
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
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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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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.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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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
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
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
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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
Media
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