Is That All There Is? The Critical Role of 21C Art Mediums (2020)

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, December 8, 2020

[A version of this was published – as – Mauro-Flude, Nancy (2020) ‘Is That All There Is? The Critical Role of 21C Mediums’. NiTRO 32, The Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts. December. Ed. Kit Wise. ] …I stood there shivering in my pyjamas and watched the whole world go up in [...]

Breathing as Writing: The Productive Tensions and Murmurs of the Telematic World.

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, November 22, 2020

“The one who understands is not extracting from the abstract from out of the tone, the rhythm, and the cadences the noise internal to the utterance, the cacophony internal to the emission of the message. He or she is also listening to that internal noise – the rasp or smouldering breath, the hyperventilating or somnolent [...]

Economic Disobedience and Avenging the Imaginary in the Age of the Never-Ending Culture Wars

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, October 12, 2020

Are we tired of talking about the obvious value of culture yet? If indeed, according to the Australian government, that art is useless and culture has absolutely no value, this coven of creatives are brought together to plot an imaginary revenge that involves feminist futuring, witching brews, holograms, assassin laundromat cells and economythologies. Shall we? [...]

Looking for the Back Door in ‘Appearances’ curated by Josephine Bosma

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, September 27, 2020

Reflected in the virtual hall of mirrors we journey (or fall) from Kleist’s “Locked and bolted paradise” to earth, with its “leaky promiscuity”, simulations, and filtering systems. The “dirt and grime” that Laurie Anderson once complained was missing from Cyberspace. We must look for a back door to paradise and employ the shadow skills of [...]

Ulay’s Proposition: Two last words — my interpretation: death simple

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, March 5, 2020

Valē Ulay – a shining Nucleus in the world of Performance Art. He radiated commitment to freedom and responsibility to all he came in contact with. When I first met him, Ulay took me aside and said “stop acting just be yourself”. The next day he led us through a 24-hour silent meditation to a [...]

Artists and Automated Decision Making: A lutruwita (Tasmanian) Point of View

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, March 1, 2020

This Opinon Piece appeared in an edited from in The Mercury, p.23 In 2008 I returned home after 2 decades of treading the (key)boards (on stage and on computers, often, combining the two). Working internationally as an artist presented me many transdisciplinary opportunities, the creative knowhow this approach affords, carries within it an openness to [...]

The Thorny Question of Art and Economy: A Conversation Piece

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, February 24, 2020

This is a staged conversation to consider the thorny question of Artists and Business anew. Rather than harnessing ‘creativity’ as a driver of productivity and economic growth, what radically different tactics and vistas could artists and designers – whose work is intrinsically involved in navigating business and economics – open up? Image: FoAM Circle: Claire Field, Nancy [...]

Vvitching out for each other: Activating the Textures of Post-Digital Aesthetics

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, March 20, 2019

Practitioners who engage with post digital aesthetics are concerned with processes in art-making and conceptual frameworks that assume digitality rather than treat it as an exception. Its tools are ubiquitous, situated, embedded with neoslime, embracing material speculation, curious imperfection, mawkish plasticity, rather than a transhuman sterilised alien ideal of perfection. The post digital has been [...]

Writing the Internet: Internet lore in Asia

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, August 21, 2018

In March 2018 colleagues and I and wanted to explore the topic of Writing for the Internet: Internet Life and Lore in Asia. Specifically calling the ‘event’ a workshop, our intention was engender a discursive experience in order to explore new methodologies, adherent to the content on topic – Digital Folklore in South East Asia. [...]

Valetudo: A Cultural Anti-Venom Approach

By Nancy Mauro-Flude, November 12, 2017

It seems a delicious irony that due to a recent Australian High Court ruling (27 October 2017) many Australian MPs, including the Deputy Prime Minister, are now ineligible to sit in parliament. Known as the “citizenship seven” case, the unfolding citizenship crisis in Australia has the potential to allow for radical constructions of (Australian) subjectivities to emerge, bringing to [...]