Digressions: Writers Respond to Radical Futures
Description
Word and image collide, unite and entwine. Stories take root and propagate, meander and circle. Associations and digressions take the stage when creative writers respond to the rich imaginaries of the future from visual artists across WA.
Moving, exploratory and playful, our digressions will take you on an excursion through time and place to real and imaginary worlds.
Hear staff from Curtin University’s communications and writing programs respond to JCG's current exhibition, Regional Arts Triennial - Radical Futures, with original works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
Featuring writers Christina Chau, Caitlin Maling, Gemma Nesbit, Danielle O’Leary, Anne Ryden and Rachel Robertson (facilitator).
Header Image: Regional Arts Triennial - Radical Futures at John Curtin Gallery. Photo by Anthea Auld.
About the Writers
Dr Christina Chau
Dr Christina Chau is an academic and arts writer. Her academic research expertise is on contemporary art, online visual culture, media theory and kinetic art history. Her creative non-fiction focuses on the intersection of art encounters with everyday domestic life.
Dr Caitlin Maling
Dr Caitlin Maling is a Western Australian academic, critic and creative practice researcher in the field of environmental literature, teaching in the discipline of writing at Curtin. She has published six books of poetry, and many individual poems and pieces of creative non-fiction.
Dr Gemma Nesbit
Dr Gemma Nesbit is a writer and academic living and working on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Curtin University and an Associate Editor of Life Writing and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from UWA. Her critical and creative writing has appeared in publications including Australian Book Review, Axon, New Writing, Text and Westerly. Her first book, The Things We Live With: Essays on Uncertainty (Upswell), was shortlisted for the 2024 WA Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer.
Dr Danielle O’Leary
Dr Danielle O’Leary is a Senior Lecturer in Professional Writing and Publishing at Curtin University. Her creative nonfiction work has been published in Westerly and Meniscus.
Dr Anne Ryden
Dr Anne Ryden is a migrant and novice gardener and rewilder on Noongar land. She teaches research methods to creative and professional practice masters students in the School of Media Creative Arts and Social Inquiry.
Associate Professor Rachel Robertson
Associate Professor Rachel Robertson teaches professional writing and publishing and has a particular interest in narrative nonfiction, life writing and ekphrastic writing. She has facilitated six previous Writers Respond reading events at the Gallery and edited the books Where the Ink Falls: Curtin Writers Respond to Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop (2022) and 25 for 25: Curtin Writers Respond (2023).
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