Tony Schwensen

Research Project

An examination of interdisciplinary influences on the work and thought of Samuel Beckett and the subsequent influences adaptations and manifestations of his oeuvre on and in the work of selected performance artists whose work is performed for camera from the USA , Europe and Australia from the late 1950’s to the present.

Selected Citations and Publications since 2000

Angelouro D, What About Me, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 February 2004
Angelouro D, Begg to Differ, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 February 2005
Angelouro D, Show Us Your tassels, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 March 2005
Angelouro D, Bling It On, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 July 2005
Bullock N, Gardner A, Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales, (Published Catalogue) 2006
Chambers N, Video Hits, Queensland Art Gallery (Published Catalogue) 2004
Chapman C, Anywhere Now, Eyeline, Winter 2003
Chapman C, Sydney Round Up, Art Monthly, August 2002
Chapman C, Videoperformance :Tony Schwensen in Sydney, Art Monthly May 2005 Number 179
Dean B, Protesting Tyranny, Testing the Law,, No 71, Feb-Mar 2006
Dean B, A Desolation Too Real, Real Time, No 76, Dec06-Jan07
Engberg J, Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre For Contemporary Art, (Published Catalogue) 2004
Fenner F, Redlands Art Prize, (Published Catalogue), Mosman Art Gallery 2002
French B, FATWHITESTRAIGHTBALDGUY, (Published Catalogue), 2005
Gardiner S, The Ebb and Flow of Talk and Time, Broadsheet , Vol 35 No 3 2006
Gardner A, NEW05, Broadsheet, Vol 34 No 2, June-August 2005
Gawronski A, Problems in Paradise, Eyeline, Winter 2002
Geczy A, FATWHITESTRAIGHTBALDGUY, (Published Catalogue), 2005
Green C, Living Here Now, Art and Australia, Vol. 37 No 3, Autumn 2000
Higgins J, Re-Discovered Treasures, State of The Arts, 16 August 2005
Kelly L, Resistance through Ritual, (Published Catalogue) 2004
Loxley A, Havilah L, CTown Bling, (Published Catalogue), 2005
Loxley A, Art and About, Banner Project, City of Sydney, 2005
Loxley A, Confronting the Stereotype, Sydney Morning Herald,
14 August 2003
Loxley A, Gems behind the verbiage, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 April 2003
Loxley A, Redlands prize judges spoil, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 2002
Lumby C, Collecting Performance Art, Australian Art Collector 2001
Lumby C, Would You like Fries with That, Australian Style, October 2001
Markou J, Portable Table Dancing Shooting Gallery, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, (Published Catalogue) 2003
Mendelssohn J, Borderlining and Sedition, New Matilda, 14 December 2005, http://www.newmatilda.com/home/articledetail.asp?ArticleID=1221
Nelson R, Cycle Tracks will abound in Utopia, The Age, 31 August 2004
Ocampo YM, UGNAYAN 05 The Philippines International Performance Art Festival (Published Catalogue) 2005
O'Connell S, Australian Perspecta, Frieze, No 51, 2000
O’Neill J, Tony Schwensen : The Art of Watching , Eyeline 60, 2006
Schwensen T, Yellow Pages, Ecart Publications, Geneva Switzerland 2003
Smee S, Insight into Creatures of the Night, The Australian, 18 Oct 2004
Smee S, Face Value, The Australian, 23 April 2005
Smee S, Capturing The Community, The Australian ,16 July 2005
Smee S, Spring Loaded, The Australian, 17 September 2005
Strahan L, Dances With Irony, The Age, October 2003
Taylor E, National Sculpture Prize, (Published Catalogue), 2005
Titmarsh M, Time and Tide, Art Monthly, No160, June 2003
Webb V, New Acquisitions In Context, (Published Catalogue) 2005
Zagala S, Post Contemporary Painting, (Published Catalogue) 2004

Publications authored by Schwensen

Editors, A. Geczy, B. French and N Tsoutas, On Reason and Emotion 2004 Biennale of Sydney : Criticism Response and Thought, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney 2004 Pg 98
Editor D.Broker, Photofile Issue 71, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney,2004
Justene Williams , in 2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art catalogue, Art gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Pg 44

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
Rise , AFTERMATH: International Performance/Installation Projects, Artspace, Sydney
Plowing Back, Collingwood House, Liverpool Regional Museum, Liverpool
TransScandanavia, Downtown Artspace, Adelaide

2006
Complain about Australia to an Australian,
Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2005
Uplands gallery, Melbourne
Level, Artspace, Sydney
FATWHITESTRAIGHTBALDGUY, Videoperformance 1999-2005
The Performance Space, Sydney

2004
Lag, Artspace, Sydney

2003
Portable Table Dancing Shooting Gallery, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Errors of Judgement, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
No Waugh, Front Room, Sydney


Selected Group Exhibitions

2007
Looking Back, Macquarie University Art Gallery
Nightime#1, The Performance Space, Sydney
Yeah But No But, SNO, Sydney

2006
Inport IV – International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallin, Estonia
Yours, Mine and Ours 50 Years of ABC TV,
Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
Anne Landa Award for Moving Image and New Media,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
En Accion, Zonadearte, Buenos Aries, Argentina,
Tomorrow Again, Artspace, Sydney
Someone shows something to someone, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
14th International Congress for Performance Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland
Where Angels Tread, South Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Adelaide
Play : Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and NZ, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
+Plus Factors, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

2005
Artists against Sedition, (With Steven Holland),
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula
Play : Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and NZ, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Art and About, Banner Project, City of Sydney
UGNAYAN O5, The Philippines International Performance Art Festival,
Ateneo Art Gallery and University of the East, Manila, The Philippines
New Acquisitions in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Don’t Look Now, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
National Sculpture Prize, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
CTown Bling, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown
Placard Project, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Portraiture and Performance in Recent Video Art from Australia and NZ, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
National Sculpture Prize, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
CTown Bling, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown

2004
Night Vision, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Yellow Pages, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Ritual and Resistance, Westspace, Melbourne
Post Contemporary Painting, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Video Hits, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Surface Tension- The Artist in The Image, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

2003
Happy Hour, Briefcase, Sydney
Front Room, Sydney
Ten, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Boofheads and Scrubbers Revenge, Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith
ART 34, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Impacts of War and Migration, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula
Anywhere Now, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney
The Armory Show, Sarah Cottier Gallery, New York, USA

Awards

1997
New Work Development Grant, Visual Arts Fund, Australia Council

1998
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, NSW Ministry for the Arts

2003
New Work Development Grant, Visual Arts Fund, Australia Council

Residencies

2007
University of Sydney Power Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

2002
Tokyo, Japan

1999-2001
Stichting BAD, Rotterdam

1998
Artspace, Sydney

Teaching

2006
Lecturer, Foundation Studies, Sydney College of the Arts,
The University of Sydney
Lecturer, Painting Studio Theory, Sydney College of the Arts,
The University of Sydney

2005
Lecturer, Foundation Studies, Sydney College of the Arts,
The University of Sydney
Lecturer, Painting Studio Theory, Sydney College of the Arts,
The University of Sydney
Lecturer, Screen Arts, University of Western Sydney- Nepean
Lecturer, Video Art Advanced, University of Western Sydney- Nepean

2004
Lecturer, Foundation Studies, Sydney College of the Arts,
The University of Sydney





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