Twisted things : playing with time

Twisted Things: Playing with Time is a film script and exegesis. The script, a murder mystery, slips between contemporary Melbourne and Melbourne in 1959 during the making of, ‘On the Beach’. The exegesis explores history by considering Melbourne in 1959, glamour and image, and the cinema of time.

The complete fool: Insights and trajectories from an ancient path

This study presents a novel and accompanying exegesis which explore the fool behind the Fool by stripping away his usual costume and arenas of power and folly to expose an essence – an impulse of potentiality – that helps explain the Fool’s perpetuity and argues his critical significance as a catalyst for creative thinking.

Global positioning systems : altered representations of place

Global Positioning Systems: altered representations of place, presents an exegesis from the practice led research submitted for the degree of Master of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. The thesis proposes a particular understanding of altered states of consciousness that is relevant to my practice.  This is outlined by Charles Tart and supported by the Altered States of Consciousness Consortium and explores a psycho-aesthetic experiences and does not involved transcendental states or spiritual associations. These experiences are transformed by an exhaustive application of digital technologies, where mosaic-like complexity emerges that induces sustained disorientation and surrounds a viewer in an immersive space.

Exploring the fantastic: new critical frameworks in an evolving genre

This thesis (creative practice/exegesis) argues that fantasy fiction can function as a progressive socio-political literature. Using the Marxist theory of the Frankfurt School it explores the relationship between fantasy and science fiction via utopian/dystopian representation. Through this dialogue a new understanding of the genre is voiced.

The dark ride : The history of the thematic ride as a unique model for new media and cinematic installation

This research examines the translation of the visual language of cinema into a spatial experience. An investigation into early moving images reveals the role that amusement parks played in exploring narratives using architectural spaces. The exegesis will address the history of entertainments, in particular the ‘dark ride’, which have an emphasis on narrative over and above effect.

Extensive field research was undertaken including historical sites across the east coast of the US, in search of new approaches to new media. Over twenty key popular entertainments were experienced first-hand, from Coney Island’s legendary ‘Spookarama’, to the earliest dark ride in operation, ‘The Old Mill’ at Kennywood in Pittsburgh.

Revisionist historicism theory and practice: challenging national metanarratives

 This thesis demonstrates the interdependence of theory and practice in re-envisioning Australia’s past: the postmodern methodologies explored in the exegesis inform my fictional reassessment of history. The thesis argues for revisionist historical fiction’s legitimacy in resurrecting lost voices. It looks beyond the colonial archives to reconfigure Australia’s history in more inclusive ways.

Archipelago: a journey across poetic islands of the self

 Paul Venzo's thesis is a poetic response to the author's relationship with Venice and the Veneto. It comprises a manuscript of poetry in English and Italian and an exegesis exploring aspects of the poet's creative practice, including translation, writing in place and intersections with literary history and form.

Alice: walking in her footsteps

 The thesis Alice: Walking in Her Footsteps employs memoir writing and exegesis to examine the impact of government policies on Aboriginal Families in Australia in the 20th Century.

Creativity in-transit: material ideals and spatial negotiations

 “Creativity in-transit” is a series of artworks and exegesis that explore how movements undertaken while transiting draw attention to everyday and collaborative encounters. Packing a bag is analysed as a situation where travellers negotiate a range of material, spatial, and environmental interactions, attuning travellers to collective experiences of movement.

The scarlet legacy : representations of the single mother

 Emma’s thesis, a memoir and exegesis, focuses on representations of the single mother. The exegesis critically examines the demonization of single mothers in popular culture. The memoir relates her incredible journey into single motherhood and the legacy of love passed down through multiple generations of single mothers in her family.

Creative and literary responses to Australian middle-class experiences of financial upheaval

This thesis—comprising a novel, The Company He Keeps, and exegesis—explores the near absence of literary fiction written about the Australian Middle Class and their responses to financial stress (1980 – 2008), finding that the language of global economic reform has triumphed over political discourse and, in particular, silenced women.

The monologic, power and mental illness

 This thesis considers the issue of the ‘Monologic, Power and Mental Illness’. Bakhtin’s concept of ‘Heteroglossia’, Foucault’s concept of ‘Subjectivation’, and the work of other writers in relation to mental illness are covered both in the Exegesis and throughout the creative component comprising excerpts from Kemp’s novella entitled, Haven.

Lord of the ring: redressing the ‘White Oliphant’

 The doctoral work is divided into two parts: an exegesis dealing analytically with the idea of writing nonfiction works about scientists and a creative nonfiction work on the Australian scientist Sir Mark Oliphant encompassing also the practice of science, its culture, its politics and its intellectual arguments.

Hegemonic masculinity in transition

Comprised of a creative artefact and an exegesis, the research examines how destabilisation and critique of patriarchal hierarchies in the post-World War II era has challenged and transformed societal and personal relationships. The creative artefact is a novel set in Australia. The exegesis is focussed on the response to changing masculinities in film, primarily Westerns.