Professor Anne Marsh

Position title

• Professor, Theory of Art & Design
• Associate Dean Research

Qualifications

• PhD Melb
• MA Monash University
• BA Fine Art (Sculpture) Adelaide

Statement

Anne Marsh's research areas include: photography, performance art, feminism, postmodernism and psychoanalysis. Her book Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969-1992 (Oxford University Press, 1993) is a major contribution to the field. Recent works are listed below.

Research/Professional activities

External Grants

• Australian Research Council 2009-2011
• Australian Research Council 2005-2007
• Australia Council New Works 2007

Books

• LOOK! Contemporary Australian Photography, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2009 (in press)
• Contemporary Australian Photography and Photographers, Macmillan, forth coming, 2008.
• Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph, Quintus/University of Tasmania, 2006.
• The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire, Macmillan, 2003

Journal/Magazine Editing

• Guest editor (with Linda Williams, RMIT) of Southern Review (peer reviewed journal), special issue on Visual Culture and the Lens, 2004.
• Contributing editor for Eyeline, contemporary visual arts

Chapters

• ‘The Medium as Ghost: Politics and Poetics in Peter Kennedy’s Work’ in Hilde Van Gelder and Helen Westgeest (eds.), Photography between Poetry and Politics: The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium in Contemporary Art, Leuven University Press, Belgium, pp. 19-33.
• ‘Performance Art at the George Paton Gallery’ in Helen Vivien (ed), When You Think About Art: The Ewing & George Paton Galleries 1971-2008, Melbourne: Macmillan, 2008, pp. 190-207.
• ‘The Medium as Ghost: Politics and Poetics in Peter Kennedy’s Work’ in  Photography between Poetry and Politics: The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium in Contemporary Art,   Belgium: Lieven Gevaert Series, 2008 (in press)
• ‘Performance Art at the George Paton Gallery’ in Helen Vivien (ed), Walls Sometimes Speak: George Paton Gallery 1971-2006, Macmillan, 2007, (in press).
• ‘Memos to the 21st Century: An Australian Story’, in Return to Postmodernism: Theory - Travel Writing - Autobiography, eds Klaus Stierstorfer, Universitatsverlag, Winter GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany,
• ‘Body Memory and Time Zones’ in Roy Ascott (ed.), Coded Characters: Media Art by Jill Scott,  Senefelderstraße, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag Publishers, 2003, pp. 030-039. German and English.

Refereed Journal Articles

• ‘Performance Art and its Documentation: A Photo/Video Essay’, About Performance, Still/ Moving: Photography and Live Performance,  Sydney: Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, No. 8. 2008, pp. 15-29.
• ‘A Surrealist Impulse in Contemporary Australian photography’, Papers of Surrealism, no. 6, AHRB Research Centre for Studies in Surrealism and its Legacies, University of Essex and University of Manchester, on-line journal.
• ‘A Photographic Ghost in Contemporary Painting’, Southern Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2004, pp. 34-48.
• "Ned Kelly by Any Other Name", Journal of Visual Culture (UK), vol. 1, no. 1, April 2002, pp. 57-65.

Art Magazine Articles

• ‘Stepping In (A Feminist Context)’, Broadsheet Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture, vol 36, no. 4, 2007, pp. 248-251..
• ‘Art History in a Post-Medium Age’, Artlink, vol 26, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 41-45.
• ‘Claudia Terstappen: A Language of the Sacred’ Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 59, Summer 2005-2006, pp. 30-31.
• ‘Piercing the Subject: 21C Anxiety in the Works of David Rosetzky’, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts 57, Winter 2005, pp. 16-18.
• ‘Lily Hibberd: A Painters Cinema’, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts no. 55, Spring 2004, pp.
• ‘Pat Brassington: Uncanny Witness’, Art and Australia, vol. 41, no. 4, Winter 2004. pp. 586-592.
• ‘Blood and Death: The Recent Body Art of Jill Orr’, Art Monthly, no. 158, 2003, pp. 22-23.