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PhD Exegesis by Rosemary Forde

PhD exegesis, 2018

This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the ‘exhibition as study’. This method... more This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the ‘exhibition as study’. This methodology is one that leverages its pedagogical setting and tools, to directly address and engage small, localised audience groups. Through practice, the research has presented what I term a ‘study’ of the Melbourne artist group Damp (established 1995).The PhD presented the curatorial project 'Art holds a high place in my life | Damp: study of an artist at 21' which took place on the Monash University Caulfield campus throughout the 2016 academic year. Rather than a monographic exhibition, the ‘study’ models an alternative version of the retrospective survey.

Edited Books by Rosemary Forde

An edited compendium of articles, essays, reviews and art selected from the first decade of un Ma... more An edited compendium of articles, essays, reviews and art selected from the first decade of un Magazine, an independent journal for contemporary art published in Melbourne, Australia.

MA Thesis by Rosemary Forde

This MA thesis (University of Melbourne, 2009) is a study of independent art criticism and magazi... more This MA thesis (University of Melbourne, 2009) is a study of independent art criticism and magazine publishing in Melbourne during the period of 1988 to 2006. Building on three key case studies — the magazines Agenda / LIKE, Artfan and un Magazine — the thesis traces the motivations driving independent critical projects, and the editorial priorities, strategies and values with which these were articulated. Through interviews, archival research and analysis of the content and structure of the magazines themselves, this research contributes to a local history of criticism and the discussion of its shifting and unsettled position in the contemporary Australian art world. The complex layers of conditions motivating these shifts in criticism were found to encompass pragmatic and financial constraints, as well as a wider crisis concerning audience and accessibility for both art and criticism. In doing so, this thesis demonstrates that a notion of ‘crisis’, and the belief that art criticism is suffering a crisis, has dominated recent discourse regarding the genre. Paradoxically, the real crises found to beset the magazines reviewed here at once undermined and encouraged further critical responses. Between 1988 and 2006 many of the forms of crisis experienced by independent critical projects in Melbourne were exacerbated, reflecting the diminished position criticism had come to hold both in terms of financial value and discursive relevance. However, the magazines documented in this thesis represented a continuing strong desire for critical dialogue despite the ongoing and emerging challenges for independent criticism.

Papers by Rosemary Forde

This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the 'exhibition as study'. Thi... more This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the 'exhibition as study'. This methodology is one that leverages its pedagogical setting and tools, to directly address and engage small, localised audience groups. Through practice, the research has presented what I term a 'study' of the Melbourne artist group Damp (established 1995).The PhD presented the curatorial project 'Art holds a high place in my life | Damp: study of an artist at 21' which took place on the Monash University Caulfield campus throughout the 2016 academic year. Rather than a monographic exhibition, the 'study' models an alternative version of the retrospective survey.

PhD exegesis, 2018

This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the ‘exhibition as study’. This method... more This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the ‘exhibition as study’. This methodology is one that leverages its pedagogical setting and tools, to directly address and engage small, localised audience groups. Through practice, the research has presented what I term a ‘study’ of the Melbourne artist group Damp (established 1995).The PhD presented the curatorial project 'Art holds a high place in my life | Damp: study of an artist at 21' which took place on the Monash University Caulfield campus throughout the 2016 academic year. Rather than a monographic exhibition, the ‘study’ models an alternative version of the retrospective survey.

An edited compendium of articles, essays, reviews and art selected from the first decade of un Ma... more An edited compendium of articles, essays, reviews and art selected from the first decade of un Magazine, an independent journal for contemporary art published in Melbourne, Australia.

This MA thesis (University of Melbourne, 2009) is a study of independent art criticism and magazi... more This MA thesis (University of Melbourne, 2009) is a study of independent art criticism and magazine publishing in Melbourne during the period of 1988 to 2006. Building on three key case studies — the magazines Agenda / LIKE, Artfan and un Magazine — the thesis traces the motivations driving independent critical projects, and the editorial priorities, strategies and values with which these were articulated. Through interviews, archival research and analysis of the content and structure of the magazines themselves, this research contributes to a local history of criticism and the discussion of its shifting and unsettled position in the contemporary Australian art world. The complex layers of conditions motivating these shifts in criticism were found to encompass pragmatic and financial constraints, as well as a wider crisis concerning audience and accessibility for both art and criticism. In doing so, this thesis demonstrates that a notion of ‘crisis’, and the belief that art criticism is suffering a crisis, has dominated recent discourse regarding the genre. Paradoxically, the real crises found to beset the magazines reviewed here at once undermined and encouraged further critical responses. Between 1988 and 2006 many of the forms of crisis experienced by independent critical projects in Melbourne were exacerbated, reflecting the diminished position criticism had come to hold both in terms of financial value and discursive relevance. However, the magazines documented in this thesis represented a continuing strong desire for critical dialogue despite the ongoing and emerging challenges for independent criticism.

This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the 'exhibition as study'. Thi... more This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the 'exhibition as study'. This methodology is one that leverages its pedagogical setting and tools, to directly address and engage small, localised audience groups. Through practice, the research has presented what I term a 'study' of the Melbourne artist group Damp (established 1995).The PhD presented the curatorial project 'Art holds a high place in my life | Damp: study of an artist at 21' which took place on the Monash University Caulfield campus throughout the 2016 academic year. Rather than a monographic exhibition, the 'study' models an alternative version of the retrospective survey.