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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

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80 works between 2005 and 2024

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2014

Journal Article

Stephen Russell: "Torpor Audit"

Barikin, Amelia (2014). Stephen Russell: "Torpor Audit". Eyeline, 1 (80), 95-95.

Stephen Russell: "Torpor Audit"

2014

Book Chapter

Arche-fossils and future fossils: the speculative paleontology of Julian Charrière

Barikin, Amelia (2014). Arche-fossils and future fossils: the speculative paleontology of Julian Charrière. Julian Charrière: future fossil spaces. (pp. 18-29) edited by Nicole Schweizer. Milan, Italy: Mousse Publishing.

Arche-fossils and future fossils: the speculative paleontology of Julian Charrière

2014

Other Outputs

Since we last spoke

Barikin, Amelia (2014). Since we last spoke. Bureau 2. (pp. 89-90) edited by Vikki McInnes and Laura Castagnini. Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne; Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts.

Since we last spoke

2014

Book Chapter

Super mechanical super organical: Emily Floyd's science fiction

Barikin, Amelia (2014). Super mechanical super organical: Emily Floyd's science fiction. Emily Floyd: Far Rainbow. (pp. 59-67) edited by Linda Michael. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Heide Museum of Modern Art.

Super mechanical super organical: Emily Floyd's science fiction

2014

Book Chapter

Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 5

Barikin, Amelia (2014). Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 5. Five Centuries of Melancholia: Exhibition Catalogue. (pp. 61-61) edited by Andrea Bubenik. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Art Museum.

Bill Henson, untitled sequence, image no. 5

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

2013

Journal Article

Mega screens for mega cities

Papastergiadis, Nikos, McQuire, Scott, Gu, Xin, Barikin, Amelia, Gibson, Ross, Yue, Audrey, Jung, Sun, Cmielewski, Cecelia, Soh Yeong Roh and Jones, Matt (2013). Mega screens for mega cities. Theory, Culture and Society, 30 (7-8), 325-341. doi: 10.1177/0263276413503691

Mega screens for mega cities

2013

Journal Article

Screen cultures and public spaces

Barikin, Amelia, Papastergiadis, Nikos, McQuire, Scott and Yue, Audrey (2013). Screen cultures and public spaces. Dissect Journal, 1 (1), 66-83.

Screen cultures and public spaces

2013

Book Chapter

Tales of the fourth dimension

Barikin, Amelia (2013). Tales of the fourth dimension. Making worlds: art and science fiction. (pp. 234-240) edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Surpllus.

Tales of the fourth dimension

2013

Conference Publication

Making worlds in art and science fiction

Barikin, Amelia (2013). Making worlds in art and science fiction. ISEA2013: The 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art. Resistance is Futile, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7-16 June, 2013. Sydney, NSW, Australia: ISEA International.

Making worlds in art and science fiction

2013

Other Outputs

Selatangents: Snawklor (Nathan Gray and Dylan Martorell) in discussion with Amelia Barikin and Ferdiansyah Thajib

Gray, Nathan, Martorell, Dylan, Barikin, Amelia and Thajib, Ferdiansyah (2013). Selatangents: Snawklor (Nathan Gray and Dylan Martorell) in discussion with Amelia Barikin and Ferdiansyah Thajib. Mapping south: journeys in south-south cultural relations. (pp. 349-368) edited by Anthony Gardner. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The South Project.

Selatangents: Snawklor (Nathan Gray and Dylan Martorell) in discussion with Amelia Barikin and Ferdiansyah Thajib

2013

Book Chapter

Making worlds in art and science fiction

Barikin, Amelia (2013). Making worlds in art and science fiction. Making worlds: art and science fiction. (pp. 7-13) edited by Amelia Barikin and Helen Hughes. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Surpllus.

Making worlds in art and science fiction

2013

Book Chapter

Souvenirs du futur: du temps de l'art

Barikin, Amelia (2013). Souvenirs du futur: du temps de l'art. Pierre Huyghe. (pp. 213-216) edited by Emma Lavigne and Pierre Huyghe. Paris, France: Centre Georges Pompidou.

Souvenirs du futur: du temps de l'art

2013

Conference Publication

Large screens and the transnational public sphere

Papastergiadis, Nikos, McQuire, Scott, Barikin, Amelia, Cmielewski, Cecelia, Yue, Audrey, Gibson, Ross, Cmielewski, Leon, Jones, Matt and Gu, Xin (2013). Large screens and the transnational public sphere. ISEA2013: The 19th International Symposium of Electronic Art. Resistance is Futile, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 7-16 June, 2013. Sydney, NSW, Australia: ISEA International.

Large screens and the transnational public sphere

2013

Journal Article

Review of TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres

Barikin, Amelia (2013). Review of TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres. Art and Australia, 50 (3), 472-472.

Review of TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres

2012

Other Outputs

Australia vs Korea: dance battle 2012

Barikin, Amelia, Cmielewski, Cecilia, Gibson, Ross and Yi, Soojung (2012). Australia vs Korea: dance battle 2012. Federation Square, VIC, Australia; Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea; Northbridge Piazza, Perth, WA, Australia: University of Melbourne.

Australia vs Korea: dance battle 2012

2012

Other Outputs

Acoustic ecologies

Barikin, Amelia and Themelios, Nella (2012). Acoustic ecologies. Melbourne, VIC. Australia: Arts Centre Melbourne.

Acoustic ecologies

2012

Other Outputs

Parallel collisions: 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Natasha Bullock

Barikin, Amelia (2012). Parallel collisions: 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Natasha Bullock. Contemporary Visual Art+Culture Broadsheet, 41 (1), 34-39.

Parallel collisions: 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Natasha Bullock

2012

Other Outputs

A short flight in a black cube

Barikin, Amelia (2012). A short flight in a black cube. Raafat Ishak and Tom Nicholson: proposition for a banner march and a black cube hot air balloon. (pp. 13-20) edited by Ishak Raafat, Tom Nicholson, Danny Lacy, Nikos Papastergiadis and Amelia Barikin. Shepparton, Vic., Australia: Shepparton Art Museum.

A short flight in a black cube

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

Dr Amelia Barikin is:
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

  • 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

Enquiries

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  • Contemporary art

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