Research
Mission of the Research Hub
“More importantly than the working surface of violence against women… is the inestimable healing capacity of the imaginary world”.
Del Kathryn Barton – visual arts and filmmaker
To rewrite societal scripts through a multi-arts focus.
It is through our multi-disciplinary artistic and scholarly research that we address systemic injustice and inequality by amplifying the themes of trauma and violence.
Over twenty years Artistic Director, Michelle St Anne has been pioneering her own methodology that provides a hothouse for artists and a gymnasium for scholars. The audacious cross-disciplinary collaborations on the LRT floor shift engrained perceptions while engaging in critical dialogues that reflect the significant issues of our time.
Her methodology ‘Composing Self’ is an embodied practice of collaboration steered towards constructing safe in collaborative and self-determined spaces where artists can take risks, extend their practice and reckon with their own methodologies.
St Anne’s room values a supportive and inquisitive environment grounded in care, kindness and personalised engagement with participants.
Research Projects-Current
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Live & online dance intimacy
Digital choreographic residency with Critical Path Michelle St Anne’s practice interrogates collaboration and devising to re-write bodily and societal scripts. Her work exists at the intersection of social justice and artistic practice, drawing on the rich traditions in western and south Asian cannons to reveal the underlying experiences and dynamics of power, gender, space/site and expression. […]
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Modalities of Listening
Through music, performance, and Auslan, this research explores the ways that cycles of violence and fear endure and repeat. In a first time collaboration between Michelle St Anne and deaf artist Sue Jo Wright, St Anne shares her framework for ‘composing self’ – an embodied practice of collaboration, constructing safe, collaborative and self-determined spaces where […]
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Sites of Violence
Exploring the ways that cycles of violence and fear endure in Australian bodies and in Australian landscapes, hidden in plain sight. In partnership with Sydney Environment Institute, Brand X, March Dance, Sites of Violence merges artistic and academic understandings of human and non-human experiences of violence, and the processes, emotions, and meaning that this violence makes manifest. The […]
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The Anastasia Project
Art as a genuine means of mobilising academic knowledge. In partnership with Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre – POP-UP RESEARCH LAB, Sydney Environment Institute, City of Sydney and Brand X This projects aims to design theatrical ways to communicate academic research on climate adaptation (and in particular shock heat events) to a wider audience; measure […]
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