Scholarly Outputs

 

Books

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Messham-Muir, Kit, Čvoro, Uroš, and Lukowska-Appel, Monika (eds.), (2024), The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art in Conflict. London: Bloomsbury [in press, forthcoming 2024, 272 pages]

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Messham-Muir, Kit and Čvoro, Uroš (2023), The Trump Effect in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Populism, Politics, and Paranoia. London: Bloomsbury [242 pages]

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Messham-Muir, Kit and Čvoro, Uroš (2021), Images of War in Contemporary Art: Terror and Conflict in the Mass Media. London: Bloomsbury [256 pages]

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Messham-Muir, Kit (2015) Double War: Shaun Gladwell, visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fishermans Bend: Thames & Hudson [224 pages]

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Messham-Muir, Kit (ed.) (2007), Beyond Region: Public Galleries in New South Wales, Sydney: Arts NSW & Australia Council [192 pages]

 

Book Chapters

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Messham-Muir, Kit (2024) ‘Inconvenient Narratives Addressing moral ambiguity in the National War Museum’. In The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art in Conflict. Messham-Muir, Čvoro and Lukowska-Appel (eds.), London: Bloomsbury. 203-219. [in press, forthcoming 2024, 272 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit, and Čvoro, Uroš, (2024) ‘Soldier/Artist: Negotiating the Complexities of Military Service and Critical Practice’. In The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art in Conflict. Messham-Muir, Čvoro and Lukowska-Appel (eds.), London: Bloomsbury. 137-153. [in press]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit and Čvoro, Uroš, ‘Messham-Muir, Kit, Čvoro, Uroš, and Lukowska-Appel, Monika, (2024) ‘Contemporary War Art’. In The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art in Conflict. Messham-Muir, Čvoro and Lukowska-Appel (eds.), London: Bloomsbury. 1-14. [in press]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2023), ‘What should the Australian War Memorial do with its heroic portraits of Ben Roberts-Smith?’. In 2023: A Year of Consequence: Essays That Got The World Talking. Justin Bergman (ed.) Melbourne: Thames & Hudson Australia . 37-40. [216 pages]

ISBN: 9781760764173 Messham-Muir, Kit (2021), ‘Between the Walls: The Return of Post 1989 and the Art of Mladen Miljanović’. In Afterstorm, Jon Cattapan and Charles Green (eds.), Melbourne: Art + Australia. 123-140 [243 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2019), ‘Conflict and Compromise: Australia’s Official War Artists and the “War on Terror”’, The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to War – Volume 1: Australasia, the British Isles, and the United States.  Martin Kerby (ed.).  Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, 467-483. [582 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘Double Looking: The Political Sublime in Shaun Gladwell’s Behind Point-of-View Series’, Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art, Cristina Albu and Dawna Schuld (eds.).  Oxford: Routledge: 95-106 [252 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘The Silent Centaur: Shaun Gladwell’s 1,000 Horses’, Shaun Gladwell: 1,000 Horses, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 23-30 (Hebrew), 108-116 (English) [134 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Three questions not to ask about art - and four to ask instead’, A Year in the Life of Australia. Paul Dalgarno (ed.), Sydney: Future Leaders, 276-280 [357 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), 'Invention at the Social Scale (Social Configurations): Melting into the Texture of Everyday Life', Ecologies of Invention. Brad Buckley, John Conomos & Andy Dong (eds.), Sydney: Sydney University Press, 70-77 [188 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Double Looking: Shaun Gladwell in Afghanistan’, In Point-of-View - Afghanistan: Shaun Gladwell.  Robert Nichols and Emma Crimmings (eds.), Canberra: The Australian War Memorial, 8-15 [32 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2009), ‘Beneath the Pavement’, Back to the City: Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions, edited by Steffen Lehmann, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009, 120-123 [262 pages]

 

Journal Editing

 

Messham-Muir, Kit and Čvoro, Uroš (eds.) (2020), ‘War, Art and Visual Culture’ special issue, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 20:1

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2022), ‘Art & Text: the rise and fall of theory’, Artlink: Contemporary Art of Australia & Asia Pacific 42:2, 22-27.

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2021), ‘The war itself: Cornelia Parker’s official Election Art, post-2016 democracy and the weaponisation of social media.’

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 21:2, 176-191.

 

Messham-Muir, Kit and Čvoro, Uroš (2020), ‘After Aftershock: The Affect–Trauma Paradigm One Generation After 9/11.’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 20:1, 125-140.  

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘The BADFAITH machine: The Phantom Point-of-View in Virtual Reality’. Artlink: Contemporary Art of Australia & Asia Pacific, 38:4, 12-19

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘Conflict, Complicity and Ben Quilty’s After Afghanistan portraits’. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 18:1, 71-89

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘Dani Marti: New York, Sydney, Cessnock’, Artlink: Contemporary Art of Australia & Asia Pacific 36:3, 72-75

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘Into Darkness: Affect and Dark Space in Holocaust Exhibitions’. Journal of Curatorial Studies ‘Museums and Affect’ 4:3, 434–457 DOI: 10.1386/jcs.4.3.434_1

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Impossible Empathy: The Non-Documentary War Art of Shaun Gladwell’, On Journal: On Objects 1, 1. URL: http://onjournal.org/paper/125

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), History’s Actors in the Theatre of War: Images, Myths and the Frame in the War on Terror’. antithesis 22, 143-155

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), ‘From Tinkering to Meddling: Notes on engaging first year art theory students’.  Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 9:2

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2005), ‘Affect, Interpretation and Technology,’ Open Museum Journal 7

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2004), ‘Dark Visitations: The Possibilities and Problems of Experience and Memory in Holocaust Museums,’ Australian & New

Zealand Journal of Art: Art and Ethics, 4:2/5:1, 97-111

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘Here We Are! National Museums of Postcolonial Australasia in a Post-Nation-State World’, World Literature Written in English: A Journal in Postcolonial and Commonwealth Writing 39:2, 71-83

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2002), ‘Reconciling the Local and the Global in the Art of Adam Cullen.’ Australian Studies. 17:1, 45-64

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2001), ‘Practices of the City.’ Kerb: Journal of Landscape Architecture 9, 6-11

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Conference and Symposium Presentations

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Messham-Muir, Kit (2023). Panel Member, ‘What is Military Art?: Visualising the Unseen and Unsaid’, AAANZ 2023 Conference, Griffith University, 7 December 2023.

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2021), Panel Chair, ‘Do humanities disciplines today need new ways of thinking about war?.’ War, Art and Visual Culture: Perth, Curtin University, 4 June 2020

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), Invited Keynote, Why Remember?: Memory and the Aftermath of War, Hotel Europe, Sarajevo, 8-9 April 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2019), ‘Encounter/s: art and conflict’, (Session Convenor, with Dr Anthea Gunn), AAANZ 2019, Auckland NZ, 3-6 December 2019

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2019), Invited Speaker. ‘A Sweet Symphony of Absurdity: The Recurrent Garden in the Work of Mladen Miljanović’, AFTERSTORM:

Turbulence, Gardens, Conflict, Royal Botanic Garden, Melbourne, 25-26 October 2019

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2019), ‘Curating Generation W(ar)’, with Max Presneill and Ichiro Irie (Session Co-convenor), ‘Keynote: In Conversation with Shaun Gladwell’ (Session Convenor), and ‘Introduction’, (Symposium Convenor), War, Art and Visual Culture: Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum, 17 August 2019

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2019), ‘War, Temporality and Shifting Ideas of ‘now’, with David Cotterrell, eX De Medici and Mladen Miljanović (Session Convenor) and ‘Introduction’ (Symposium Convenor), War, Art and Visual Culture: London, Kings College London, 31 May 2019

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2019), ‘Introduction’, (Symposium Convenor), War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 25 February 2019

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2019), ‘Conflict and Complicity: Embedding artists in international war zones’, (Session Convenor), AAANZ 2018, RMIT University, Melbourne, 5-7 December 2018

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘Bad Faith Intersubjectivity: The phantom-subjective image in virtual reality contemporary art’, CAA 2018, Los Angeles, 21-24 February 2018

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Conflict and Complicity: Embedding artists in international war zones’, (Session Convenor), AAANZ 2017, University of Western Australia, Perth, 6-8 December 2017

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘Point of View and Intersubjectivity in Contemporary Depictions of War’, AAANZ 2016, Australian National University, Canberra, 1-3 December 2016

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), Invited speaker. ‘Traces and Introspection in Zones of War’, with Julian Stallabrass and Shaun Gladwell, Traces of War: A Pre-Exhibition Symposium, Kings College London, London, 1 October 2016

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), Invited Panellist. ‘Panel: The Dignity of Risk’, with Dani Marti, Tina Havelock Stevens, Carolyn McKay and Andrew Frost, Exhibit A Symposium, The Lock Up, Newcastle, 31 October 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘In conversation’ with Anthea Behm, Ideas Platform: Anthea Behm, Titled, Artspace, Sydney, 19 August 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2009), ‘Ground to Air: Military Conflict and the work of Shaun Gladwell’, AAANZ 2009, Australian National University, Canberra, 26 - 28 November 2009

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2009), ‘Narrative, Memory and Empathy: The Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York’, ArtsHealth #2, Newcastle, 8 October 2009

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2009), ‘Archives, Documents and Affect’, Museums Australia National Conference, Newcastle, 19 May 2009

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2007), ‘Dead Men Walking: Interpretation, Ethics and Affect in Exhibitions of Plastinated Human Remains’, Museums Australia National Conference, Canberra, 17 May 2007

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2007), 'Directions in Museums in New South Wales', Museums Australia NSW, Victoria Barracks Army Museum, 16 March 2007

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2006), ‘Affect & Technology: Interpretive Multimedia in Museums’, Technologies & the Humanities, University of Sydney, 16 June 2006

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2006), ‘Keynote Speech’, On Approach, Introducing Firstdraft in the wider ARI community, Firstdraft Gallery, 7 October 2006

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2006), ‘Body Hits: The Dynamics of Kinespherics and Interpretation in Current Museum Displays’, Exploring Dynamics - Cities, Cultural Spaces, Communities: Museums Australia National Conference 2006, Brisbane, 14-17 May, 2006

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2006), ‘Keynote Speech’, Access to Funding, Museums and Galleries NSW, Young, NSW, 4 March, 2006

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2005), ‘Darkness: The Politics and Aesthetics of Pain and Death at Contemporary Holocaust Museums’, Pain & Death: Politics, Aesthetics and Legalities, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2005

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2005), ‘ ‘Dark Transformations: Recent Shifts in the Interpretation of the Former Auschwitz Concentration Camps by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland’, Politics and Positioning: Museums Australian National Conference, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1-4 May 2005

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2004), ‘The National Museum of Australia’, Uncover Conference 2004, Australian Museum, Sydney, 24 September, 2004

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2004), ‘Broken Narratives: Alternative Ways of Telling the Holocaust Story at The US Holocaust Memorial Museum’, The Story of WWII, Netherlands American Studies Association Conference, Amsterdam, 21-23 June 2004

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2004), ‘Sustaining Memory: Artefacts and Experience in Holocaust Museums’, Food For Thought: Museums Australian National Conference, Museums Australia, Melbourne, 16-21 May 2004

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘Collections and Interpretation’, Uncover Conference 2003, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 10 October, 2003

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘All that Remained: The Ethics of Displaying Holocaust Artefacts and Art’, Ethics and Aesthetics, AAANZ, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 19-20 September, 2003

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘Multimedia and the Museum: New Technologies and Spectator Experiences in Contemporary Museums’, Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet, AHRB Centre for British Film & Television Studies, Exeter University, 21–23 July, 2003

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘Ballistic Affect: The Importance of Affect in the Future Presentation of Histories in Museums’, The History of The Future: Visions from the Past IAMHIST XX, International Association for Media & History, University of Leicester, UK, 16–20 July, 2003

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘Here We Are!: National Museums of Postcolonial Nations in a Post-Nation-State World’, Inside the Whale: Postcolonial and Globalisation, University College Northampton, 11-13 July, 2003

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘Affect, Interpretation and Technology’, The Other Side: Museums Australian National Conference Museums Australia, Novotel Langley Perth, Perth, Western Australia, 25-30 May 2003   

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2002), ‘Museum Internships’, The Essential Volunteer, Museums Australia (NSW), Granville, 6 September, 2002

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2002), ‘Interpretation in Museums’, Uncover Conference 2002, The Australian Museum, Sydney, 24 May, 2002

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2001), ‘Images, Bodies + Beyond’, Sensational 2001: Images, Bodies + Beyond, Bankstown, UWS, 14 December, 2001

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2001), ‘Affect and the Embodiment of Meaning’, Humanities Research Day, UWS, Bankstown 15 August, 2001

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2000), ‘Convenor’s Introduction’, SENSATIONAL2: Images, Bodies & New Trajectories, COFA, UNSW, 24 November, 2000

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2000), ‘No Gold for Gargantua’, Keynote at Death, Dysfunction and the Olympic Ideal, Australian Centre for Photography symposium, Sydney, 9 September 2000

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1999), ‘Introduction’, SENSATIONAL: Images and Bodies, national postgraduate conference, COFA, UNSW, 12 November 1999

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Industry Outputs

 

Exhibition Catalogue Essays

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Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Shaun Gladwell’, HOTA Collects, Gold Coast: HOTA Home of the Arts, 108-109

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), 'Adam Cullen: Grunge and Rage', Adam Cullen and the Cubists, Newcastle: Cooks Hill Galleries

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Shifting Thresholds: Charting and Changing What Divides Us’, SPAN, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, 2017

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘What is Studio Practice?’, 2017 SoDA Research Celebration Exhibition, Perth: Curtin University

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), Who are you, and what are you doing here?: Intersubjectivity and the Phantom Subjective Image in Shaun Gladwell’s War Art Works’, Traces of War, London: Kings College London, 47-53 [60 pages]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘Trauma and the Political Sublime in Claudia Parducci's The Space Between Us’, Claudia Parducci, Los Angeles: Ochi Projects,

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘Introduction by Kit Messham-Muir’, James Kearns and Nick Osmond, Newcastle NSW: Cooks Hill Galleries,

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Shaun Gladwell’ (five texts), Shaun Gladwell – The Lacrima Chair, Sydney: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 24-5; 46-7; 82-3; 120-1; 144-5

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Art Excludes the Unnecessary’, Carl Andre: Steel Σ 16, Newcastle: Newcastle Art Gallery

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Three Artists, Six Lives’, Trio of Trespassers, Maitland: Maitland Regional Art Gallery

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2011), ‘Riding with Death Redux: The Artist as an Allegory of Death’, Shaun Gladwell: Riding with Death Redux, Sydney: Anna Schwartz Gallery

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2009), ‘Hybrid Memories’, Victoria Lobregat and Susan Ryman, 29 July – 25 August 2009, University Gallery, University of Newcastle, 2009

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2009), ‘Radically Affirmative: Match Box Projects 19 - 29 March 2009’. Newtown: At the Vanishing Point

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2008), ‘Affect and the Archive’, Art and the Archive, Newcastle: Arts Health Research Centre and The Lockup

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2006), ‘Equilibrium: Shaun Gladwell’s Double Voyage, 2006.’ Melbourne: Anna Schwartz Gallery

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘VIBGYOR: Victor Gordon’s art from 1977 to 2003.’ Vanitas.  Broken Hill: Broken Hill City Gallery

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2001), ‘’Sex Differential’, mothertrucker. Campbelltown: Campbelltown Arts Centre

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2000), ‘Practices of the City and the Kickflipping Flaneur’ Shaun Gladwell: Kickflipping Flaneur. Sydney: Artspace

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2000), ‘No Gold For Gargantua.’ The Liminal Body. Sydney: Australian Centre for Photography

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1999), ‘The Politics of Culture versus the politics of culture.’ S_Hot, Sydney: Artspace

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1999), Victoria Lobregat. Sydney: Pendulum

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1995), ‘Critical Dys-course.’ Critical Spaces. Sydney: Artspace

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Modus Operandi: Aesthetics and Practice.’ Modus Operandi. Sydney: Allen St. Gallery

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Articles and Critical Reviews

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2023), ‘What should the Australian War Memorial do with its heroic portraits of Ben Roberts-Smith?’, The Conversation,  5 June 2023.

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Messham-Muir, Kit (2022), ‘Crossing the Wire: Western Contemporary War Art in the Interbellum’, di’van 12.

 

Messham-Muir, Kit and Čvoro, Uroš (2020), ‘Introduction.’ Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 20:1, 1-4.  

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘It’s not that I’m afraid to die…’, Art Monthly 304 (Summer 2017/2018), 2017: 64-67

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Taking a VR trip in Shaun Gladwell’s floating planetoid skull’, The Conversation, 18 January 2017

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘Sydney: Matthys Gerber, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’, Artforum, January 2016: 266-267

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘The Walking Dead: why that final point-of-view shot tells us nothing’, The Conversation, 6 April 2016

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘Art and terror: a new kind of memorial’, The Conversation, 23 March 2016

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘What 2015 Looked Like in Visual Art’, The Conversation, 14 December 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015).  ‘Here’s Looking At: Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock’, The Conversation, 10 December 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Painting a new path in life – Art’s redemptive power has great appeal’, Newcastle Herald, 31 October 2015: 19

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Vivid Sydney: contemporary art – or just a bright night out?’, The Conversation, 22 May 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Review: ‘I Am Still Alive’: On Kawara at the Guggenheim, New York’, The Conversation, 10 March 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Shaun Gladwell is returning to Sydney, and may not shed tears’, The Conversation, 4 March 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘‘You start with the image’: Marlene Dumas at the Tate Modern’, The Conversation, 19 February 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Review: Activating space, a little – Sarah Sze in London’, The Conversation, 10 February 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Why is Ben Quilty supporting two convicted drug smugglers?’, The Conversation, 29 January 2015

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Three simple steps to understand art: look, see, think’, The Conversation, 21 October 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘It's too hard to love Primavera 2014 at Sydney's MCA’, The Conversation, 20 October 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘A Manifesta without a manifesto: contemporary art in St Petersburg’, The Conversation, 14 October 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Wim Delvoye’s astonishing art shows what’s lurking in the banal’, The Conversation, 3 October 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Review: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen’, The Conversation, 15 September 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Three questions not to ask about art - and four to ask instead’, The Conversation, 22 August 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Two artists go to war - Shaun Gladwell and Ben Quilty’, The Conversation, 1 August 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Jeff Koons: a spectacle on the way to respectable’, The Conversation, 25 July 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Ben Quilty at the Saatchi Gallery: Things Just Got Interesting’, The Conversation, 9 July 2014

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), ‘TOUCH: The Portraiture of Dani Marti’, Art & Australia 49.3, 504

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2011), ‘In the MIME-Network’, Broadsheet 40.2, 123-125  

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2007), ‘Book review: South Pacific Museums.’ Museums Australia Magazine

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2003), ‘Tony Clark: Roslyn Oxley9.’ Eyeline 51, 60

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2001), ‘David Griggs & Shaun Gladwell.’ Eyeline 46

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2000), ‘Franz Ehmann: Open Panorama & Soapbox, Installation Practices & Artists.’ Globe Online Arts Magazine

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1996), ‘Dale Frank.’ Eyeline 31, 31-32

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1994), ‘Review: Mishka Borowski.’ Art+Text 49, 75

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1994), ‘Adam Cullen.’ Eyeline 25, 42

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1994),  ‘Fresh Art Review.’ Eyeline 25, 50

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1994), ‘Mishka Borowski.’ Eyeline 24, 43-44

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1994), ‘Fresh Art.’ Eyeline 25, Spring 1994, 50

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘1993, a Year in Reviews.’ Honi Soit 26, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Perspecta 1993.’ Honi Soit 24, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Pulie Aesthetic.’ Honi Soit 23, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Enter The Chroma-Zone.’ Honi Soit 20, 27

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Champagne Comedy?.’ Honi Soit, 19, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘AVAAC Symposium.’ Honi Soit 18, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Sowersong.’ Honi Soit 17, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Surrealism.’ Honi Soit 16, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Cuddly Cubi.’ Honi Soit 15, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Ken Done, Kitsch & Koons: Interview with Ken Done.’ ICE 1993, 15

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘High Pop.’ Honi Soit 10, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘The Garage Artist and the Sunday Painter: Mattys Gerber and Adam Cullen at Yuill/Crowley.’ Honi Soit 9, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Postmortemism: Death exhibition at Ivan Dougherty Gallery.’ Honi Soit 8, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘I don't know much about art...but I was a judge for this year's Archibald.’ Honi Soit 7, 30

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘The Horse Who Sings: Art from Croatia at MCA.’ Honi Soit 6, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Juan Davila.’ Honi Soit 5, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Sight Regained.’ Honi Soit 4, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Melita Dahl: Murderous Science and the Museum of Silence.’ Honi Soit 3, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘Wits End at the MCA: Laugh! I nearly had a Postmodern crisis!’, Honi Soit 2, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1993), ‘1992 Biennale of Sydney: And The Horse He Rode In On!’, Honi Soit 1, 26

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1992), ‘To Do Good Shit You Gotta Eat Right: Mattys Gerber.’ Sydney College of the Arts Magazine (SCAM) 2, 15

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (1992), ‘Pearspace’, SCAM 1, 7

 

Conference Coordination

 

War, Art and Visual Culture: Perth, Project Manager and Convenor, Curtin University, 4 June 2020

Creative Critical Imaginations with James Bridle, online/Perth, 23 October 2020.

 

War, Art and Visual Culture: Perth, Project Manager and Convenor, Perth, 2 April 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic)

 

War, Art and Visual Culture: Los Angeles, Project Manager and Convenor, Los Angeles, 17 August 2019

 

War, Art and Visual Culture: London, Project Manager and Convenor, War Studies, Kings College London, London, 31 May 2019

 

War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney, Project Manager and Convenor, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 25 February 2019

 

Art and Its Directions: AAANZ 2017 Annual Conference, Organising Committee, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, Perth, Western Australia, 6-8 December 2017

 

2017 Staff Research Symposium, Convenor and organiser of one day symposium, School of Design and Art, Curtin University, Perth, 30 June 2017

 

Museums Australia National Conference, Organising Committee, Newcastle, Australia, 2008-2009

 

ArtHealth Research Centre Conference, Organising Committee and art practice subcommittee, Newcastle, 2009

 

ArtHealth Research Centre Conference, Organising Committee and art practice subcommittee, Newcastle, 2008

 

Uncover 2004, reviewed submissions, officiated at national graduate conference, Australian Museum, Sydney, 24 September 2004

 

Uncover 2003, Session Chair at one day national graduate conference, The University of Sydney, Sydney, 10 October 2003

 

Conducting bodies: Affect, Sensation and Memory, Steering Committee, AAANZ/AGNSW, Sydney, Australia, 20-22 July 2001

 

Sensational 2001: Images, Bodies + Beyond, convenor and organiser of one day national graduate conference, University of Western Sydney, Australia, 14 December 2001

 

Sensational2: Images, Bodies & New Trajectories, convenor and organiser of one day national graduate conference, UNSW, 24 November 2000

 

Sensational: Images and Bodies, convenor and organiser of one day national graduate conference, UNSW, 12 November 1999

Government Reports

 

Messham-Muir, Kit, & White, Peter, Art NSW's Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Indigenous Visual Arts and Craft Sector, Sydney: Arts NSW, 2006

 

Exhibitions

 

Kit Messham-Muir and Susanna Castleden, ‘Susanna Castleden: Making 1:1 Wind Turbine Blade.’ Video installation, 2022, Energaia, John Curtin Gallery, 28 March-8 May 2022. 

 

Shaun Gladwell, Kit Messham-Muir, Denise Thwaites and Paul Patton.  ‘Self Portrait as a Semiotext(e) Foreign Agent,’ 2015, (artwork in collaboration with Shaun Gladwell, Denise Thwaites and Paul Patton), Collection + Shaun Gladwell: SCAF Project 25, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 6 March – 25 April 2015

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘The Pangolin Gestural Presentation Interface’. (artwork) and ‘Haptic InterFace 2014’. (documentary video), Haptic InterFace 2014, Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong, 3-19 December 2014

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Community Engagement

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Video Productions

 

Kit Messham-Muir and Susanna Castleden, ‘Susanna Castleden: Making 1:1 Wind Turbine Blade.’ Video installation, 2022, Energaia, John Curtin Gallery, 28 March-8 May 2022 [Duration 10:30 minutes]

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Messham-Muir, Kit (2021), ‘Perth Panel: 'Do humanities disciplines today need new ways of thinking about war?' 4 June 2021,’ Art in Conflict, Tuesday 8 June 2021 [Duration 1:21 hours]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2021), ‘Dr Rebecca A Adelman. KEYNOTE: 'Unknowing Torture' at War, Art and Visual Culture Perth, 4 June 2021,’ Art in Conflict, Tuesday 8 June 2021 [Duration 1:06 hours]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Sydney Panel 7: Artists, institutions, publics: contemporary responses to conflict, Sydney, 25 February 2019,’ Art in Conflict, Wednesday 14 October 2020 [Duration 52 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Sydney Panel 6: Soldiers, Sydney, 25 February 2019,’ Art in Conflict, Wednesday 14 October 2020 [Duration 1:02 hours]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Sydney Panel 5: Representation, Sydney, 25 February 2019, Art in Conflict’, Friday 28 August 2020. [Duration 49 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Sydney Panel 4: The Viewfinder, War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney, 25 February 2019’, Art in Conflict, Monday 24 August 2020 [Duration 25 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Sydney Panel 3: Excluded Voices, War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney, 25 February 2019’, Art in Conflict, Friday 21 August 2020 [Duration 1:14 hours]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Sydney Panel 2: Official and Unofficial, War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney, 25 February 2019’, Art in Conflict, Monday 17 August 2020 [Duration 20 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Sydney Panel 1: ‘Art, Conflict and Reconciliation’, War, Art and Visual Culture: Sydney, 25 Feb 2019’, Art in Conflict, Friday 14 August 2020 [Duration 44 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Sydney Keynote (Morning): Prof Joanna Bourke, "Cruel Visions: Reflections on Artists and Atrocities",’ Art in Conflict, Monday 10 August 2020 [Duration 49 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), Sydney Keynote (Afternoon): George Gittoes, "Crossing the Lines", SH Ervin Gallery, 25 January 2019,’ Art in Conflict, Friday 7 August 2020 [Duration 47 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘London: Panel 1: War, Art and the Postcolonial Body, Kings College London, 31 May 2019,’ Art in Conflict, Monday 3 August 2020 [Duration 43 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘London: Panel 3: Photography and the Edges of Representation, Kings College London, 31 May 2019,’ Art in Conflict, Friday 31 July 2020 [Duration 1:09 hours]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘London: Panel 2: War, Temporality and Shifting Ideas of ‘now’, Kings College London, 31 May 2019,’ Art in Conflict, Monday 27 July 2020 [Duration 52 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘London Keynote 4: Alketa Xhafa Mripa in conversation with Prof Ana Carden-Coyne, London, 31 May 2019’, Art in Conflict, Friday 24 July 2020 [Duration 11 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘London Keynote 3: Hrair Sarkissian In Conversation with Prof Vivienne Jabri, Kings College London, London, 31 May 2019’, Art in Conflict, Monday 20 July 2020 [Duration 34 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘London: Keynote 2: Giles Price In Conversation with Magda Keaney, Kings College London, 31 May 2019’, Art in Conflict, Friday 17 July 2020 [Duration 42 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘London Keynote 1: Simon Norfolk & Donald Weber with Dr Paul Lowe, Kings College London, London, 31 May 2019’, Art in Conflict, Monday 13 July 2020 [Duration 50 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Los Angeles: Afternoon Panel: Max Presneill and Ichiro Irie discuss Generation W(ar), 17 August 2019’, Art in Conflict, Friday 10 July 2020 [Duration 1:15 hours]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Los Angeles: Morning Keynote: Dr Laura Brandon in Conversation with Dr Sarah Minslow, 17 August 2019’, Art in Conflict, Monday 6 July 2020 [Duration 32 minutes]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Los Angeles: Panel 1: Max Presneill, Shaun Gladwell, Max Moore, Allison Stewart, 17 August 2019’, Art in Conflict, Friday 3 July 2020 [Duration 1:22 hours]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2020), ‘Los Angeles: Keynote: Shaun Gladwell in Conversation with Prof Kit Messham-Muir, 17 August 2019’, Art in Conflict, Monday 29 June 2020 [Duration 1:02 hours]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘360° video: Interview with Grant Vetter, Tempe, Arizona, 21 September 2017’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 19:46, Part 2 15:04]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘360° video: Interview with George Gittoes, Werri Beach, Australia, 27 December 2017’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 24:01, Part 2 25:19, Part 3 15:49]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), 360° video: Interview with Carima Neusser, performer, Los Angeles, 20 February 2018’, StudioCrasher [Duration 26:24]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘360° video: Interview with Per Hüttner, artist, Los Angeles, 20 February 2018’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 21:46, Part 2 22:31, Part 3 23:36]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2018), ‘360° video: Interview with Denise Reichenbach, artist, Brisbane, 25 September 2017’, StudioCrasher. [Duration Part 1 11:19, Part 2 7:17, Part 3 12:12]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘360° video: Interview with Stelarc, artist, Perth, Western Australia, 17 October 2017’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 32:30, Part 2 27:10]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Max Presneill, artist, curator and museum director, Los Angeles, 17 September 2017’, StudioCrasher [Duration 21:46]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘360° Video: Interview with Kiel Johnson, artist, Los Angeles, 18 September 2017’ StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 19:26, Part 2 19:33, Part 3 15:21]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Networking for Artists: Max Presneill, curator, Los Angeles, 17 September 2017’, StudioCrasher [Duration 34:50]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘360° video: Interview with Dove Bradshaw, artist, New York, 12 September 2017’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 18:31, Part 2 20:06]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘360° Video: Interview with Claudia Parducci, artist, Los Angeles, 16 September 2017’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 17:21, Part 2 21:01]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with What, artist, Katoomba, Australia, 10 September 2017, StudioCrasher. [Duration 51:31]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Nigel Milsom, artist, Newcastle, Australia, 9 September 2017, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 22:15, Part 2 22:48, Part 3 19:18, Part 4 18:07]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Max Presneill, LA-based artist and curator, Brisbane, Australia, 12 May 2017’, StudioCrasher. [Duration 18:53]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Olga Cironis, Perth, Western Australia, 24 November 2016’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 18:00, Part 2 23:57]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Susanna Castleden, artist, Fremantle, Australia, 25 October 2016’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 17:53, Part 2 23:19, Part 3 14:00]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Ric Spencer, curator, Fremantle, Western Australia, 25 October 2016’, StudioCrasher [Duration 24:10]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Clyde McGill, artist, Fremantle, Western Australia, 25 October 2016’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 19:55, Part 2 18:30 Part 3 7:07]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Andrew Sunley Smith, artist, Fremantle, Western Australia, 25 October 2016’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 21:33, Part 2 25:00]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Interview with Tanya Lee, artist, Dianella, Australia, 20 October 2016’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 14:00, Part 2 9:25, Part 3 12:40]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2017), ‘Interview with Shaun Gladwell on VR work ‘Orbital Vanitas’ Perth, Australia, 8 January 2017’, StudioCrasher [Duration 26:07]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2016), ‘Interview with Phil Drummond, artist, Cessnock, Australia, 30 May 2016’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 12:51, Part 2 11:56, Part 3 16:35]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), 'Claudia Parducci: The Space Between Us', 2015’, StudioCrasher [Duration 48.28]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Launch of 'Double War: Shaun Gladwell', Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 23 April 2015’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 31:17, Part 2 33:09, Part 3 28:32]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Interview with Martin Durazo, artist, New York, 3 October 2012. Video. StudioCrasher [Duration 23:12]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Shaun Gladwell on 'Self-Portrait as a Semiotext(e) Foreign Agent', London, 3 February 2015’, StudioCrasher [Duration 1:07:54]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Interview with Mark Dutcher, artist, Los Angeles, 5 April 2013’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 15:26, Part 2 13:36, Part 3 24:01]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Interview with Ian Burns, artist, New York, 3 October 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 27:32, Part 2 25:20]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Interview with Michel Delsol, photographer, and Joe Lamport, writer, New York, 16 February 2015’. StudioCrasher [Duration 55:41]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2015), ‘Interview with Shaun Gladwell, artist, London, 4 February 2015’, StudioCrasher [Duration 1:01:08]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Interview with Shaun Gladwell, artist, London, 1 October 2014’, StudioCrasher [Duration 44:20]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Part 1: Interview with Esther Teichmann, artist, Kennington, London, 21 September 2013’. StudioCrasher, [Duration Part 1 20:39, Part 2 20:01]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Interview with David Ryan, artist, Las Vegas, United States, 2 April 2013’, StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 19:01, Part 2 17:26,

Part 3 16:08]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Kit Messham-Muir performs Nam June Paik's 'One for Violin Solo', 1962, 15 August 2014’. StudioCrasher [Duration 3:02]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Interview with John Tonkin, artist, Bondi Junction, Sydney, Australia, 21 April 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 20:36, Part 2 23:48]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Interview with Charles Stuckey, art historian, New York, 4 October 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 18:57, Part 2 20:01, Part 3 9:01]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Interview with Lucie Conoley, artist, Brixton, England, 4 October 2013’, StudioCrasher [Duration 26:51]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Interview with Louise Evans and Jonathan Edwards, Gresford, Wales, 28 September 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 22:41, Part 2 27:31, Part 3 37:46]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2014), ‘Experiencing Afghanistan, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, 11 April 2014’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 26:35, Part 2 22:48]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with Shaun Gladwell, artist, Venice, Italy, 3 October 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 23:47, Part 2 18:24, Part 3 24:31]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Review: Australia, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 25 September 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration 19:47] 

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with Kori Newkirk, artist, Los Angeles, 4 April 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 21:01, Part 2 18:31, Part 3 10:54]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with Douglas Fogle, curator, Los Angeles, United States, 24 September 2012’.  StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 14:46, Part 2 17:11]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with McLean Fahnestock, artist, Los Angeles, 5 April 2013’. StudioCrasher  [Duration Part 1 20:01, Part 2 26:46, Part 3 13:56]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with Tim Bavington, artist, Las Vegas, 1 April 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 21:01, Part 2 19:31, Part 3 18:31]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with Andy Devine, artist, Eleebana, Australia, 18 May 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 29:41, Part 2 25:36]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Ben Quilty on New Masculinities in Contemporary Art, 26 January 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration 22:11]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with Carl Andre and Melissa Kretschmer, New York, 8 April 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration 20:01]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), Interview with Carl Andre, artist, New York, 8 April 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration Part 1 15:01, Part 2 15:01, Part 3 14:31]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), Vanessa Schwartz and Charles Stuckey discuss Gustave Caillebotte's 'Paris Street Rainy Day', 1877’. StudioCrasher [Duration 19:01]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Review of 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration 68:01]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘What Was Modernism?’. StudioCrasher [Duration 16:06]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with Ben Quilty, artist, Robertson, Australia, 26 January 2013’. StudioCrasher [Duration 87:01]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with Alasdair Groves, artist, Toowoomba, Australia, 11 May 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration 35:33] 

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2013), ‘Interview with William Anastasi, artist, New York, 3 October 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration 59:04]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), ‘Comment on Documenta 13, Berlin, 22 June 2012’. StudioCrasher, Newcastle (2012) [Duration 18:29]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), ‘Interview with Dani Marti, artist, New York, 3 July 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration 31:41]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), ‘Interview with Dove Bradshaw, artist, New York, 1 July 2012’. StudioCrasher, [Duration 45:03]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), ‘Interview with Max Presneill, Los Angeles, 7 July 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration 60:04]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), ‘Interview with Vanessa Schwartz, historian, Los Angeles, 28 September 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration 50:31]

 

Messham-Muir, Kit (2012), ‘Interview with Claudia Parducci, Los Angeles, 24 September 2012’. StudioCrasher [Duration 51:01]

 

Public Talks and Media

 

Kit Messham-Muir. ‘Interview with Kit Messham-Muir, Professor of Art, Curtin University,’ David Bevan, ABC Radio Adelaide, 10:06 am, 13 June 2023

 

Kit Messham-Muir. ‘Interview with Kit Messham-Muir, Professor of Art, Curtin University’, Anna Vidot, ABC Radio Canberra, 4:52 pm, 6 June 2023

 

Kit Messham-Muir. ‘Interview with Curtin University School of Media, Creative Arts, and Social Inquiry Professor Kit Messham-Muir’, Dustin Skipworth,

ABC Radio Perth, 12:52 pm, 6 June 2023

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Crossing the Wire: The Problem with Western War Art’, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 15 March 2023

 

Kit Messham-Muir & Susanna Castleden.  ‘In Conversation’, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 26 April 2022

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘The Power of the Photographic Image’, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 6 April 2022

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Kit Messham-Muir about The Power of the Photographic Image’, Afternoons with Jenny Seaton, Curtin FM 100.1, 29 March 2022

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Higher Degrees 17’, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 6 August 2017

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Panel: George Gittoes: On Being There’, Rod Pattenden, Newcastle Art Gallery, 24 March 2020 (Cancelled Covid-19)

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Memorialising Tragedy Through Art’, The Daily, 2SER Radio, 9:45am-10:00am, 29 March 2016

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Understanding art’, National Evening Program, ABC Radio AM702, 9:00pm-9:40pm, 4 January 2016

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Culture+Ideas: Dr Kit Messham-Muir and Shaun Gladwell’, with Dr Gene Sherman, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 23

April 2015

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Experiencing Afghanistan: a conversation with Dr Kit Messham-Muir and Shaun Gladwell’, with Prof Jennifer Rutherford, The Samstag Museum of Art and the Hawke Institute, University of South Australia, 11 April 2014

 

Kit Messham-Muir.   ‘Images of War and Death’, Books and Arts, ABC Radio National, 10:05am, 12 October 2015

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  Opening talk for Brett McMahon and Peter Boggs exhibitions, Newcastle Art Gallery, 12 June 2015

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  Opening talk for the exhibition Shaun Gladwell, Portraits of Afghanistan, Bega Valley Regional Gallery, 24 April 2015

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘One From None: Minimalist Art’, Floor Talk, Newcastle Art Gallery, 6 September 2014

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘New to Video’, Floor Talk, Newcastle Art Gallery, 6 April 2014

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Panel: The Art of War’, with Scott Bevan, Ben Quilty and Wendy Sharpe, Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan, National Art School, Sydney, 20 March 2013

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Australia at the Royal Academy of Arts, London’, Summer Soire, Cessnock Regional Art Gallery, 21 November 2013

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘StudioCrasher: Video Resources in Teaching and Learning’, Teachers’ Visit Day, University of Newcastle, 19 July 2013

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Shaun Gladwell: Sleeping Soldiers’, Doingbird magazine launch, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 13 December 2012

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Shaun Gladwell: Afghanistan’, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Lismore, 8 November 2012

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘How to drop Freud into a conversation at an art opening’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 31 August 2012

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Hybrid Memories’, Gallery talk, University Gallery, University of Newcastle, 20 August 2009

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  Opening address, Watt Space, Newcastle, 6 August 2009

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘The World in Painting’, public floor talk, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 24 February 2009

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Collection Management Fundamentals’, Macquarie University, 11 October 2006

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Collection Management Systems’, Macquarie University, 4 October 2006

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Significance Assessment’, Museums Program assessment committee seminar, Arts NSW, 25 August 2006

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Body Hits’, staff seminar, Arts NSW, 6 June 2006

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Vanitas: Victor Gordon Survey Exhibition’, opening speech, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW, 27 May 2005

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘The Rise of Avant Garde Art’, Hong Kong museum curators’ seminar, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 11 June 2004

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘The Body in Contemporary Art’, Hong Kong museum curators’ seminar, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 21 Nov 2003

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Out of Range’, Hong Kong museum curators’ seminar, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 20 June 2003

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Material Culture & Affect: the interpreting the unspeakable properties of museum objects’, Hong Kong curators’ seminar, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 26 November 2002

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Ethics and History’, Liverpool Regional Museum, 20 March 2003

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Ron Mueck: Gallery Talk’, public lecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 9 February 2003

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Material Culture and Affect’, Hong Kong museum curators’ seminar, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 26 November 2002

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Introduction to Modernism,’ National Art School, 18 February 2002

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘what’s mothertrucker,’ public lecture, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, 7 July 2001

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Visual culture and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games’, Arts Talk, ABC Radio National, 3:30pm, 17 September 2000

 

Kit Messham-Muir.  ‘Research Methodology & Visual Arts’, COFA, UNSW, 7 August 2000

 

Grants

 

External Grants

 

2023-2025             $435,984 ARC Linkage Project, Lead Investigator: Art of Peace: New perspectives in visual art on peacekeeping from the 1990s, partnering with the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the National Trust of NSW, with academic team Prof Kit Messham-Muir (lead CI, Curtin), A/Prof Uros Cvoro (UNSW), Prof Charles Green (University of Melbourne), Prof Jon Cattapan (University of Melbourne), Dr Vannessa Hearman (Curtin), Dr Wulandani Dirgantoro (University of Melbourne), Reader Paul Lowe (University of the Arts, London) and Asst Prof Sarah Minslow (California State University, Los Angeles). Overall project budget of $1,884,136.

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2018-2021             $293,380 ARC Linkage Project, Lead Investigator: Art in Conflict: Transforming contemporary art at Australian War Memorial, partnering with the Australian War Memorial and the National Trust of NSW, with academic team Prof Kit Messham-Muir (lead CI, Curtin), Prof Charles Green (University of Melbourne), A/Prof Uros Cvoro (UNSW) and Prof Ana Carden-Coyne (University of Manchester). Overall project budget of $1,226,506.

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2014                       $11,500 Study Overseas Short-term Mobility Program, Department of Education and Training, Australian Government

 

2012                       $200,000 Project Team Member: Swimming With Seahorses: Team Tech, Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Australian Government

 

1996 – 2000          $45,000 Three-year stipend + 100% fees scholarship, Australian Postgraduate Research Award, University of NSW

 

Internal Grants

 

2021                       $5,000 Humanities and Social Sciences Grant Success Panel, Curtin University

 

2019                       $4,000 MCASI Small Grants (Round 2, 2019), Curtin University

 

2019                       $1,500 MCASI Small Grants (Round 1, 2019), Curtin University

 

2019                       $2,750 + 6-month sabbatical, Academic Studies Program, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University

 

2018                       $2,500 MCASI Small Grants (Round 1, 2018), Curtin University

 

2017                       $4,102 Small Grants Program (Round 2, 2017), Curtin University

 

2017                       $5,000 Small Grants Program (Round 1, 2017), Curtin University

 

2017                       $3,893 Small Grants Program (Round 2, 2016), Curtin University

 

2016                       $2,000 Conference Travel Grant 2016, Curtin University

 

2015                       $3,342 Linkage Pilot Research Grant, University of Newcastle

 

2015                       $5,700 + 6 month sabbatical, Special Studies Program, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

 

2013                       $3,500 JRE Funding Grant, University of Newcastle

 

2012                       $3,000 JRE Funding Grant, University of Newcastle

 

2011                       $3,000 Seed Funding Grant, School of Drama Fine Art and Music, University of Newcastle

 

2011                       $6,700 + 6 month sabbatical, Special Studies Program, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

 

2010                       $3,500 Research Support Grant, Humanities Research Institute, The University of Newcastle, 2010

 

2010                       $1,500 Vice Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Development, University of Newcastle, 2010

 

2009                       $2,000 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Development, University of Newcastle, 2009

 

2008                       $7,746 New Staff Research Grant, University of Newcastle, 2008

 

2004                       $5,000 Start-Up Research Grant, University of Sydney

 

2003                       $4,043 Strategic Development Funds Grant, University of Sydney

 

2003                       $1,100 Overseas Conference Travel Grant, University of Sydney

 

2003                           $1,084 Strategic Development Funds Grant, University of Sydney