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Personal profile
Biography
I am an artist, a teacher, and a scholar from Italy. I integrate the study of language, literature, and history with the study of the creative arts, art history, popular cultures, and media. Together with my students, I investigate how languages perform within cultures and vice versa, and explore notions of identity and nationhood in Italy and Europe through the lens of the performing and visual arts, and creative practices. My classes focus on the link between Italy and the rest of Europe, Australia, and beyond, emphasising the relationship between past and present, traditions and contemporaneity. This approach enables the analysis of phenomena such as migration, nation-building processes, criminality, gender performance from both a local and a global perspective, through a variety of mediums (from literature to images to music).
I have taught Italian language, history, art history, and culture for about 15 years at Italian and Australian Institutions, including at the Italian Institute of Culture in Melbourne and at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. I have extensive experience teaching in Primary and Secondary Education as well, to students of diverse social and cultural backgrounds and abilities, including special-need students. Empathy and the human touch are core aspects of my teaching approach, which is informed by my knowledge of embodied practices and performative strategies.
Formally trained in visual and performing arts, art history, theory and critic at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts (IT), I have then completed my PhD at Monash University (Centre for Theatre and Performance) in 2019 with a practice-led thesis in performance art. I have performed, exhibited, and presented my work internationally, including at BOAA – Biennale of Australian Art, Daegu Art Factory (SK), Performance Studies International Conference, the MAXXI Museum in Rome (IT), and the 12th Istanbul Biennial (TK). I have recently curated an exhibition of Australian performance artist Stelarc at the University of Biesko-Biala, PL (2021), where I will be a key-note speaker at the 3rd International Conference "Theatricality and Antitheatricality", in collaboration with the University of Buenos Aires, RA (2022).
Throughout the years, I have worked extensively as a researcher and a curator in interdisciplinary, community-engaged art projects both in Europe and Australia, in partnerships with institutions such as the Polytechnic of Turin (Architecture), UniCredit Bank (IT/DE), the Italian Ministry of Justice, and the City of Melbourne. Since 2019, I am a member of the Brimbank Arts Advisory Committee for Public Art & Community Engagement (Brimbank City Council, VIC). My interest in making socially-engaged, site-specific art within communities reflects in my research: I have published internationally on performance and public art, artivism, embodiment, documentation, and audience reception.
As an expat obsessed with the humans-space relationship and the socio-political aspect of art, I currently research on the body-place relationship, identity and sense of belonging as permeable processes, through a interdisciplinary and phenomenological approach.
I am a registered supervisor willing to supervise as Associate.
Research interests
Italian Studies; European Studies; Teaching & Learning Methodologies; Performance Studies; Performance Art & Embodied Practices; Practice-as-Research (PaR); Art History; Fine, Visual, and Performing Arts; Art & Activism (artivism); Space & Place Studies; Migration Studies; Participatory & Interdisciplinary Research.
Monash teaching commitment
ATS1222 - Italian Introductory 2
ATS2223 - Italian Intermediate 1
ATS2224 - Italian Intermediate 2
ATS2225/3225 - Italian Proficient 1
ATS3271 - European Languages Advanced 2
ATS3294 - European Languages Project
ATS2213 - Imagining Europe
ATS3293 - Power, place and people: European legacies, global resistance, and transculturation
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Theatre and Performance, PhD, Analysising the PErformance Art Process Through Union and Fragmentation: an Offer, MONASH UNIVERSITY
23 Feb 2015 → 13 Nov 2019
Award Date: 13 Nov 2019
Visual and Performing Arts, MA, Dov'e' Casa? (Where is Home?), Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin (IT)
Award Date: 19 Mar 2012
Fine Arts and Art History, Academic Diploma (Hons), Verso la Dea: l'Archetipo Femminile dalle Origini all'Arte Contemporanea (Toward the Goddess: the Feminine Archetype from the Origins to Contemporary Art), Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin (IT)
Award Date: 22 Oct 2007
External positions
Arts Advisory Committee Member, Brimbank City Council
1 Sept 2019 → …
Guest lecturer, Melbourne Italian Institute of Culture
Mar 2018 → Jun 2018
Italian Culture and Language (L2) Teacher (Italian Studies) , Melbourne Italian Institute of Culture
Jan 2018 → Jun 2018
Italian Art, Culture, Language (L2) Teacher (Italian Studies) , Centre of Italian Studies
Sept 2014 → Jul 2016
Art Tutor, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin (IT)
Nov 2011 → Oct 2013
Appointed Teacher, Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy))
Sept 2004 → Jan 2014
Research area keywords
- Art History
- Art Theory
- Italian Studies
- European Studies
- Performance Art
- Performing Arts
- Visual Arts
- Fine Arts
- Continental philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Space & Place
- Migration Studies
- Practice as Research
- Practice-based research
- Language & Culture
- Bodies
- Improvisation
- Learning and Teaching
- Performance Studies
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 6 Finished
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Melbourne 47 Site-Specific Performance Festival
Viora, A. & Grant, S.
1/06/16 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
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ABC Project – Art, Business, and Cooperation.
Viora, A., Seia, C. & Roberto, M. T.
1/10/11 → 31/03/12
Project: Research
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Performing (on) permeable layers of dwelling: B.O.D.Y. The Bureau of Domestic Yearning
Viora, A., 2023, In: Kritika Kultura. 40, p. 86-120 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A performative investigation of the agency of sound: Mapping the Sound/ Soundscape Portrait
Viora, A., Oct 2021, In: Australasian Drama Studies. 79, p. 81-118 38 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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From anonymous, objectified images to subjects mirroring multiple identities: performing The Foreigner(s)
Viora, A., 2021, In: Mobile Culture Studies. 7, p. 43-60 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Six Illuminated Videos
Viora, A., York-Pryce, S., Evangelista, A., Vionnet, C., Dramé, A., Agaronov, A. & Scally, W. D., 2021, In: Journal of Embodied Research . 4, 2, p. 31:25 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
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The Foreigner ‐ unknown unlabelled unexpected
Viora, A., 2019, In: Performing Ethos. 9, 1, p. 91-96 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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THE P.R.OMISED LAND: New Italians in Australia
Angela Viora (Director)
12 Sept 2023 → 22 Dec 2023Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Performance/exhibition
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Managing the Monash European Languages' Twitter Account
Angela Viora (Editor)
3 Mar 2023Activity: Other Teaching Engagements and non-HDR Supervisions › Online content/ delivery
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The Movers: Documentary Screening & Roundtable
Angela Viora (Director)
12 Sept 2023Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Angela Viora (Host) & Paul Bowker (Host)
17 Apr 2023Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic or industry visitor
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NGN - Next Generation Network Coordinator
Angela Viora (Executive Member), Paul Long (Executive Member) & Liz Thompson (Executive Member)
Mar 2023Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
Press/Media
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Not 'bru-shetta': The Italian bill that would ban the use of English and mispronunciation
4/04/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Bleeker M., Laine E., Metzger S., ‘How PSi Works: The Practice of Performance Studies’, Critical Stages/Scenes critiques, IACT Journal/Revue de l’AICT, June/Juin 2019: Issue No 19.
3/06/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Tomassini, Stefano. Tempo Fermo – Performance e Danza alla Prova dell’Impossibile, Scalpendi (Milan, IT), 2018.
Angela Viora & Stefano Tomassini
5/11/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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