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JULIE JOY CLARKE
http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person6193.html was born in Melbourne, Australia on 22 April 1951, where she currently resides.
She has one son Erin David Powell who was born at the Jessie McPherson section of the Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne in 1977.
The first school she attended was St.Joseph's Primary School in Hawthorn. She later attended Our Lady's, Yarrunga in Wangaratta, St.Mary's in Altona, was one of the first girls to be intaken into the new St. Joseph's school in Altona and St. Augustine's school in Yarraville. She attended Balwyn High School in 1965.
She was one of the 'forgotten Australians'(non-indigenous) who was made a 'ward of the state' in 1956.
She was placed for a short time in a number of Catholic children's homes including Abbotsford Convent.
She is a sixth-generation Australian. Her ancestors sailed from Britian on the
Boomerang
and arrived in Australia in 1853.
Her mother was Dorothy Catherine Clarke (nee Biggs). Her father David Henry Clarke was a Bombardier in the
2/11 Field Regiment
of the Australian Army in WW2 from 1940 - 1945. Her grandfather, Charles Winter Clarke (b. 1873), was a farrier in the 4th Lighthorse Regiment of the Australian Imperial Force from 1917 to 1919, serving in Gallipoli. He sailed from Australia to the war on the H.M.A.T.Nestor . He continued with his veterinary work after repatriation at the Hospital for Horses and Dogs (animal hospital and veterinary college) in Brunswick Street, Melbourne. This site is now used by an architectural firm. See . Charles Winter Clarke was married to Catherine May Farquarhson (b. 1881), it was her father William Farquarhson (b. 1842) who came to Australia with his wife Margaret McComb in 1854. Margaret McCombe was the licensee of the Oxford Hotel at 222 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne between 1899 and 1901, later she became publican at the Globe Hotel, Port Melbourne.
Charle's parents were John Timewell Clarke and Annie Neill. Julie Clarke's grandparents on her mother's side were Mary Anne Elizabeth Victoria Willoughby (b. 1896 - d. 1975) and Vivien Biggs. Mary Anne was a dress maker & seamstress, who lived her early life in Cobram, Victoria. Her father and mother were George Withycombe Willoughby (b.1865) and Catherine Doherty (b. Limerick, Ireland). Catherine Doherty's father was Edward Doherty (b. Ireland, 1820) married Joanna Larkins (b. 1843, Ireland). Edward came to Australia in 1851.
Julie Clarke co-ordinated the Hawthorn Community House at 39 William Street, Hawthorn from 1980-1988 . One of her accomplishments was the initiation of the Hawthorn writers groups, which continues today as the Boroondara Writers' Group under the auspice of the Boroondara City Council .
The Hawthorn Writers Group was one of the first groups to receive Australia Council funding for Kris Hemensley to be a writer-in-residence.
Earlier in 1984 she was included along-with Chris Barnett, Kris Hemensly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Hemensley, Valerie Kirwin and Ania Walwicz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ania_Walwicz in
In Our Own Words: Six Melbourne Writers on Tape
, produced by Marcus Breen and Steve Warne, Verbal Graphics.
In 1998 she was co-winner (with six other writers) of the Inaugural Faulding Award for Writing for Multimedia for the
Flightpaths: Writing Journeys
CD (co-ordinated by Bernie Janssen), at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts. Later exhibited at Lovebits, Staffordshire, England. http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:n-TU5HlBoO0J:www.afc.gov.au/archive/afcnewspdf/172.pdf+Flightpaths:+Writing+Journeys&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=au]
In 1995 she voluntarily coordinated a large-scale performance event, entitled
Phantom Bodies/Fluid Self
(Stelarc, International performance artist) for the Digital Aesthetic One Symposium at the Open Stage, the University of Melbourne. This still stands as Stelarc's largest performance event ever staged in the southern hemisphere.
Her half-brother, Andrew Benthe (Ash Wanders) is an accomplished musician and producer, specialising in ambient, jazz, acoustic, Indian and African music
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
She undertook her undergraduate degree in Painting and Printmaking at RMIT (1991), postgraduate diploma in Art History (1994), Master of Arts in Art History (1997) and her PhD in Cinema Studies (2004) at the University of Melbourne.
She currently holds the position of
Honorary Fellow
in Screen Studies in the Department of Culture and Communications. She has written extensively on the Australian Peformance Artist Stelarc andand other Australian and International artists.
CREATIVE WRITING
Her poetic prose,
visual poetry
and academic articles have been published in America, Australia, the United Kingdom, Norway and Canada. Poetic prose works -
Skywriter
Veils
Echo, Mind, Fall
are held in the State Library of Victoria , Monash University and the University of Melbourne . She has been a Visual and Concrete Poet.
(2008) Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head, Critical Digital Studies: A Reader , (eds. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker), Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
(2008). Doubly Monstrous: Female and Disabled, Essays in Philosophy , Special Issue on Disability, The Department of Philosophy, Humboldt State University, California, (ed. Michael Goodman), Volume 9, No. 1, January.
(2005). A Sensorial Act of Replication, Stelarc: The Monograph , (ed.) Dr Marquard Smith, MIT Press, USA, September.
(2005). Face-Off, Stelarc Interview, Meanjin: New Writing in Australia , Portraits of the Artist, (ed Ian Britain), Melbourne University Press, Vol. 64, No. 1 & 2, p166.
(2004). pros+thesis, LIVE: Art, Performance and the Contemporary , ed. Adrian Heathfield, Tate Publications, London, September.
(2003). Case for Future Existence or Mutate Now and Live Forever (on the art of Korean artist Lee Bull), House of Tomorrow Catalogue , MESH #16, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, September.
(2002). Only Healthy Seed Must Be Sown: GATTACA, Australian Screen Education , ATOM, Melbourne, #30, November.
(2002). Waste Culture: GATTACA, WASTE, MESH On-line Journal , #15, Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, www.experimenta.org
(2002). The Human/not human in the work of Orlan and Stelarc, The Cyborg Experiments: extensions of the body in the media age , (ed. Dr. Joanna Zyslinka), London and New York, Continuum.
(2001). Review of Company in Space Performance – Capital Theatre, Melbourne, Body, Space and Technology Journal , United Kingdom,
(1999). The Sacrificial Body of Orlan, Special issue on Body Modification, Body and Society , (ed. Mike Featherstone & Bryan S. Turner), United Kingdom, Nottingham Trent University, Vol. 5, 2-3, June to September
(1999). Technological Women, Openline Magazine , RMIT University, Melbourne, June.
(1998). The Body Politic, Game Theory, MESH , Experimenta, Media Arts, Melbourne.
(1996), Cyb(erotic) Transformations, Artlink, Arts in the Electronic Landscape , South Australia, July.
(1995). Would you make love to a stick figure? Interview with Professor Allucquere Rosanne Stone, transgendered performance artist at the Metropolitan, Melbourne, MESH , Experimenta Media Arts, Melbourne, August.
Catalogue essays
:
(2010) Spectacle of the Mind (Jill Orr, Stelarc and Domenico de Clario) performances for Global Mind Project (Karen Casey & Harry Sokol), Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 15 January, 2010.
(2006). Aesthetic Emergence+Self, ‘Imagine Exhibition Catalogue’, (ed. Zara Stanhope), Heide Museum of Modern Art , Templestowe, Victoria, July.
(2004) Karen Casey’s Art of Mind , Catalogue essay for her exhibition at RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne in December.
(2002). Pros + Thesis, Alternate Interfaces, Stelarc Exhibition Catalogue at Monash University Art Gallery , Melbourne.
(2002) Clones—Juan Ford Paintings, Dianne Tanzer GalIery , Melbourne
(1999) Silence, BYTEME, Digital Art Exhibition , Bendigo City Art Gallery (along with Dr. Kevin Murray and Dr. Darren Tofts)
(1997) Indulge, Exhibition Catalogue , Fringe Festival, Melbourne
(1997) Challenge of the Space, Exhibition Catalogue , The Graduate Centre, The University of Melbourne
(1996) The Mechanics of Production, interview with Cherrie Whitington, Director of Organic/Mechanic, PGR , The University of Melbourne, Autumn.
(1995) The Virtual Scholar Symposium, interview with Matthew Riddle, Science Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Postgraduate Review , December.
Film Reviews
:
(2005), Enduring Love (film review), Teaching English Australia (ed. Karen Ford), September,
(2005), Rock School (film review), Teaching English Australia (ed. Karen Ford), August, http://www.teachingenglish.com.au (2005), Dirty Pretty Things (film review), Teaching English Australia (ed. Karen Ford), April,
Performance Art Reviews
(1997) Zibniev Karkowski, review of performance of Zibniev Karkowski, with Stelarc and Geoffrey Hales at the Continental, Prahran, 1997, commissioned by Karkowski for his Paris and Tokyo performance flyers.
1995) Survival Research Laboratories at ACCA. CATfood , Newsletter No.2. 1995
(1995) White Woman Variation No.1. Review of Li
