Dr Elizabeth Presa
Head
The Centre for Ideas
Elizabeth Presa's research focuses on the poetics of the text. She is a sculptor and installation artist who has exhibited in Australia, Asia and the United States.
In 2002 she was artist-in-residence at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, and the recipient of the Power Institute Scholarship for a six-month residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. In 2004 Éditions Galilée, Paris, presented an exhibition of her work made in response to Chaque Fois Unique by Jacques Derrida, which was later exhibited at the Musee de Livres D' Artistes Contemporains.
In 2005 she undertook research in Paris on Maurice Blanchot's evocation of L'Inconnue de la Seine which culminated in an installation Moon Water, MARS Gallery, Melbourne. The catalogue for this exhibition contains critical essays by Jean-Luc Nancy and Andrew Benjamin. Her research on the interconnections between Rodin, Rilke and Blanchot is published in After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism and Philosophy (University of Delaware, 2006).
In 2006 she was awarded a three month residency by the French Government to develop video installations based on works in the collection of the Louvre Museum. She has presented installation work Baruch Spinoza’s ‘Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow and JJ Rousseau's ‘Confessions’ . Five College’s Women’s Research Centre, Massachusetts have awarded her a Research Fellowship to develop work on St Teresa of Avila.
Elizabeth Presa's work is featured in Verwisch Die Spuren (Diaphanes) by the philosopher Alexander Garcia Düttmann.
Qualifications
Dip. Sculpture, VCA; post-Grad. Dip Art Phillip Institute; BA Hons, Uni Melb; M.A. Monash; PhD Monash
Employment History
RMIT (Bundoora campus) Art History dept
Prahran Sculpture Department, Victoria College
School of Art VCA
Qualifications
Dip. Sculpture, VCA; post-Grad. Dip Art Phillip Institute; BA Hons, Uni Melb; M.A. Monash; PhD Monash
Employment History
RMIT (Bundoora campus) Art History dept
Prahran Sculpture Department, Victoria College
School of Art VCA