Dr Terri Bird - Researcher Profile

Biography

Terri Bird is an artist and writer who works as a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at Monash University.

Terri's research focuses on sculptural practices that connect art’s material operations to matter’s potential force and dynamics. This project owes a debt to the rethinking of material relations that has been a focus of feminist philosophers seeking to problematize understandings of matter outside its customary associations with form, content and meaning.

Her works have been included in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 1994, Signs of Life, 1999 and Skinned, 2004. Since 2002 Terri has worked collaboratively with Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell as OSW, winners of the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture in 2005. OSW (Open Spatial Workshop) experiments with processes and technologies to activate relations between objects and surfaces. These projects highlight movement and duration to produce new configurations of spatiality and temporal registers.

In 2009 OSW organised the West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, a multifaceted event exploring the interrelated potential that connects the generation and presentation of art practices. An interest in experimenting with the conditions of art’s production and presentation motivates Terri’s involvement in artist-initiated activities such as CLUBSproject.

Related Links:

• www.osw.com.au/

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY - VISUAL CULTURE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2008

MASTER OF ARTS (FINE ARTS)

Institution: RMIT

Year awarded: 2000

GRAD DIP OF ARTS (ART HISTORY)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1998

GRAD DIP OF ARTS (FINE ARTS)

Institution: Victorian College of The Arts

Year awarded: 1988

Publications

Book Chapters

Bird, T., 2009, Material Thinking, in Accommodating Spaces, Materials, Projects, People, Videos, Actions, Objects, Thoughts: Relatively, eds Bianca Hester, The Narrows, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 1-2.

Bird, T., 2007, Exhibiting Practices and Organizational Relations, in Making Space, eds Din Heagney, Victorian Initiatives of Artists Network, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 35-45.

Journal Articles

Bird, T., 2011, Figuring materiality, Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities [E], vol 16, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 5-15.

Conference Proceedings

Bird, T., 2011, Art's potential to provoke thought through events of formation, The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference, 12-16 December 2011, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, pp. 86-87.

Other

Bird, T., 2011, 3 Squared 3, Conical, Conical, Melbourne, VIC, 21 May to 28 May 2011.

Bird, T., Mitchell, S., Hester, B., 2011, BIG LOG, MUMA, MUMA, Melbourne, VIC, 4 August to 1 October 2011.

Hester, B., Bird, T., Mitchell, S., 2011, Big Log Jam, sculptural objects, performance, machines, Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AEAF), Adelaide, South Australia.

Bird, T., 2010, Cultural networks / research networks, Commentary on the proceedings of 'Arts Research: Publics and Purposes Conference 2010', Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin, Ireland.

Bird, T., Hester, B., Mitchell, S., 2010, Diagram of Relations 2002-2007, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Monash University, Caulfield East, Vic, 28 July to 27 August 2010.

Bird, T., 2010, Material Sample: Stone Studies, Sculpture, West Space, Melbourne, Vic.

Bird, T., Nicholson, T., 2010, This Conversation, Catalogue essay for Bianca Hester: Please leave the windows open overnight to enable to fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning, ACCA, Melbourne, VIC, pp. 79-81.

Bird, T., Nicholson, T., 2010, This conversation, Catalogue essay for Bianca Hester exhibition: 'Please Leave These Windows Open Overnight to Enable the Fans to Draw in Cool Air During the Early Hours of the Morning', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Southbank, Vic, pp. 79-81.

Bird, T., 2009, Another Blind Date, 6 photographs, instructions, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, NZ.

Bird, T., 2009, Devices for the interpretation of nature 1995-2009, Sculpture, Watford House (The Swiss House), Avoca Eco Living Festival, Avoca, Vic.

Bird, T., Davies, J., 2009, Instructional Models, Curation, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, NZ.

Bird, T., Abicare, F., 2009, Untitled, Ocular Lab Inc, OSW Collective, Melbourne, Vic, 21 to 22 March 2009; 28 to 29 March 2009; 4 to 5 April 2009; 11 to 12 April 2009.

Bird, T., Hester, B., Mitchell, S., 2009, West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, Text for A2 poster, Open Spatial Workshop (OSW) Collective, West Brunswick, Vic.

Bird, T., Hester, B., Mitchell, S., 2009, West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, Exhibition curation, 5 locations in Brunswick, Vic.

Abicare, F., Kennedy, M., Bird, T., Meade, J., 2008, ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION, Public Panel discussion of Covers Exhibition by Fiona Abicare, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Vic.

Bird, T., 2008, Material Sample, Group Exhibition: Material Sample, Ocular Lab Inc..

Bird, T., 2008, Reconfiguring still, Catalogue essay, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 1-2.

Bird, T., 2008, 'Unthinkable relations and other fictions of being' in In Praise of Blandness, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, Vic, February 4 to March 5.

Bird, T., 2008, Untitled, George Paton Gallery, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Vic, 12-22 August.

Bird, T., Hester, B., Mitchell, S., 2008, West Brunswick Sculpture Biennial (OSW), TCB art inc, TCB art inc, Melbourne, Vic, 19 November to 6 December.

Bird, T., 2007, Art's relation to exteriority: the work of materiality in spatial practices.

Bird, T., 2007, CHEERS! Collective inaugural meeting bee & collective commons day, impromptu collective display of art related material and activities, Arts House Meat market, Melbourne, Vic.

Bird, T., Consandine, C., Hestor, B., Kosloff, L., Panigirakis, S., Walton, J., 2007, Initial Sustaining Practices Workshops in May 2007, Workshop co-ordination, Meat Market, North Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

Bird, T., Danko, A., Hestor, B., Orger, C., Grage-Moore, S., Robinson, P., Van Cleemput, D., 2007, Structural Adjustments [of light/dance/material], Arts House, Meat Market, Jude Walton, Melbourne, Vic, 14-15 December.

Ussher, M., Consandine, C., Christensen, N., Hestor, B., Bird, T., Panigirakis, S., Keating, M., Kosloff, L., 2006, Cuckoo/Silverclouds, Exhibition curation, CLUBSproject Next Wave Festival container, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

Bird, T., Hester, B., Johns-Messenger, N., Mitchell, S., 2006, 'Race Against Time' in Resistance is Futile, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Vic, 20 October - 11 November.

Bird, T., Hester, B., Johns-Messenger, N., Mitchell, S., 2005, Active Air, Exhibition, Ocular Lab Inc, Melbourne, Vic.

Bird, T., Hestor, B., Johns-Messenger, N., Mitchell, S., 2005, 'Groundings', winner of Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2005, Federation Square, The Melbourne Prize Trust, Melbourne, Vic, 7-21 November.

Bird, T., 2004, 'Unthinkable relations and other fictions of being' in Skinned, Birrarung Marr, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, 6 November - 5 December.

Bird, T., Hester, B., Johns-Messenger, N., Mitchell, S., 2003, CLUBStennis, Workshop, CLUBSproject inc., Melbourne, Vic.

Bird, T., Hester, B., Johns-Messenger, N., Mitchell, S., 2003, Fish-time (work in progress), Exhibition, CLUBSproject inc..

Bird, T., 2003, Recycling Fictions of Being, Nillumbik Art in Public Places Award, Alistair Knox Park, Melbourne, Vic.

Bird, T., 2002, Fashioning Futures, Werribee Park, The Helen Lempiere Bequest, Melbourne, Vic, 1 March - 30 April.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A disparate and dispersing practice which seeks to level cultural hierarchical definitions..

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Affect and the Space of Painting.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

An Analysis of Style as Subject and Strategy in Contemporary Art.

Supervisors:

Macdonald, F (Main), Bird, T (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Back to the Future: The readymade lost in translation as the always already-made.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Being Kazimir Malevich: Kazimir Malevich and Charlie Kaufman in relation to Being.

Supervisors:

Macdonald, F (Main), Bird, T (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Complex Forms and Fragmentary Structures.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Divine Matter: Transforming subjectivity through art practices and Irigaray's 'sensible transcendental'..

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Flaws in the glass: a critical analysis of the significance of meaning, material and function of glass in art, sculpture and architecture.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Made to Measure.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Organic form and achitectural space.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Site Overlay / Acoustic Survey.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main), Panigirakis, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Thinking, Making, Seeing Otherwise: Art as Processes of Becoming.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Gunawan, A.

Program of Study:

Entropy & Chance. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).

Student:

Scarce, Y.

Program of Study:

Product of His Majesty. (Masters) 2010.

Supervisors:

Bird, T (Main).