This public program at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) was devised by Lucinda Strahan in collaboration with ACCA’s Curator for Public Programs Anabelle Lacroix. It received seed funding from the non/fictionLab to produce a program publication, to be launched February 2019. The program ran in October and November 2018 alongside the exhibition Eva Rothschild: Kosmos, drawing on Lucinda’s research into the essay and Rosalind Krauss’ concept of ‘the expanded field’ to explore new methodologies for art writing and criticism.

The HDRLab is a meet-up and workshopping group for Higher Degree by Research students in the non/fictionLab. HDRs in the non/fictionLab produce creative and scholarly work across design, photography, writing, audio and film-based media.

Rabbit publishes poems, reviews, essays on poetry and poetics, interviews with poets, visual art, and ‘homework for readers’, with an emphasis on bringing Australian poetry to local and international audiences.

The Flipped PRS experiments with approaches to creative practice to inform research and teaching. This groups flips the learning model to give staff the PRS student experience.

WrICE brings together a new group of five Australian and five Asia-Pacific writers each year for a collaborative residency in Asia followed by a reciprocal event in Melbourne.

Peta Murray’s acclaimed PhD project, Essayesque Dismemoir: w/rites of elder-flowering, concerned the lived experience of ageing – especially in one’s artistic practice – and the particular arts-based methodology she devised to speak to that experience. The Thesis is Present(ed), a live performance of this hybrid work, was staged over three weeks in the Urban Writing House as enacted research, exploring what this arts-based doctoral thesis might become.

This project seeks to bring performative, comedic and theatrical devices to some of the tropes and stereotypes of academia, with a view to queering and questioning some of the more gendered connotations of scholarly life, while also expanding notions of academic impact and engagement beyond traditional channels.

non/fictionLab Spotlight showcases the creative works of Lab members in an informal, Salon-style series of events, with drinks. Spotlight provides an opportunity for appreciation of our creative sides.

The Symphony of Awkward is a research collective of writers and filmmakers all dedicated to the scholarship of the emergent field of juvenile diary studies in their written and performed state.