Vahri McKenzie – Artist | Educator

Latest Projects

“Kind regards”: Negotiating connection to Country and place through collective storying

Somerville, W.; McKenzie, V.; Fuller, L.; Godden, N.; Harrison, A.; Isaacs-Guthridge, R. & Turner, B. (2023). “Kind regards”: Negotiating connection to Country and place through collective storying. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 39(3), 1–13. doi:10.1017/aee.2023.24 Within this paper we explore the process and outcomes of …

I THINK THINGS ARE PRECIOUS

McKenzie, Vahri. (2023). I think things are precious. Axon: Creative Explorations Text|Page|Art 13 (1). DOI: 10.54375/001/k4vz5gp93t A work of expanded short fiction that tells a story about a kid set the task of writing one hundred lines as a punishment. It responds to Emmett Williams’s …

Re-enactment as Conversation: Yoshiko Shimada’s Becoming a Statue of a Japanese Comfort Woman

McKenzie, V. and Webb, J. (2023). Re-enactment as Conversation: Yoshiko Shimada’s Becoming a Statue of a Japanese Comfort Woman. In Frederick, U.K., Harrison, A., Ireland, T., & Magee, J. M. (eds.), Difficult Conversations. British Council. Yoshiko Shimada is a contemporary artist immersed in difficult conversations. …

Bio

Dr Vahri McKenzie is an educator, artist and scholar whose work frames creative engagement as a model of, and practice for, ways of being together in a complex world.

Her research areas and interests include artistic research design and methodologies; theories and practices of contemporary performing arts; theories and practices of writing; relationality and agency in creative practice; artistic responses to science and technology.

Vahri is Course Co-ordinator, BA (Arts and Cultural Management) in the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the University of Canberra’s Centre for Creative and Cultural Research.

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