word fluff 2007

CV

education

2008 PhD Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (commenced) "The generative machine of) sounded-language: delire and event, the affect-thing…& Gertrude Stein"

2008    MPhil CREATIVE WRITING (awarded DEANS LIST) University of Queensland, Brisbane "SOUNDING THE INEFFABLE" UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND DEANS LIST FOR EXCELLENCE IN CREATIVE RESEARCH The pre-Socratic notion of Subtle Light, Mystical Testimonies and Brilliance in Gertrude Stein"

2004 MASTERCLASS EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE California State University California USA

2000 MFA Vis Arts Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

1994 BA Visual Arts Honors Canberra School of Art, Australian National University Canberra

 

selected highlights of creative practice


major arts projects                       

2007 established the artist run initiative, UNPLACE in Brisbane - an inter-disciplinary and experimental collaborative arts project and project space presenting performance/exhibitions.

 

publishing                               

Delirious Hem, 'What does a feminist writer look / sound like?' June 2009 http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-does-feminist-poet-look-like-by.html

 

Hollandnineteeneightyfour (pending) 2009

 

Zswound 2008 http://zswound.blogspot.com/2008/05/majena-mafe-opera-for-glossolalia.html

 

Issue 1 Fall 2008. ed Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter

http://www.forgodot.com/labels/issue%201.html

 

Chloe Outskirts Journal. '5 grappled steps in the method making of writing' (a mary-festo). peer-reviewed journal Ficto-critical issue, June 2009                                                     http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume20/mafe

 

How2 Press. (pending) 2009

 

Enoagh Journal. 2008 http://chax.org/eoagh/ September (pending) 2009

 

Meritage Press.http://www.meritagepress.com/index.htm (pending) 2009

 

Gargoyle Journal 50. Arlington, V.A. Paycock Press 2005

 

Shampoo. Journal of Experimental Writing 2004                                    http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentytwo/mafe.html

 

Artists' Catalogue Essays (Rachael Haynes 2004, Daniel Mafe 2004, Susan Buret 2006)

 

self publishing         

'Abstract Spaces - Daniel Mafe' Unsound Press 2009

 'Inside Alice's Facets'   Unsound Press 2006

 'Sounded-Language and Gertrude Stein - notes towards saying it'  

 Unsound Press 2007

 'Cabinet of Curiosities' Unsound Press 2007

 'Cowgirls and Monsters' Unsound Press 2007

 

sound and film       

2008-2009   Over 50 short experimental film and numerous sound  pieces various venues  

2008-2009                  Droorn, fin and spot CD

              Ventriloquized Stein CD

              that-unsound CD & that-unsound 1 CD

                            

solo exhibitions

2008 Inside the Mouth H Block Gallery QUT Brisbane

2007 That's all I've Got, the Mary Tyler More Cunt Show UNPLACE Project Brisbane

2007 Brisbane Square Library (ongoing installation) Brisbane

2007 p.s.s. pleasure seeking syndrome 123TV Tape Project Melbourne

2007 p.s.s. pleasure seeking syndrome Noosa Regional Gallery Noosa

2006 cactus milk Metro Arts Brisbane

2001-2004 numerous studio exhibitions Brisbane

1999 Flesh Maps I & II Palace Brisbane                                                     

1997 Draw Sheets Palace Gallery Brisbane

1994 STRANGE Devotion Spiral Arm Gallery Canberra

1993 Childhood a Hood Artspace Canberra School of Art Canberra

 

 

selected group shows, broadcasts and screenings

2009 Word Salad radio broadcast http://wordsalad.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/playlist-29-january/ 

2009 fresher cunts inbetween spaces project Fortitude Valley Brisbane

2009 knitta please collaboration with Magda Sayag Australian National University Canberra

2008 Ignite Conference Exhibition. The Block, QUT. Brisbane

2007 all photographers now. Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne   Switzerland                                               

2007 Fast Women Film Festival. Boston, USA        

2006 10+Beyond. Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa

2004 Text California State University Gallery California USA

2003 inside outside Gallery Nona Brisbane (artist and curator)

2000 doll-a-doll Gallery Nona Brisbane (artist and curator)

1999 exit genres Soapbox Gallery Brisbane 

1999 seething Palace Gallery Brisbane

1996 Show Said H Block Brisbane

1989 Bulletin/MUMM Gordon Rouge Photographic Award France and Europe

 

collaborations  

87 channel-sillient opera with Adam Potts              

unplacements between with  Pamela Fitzgibbon-Lock & Susan Buret   

Writing Team 3 with Natasha narain and Pamela Fitzgibbon-Lock               

Lady Macbeth, sonic opera for voices ALTRASENA http://www.neviogambula.it/altrascena/

 

solo performance and voice pieces

2006 voice as sound piece I & II Studio Milan Italy

2004 voice as California State University Fresno USA

2002 Lost Voices Palace Art Gallery Brisbane

1999 Voice Performance Piece Soapbox Gallery Brisbane

1998 Opera for Morse Code Gallery Canberra School of Art  

     Australian National University Canberra

                                                                                                                                                                          

collections        

Bulletin/MUMM Gordon Rouge Photographic and Art Collection

Woden Valley Hospital Canberra

Australian National University Canberra

National Library Canberra

Numerous private collections

 

awards                   

Ray Federman Award for innovative experimental writing 2004                   

University of Queensland, Deans List for Outstanding Research 2007

 

residencies, grants, commissions

QUT Overseas Travel Grant

QUT Post-graduate Scholarship 2008-2010           

Brisbane Square Library Residency 2007

Arts Queensland Grant 2004                

UQ Travel Bursary 2004

CSU American Study Grant 2004

Wall Commission Woden Valley Hospital Canberra 1994

 

conferences, readings and presentations       

Ignite Conference QUT October 2008                  

Artspoken, QUT Brisbane 2008                  

Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference: Drafts, Grafts, Nexus, and Faultlines. Monash University 2007 (individual and seminar)                                                   

Innovation 2006 Noosa Regional Gallery 2006                                                    

Life after Uni-artists run spaces, QUT Museum/Gold Coast Art Gallery 2007                  

Artist Talk Noosa Regional Gallery 2007                   

Brisbane Writers Festival 2006                  

Speculation and Innovation (SPIN) Conference QUT 2005                       

Experimental Writing Conference California State University USA 2004

 

reviews              

EYELINE #67 2008 http://www.eyeline.qut.edu.au/reviews.htm  

                 

Council News Room Artist in the Library 16.7.2008                                                   http://newsroom.brisbane.qld.gov.au/home/news_detail.asp?ID=718 

                 

Experimental writer takes her writing overseas, Courier Mail 2004                                                      

Strange Devotion. Kerry-Anne Cousins. Muse number 135. October 1994                                                     

 

Happy Things at Megalo. Paul Peisley. Artefacts. Autumn 1993

 

Helles Belles Process. Paris Hunter. Artefacts. Summer 1990-91 vol. 1 no 4

 

Flashes of Passion Mumm Cordon Rouge Photographic Awards The Bulletin. October 1989

 

Women's Summer School 1984-89. Susan Ferrari. Against the Grain. Winter 1989

 

Filtered Images of Imagists. Garry Raphael. Canberra Times Arts Magazine. November 1989

 

Women's Exhibit. Brian Oakes. Canberra Times. June 1987

 

Sensitive and Perceptive. Gary Rafael. Canberra Times. July 1986

 

Photos Against The Grain. Susan Ferrari. Spring - Summer 1986

 

Photographic Images of Woman: Essay. Diane Cook. Wimmin's News. November 1984

 

overseas residencies

2009       Beinecke Library, Yale University, New York, London, Paris       

2005- 2006 Six months in Europe, London Paris, Berlin and Milan, Venice Biennale            Madrid Arco Art Fair

2004       Experimental Writers Master Class California State University USA
1998       Europe

1995       New York

 

 

biography             

2009 Research trip to Yale University to study Gertrude steins manuscripts

2008 Commenced PhD Queensland University of Technology 

2007 Completed Masters of Philosophy (Creative Writing) University of Queensland Brisbane Deans Award for Excellence

2006 Collaboration team Unplacements Between formed with Pamela Fitzgibbon-Lock and Susan Buret

Cactus Milk, exhibition at Metro Arts

Body of work on text insults and the obscene begun

Working on Walled Words - as bodies without mouths

Submitted Masters of Philosophy to UQ for assessment

Began research into outsider artist's use of text in imagery

Returned in March from 3 months traveling overseas, plus 3 month residency in Milan, London - met with experimental writers and artists

2005 Overseas for 4 months, Venice Biennale, Arco Art Fair,
Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Paris, Berlin, London, Norway and Denmark

Working on Objects for Pronunciating Sounded Sounds

Conducted artmilk art tour-Italy

Launched 'artmilk', an innovative independent art school

Finished experimental novel, 'Sounding of the Other Light … a biography'

Finished thesis paper on 'SOUNDING THE INEFFABLE' The pre-Socratic notion of Subtle Light, Mystical Testimonies and the Brilliance in Gertrude Stein

Started up artists book collective

Began making artist text books

Drawing sound traces with the throat.

Started up a group for women artist's working with ideas of the body

Written piece…'pintuckers' published by Gargoyle

Doll as Chronicle exhibition

2004 Began text painting, focusing on sentence structure, grammar and the absurd

Began research into glossolalia

Performance piece presented at Cal-Arts California

Readings of text based work in California

Traveled to New York - met with experimental writers and publishers

Awarded grant by Arts Queensland

Receive grant from University of Queensland to research overseas

Won Scholarship to attend Master Writing Class in California

Working on Word Events, Performance Pieces and Machine Generated Texts

Teaching at the Brisbane Institute of Art

2003 Enrolled in University of Queensland Masters of Philosophy

Began experimental text work

Working on Machine Generated Texts

Began research into the Sound of Language   

Teaching at the BIA and QUT

2002 Began large gouaches focusing on mark making as a type of trace of the full and empty spaces in the thorax- image as text

Creative member of team starting Creativity Unit at Queensland University of Technology lecturing weekly to 400 students

Teaching at the BIA and QUT

2001 Traveling extensively with the Flying Art School to outback stations teaching art

Completed Master of Fine Art in Visual Arts

Wrote '6 steps in the making…' major text on making work. Self published.

Introduced advanced painting art aesthetics classes at the BIA

Introduced professional practice classes at the BIA

Teaching at QUT and the BIA

2000 Performance piece, using voice, with Jondi Keane at Soapbox, directed by Vanessa Mafe-Keane

Teaching at the QUT and BIA

1998 Europe tour - to study outsider art and research first hand cathedral architecture, Germany, Italy and Switzerland art collections

Began study of cathedral architecture, and early English literature and mystical testimony

Teaching at QUT

1997 Working on Tracings of the Inner-Mouth Project

Teaching at QUT

1996 Residency in New York for three months, studying contemporary art, meeting artists and writers

Began novel on light as perception

Began research into light as lux, ideas of perception in philosophy and the middle ages, the testimonies of the medieval mystics and feminist perspectives on language

Working on cloth figures as The Silent as un-Movies.

Studies began in philosophy, ancient Greek, and contemporary French feminist theory

Teaching at QUT

1995 Began Master of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology

Teaching at QUT