Enhancing the impact of Australian performing arts: virtual scenography and opera for the 21st century. Digitally created scenography has the potential to create immersive stage environments that are designed for 21st century visual impact, and to re-model the economics of live performance by reducing the cost of touring. Deakin Motion.Lab and the Victorian Opera aim to work together to design, test and evaluate the artistic and economic value of virtual scenography for touring performing arts c ....Enhancing the impact of Australian performing arts: virtual scenography and opera for the 21st century. Digitally created scenography has the potential to create immersive stage environments that are designed for 21st century visual impact, and to re-model the economics of live performance by reducing the cost of touring. Deakin Motion.Lab and the Victorian Opera aim to work together to design, test and evaluate the artistic and economic value of virtual scenography for touring performing arts companies. This project aims to enable opera companies to present large scale productions in previously inaccessible regional and rural areas, enhancing both artistic experience and access to this cultural experience for audiences. These outcomes aim to be transferable to other theatre forms such as ballet and theatre that require large-scale set production.Read moreRead less
The economic and cultural value of Australian music exports. The project aims to investigate the cultural and economic value of Australian music exports. It will be the first methodical study on how Australian artists are developed internationally through government and industry programs. It intends to provide a detailed picture of entrepreneurial activity within and between industries, not-for-profit sectors and governments. The project aims to assess the effects of globalisation and digitisati ....The economic and cultural value of Australian music exports. The project aims to investigate the cultural and economic value of Australian music exports. It will be the first methodical study on how Australian artists are developed internationally through government and industry programs. It intends to provide a detailed picture of entrepreneurial activity within and between industries, not-for-profit sectors and governments. The project aims to assess the effects of globalisation and digitisation in the creation of a music export, and the impact of cultural and economic value chains on an Australian music export. The intended outcomes are strategies for improving the audibility and visibility of Australian music within increasingly complex international networks and systems of music production, consumption and governance.Read moreRead less
Building resilient school communities through tailored arts programs. This project aims to provide school leaders and policymakers with new tools and information to guide the allocation of scarce resources to arts programs in primary schools. Schools with low socio-economic status both desire and deserve the opportunity to maximise the many educational and social benefits that flow from participation in arts programs. The project aims to generate new understanding of these benefits by drawing to ....Building resilient school communities through tailored arts programs. This project aims to provide school leaders and policymakers with new tools and information to guide the allocation of scarce resources to arts programs in primary schools. Schools with low socio-economic status both desire and deserve the opportunity to maximise the many educational and social benefits that flow from participation in arts programs. The project aims to generate new understanding of these benefits by drawing together practical and theoretical expertise about the arts and positive engagement in schools. The outcomes should provide key stakeholders with novel solutions for making critical decisions about when and how to most effectively use tailored arts programs to build resilience in school communities.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230100693
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$457,350.00
Summary
Emergence: Examining gender equity in music via a new contemporary opera. This DECRA will investigate one of Australia’s significant art-forms: opera. Led by an established Australian composer, it aims to develop new technologies and methods for composition and collaboration. The expected outcomes include new analysis of contemporary, international operatic practice and an original Australian opera that focuses on gender equity in music as its subject, translating data on this topic into creativ ....Emergence: Examining gender equity in music via a new contemporary opera. This DECRA will investigate one of Australia’s significant art-forms: opera. Led by an established Australian composer, it aims to develop new technologies and methods for composition and collaboration. The expected outcomes include new analysis of contemporary, international operatic practice and an original Australian opera that focuses on gender equity in music as its subject, translating data on this topic into creative-practice. The DECRA's significance is to create new, more inclusive frameworks for opera that centre women and gender-diverse music creators and can extend to other musical genres. Benefits include the investigation of urgent issues arising now in Australian workplaces and amplification of the voices of the marginalised.Read moreRead less
Meaningfully communicating the value of arts and culture through reporting. This project aims to investigate how the value of cultural organisations and activities can be effectively communicated in official reporting processes. It aims to change the ways culture’s value is publicly determined by researching two innovative, socially responsible reporting frameworks, thus creating a dedicated framework for culture. Expected outcomes include new on-line reporting processes, principles and forms fo ....Meaningfully communicating the value of arts and culture through reporting. This project aims to investigate how the value of cultural organisations and activities can be effectively communicated in official reporting processes. It aims to change the ways culture’s value is publicly determined by researching two innovative, socially responsible reporting frameworks, thus creating a dedicated framework for culture. Expected outcomes include new on-line reporting processes, principles and forms for cultural practitioners and funding agencies, and enhanced understanding in both policy and cultural domains of meaningful reporting practices. The project will transform the way artists and cultural organisations communicate the value of what they do to governments.Read moreRead less
Laboratory Adelaide: Accounting for Cultural Value in the Arts, Cultural Organisations and Events. This project partners major Adelaide cultural organisations with a multi-disciplinary research team to develop and refine complementary quantitative and qualitative methods to accurately measure cultural and institutional value. Through survey-based methodologies and embedded participant case studies the project aims to model the relationship between cultural value, measurement and reporting. Mixed ....Laboratory Adelaide: Accounting for Cultural Value in the Arts, Cultural Organisations and Events. This project partners major Adelaide cultural organisations with a multi-disciplinary research team to develop and refine complementary quantitative and qualitative methods to accurately measure cultural and institutional value. Through survey-based methodologies and embedded participant case studies the project aims to model the relationship between cultural value, measurement and reporting. Mixed methodologies ensure the metrics of cultural value are contextualised and rendered significant to practitioners through description and narrative. The methodologies intend to be evaluated and fine-tuned in the specific cultural geography and economy of Adelaide before being potentially transferable to the arts and cultural sector nationally.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230100469
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$442,327.00
Summary
Re-igniting 'artistic vibrancy' in the Australian opera ecosystem. This project aims to advance new methodologies for re-establishing 'artistic vibrancy' (a factor found to be lacking by the National Opera Review in 2014-16) within operatic practice in Australia. The project expects to generate new knowledge of vital, but hidden musical processes, using interdisciplinary approaches in order to rebalance and recalibrate the opera ecosystem. Expected outcomes include the revitalisation of operatic ....Re-igniting 'artistic vibrancy' in the Australian opera ecosystem. This project aims to advance new methodologies for re-establishing 'artistic vibrancy' (a factor found to be lacking by the National Opera Review in 2014-16) within operatic practice in Australia. The project expects to generate new knowledge of vital, but hidden musical processes, using interdisciplinary approaches in order to rebalance and recalibrate the opera ecosystem. Expected outcomes include the revitalisation of operatic practice and the establishment of clear parameters for responsible opera curation. Benefits include an enhanced awareness of artistic vibrancy within opera, and the creation of new practices, which will be of significant cultural and artistic benefit to the wider Australian community.Read moreRead less
Revitalising the Musical Arts of Indonesia's Lampung Province. This project seeks to explore how a stigmatised Indigenous population recovers its self-confidence and socio-economic status. This ethnographic project aims to document how and to what extent one Indigenous group in the post-Suharto era of regional autonomy in Indonesia is improving its status through affirmative political action based on its traditional musical arts, philosophy and Islamic beliefs. Using a novel ethnomusicological m ....Revitalising the Musical Arts of Indonesia's Lampung Province. This project seeks to explore how a stigmatised Indigenous population recovers its self-confidence and socio-economic status. This ethnographic project aims to document how and to what extent one Indigenous group in the post-Suharto era of regional autonomy in Indonesia is improving its status through affirmative political action based on its traditional musical arts, philosophy and Islamic beliefs. Using a novel ethnomusicological methodology, it plans to delineate the stylistic identity of their traditional, new and popular musical arts and youth culture, and theorise about the changing meanings of culture and Islam among this marginalised people.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120100050
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
Innovation and reform in the theory and practice of musical criticism in late Victorian England to the 1920s. Musical criticism as we understand it today was an invention of the nineteenth century. This study is the first to examine the origins of musical criticism its birth and its development in context of late Victorian England.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE130100977
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$373,391.00
Summary
A historical study of modern Iran and its diaspora through the music, career and cultural significance of pop star Googoosh. The Iranian celebrity and cultural icon Googoosh has played a central role in the development of Iranian popular music. This project provides the first extensive analysis of Googoosh's music, the historical conditions that have shaped her career and the significance ascribed to her by generations of fans, detractors and other listeners.