Papers by Dr Zsuzsanna [Zsuzsi] Soboslay
Features major education, employment, performance projects, publications and awards.
IJEA: International Journal of Education and the Arts, 25(sil.7), 2024
In this 'Intermezzo', I discuss artistic work (Dance, Photography and Vdieo) created in response ... more In this 'Intermezzo', I discuss artistic work (Dance, Photography and Vdieo) created in response to the devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20. The fires devastated some 24 million hectares of urban and rural habitat
around Australia, disrupted travel and commerce, claimed the lives of 33 people, and destroyed over 3000 homes.They served as a prelude to
multiple climate disasters, including the horrific floods and fires of 2023 in the northern hemisphere.
To produce work as a performance-maker in relation to these and coming events, challenges what I think I am doing on aesthetic, intellectual, ethical, cultural, and interpersonal levels. I consider what the body is and becomes through such experiences, and grapple with. several key ontological questions such as: what exactly is there to care for, of ourselves and
the landscape, after episodes of such deep trauma?
I propose that our bodies, as ecosystems within larger ecosystems, are the primary tool(s) of. inquiry to find answers to these questions, because they already understand systemic. relationality, volatility, and adaptation. They include and refer to the lands we inhabit, and. they are the lens through which we experience and can transform the world. I suggest that their/our inter-
relationality and sensibilities can potentially help us find ways forward, through and beyond the crises—both ones we have already experienced, and those ahead of us, into uncertain futures.
Art monthly Australia, Apr 1, 2009
The key features of the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic visual narrative from the Middle Ages which depi... more The key features of the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic visual narrative from the Middle Ages which depicts an important episode in English and French history are discussed. The influence of the Bayeux embroidery on 'Growing Home', the work by Elizabeth Patterson is also highlighted.
This thesis is centred in four key questions: 1. How has care been theorised? 2. How do community... more This thesis is centred in four key questions: 1. How has care been theorised? 2. How do community arts and cultural development (CACD) practices accommodate care? 3. How might CACD practices enable and extend the field of care ethics, and 4. What concepts and presumptions might inhibit such practices? Part 1 begins with a literature review of care ethics and feminist care ethics (FCE) since the 1980s, discussing the field's broad social, political and interpersonal reach. It investigates the relevance of 'vulnerable methods' as the primary methodology of this investigation. I discuss benchmark terms in contemporary socially engaged practices (CACD) and ask whether such terms do or do not serve 'deep care' values.
Art monthly Australia, Dec 1, 2009
Mandy Martin is a contemporary Australian artist who presented her painting work in an exhibition... more Mandy Martin is a contemporary Australian artist who presented her painting work in an exhibition which highlights the industrial landscapes from the 1980s. Many of her paintings presented the apocalyptic visions of larger paintings.
The Canberra Times, 2010
A consideration of adaptive processes practiced by artists in immersive processes, with reference... more A consideration of adaptive processes practiced by artists in immersive processes, with reference to a partnership between Craft ACT Craft and Design Centre and Naitonal Parks, Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage Residencies, 2010.
The Canberra Times, 2010
A discussion of the significance of the perspectives of landcare practices, as interrogated by tw... more A discussion of the significance of the perspectives of landcare practices, as interrogated by two artists in residence at the Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottages in Namadge National Park, NSW, in 2010.
The Canberra Times, 2011
This is an article, published in The Canberra Times in 2011, celebrating the perspectives and pro... more This is an article, published in The Canberra Times in 2011, celebrating the perspectives and process afforded artists-in-residency at Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage in Namadgi National Park, just south of the Australian Capital Territory. The Residencies are jointly managed by Craft ACT--Craft and Design Centre, and National Parks. The artists discussed are textile artist Paull McKee and glass artist Kirstie Rea.
Curriculum Vitae--academic, publications, teaching, performance and work experience
Routledge eBooks, Mar 3, 2023
Mandy Martin is a contemporary Australian artist who presented her painting work in an exhibition... more Mandy Martin is a contemporary Australian artist who presented her painting work in an exhibition which highlights the industrial landscapes from the 1980s. Many of her paintings presented the apocalyptic visions of larger paintings.
This thesis examines aesthetics and care values in five case studies of working with vulnerable p... more This thesis examines aesthetics and care values in five case studies of working with vulnerable people and fragile subjects. It argues for the place of precarity, ‘not knowing’ and vulnerable authority. It shows how deep care in community arts creates a new aesthetic and ‘pays forward’ to future generations. The results in community can be transformative.
The key features of the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic visual narrative from the Middle Ages which depi... more The key features of the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic visual narrative from the Middle Ages which depicts an important episode in English and French history are discussed. The influence of the Bayeux embroidery on 'Growing Home', the work by Elizabeth Patterson is also highlighted.
Mandy Martin is a contemporary Australian artist who presented her painting work in an exhibition... more Mandy Martin is a contemporary Australian artist who presented her painting work in an exhibition which highlights the industrial landscapes from the 1980s. Many of her paintings presented the apocalyptic visions of larger paintings.
RealTime, 2014
This is a review of Vanessa Bates' The Magic Hour, presented at The Street Theatre, Canberra in 2... more This is a review of Vanessa Bates' The Magic Hour, presented at The Street Theatre, Canberra in 2014 by Performing Lines. The article was published in RealTime issue #122 Aug-Sept 2014.
Art Montly Australia, 2009
Elizabeth Patterson is a Canberra-based artist who has created a significant body of work over th... more Elizabeth Patterson is a Canberra-based artist who has created a significant body of work over three decades. Growing Home is a papier mache installation that reads like a long narrative poem on the planning and planting of the street trees of Canberra. The article discusses the influence of the medieval Bayeux Tapestry on the form and symobisation of the work.
Art Monthly Australia, 2009
Vale Mandy Martin, who died after a long illness in 2021. Her epic and often apocalyptic works ar... more Vale Mandy Martin, who died after a long illness in 2021. Her epic and often apocalyptic works are significant to the arts and environment movement. This is a review of an exhibition of her works in 2009.commissioned by Art Monthly Australia.
Care ethics and art. , 2021
This chapter--published in a book of collected essays on art, care and environment--is an essay w... more This chapter--published in a book of collected essays on art, care and environment--is an essay with illustrations on the dialogic and physical labour of relational and ecological repair. The authors assess personal, environmental and social damage and in a combination of poetic, theoretical and visual discourses, discuss breaks, wounds, seams, adhesions, resistances, lability and 'unfinished business'. Where and how do we stand, exist, following, and preceding damage? Who is responsible/response-enabled? How do we mend fractures in fraught times?
In answering from the limits of our experiences, our bodies, our languages and our propensity for certain metaphors of sight and hearing above others, we think: What also speaks? What senses have we not heard? What creatures, energies, atmospheres have we not documented? To what have we failed to pay attention?
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Papers by Dr Zsuzsanna [Zsuzsi] Soboslay
around Australia, disrupted travel and commerce, claimed the lives of 33 people, and destroyed over 3000 homes.They served as a prelude to
multiple climate disasters, including the horrific floods and fires of 2023 in the northern hemisphere.
To produce work as a performance-maker in relation to these and coming events, challenges what I think I am doing on aesthetic, intellectual, ethical, cultural, and interpersonal levels. I consider what the body is and becomes through such experiences, and grapple with. several key ontological questions such as: what exactly is there to care for, of ourselves and
the landscape, after episodes of such deep trauma?
I propose that our bodies, as ecosystems within larger ecosystems, are the primary tool(s) of. inquiry to find answers to these questions, because they already understand systemic. relationality, volatility, and adaptation. They include and refer to the lands we inhabit, and. they are the lens through which we experience and can transform the world. I suggest that their/our inter-
relationality and sensibilities can potentially help us find ways forward, through and beyond the crises—both ones we have already experienced, and those ahead of us, into uncertain futures.
In answering from the limits of our experiences, our bodies, our languages and our propensity for certain metaphors of sight and hearing above others, we think: What also speaks? What senses have we not heard? What creatures, energies, atmospheres have we not documented? To what have we failed to pay attention?
around Australia, disrupted travel and commerce, claimed the lives of 33 people, and destroyed over 3000 homes.They served as a prelude to
multiple climate disasters, including the horrific floods and fires of 2023 in the northern hemisphere.
To produce work as a performance-maker in relation to these and coming events, challenges what I think I am doing on aesthetic, intellectual, ethical, cultural, and interpersonal levels. I consider what the body is and becomes through such experiences, and grapple with. several key ontological questions such as: what exactly is there to care for, of ourselves and
the landscape, after episodes of such deep trauma?
I propose that our bodies, as ecosystems within larger ecosystems, are the primary tool(s) of. inquiry to find answers to these questions, because they already understand systemic. relationality, volatility, and adaptation. They include and refer to the lands we inhabit, and. they are the lens through which we experience and can transform the world. I suggest that their/our inter-
relationality and sensibilities can potentially help us find ways forward, through and beyond the crises—both ones we have already experienced, and those ahead of us, into uncertain futures.
In answering from the limits of our experiences, our bodies, our languages and our propensity for certain metaphors of sight and hearing above others, we think: What also speaks? What senses have we not heard? What creatures, energies, atmospheres have we not documented? To what have we failed to pay attention?
This document was edited and revised in 2014, and updated in 2020.