Mr Matthew Perkins - Researcher Profile

Biography

Matthew Perkins is a curator, writer and artist.

He has curated a number of exhibitions that focus on video and digital media including Parallel Universes: International Cross Currents in Early Australian Video Art, Queensland University of Technology, exURBAN SCREENS, Frankston, Melbourne (2012), Video Void, Centre for Contemporary Photograph, Melbourne, Australian Experimental Arts Foundation, Adelaide & Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. (2010) Remoteness, Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne & Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2010-2011), Swift: Video Art Screenings, Linden – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne (2008), Vernacular Terrain, Beijing Film Academy, China, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane & The Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne (2007), Anxious Bodies, Linden Gallery, Melbourne & Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. Tasmania, Unsharp/Unconscious, Queensland Centre for Photography & Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania (2006).

He has also contributed to a number of conferences and books including Video Void: Australian Video Art 1970-2010, Australian Scholarly Publishers, editor and contributor, forthcoming (October, 2012), Parallel Universes: 1970–1985 International Cross Currents In Early Australian Video Art, Catalog publication, multi-authored, forthcoming (2012-13), ‘What is ‘Studio’ in the Post-disciplinary Age?’, peer-reviewed publication for IMPACT 2009 conference, ‘Betwixt & Between’, catalog essay, Obscura Gallery, Melbourne (2011), Documentary Codes and Contemporary Video Art, International Journal of the Humanities, volume 8, no. 4, pp177-182. (2010), ‘Post: After the Fact’, published in Testing Ground, Ellikon, Melbourne, pp24-28, ‘Increasing Scholarship of Australian Video and Performance Art through Internet-Based Databases’, Media Art Scoping Study: Vital Signs: Revisited, conference, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, pp116-123 (2009), ‘Language and contexts – a series of questions relating to digital artwork in the global age’, in The Vernacular Terrain, International Digital Art Projects: Beijing, China, pp17-21. (2008), ‘Historical continuums: video art at the George Paton Gallery’ in Helen Vivien (ed), When You Think About Art: The Ewing & George Paton Galleries 1971-2006, Macmillan, pp208-223 (2008).

Matthew’s video and photographic works have been included in exhibitions such as Glory Box, Westspace, Melbourne (2010), Testing Ground, Fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne, un, deux, trois, Alliance Française Melbourne, Victoria (2009), Figuratively Speaking: The Figure in Contemporary Video Art, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Stranger Geography, Palazzo Vaj, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, Skin_Alive, Photospace, Canberra and Cube 37, Frankton (2007), Anxious Bodies, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria & Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. Tasmania, Unsharp/Unconscious, Queensland Centre for Photography & Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania (2006).

MFA, Monash University; DipEd., BFA, University of Tasmania, Hobart.

 

Related Links:

• exurban SCREENS
• Australian Video Art Archive

Qualifications

MASTER OF FINE ARTS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2004

EDUCATION

Institution: University of Tasmania

Year awarded: 1996

FINE ARTS

Institution: University of Tasmania

Year awarded: 1991

Publications

Book Chapters

Galimberti, E., Perkins, M.J., 2008, Historical continuums: video art at the George Paton Gallery, in When You Think About Art: The Ewing & George Paton Galleries 1971-2008, eds Helen Vivian, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 208-223.

Perkins, M.J., 2008, Language and contexts - a series of questions relating to digital artwork in the global age, in The Vernacular Terrain: International Digital Art projects, eds Stephen Danzig and Lubi Thomas, International Digital Art Projects (iDAP), Melbourne, VIC, pp. 6-10.

Journal Articles

Perkins, M., 2010, Documentary codes and contemporary video art, International Journal of the Humanities [P], vol 8, issue 4, Common Ground Publishing, Champaign, Illinois, USA, pp. 177-182.

Conference Proceedings

Perkins, M., 2011, What is studio in the post-disciplinary age?, IMPACT 6 Proceedings, 16/09/2009-19/09/2009, Impact Press, UK, pp. 86-90.

Perkins, M.J., 2009, Increasing Scholarship of Australian Video and Performance Art Through Internet-based Databases, Media Art Scoping Study Symposium Proceedings, 04 July 2009, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, pp. 116-123.

Galimberti, E., Perkins, M.J., 2008, Digital Archives and the Conservation of Time-Based Arts, AAANZ: Alph Alpha Alpha November Zulu, 4 - 6 December, Griffiths University on behalf of Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Qld, p. 88.

Perkins, M.J., Galimberti, E., 2008, Globalising Effects: Video Art and Documentary Codes, Alpha Alpha Alpha Alpha November Zulu, 4-6 December, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld, pp. 31-32.

Other

Perkins, M., 2011, Betwixt & Between, Catalogue essay for group exhibition, Obscura Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.

Pauc, P., Perkins, M., 2011, Forecast, Curation of group show: recipients of the 2010 Alliance Francaise Prize for Monash University Graduates, Alliance Francaise Gallery, St Kilda.

Pelzer-Montada, R., Duxbury, L., Gailer, J., Perkins, M.J., 2011, Printmaking and the Post Medium Condition - a Borderless State?, Panel discussion at IMPACT 7 conference, Impact Press, Melbourne, VIC.

Perkins, M., 2010, Glory Box, Video installation, West Space.

Perkins, M., Miles, E., 2010, Remoteness, Exhibition curation, Frankston Arts Centre.

Perkins, M., Miles, E., 2010, The Tyranny of Remoteness, Catalogue essay for 'Remoteness' exhibition, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston Vic Australia, pp. 2-3.

Perkins, M., 2010, Video Void: 1970s, 2010 Centre for Contemporary Photography Lecture Series, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy Vic Australia.

Perkins, M., Galimberti, E., 2010, Video Void: Australian Video Art 1970s, 1980s & 1990s, Exhibition curation, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA.

Cooper, L., Galimberti, E., Perkins, M., 2010, Video and its Partial Recall, Catalogue essay for 'Video: Art from the Archive' exhibition, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Caulfield East Vic Australia, pp. 1-4.

Perkins, M., Galimberti, E., Cooper, L., 2010, Video: Art from the Archive, Exhibition curation, Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University.

Perkins, M.J., 2009, Glory Box (white), Fortyfivedownstairs, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic, 5 to 16 May 2009.

Perkins, M.J., Clancy, P.J., 2009, Post: After the fact, Catalogue essay in 'Testing Ground', Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 24-25.

Perkins, M.J., 2009, Suspicious Minds, Group exhibition curation, Poimena Gallery, Mowbray, TAS.

Perkins, M.J., Clancy, P.J., 2009, Testing Ground, Group exhibition curation, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Vic.

Perkins, M.J., 2009, a.gend.a, Alliance Francaise de Melbourne, Alliance Francaise de Melbourne and Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, 26 February to 27 March 2009.

Perkins, M.J., 2009, un; trois, Two-part catalogue essay in 'un, deux, trois', Alliance Francaise de Melbourne and Monash University, Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, pp. 5-6.

Duffy, J., Perkins, M.J., 2008, Swift: Video Art Screenings at Linden - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Curated screening program for 2008 St Kilda Film Festival, Linden - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Vic.

Perkins, M.J., 2008, The Vernacular Terrain, Curated Group Exhibition: The Vernacular Terrain, Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash Univeristy.

Perkins, M.J., 2007, Looking Through Glass, Curation, Poimena gallery, Launceston, Tas.

Perkins, M.J., 2007, The Vernacular Terrain, Curation, QUT Art Museum and The Block, Brisbane, Qld, & Beijing Film Academy/Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing.

Perkins, M.J., 2007, Thump (version 2) and Prick in Figuratively Speaking: The Figure in Contemporary Video Art, The Block Gallery, QUT, Queensland Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, QLD, 15 June 2007.

Perkins, M.J., 2006, Anxious Bodies, Curation, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Vic Australia and Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart Tas Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2006, Conditions (1-5), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery/ Queensland Centre for Photography, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery/ Queensland Centre for Photography, Melbourne Vic/ Brisbane Qld Australia, 13 May 2006 to 09 July,19 August 2006 to 10 September 2006.

Perkins, M.J., 2006, Prick, Linden- St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Vic Australia, 3 June - 2 July.

Perkins, M.J., 2006, Unsharp_Unconscious, Curation 13 May - 09 August 2006 and August 19 - September 10 2006, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania & Queensland Centre for Photography, Queensland.

Perkins, M.J., 2005, Fracture, The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 13/08/06 - 25/09/06.

O'Brien, D.N., Vu, T.T., Dane, J.E., Bawden, G.T., Perkins, M.J., Innocent, T.C., Newey, S.R., Dziekan, V.L., 2005, The Solivoid Project, Collaborative, interdisciplinary design of coffee lounge installation at Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Designex 2005, Melbourne Exhibition Centre.

Perkins, M.J., 2004, Design Biennale, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2004, Design Festa Festival, Design Festa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 13 November 2004 to 14 November 2004.

Perkins, M.J., 2004, Desire, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston Vic Australia, 5 May 2004 to 22 May 2004.

Perkins, M.J., 2004, Flux, Queen Victoria Museum, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2004, Pixel This: Digital Works on Paper and Screen, Digital Works on Paper and Screen, Poimena Art Gallery, Mowbray Heights Tas Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2004, Sky Lounge, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 27 February 2004.

Perkins, M.J., 2004, The Four Pacific Nations Exchange Grand Exhibition of Design, Asia Trade Center, Osaka, Japan, 8 December 2004 to 12 December 2004.

Perkins, M.J., 2003, Artist in Residence, Artist in Residence Feb/July 2003 culminating in group exhibition 'Emergence', Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston, Victoria, Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2003, Body Audio, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2003, Brilliant Refraction!, Curation of series of solo exhibitions, Frankston, Victoria, Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2003, Emergence, Cube 37, Frankston Art Centre, Frankston, Victoria, Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2003, Eye Speak V2, Kings Artist-Run Space, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 September 2003 to 27 September 2003.

Perkins, M.J., 2003, Poimena Art Prize Exhibition, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

Perkins, M.J., 2003, Thump, The Glass Studio, Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, Victoria, Frankston, Victoria, Australia, 15 October 2003 to 31 December 2003.

Cooper, P.J., Eiseman, J., Honeywill, G., Metzner, S.E., Perkins, M.J., Telfer, J., Temin, K., Zahra, L., Memishi, A., Eicholtz, W., 2002, 2002 Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia, 17 March 2002 to 6 April 2002.

Perkins, M.J., 2002, From Darkness, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 17/06/02 - 22/06/02.

Innocent, T.C., Perkins, M.J., Vu, T.T., Dziekan, V.L., Fajl, M., McKeich, M.W., 2002, The Synthetic Image, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 08/07/02 - 04/08/02.

Perkins, M.J., 2002, Thump: A Video Projection Project, Cube 37 Frankston Art Centre, Frankston, Victoria, Australia, 23 November 2002 to 05 December 2002.

Perkins, M.J., 2001, L'Ambiente, CAST Gallery, North Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 03/02/01 - 25/02/01.

Durling, N., Grishin-Selzer, I., Peitsch, F., Perkins, M.J., Zai, B., 2001, Work: Cut, Paste, Paint, Create, Burn, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia, 09 November 2001 to 15 February 2002.

Perkins, M.J., 2000, Some Recent Works for Screen, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Constituents of performance, video and documentation.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Light limts.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Light, Small Apertures and Dark Spaces.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Performance Art, Ritual and the Abject.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Beautiful and The Damned: The Grotesque and Contemporary Art.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The beds of friends and strangers.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Unknown Zone: Representations of Trauma in Contemporary Art.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Ackermann, D.

Program of Study:

Investigating Visual Responsibility and Representation: Critical Approaches to Documentary and Mockumentary Video Production. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Terstappen, C (Main), Perkins, M (Joint).

Student:

Cozzolino, D.

Program of Study:

After I die. ARCHIVES, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PHOTOGRAPHY. Navigating a personal photographic archive.. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Student:

Crowle, N.

Program of Study:

Video Portraiture: Transformations of the Self. (Masters) 2010.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Student:

Mcrae, D.

Program of Study:

Photogenie & the Mu: The poetics of a slow film practice. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Terstappen, C (Main), Perkins, M (Joint).

Student:

Mcveigh, M.

Program of Study:

FAUX-REAL: A visual exploration into the fashioning of fame through photography. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Dziekan, V (Joint-Co), Perkins, M (Joint).

Student:

Metaxas, G.

Program of Study:

The Mourners. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Student:

Peters, T.

Program of Study:

TVsunami: Is reality eradicated by a media wave? An investigation into Television and Video Art. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Perkins, M (Main).

Student:

Ramsay, L.

Program of Study:

The reserve. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Marsh, A (Main), Perkins, M (Associate).