DR KRISTEN SHARP

SAAC RESEARCHER

Dr Kristen Sharp is an academic, educator, writer and curator. She is the Associate Dean, Art in the School of Art, RMIT University. Kristen’s research focuses on contemporary art and urban space, contemporary Asian art, and sound art practices. In 2013 she co-curated ‘The Sonic City’ (with P. Samartzis) for the Liquid Architecture National Sound Art Festival. In 2016 Kristen co-authored (with L. Hjorth, S. Pink and L. Williams) Screen Ecologies: Art, Media and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region, MIT Press, as part of an Australian Research Council project Spatial Dialogues researching public art and climate change. Kristen’s work on sound focuses on environments, ecologies and fieldwork.

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KRISTEN SHARP CURRENT RESEARCH

  
Kristen is currently working on an online exhibition and public program Mutable Ecologies: Art, Design and Architecture interfaces for environmental futures. 

2021 marks 10 years since the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. In this decade Australia and Japan have experienced an increase in extreme environmental events which have impacted on rural and urban ways of life. These events and their relationship to human activity are subject to increasing debate. Mutable Ecologies considers how innovations in art, design and architecture can interrogate the effects of these changing environmental conditions to offer new insights and awareness of ecological futures.

It comprises leading creative practitioners in Australia and Japan delivering a series of online exhibitions, workshops and discussions that explore emerging practices, technologies and interfaces between art, design and architecture to advance global responses to ecological transformations. The project will connect practitioners, the public and organisations to build on and strengthen existing partnerships to reveal Australia’s strong cultural and economic relationship with Japan and shared values of community engagement, ecological resilience and sustainable futures.

This project is supported by funding from a DFAT Australia Japan Foundation grant and Asialink, with in kind support from RMIT University School of Art, RMIT Public Engagement Group, Asialink, Musashino Art University, Tokyo and NTT ICC, Tokyo.

Research Team

Kristen Sharp (RMIT), Philip Samartzis (RMIT), Andrew Teztlaff (RMIT) and project partners Asialink, Professor Christophe Charles (Musashino Art University, Tokyo), Minoru Hatanaka (NTT ICC, Tokyo).

KRISTEN SHARP SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Sharp, K. 2021. (forthcoming). ‘Theatre of Operations: processes and production in contemporary sound art’. In P. Stanton, B. Crone and S. Nightingale (eds). A Guide to Experimental Fieldwork for Future Ecologies. Eindhoven: Onomattopee Projects.

Sharp, K. 2021. (forthcoming). ‘Reverberations/Locations: working with place. An interview with sound artist Erica La Casa’. In Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts.

Sharp, K. 2020. ‘Drips in the Underground: Creatively Activating Urban Ambiances’. In Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts, https://unlikely.net.au/issue-06/drips-in-the-underground

Sharp, K. 2017. ‘Open Fields: On remote fieldwork and being in place’ in Super Field, exhibition catalogue, 8 December 2017–17 February 2018, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne.

Sharp, K. 2017, ‘Listening to the City’. In E. Grierson (ed.) Transformations: art and the city. Bristol: Intellect Books.

Sharp, K. 2013. ‘Driving the sonic city.’ In K. Sharp and E. Grierson (Eds.), Re-imagining the City: art, globalization and urban spaces. Bristol: Intellect Books.

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DR KRISTEN SHARP

KRISTEN SHARP CURRENT RESEARCH

KRISTEN SHARP SELECT PUBLICATIONS

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