About Julie Louise Bacon

MICRO-BIO

  • Dr Julie Louise Bacon is an artist, curator and writer. She has presented her performance, video and installation works internationally in over 40 festivals, galleries and museums, including: Artspace Sydney; Golden Thread Gallery Belfast; White Cub...More

EXPERIENCE

  • UNSW Art & Design
    • Lecturer
    • Fine Art / Curating
    • March 2014 to Present

EDUCATION

  • University of Ulster
    • PhD
    • September 2002 to November 2006

    Practice-based PhD. School of Art & Design, University of Ulster, Belfast. Arts and Humanities Research Council full doctoral scholarship. Thesis: "Recollecting the Poetry and Politics of Archival Spaces: An Exploration of Performance and Installation Art in the Museum." UK fieldwork placements: Hancock Museum; Pitt Rivers Museum; Freud Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum; Ulster Museum. AHRC overseas research award to undertake fieldwork in Canada at the Museum of Civilisation, Québec and Churchill Museum, Manitoba.

  • Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
    • MFA
    • August 1999 to June 2001

    Research Masters focusing on durational performance and installation practice. Thesis title: Performance-Installation and the relationship between the act and the archive. Exhibition presented in Espace Virtuel centre for contemporary art in Chicoutimi, Québec (now Centre Bang) Recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship, Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Interests

  • The Evolution Of Intellectual And Creative Work Within Societal Structures And Their Contribution To Participatory Culture

  • The Interplay Of Myths And Ideologies In Material And Digital Culture

  • The Epistemological Implications Of Artistic Processes

  • Interdisciplinary And Transhistorical Views Of Creative And Critical Practice

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