Mimi Kelly is a Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. Her research sits at the intersection of art, popular culture and feminism. She has a particular interest in performance art and photomedia, having studied a Bachelor of Visual Arts, First Class Honours, at the University of South Australia, majoring in photography. Prior to her academic employment, she worked for 14 years in the arts sector. She has extensive experience managing multidimensional cultural and curatorial projects operating across diverse geographic sites, working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders from government to community organisations. Her previous employment was at the Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture at the University of Sydney. She commenced her career at the Australian Network for Art and Technology and was Visual Arts Coordinator for the Adelaide Festival. She then worked as Manager of Exhibitions and Gallery Development for Museums and Galleries of NSW, and following this, oversaw the delivery of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia's large-scale digital touring project Digital Odyssey. Her publications include book chapters, journal and magazine articles, and catalogue essays. She is co-editor of What Is Performance Art? Writings on Contemporary Performance Art (Power Publications, 2018). Her most recent journal article (with Dr Victoria Souliman) is “Bodily Illness and Care in Charlotte Abramow’s Surrealistic Self-Curated Publication ‘Maurice: tristesse et rigolade’”, Australian Society of French Studies journal special issue, in press. She completed her PhD through Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney, in 2019. Her art website is: mimikelly.com

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