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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

80 works between 2005 and 2024

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2012

Journal Article

Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating

Barikin, Amelia (2012). Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating. Discipline (2), 18-24.

Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating

2012

Book

Parallel presents : the art of Pierre Huyghe

Barikin, Amelia (2012). Parallel presents : the art of Pierre Huyghe. Cambridge, MA., USA: MIT Press.

Parallel presents : the art of Pierre Huyghe

2011

Other Outputs

HELLO PROJECT

Douglas, Amelia, Gibson, Ross, Cmielewski, Cecelia and Yi, Soojung (2011). HELLO PROJECT. Federation Square, VIC, Australia; Arko Art Theatre, Seoul, Korea: Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere; Art Center Nabi.

HELLO PROJECT

2011

Journal Article

On contemporary history

Douglas, Amelia (2011). On contemporary history. Broadsheet, 40 (2), 118-119.

On contemporary history

2011

Book Chapter

Diasportal: travels in space and time

Barikin, Amelia (2011). Diasportal: travels in space and time. Dylan Martorell : soundtracks. (pp. 1-5) Parkville, Vic., Australia: Asialink.

Diasportal: travels in space and time

2010

Other Outputs

Killing time: Christopher Koeller video retrospective

Douglas, Amelia (2010). Killing time: Christopher Koeller video retrospective. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Kings Artist Run Initiative.

Killing time: Christopher Koeller video retrospective

2010

Other Outputs

The sound playground

Douglas, Amelia and Themelios, Nella (2010). The sound playground. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Bus Projects; Craft Victoria; fortyfivedownstairs.

The sound playground

2010

Journal Article

Critical or congratulatory?

Grayson, Richard, McGovern, Eva, Green, Charles, Geczy, Adam, Lynn, Victoria, North, Ian, Millner, Jacqueline, Douglas, Amelia and French, Blair (2010). Critical or congratulatory?. Contemporary Visual Art+Culture Broadsheet, 39 (1), 18-22.

Critical or congratulatory?

2010

Other Outputs

Before and after science. Interview: Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton

Douglas, Amelia (2010). Before and after science. Interview: Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton. Contemporary Visual Art+Culture Broadsheet, 39 (1), 25-27.

Before and after science. Interview: Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton

2010

Book Chapter

Pierre Huyghe's science fictions

Douglas, Amelia (2010). Pierre Huyghe's science fictions. Event Horizon: Moon Souvenir Edition. (pp. 3-3) edited by Centre for Contemporary Photography. Fitzroy, VIC, Australia: Centre for Contemporary Photography.

Pierre Huyghe's science fictions

2010

Other Outputs

Killing time

Douglas, Amelia (2010). Killing time. Christopher Köller: killing time. A video retrospective. (pp. 10-11) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Kings Artist Run Initiative.

Killing time

2009

Journal Article

The viewfinder and the view

Douglas, Amelia (2009). The viewfinder and the view. Broadsheet, 38 (3), 200-205.

The viewfinder and the view

2009

Other Outputs

Found sound: the experimental instrumental project

Douglas, Amelia and Mishriki, Albert (2009). Found sound: the experimental instrumental project. Melbourne & Carlton, VIC, Australia: Guildford Lane Gallery; Tape Projects Space.

Found sound: the experimental instrumental project

2009

Other Outputs

Wonderlands: experiencing experience. A conversation between Amelia Douglas and Tim Webster

Douglas, Amelia (2009). Wonderlands: experiencing experience. A conversation between Amelia Douglas and Tim Webster. Wonderlands: Cristo redentor. (pp. 3-11) edited by Amelia Douglas. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Blindside Artist Run Space.

Wonderlands: experiencing experience. A conversation between Amelia Douglas and Tim Webster

2009

Journal Article

North star / dark star

Douglas, Amelia (2009). North star / dark star. un Magazine, 3 (1), 70-71.

North star / dark star

2008

Other Outputs

A forest of lines: an interview with Pierre Huyghe

Douglas, Amelia (2008). A forest of lines: an interview with Pierre Huyghe. EMAJ: Electronic Melbourne Art Journal, 1 (3), 1-7.

A forest of lines: an interview with Pierre Huyghe

2008

Journal Article

Psychotropicalism: a manifesto in search of a manifestation

Douglas, Amelia (2008). Psychotropicalism: a manifesto in search of a manifestation. un Magazine, 2 (1), 6-11.

Psychotropicalism: a manifesto in search of a manifestation

2006

Other Outputs

A world of one

Douglas, Amelia (2006). A world of one. Contemporary Visual Art+Culture Broadsheet, 35 (4), 234-236.

A world of one

2005

Journal Article

American entropy: Doug Aitken's blow debris

Douglas, Amelia (2005). American entropy: Doug Aitken's blow debris. EMAJ: Electronic Melbourne Art Journal, 1 (1), 1.1-1.14. doi: 10.38030/emaj.2005.1.1

American entropy: Doug Aitken's blow debris

2005

Journal Article

The paper trail: history and excess in the photography of Thomas Demand

Douglas, Amelia (2005). The paper trail: history and excess in the photography of Thomas Demand. antiTHESIS, 15, 188-201.

The paper trail: history and excess in the photography of Thomas Demand

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

    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

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Elizabeth Stephens

Completed supervision

Media

Enquiries

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  • Contemporary art

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