli

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Between Myth and History: Angry Penguins and the development of an Australian avant-garde

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Honorary Professor Nancy Underhill

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Angry Penguins and the making of Australian Modernism

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Honorary Professor Nancy Underhill

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Indigenising the educational turn: A relational, pedagogical approach to decolonising curatorial practice

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Levon Blue

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Dirt: Dialogues with Earth Matter

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene

    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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    There Is No Outside: Art-Science Collaborations with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens

Completed supervision

Media

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