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Eddie Paterson

Assoc. Professor In Creative Writing-Scriptwriting
Culture and Communication
arts & humanities
theater
performance
performing arts and creative writing
poetry
performing arts
disability
literature
literary reviews
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Eddie Paterson

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Contemporary performance
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Projects

Displaying the 4 most recent projects by Eddie Paterson.

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Project Title The evolution of disability arts in Australia

2021 - 2024
Active
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Disability and the Performing Arts in Australia: Beyond the Social Model

This project aims to explore how the creative and aesthetic value of contemporary Australian disability theatre, dance and live performance ..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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Disability and the Performing Arts in Australia: Beyond the Social Model

This project aims to explore how the creative and aesthetic value of contemporary Australian disability theatre, dance and live performance ..

2016 - 2020
Completed
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POWER AND PERFORMANCE: REVALUING THEATRE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

This project aims to examine the changing function of the theatre in Western culture. For millennia, theatre has been valued as a way to bri..

2016 - 2020
Completed

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Eddie Paterson.

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Hold On: Australian innovations in access aesthetics

Sarah Austin, Eddie Paterson, Madeleine LIttle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australasian Drama Studies

This co-authored article examines the use of aesthetic access technologies and processes in both rehearsal and production of conte..

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Once Upon a Pixel: Storytelling and Worldbuilding in Video Games

Eddie Paterson, Timothy Simpson-Williams, Will Cordner

Book  |  2020

Once Upon a Pixel examines the increasing sophistication of storytelling and worldbuilding in modern video games.

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Compost and Air-conditioning Beyond biospherical performance and towards the shimmer

Eddie Paterson

Journal article  |  2019  |  PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Drawing on Bruno Latour‘s Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018), this essay links compost, and the biological ..

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The last avant garde?

Sarah Austin, Kath Duncan, Gerard Goggin, Lachlan MacDowall, Veronica Pardo, Eddie Paterson, JJ Brown, M Collett, F Cook, B Hadley, K Hood, J Kapuscinski-Evans, D McDonald, J McNamara, G Mellis, E Sifis, K Sulan

Book Chapter  |  2019

This chapter explores 'disability aesthetics' not as a set of specific techniques, themes, or politics, but in order to position d..

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Conclusion: practicing interdependency, sharing vulnerability, celebrating complexity - the future of disability arts, culture, and media research

E Paterson, Bree Hadley, Donna McDonald, Sarah Austin, Kath Duncan, undefined et al

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Performance in the Biosphere: or, a theatre of things

Edward Paterson

Book Chapter  |  2019

Drawing on Peter Sloterdijk’s Sphere Trilogy (2013, 2014, 2016), this chapter analyses the Flower Dome biome of Singapore’s ‘Garde..

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Compost and Air-conditioning: Beyond biospherical performance and towards the shimmer

Edward Paterson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts

Drawing on Bruno Latour‘s Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018), this essay links compost, and the biological ..

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Labourscrape*

E Paterson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Performance Research

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Introduction: Performance Climates

E Paterson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Global Performance Studies Journal

Guest Editor Introduction to GPS 1.2, Performance Climates

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Labourscrape

Eddie Paterson

Original Creative Work - Textual Work  |  2018  |  Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Creative and Professional Writing
Communication
Expanding Knowledge
Performing Arts
Arts
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Literary Studies
Music
Other Culture and Society

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2013

Project title: Performances of Life: the social, political, and economic contexts of biomedicine in Singapore, China and Japan.

Singapore Academic Research Fund (AcRF)
2013

Project Title: Beyond Access - a collaborative project with Arts Access Victoria, Dr Lachlan Macdowell and Dr Winsome Roberts

Lord Major's Charitable Foundation
2008

Australian Council for the Arts

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Assoc. Professor In Creative Writing-Scriptwriting

Culture and Communication

Member - Organising Committee Of 2016 Psi Conference

PSi: Performance Studies International, Development Officer - Board Member

Member

ADSA: Australasian Drama Studies Association

Board Member

University of Melbourne Theatre, Board Member

Education

Doctor of Philosophy: Creative Arts

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hons)

University of Melbourne

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