Assemblage is Flinders University’s research centre for artistic enquiry and art creation.

It is the meeting point of art and science, health, technology, engineering, industry and community. We embrace new technologies and ambitious collaborations to dissolve perceived barriers between artforms, disciplines and areas of research to uncover boundless possibilities.

We foster a new creative ecosystem where unanticipated interactions and artistic invention are transforming perceptions and experiences of creativity. Through artistic alliances, we are imagining ingenious solutions to challenges facing the arts, industry, the environment and our communities in Australia and around the world.

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We are Assemblage

As a society we face complex issues on multiple fronts and the arts play a crucial role in helping us understand and navigate our way through them. Assemblage is a place which facilitates innovative research in the Creative Arts, maximising the reach, impact and engagement of this exploration. Artists take concepts, data, philosophies and experience, metamorphosing them into transformative encounters that radically alter our perception and understanding of the world and our place in it. Through ambitious collaborations across a vast range of disciplines, Assemblage supports the generation of unique and unexpected creative arts practices and research.

Garry Stewart
Director—Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts

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Centre Management Committee

The purpose of the Assemblage Centre Management Committee is to support and provide strategic direction to deliver the Centre’s strategy and objectives.

Professor Garry Stewart - Assemblage Director
Professor Maryrose Casey - Assemblage Deputy Director
Professor Penny Edmonds - CHASS Dean of Research
Associate Professor William Peterson - Creativity Theme Leader
Associate Professor Julia Erhart - Creative and Performing Arts
Dr Natalie Harkin - Senior Research Fellow
Mr Dan Thorsland - CHASS Business Development Manager
Dr Ali Gumillya Baker – Senior Lecturer

Areas of research

Digital embodiment - motion capture, VR, AR, MR and CGI
Digital and genre storytelling
Archiving the Arts
Arts in Health
Indigenous creative arts
Innovation in gaming and digital design
Audiences, industries and communities
Methodologies of practice-led research
New knowledges in live performance, film and media
Creative robotics and AI
Creative industries, leadership and policy
Arts festivals and community practice

The Void

Assemblage’s new motion capture and digital story platform is The Void – a powerful collaboration space for digitising performance, screen production and experimentation.

The Void is a flexible and adaptable digital facility that integrates performance and digital art to produce creative works that can be projected on a screen or played as video games – all in real-time, high visual fidelity and centred on the vision of the artist.

If you are interested in how we might assist you with your MOCAP or VR/MR project, please contact Lab Manager Dan Thorsland. dan.thorsland@flinders.edu.au

Artist in Residence program

We are thrilled to announce our inaugural
Assemblage Artist in Residence – Kate Power.

Kate is an Adelaide-based artist and writer whose practice embraces video, performance, textiles, sculpture and installation. She observes social environments to think about how seemingly insignificant moments affect us psychologically and physiologically. Over the next 2 months Kate will develop a new project titled Mush to Muscle that will ally her sculpture practice with embodiment and the choreographic. Over this time she will be able to make connections to staff, researchers and students, drawing on the facilities available to her at our university.

“I’m thrilled to be selected as the first artist-in-residence at the new Creative Arts Centre, Assemblage. The time to deep dive into my new project, while being part of a diverse community, is an incredible opportunity to expand my knowledge and creative approaches. While working at Flinders I plan to begin a new performance project that will use text, movement and sculpture to research connections between emotions and the gut. Drawing on the writings of philosopher Sianne Ngai, poet Claudia Rankine and queer theorist Sara Ahmed, this new work asks how patriarchal control is processed and stored in the body. I’m really looking forward to exploring the Medical Centre, Flinders University Museum of Art, the creative writing department and connecting with academics and students who are interested in similar themes of intersectional research.” — Kate Power

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Works by academics

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Scholarships &
fellowships

The Hanlon Larsen Screen Fellowship

The annual Hanlon Larsen Screen Fellowship will support a South Australian screen-practitioner who embodies the creative spirit of the late Cole Larsen, with funding to create an innovative screen-based work. The initial five-year screen fellowship has been established by SA Film Corp chairman Peter Hanlon. This fellowship is supported with $25,000 cash funding by Peter Hanlon with Flinders University and $10,000 direct production support from the Mercury Cinema. The project by the successful candidate will be eligible for an Adelaide Film Festival screening.

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Filmmaker, designer and animator, Flinders University alumna Emma Hough Hobbs, has taken out the inaugural $35,000 Hanlon Larsen Screen Fellowship from a competitive field of 50 candidates.

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ATaM Scholarship

Two Assemblage Adelaide Theatre and More (ATaM) Honours scholarships were awarded to incoming Creative and Performing Arts Honours students Duncan Vecchiarelli and Rhys Stewart. We are most grateful to ATaM for generously supporting the ATaM Honours scholarships for 2021.

The Assemblage panel has offered the following citations on the merit of each applicant:

Duncan Vecchiarelli: Duncan has clearly demonstrated a commitment to the performing arts by seeking out educational opportunities, engagement with industry and a variety performing arts roles. Duncan is a passionate and enthusiastic performing artist with a broad range of experiences, skills and a strong academic record. The application distinctly outlined Duncan's desire not only to participate in the performing arts, but also to experiment in creating original, contemporary and hybrid works.

Rhys Stewart: Rhys is an ambitious performing artist with a passion for acting, and a desire to create their own work as a director, writer, dramaturg, and designer. Rhys has already demonstrated some initial success, being hired by the State Theatre Company South Australia for the Decameron 2.0 project, as well as achieving an accomplished academic record. Rhys has a strong connection to Adelaide and South Australia, with a desire to pursue local opportunities, while also looking at ways to blend traditional acting methodologies with new digital mediums.

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Garry Stewart, Director Assemblage
Professor, Creative Arts

Email: garry.stewart@flinders.edu.au

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Study at Flinders

Whether you’re preparing to take centre stage, work behind the scenes, direct or produce and internationally acclaimed feature film, write an award-winning play, or lead the future of the Arts, Flinders’ suite of degrees in the Creative Arts and Industries will help you realise your ambitions.

As the no. 1 university in South Australia for full-time employment and skills development in the Creative Arts*, you’ll be taught by award-winning, practising creative artists and you’ll take your creativity to new heights with industry partners, hands-on courses and state-of-the-art facilities.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Flinders University was established on the lands of the Kaurna nation, with the first University campus, Bedford Park, located on the ancestral body of Ngannu near Warriparinga. Warriparinga is a significant site in the complex and multilayered Dreaming of the Kaurna ancestor, Tjilbruke. For the Kaurna nation, Tjilbruke was a keeper of the fire and a peacemaker/lawmaker. Tjilbruke is part of the living culture and traditions of the Kaurna people. His spirit lives in the Land and Waters, in the Kaurna people and in the glossy ibis (known as Tjilbruke for the Kaurna). Through Tjilbruke, the Kaurna people continue their creative relationship with their Country, its spirituality and its stories.

Flinders University acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians, both past and present, of the various locations the University operates on, and recognises their continued relationship and responsibility to these Lands and Waters.

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Assemblage is Flinders University’s research centre for artistic enquiry and art creation.

We are Assemblage

Areas of research

The Void

Artist in Residence program