Curriculum Vitae   Michal Glikson

Areas of expertise, specialisation, and interest
Visual Art: Painting, Animation; Research; Documentary film; Writing about practice; Advocacy;Teaching; Radio program development and content creation.

2024
Grantwriter and Studio assistant (voluntary), Areyonga Art Centre.

2023
Visual Artist and Creative Media Facilitator. ARDS Aboriginal Corporation and Yolgnu Radio.
Radio program content producer/editor. "Making and Doing Traditional Yolngu Medicine". ARDS Yolgnu Radio.
Editor. Ralli ka Sheel/Quilt of Stars. Feature-length ethnographic and documentary film. Location: Punjab, Pakistan. Subject: Pakhiwas life-world. Focus: Human rights.
                     
2022
Present Positions
Visual Artist and Creative Media Facilitator. ARDS Aboriginal Corporation and Yolgnu Radio.
Documentarist. Goŋ Djambutj Healing Group, Yirrkala.
Crafts Tutor and Facilitator. School Engagement Team. Yirrkala Community School.
Radio program content producer/editor. "Making and Doing Traditional Yolngu Medicine". ARDS Yolgnu Radio. 
Assistant/archivist/preparator. Buku Larrnggay Art Centre, Yirrkala.
Editor. Ralli ka Sheel/Quilt of Stars. Feature-length ethnographic and documentary film. Location: Punjab, Pakistan. Subject: Pakhiwas life-world. Focus: Human rights.

2021
Tutor: Aboriginal Learning and Progress (ALPA). Yirrkala Community School.

2020
Internal Lecturer at Charles Darwin University, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Course: Design and Innovation: Communicating Technology SS20CUC106.

2018-2020
Documentarist for Goŋ Djambutj Healers, Yirrkala. Northern Territory, Australia.                 
​Goŋ Djambutj are an intergenerational group of women healers lead by members of Gumatj and Riritjingu Yolŋu clans of northeast Arnhem Land, Australia. My activities with the group began in 2019 with documenting processes with making bush medicines to compiled evidence for funding applications. The work seeded visions for an audiovisual cultural archive conserving the women's knowledge and use of botanicals in the Laynhapuy region for health and healing. My work has involved accompanying the healers on excursions to document locating, harvesting, and creating medicines and treatments as well as treatments given in the local community, and patient testimonials. These detailed films strive to thickly describe the healers’ knowledge and connections with country in ways that account for the often lengthy and laborious nature of this work, as well as particular innovations with traditional recipes.

2019  Artist in residence/documentarian, assistant casual curricular advisor, and assistant resource developer with Slumabad School, Lahore, Pakistan.
Slumabad School is a non-government organisation and education project focused with providing culturally appropriate education for Pakhiwas (gypsy) communities in Lahore. Utilising my background in fine arts and applied anthropology my work entailed immersive research with the Pakhiwas community to create a story book and culturally located pedagogical tool. As documentarian, I created detailed film records of the school as it ran over four months. Documentation detailed observations of community environment, classes, learning conditions, teacher recruitment and training processes, resource creation, and student evaluations. 
Outcomes with Slumabad:

• an extensive documentary archive detailing vision, development, and ongoing running and maintainance of the school
• "A School for Light-footprint Learners". Thirty minute film aimed at encouraging reflection and sense of achievement within the Slumabad School community
• Working drafts for a culturally located pedagogical tool and story book.
• Literacy program and content for Pakhiwas adult learners.
• Specialised literacy resources in the form of hand-drawn stencils for primary students.

 
Education
PhD Visual Arts, School of Art, RSHSS, CASS, Australian National University                                                                                       2012-2016
Masters Visual Art, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda                                                                                                                   2008-2010
BA Fine Arts Hons/ BA Arts (Politics/Anthropology), Australian National University                                                                            2003-2007
BA Performing Arts, Federation University                                                                                                                                                   1989-1991
Foundations of University Teaching: Modules 1-10: ANU Educational Fellowship Scheme                                                               2012
Grad Dip. Education: Senior/Middle Years: Visual Art, Drama, Queensland University of Technology                                            2018
                                                                                                                                                                                          
PhD Research Project Description
Title: Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting

• This practice-led Research project explored the form and function of social art practice through the peripatetic mode in Australia, India, and Pakistan. Focusing on practical negotiation of states of transience in context of cross cultural experience, mediums of painting and sound utilised immersive research with key artistic communities and individuals in the three countries. Patuya Sangit storytellers of the Chitrakar community in Naya, West Bengal. Examining the form of nomadic art practice utilised extensive filmed documentation of field practice throughout this project.

 

• Integrating art practice with applied anthropological research, methodology for examining creative and connective possibilities with in-situ painting involved taking on states in which transience and the presence of sociocultural linguistic divides were the norm. Key explorations looked at opportunities arising from the unknowns and uncertainties of travel to foster empathic spaces of understanding, being with, standing with, and ultimately advocating for others, thereby grounding connective aesthetics in this art practice.

 

• The project consolidated the capacity for art making in the nomadic mode to generate socially dynamic spaces of dialogue, exchange, empathy and connection. Revealing this, research offered new understandings of in-situ art practice, here miniature painting and sound production, as fostering intangible products reflecting a connective aesthetic. Tangible outcomes of the research were a series of extended scroll paintings containing hundreds of paintings about subjects encountered in the field with associated sound compositions woven of field-generated recordings.

 

• The project involved immersive research with Patuya Sangit artists in West Bengal into the performative/interactive functions of scroll paintings as social instruments.   

​Outcomes

• Peripatetic Painting: Pathways in Social, Immersive, and Empathic Art Practice. 2022. Springer Nature.
•  Australindopak Archive: cross cultural documents offering insights into the particularity of subject lifeworlds and universalities of experience across diverse cultures.  
• Field films: documentary, ethnographic, and observational modes describing conditions of art practice in the field of peripatetic painting that with the Australindopak Archive offer tools for teaching  cross-cultural art practice and peripatetic methodology.  

 
Residencies/Delivered Workshops /Research Affiliations

• Artist in Residence/Documentarian/Curricular advisor, Slumabad School, Lahore. 2019
• Artist in Residence. Attokoussy Project, LeCube Independent Art Space, Marrakesh-Rabat. 2017
• Artist in Residence. Hinterland Galerie and Cross-cultural Arts Platform. Vienna. 2017
• Guest Lecturer 2012-2014, Visual Arts Degree course Open to Influence, School of Art and Design, ANU
• Research Associate, Kala Bhavan Arts faculty, Viswa Bharati University of Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. 2012-2015
• “Drawing from life; visual narratives”. Workshop, Viswa Bharati University of Santiniketan, Bengal
• Culture and Humanitarian Crisis: Interdisciplinary Forum/Workshop, Australian National University
• “Miniature painting; an introduction”. Workshop, School of Art, Australian National University
• “Storying Life”. Workshop, fine art/design students, National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan
• “Stories in Situ”. Workshop, Fine Arts students, Beaconhouse University, Lahore, Pakistan

• Artist in Residence. National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan. 2008

      
                                                                            
Conferences/Symposia presentations

• Living Politics: self-help and autonomous action in East Asia and beyond, ANU                                                                                2018         
• People and the City, 8th International THAAP Conference of Urban Design, Lahore                                                                         2017
• People and the City, 7th International THAAP Conference of Urban Design, Lahore,                                                                        2016
• Identity and Portrayal, symposium, National Gallery of Australia/Australian National University                                                     2013
• Shaping Canberra Conference, screening of Dear Safia                                                                                                                         2013
•  Here/there = Nowhere/Everywhere, Emami Chisel Arts, Kolkata                                                                                                          2010

                             
                                              
Group and Individual Exhibitions                                                                                                                                  

• Habitat: Ways of living, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra                                                                                                       2021
• Looks like Sound, Sounds like Painting, Gallery of Small Things (GOST), Canberra                                                                          2019
• Featured artist, BOAA: Biennale of Australian Art
• Attokoussy Project exhibition, LeCube Independent Art Space, Marrakesh and Rabat                                                                    2017                                                      
• Australindopak Archive, solo exhibition, Hinterland Galerie, Vienna                                                                                  
• PhD Graduation Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Australian National University                                                                              2016
• Pulse; Group exhibition Canberra Museum and Art Gallery (CMAG) Canberra                                                                                 2014
• White Paper; decoding memory, group exhibition, Gallery ArtKonsult, New Delhi                                                                           2013
• Sea+ Triennale, Global Art: Ways around Asia, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta                                                 
• Half Circle Scroll, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS) Canberra                                                                                             2011 
• The Shahnama Book of Kings; Contemporary responses, Cambridge Shahnameh Project, London-Paris-Milan-Dubai
• Floating in Hindustan, solo exhibition, Parramasala Festival, Sydney
• Merchants of War: Michael Callaghan Retrospective and Memorial Exhibition, Sydney
• Floating in Hindustan, Nairang Gallery, Lahore
• Drawings, Chemmould Prescott Road Gallery, Bombay
• Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Sunshine Coast Regional Art Gallery, Floating in Hindustan
• Half Circle Scroll & Floating in Hindustan, sound projects, The Australia Asia Foundation Sonic Gallery               
• Drifters 2, ArtKonsult Gallery/Siddharth Tagore, Haus Khas, New Delhi
                          
• Half Circle Scroll installation, Alhamra Gallery, Lahore                                                                                                                            2010
• Taaluq; Rohtas 2 Gallery, Model-town, Lahore                                                                                                                                          2009
• Looking 4 Taaluq, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney                                                                                                          

• Now Playing: Strange Trajectories, Alliance Francaise Award Exhibition, Canberra                                                                          2008

 
Commissions

• "Where is the path for the Future?" Animation. 2:30 minutes. For ARDS/Miwatj Stronger Futures. 2022.
• Covid19 Vaccination Awareness. Talking Poster. ARDS/Miwatj. 2022.

Publications/Catalogues

• Nomadic Painting: Pathways in social, immersive, and empathic art practice. Springer Nature. 2022
• “Advocacy and Agency at the nexus of Art and Anthropology” in What Anthropologists Do. Dr Joanna Puckering (Ed). 2nd Edition, Blooms. 2020.
• "Zal and Rodebeh" scroll with Passport. Featured artist in Hassan Agha, Fatima Zahra (Ed), Charles Melville (Foreward) Painting the Persian Book of Kings Today; Ancient Text and Modern Images. The Prince's Foundation Gallery, London. Talking Tree Books, Cambridge, UK. 2010.

 
Documentary projects

• A School for Light-footprint learners. 30 mins. In-house documentary for Slumabad School Community. Lahore, Pakistan. 2019.
• Post-production: Ralli ka Sheel/Quilt of Stars. Ethnographic Documentary. Pakhiwas lifeworld. Location: Punjab, Pakistan.
• Yirrkala Bush Medicine. Support interviews for Gong Djambutj Healing Center for Yirrkala community. 2022.
• Towards a Peripatetic Practice. PhD Documentary archive. Fieldwork nomadic art practice. 2012-2017
• The Taxidermist’s Daughter. Documentation. Vanessa Barbay. Art practice. 2012.
• Entanglement: Individual and Participatory art practice in Indonesia. Documentation. Ellie Kent. Art Practice. 2012.

 
Awards Grant Prizes 

Outstanding Research Presentation, ANU NECTAR Early Career Academic: Collaboration Across Boundaries                                    2017
Shortlisted; Noosa Regional Gallery Travelling Scholarship Award                                                                                                                 2011
Art Overboard Award for Political Art, Shortlisted Alice Award
                                                                                                                        2008
Alliance Francaise and EASS Exhibition Award; Academy of Interactive Entertainment Animation Scholarship                                   2007
EASS ANU Access Award and Scholarship                                                                                                                                                     2006-07
Moyra Dyring Paris Studio Award                                                                                                                                          1996
   

Professional Referees  

Ruth Waller
 
Head of Painting
School of Art and Design 
The Australian National   University
ACT, 0200                              
Email: ruth.waller@anu.edu.au         

Yalmay Yunupingu
Teacher-Linguist, Cultural Advisor, Fibre Artist, Founding member Gong Djambutj Healing Group
Yirrkala Community School
Yirrkala, NT, 0880
                                                           
Mark Bayly                                                                                
Gallery Director & Independent Curator 
Email: mark.bayly@act.gov.au

Kate Gardiner
Previous position: Learning and Access Manager, ACT Museums and Galleries, Canberra
CMAG, Acton, ACT, 0200
 Email: kate.gardiner@act.gov.au
                                                                       
Dr Rick Kuhn  Bec. BA (Hons). PhD.
Honorary Associate Professor in Sociology
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Email: Rick.Kuhn@anu.edu.au

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