Professor Anne Marsh

Position title

• Director, Art Theory Program
• Associate Dean Research

Qualifications

• PhD Melb
• MA Monash University
• BA Fine Art (Sculpture) Adelaide College of the Arts

Statement

Anne Marsh's research areas include: photography, performance art, feminism, postmodernism and psychoanalysis.

Research/Professional activities

External Grants

• Australian Research Council Linkage Grant 2009-2012
• Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2009-2011
• Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2005-2008
• Australia Council New Work 2007

Books

• LOOK: Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980, Macmillan, 2010.
• Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph, Quintus/University of Tasmania, 2006.
• The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire, Macmillan, 2003.
• Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969-1992, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Journal/Magazine Editing

• Contributing editor for Eyeline, Contemporary Visual Arts since 1998
• Guest editor (with Linda Williams, RMIT) of Southern Review, special issue on Visual Culture and the Lens, 2004.

Chapters

• ‘Archives and People', in Janine Burke (ed.), On the Road: Personal View 1978-1986, Monash University Publishing, 2011.
• ‘Art, Power and Representation', in Max Delany (ed.), Monash University Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 89-119.
• ‘Mirror with a Memory: Motel Room', in Natalie King (ed.), Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang, Heide Museum of Contemporary Art and Schwartz City, Melbourne, 2010, pp. 142-143.
• ‘Performance Art, Ritual and Shamanism', in Makarand Paranjape (ed.), Sacred Australia: Post-Secular Considerations, Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2009, pp. 271-285.
• ‘The Medium as Ghost: Politics and Poetics in Peter Kennedy's Work' in Hilde Van Gelder and Helen Westgeest (eds.), Photography between Poetry and Politics: The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium in Contemporary Art, Leuven University Press, Belgium, pp. 19-33
• ‘Performance Art at the George Paton Gallery' in Helen Vivien (ed), When You Think About Art: The Ewing & George Paton Galleries 1971-2008, Melbourne: Macmillan, 2008, pp. 190-207.
•  ‘Memos to the 21st Century: An Australian Story', in Return to Postmodernism: Theory - Travel Writing - Autobiography Klaus Stierstorfer (ed.), Universitatsverlag, Winter GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ‘Body Memory and Time Zones' in Roy Ascott (ed.), Coded Characters: Media Art by Jill Scott,  Senefelderstraße, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag Publishers, 2003, pp. 030-039. German and English.

Refereed Journal Articles

• ‘Performance Art and its Documentation: A Photo/Video Essay', About Performance, Still/ Moving: Photography and Live Performance, Sydney: Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, No. 8. 2008, pp. 15-29.
• ‘A Surrealist Impulse in Contemporary Australian photography', Papers of Surrealism, no. 6, AHRB Research Centre for Studies in Surrealism and its Legacies, University of Essex and University of Manchester, on-line journal.
• ‘A Photographic Ghost in Contemporary Painting', Southern Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2004, pp. 34-48.
• ‘Ned Kelly by Any Other Name', Journal of Visual Culture (UK), vol. 1, no. 1, April 2002, pp. 57-65.

Art Journal and Magazine Articles

• Anne Marsh and Ashley Crawford, ‘Inside the Zombie Birdhouse', Photofile, no. 90, 2010, pp. 26-33.
• Anne Marsh and Jessica Whyte, ‘Photography as a Crime: Mapping Anxiety in the Public Sphere', Art Monthly, no 235, November 2010, pp. 17-20.
• ‘Digital Menace', Photofile, no. 91, 2010, pp 52-57.
• ‘Photography Now: The National Portrait Prize', Photofile , no. 87, 2009, pp. 46-53.
• ‘Extreme Acts: Live, Remade, Remediated', Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts no. 69, 2009, pp. 37-42.
• ‘This Painting is not a Photograph: recent works by David Jolly', Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 67, summer 2008/9, pp. 51-53.
• ‘Stepping In (A Feminist Context)', Broadsheet Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture, vol 36, no. 4, 2007, pp. 248-251.
• ‘Art History in a Post-Medium Age', Artlink, vol 26, no. 1, March 2006, pp. 41-45.
• ‘Claudia Terstappen: A Language of the Sacred' Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, no. 59, Summer 2005-2006, pp. 30-31.
• ‘Piercing the Subject: 21C Anxiety in the Works of David Rosetzky', Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts 57, Winter 2005, pp. 16-18.
• ‘Lily Hibberd: A Painters Cinema', Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts no. 55, Spring 2004.
• ‘Pat Brassington: Uncanny Witness', Art and Australia, vol. 41, no. 4, Winter 2004. pp. 586-592.
• ‘Blood and Death: The Recent Body Art of Jill Orr', Art Monthly, no. 158, 2003, pp. 22-23.