Writing in the Expanded Field Volume IV: Touching Feeling Writing

Writing in the Expanded Field Volume IV: Touching Feeling Writing

Research lead: Dr Lucinda Strahan

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Background

Writing in the Expanded Field is an industry-engaged research translation project that expands the way the arts may be encountered and known through new compositional, auditory, performed, hyperlinked, networked and other experimental digital writing approaches.

Solution

This three-month program ran from mid-September to mid-December 2022. The full spectrum of activities includes call-out and selection, exhibition tour with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) curators and after-hours access, in-person and online writing workshops, a live public reading event at ACCA, design and editorial production and a publication launch.

Impact

Writing in the Expanded Field translates creative practice research in a high-impact, audience-engaged industry setting that builds researcher profiles. 

Writing in the Expanded Field achieves high-impact public visibility through ACCA’s social channels (36.6K Instagram) and attracts media attention (RRRFM interview The Glasshouse 2019) in addition to a HERDC/ NTRO research outcome from each iteration. 

Downstream impact and engagement is enabled at events such as the NGV Art Book Fair (2019, 2020) and Dancehouse's In-Between Conversation Series (2020), as well as inclusion in university curriculum in art, design, media and creative writing courses.

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