A dramatic dance choreographed by Shona Erskine and presented at The Blue Room Theatre, 26 November – 14 December 2019, Love You, Stranger tells three true crime stories of Australian women. Vahri McKenzie researched the cases of Audrey Jacob, Ellen Thomson and Martha Rendell to…
Narrowcast is a durational performance artwork presented in Bunbury Regional Art Galleries in which the artists install a radio studio in BRAG’s Convent Gallery and ‘narrowcast’ during opening hours for one week. In this improvised speech-as-sound artwork, content creation is secondary to an exploration of…
Bio
Dr Vahri McKenzie is an educator, artist and scholar, with teaching expertise across a number of creative arts practices, including contemporary performance and creative writing, where these are linked by understandings of creativity as a phenomenon that can be taught and learned, experienced and shared.
Research areas and interests include theories and practices of contemporary performing arts; creativity; improvisation, collaboration and embodiment in creativity; artistic research design and methodologies; theories and practices of writing; artistic responses to science and technology.
Vahri is Honorary Senior Lecturer within the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.