Summary of Main Achievements

Our group's international achievements embrace a wide domain of activities from critical perspectives to the practice led research. For example, the book Reflecting the audience: London theatregoing 1840-1880 to which Professor Victor Emeljanow contributed, is acknowledged by the British Society for Theatre Research as a milestone in an historical understanding of audiences. The book related the 'community' assembled in a theatre to the diverse communities in London. Professor Vella's book Musical Environments (Currency Press, Sydney, 2000) later republished as Sounds in Space Sounds in Time (Boosey and Hawkes UK, 2003) models musical structures and textures with the use of time and space.

The theme of Translation and Transfer of the creative work is picked up in much of the work of Professor Anne Graham such as the collection of permanent public artwork commissioned by Art Front for Art Avenue, Tachikawa, Tokyo 2002: Wish Transmitter, Tachikawa Calendar and Hide and Seek.

From a historical performance perspective Dr. Rosalind Halton's, Olimpia: Cantatas of Alessandro Scarlatti, (2001) is a major contribution to the ealy music community. It consists of previously unavailable music by Scarlatti. Professor Vella's work The A to Z of Spiritual Music: a user's guide published by the ABC combines composition with analysis in its exploration of the spirtual in music (http://www.abc.net.au/classic/spiritual/). Associate Professor Michael Ewans's chapter contribution, 'Agamemnon's influence in Germany: Goethe, Schiller and Wagner', Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC-AD 2004, Oxford University Press is part of a major, peer-reviewed collection of essays on Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon' and its influence.

Some researchers (Graham, Lawry, Watt) are actively working on public or community art projects. They demonstrate a conversational mode in which each participant engages with each other. This involves a recognition of (1) the social context from which others and oneself speak, and (2) one's history and its position relative to modes of social, political and cultural power. Other notable achievements are Associate Professor Pam Sinnot's The Fishing Park, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Nanatsugama, Japan, 2006 and Associate Professor Allan Chawner's Horizon - Australie, Bibliotheque Universitaire La Rochelle, 2005.