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Malcolm McKinnon is an Australian artist and filmmaker working mainly in rural communities. Over the past 15 years, his work has encompassed oral history, urban planning, public and community art projects, critical writing and exhibitions. His current practice is mainly focused around documentary filmmaking and social history, motivated by an appreciation of living memory and local vernacular. |
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MALCOLM MCKINNON Born Melbourne, Australia 1962 Lives and works in Melbourne and in Pekina (South Australia) Film & multi-media projects (selected): • Heritage Victoria: St Kilda- from riches to rags and back again - Pod-tour providing insights to the architectural and social history of St Kilda, 2010. See http://heritage.vic.gov.au/Multimedia.aspx • City of Greater Geelong : “Memory Bank” - ongoing project to record personal stories of changing places across Geelong and surrounding areas, (2008 – 2010). See www.geelongaustralia.com.au/connectingidentities and http://www.murmurgeelong.com/ • Environment Victoria and the Murray Darling Basin Commission: “Gunbower-Koondrook-Pericoota Storylines" and "Hattah Storylines “ - digital storytelling projects to collect and disseminate personal stories of connection with iconic Murray River wetlands in north-west Victoria, 2008-2009. • Marree Arabunna People's Committee: “Growing Up Two Ways” – creation of six short films recording stories of life at Finniss Springs Aboriginal Mission (in collaboration with Reg Dodd), (2007 – 2008) • Heritage Victoria : “Viewbank” – a web-based interpretation of the archaeological excavation of a colonial homestead in suburban Melbourne (in collaboration with Tribal Media), (2008). • Castlemaine Regional Art Gallery & Museum: “Validating Women's Work in a New Nation” – short film interpreting the significance of the First Australian Exhibition of Women's Work staged in Melbourne in 1907 (2008) • South Australian History Trust: “Making Cars @ Tonsley Park” – short film documenting the closure of the Mitsubishi car manufacturing plant in Adelaide, produced for exhibition at the National Motor Museum, Adelaide, (2008). See www.history.sa.gov.au • Hupcap Productions & Asbestos Diseases Society of Victoria – creation of short films and other screen content for “Dust”, a theatrical performance about asbestos, disease and corporate responsibility (in collaboration with Donna Jackson), (2007 – 2008). See www.hubcapproductions.com.au • South Australian History Trust and Australian Department of Veteran's Affairs: ”Defining Times” – short film presenting South Australian stories of the Vietnam War and its aftermath, (2008). • Nowa Nowa Community Development Group: “Precious Little” – a short film about the culture of gleaning, improvising and making do in a small community in East Gippsland, Victoria, (2007). See www. nowanowa.com • Mildura Arts Centre and Museum Victoria: “Blandowski's Specimens” – short film about the legacies from an 1857 scientific expedition to the Murray and Darling Rivers, (2007). • Victorian Country Football League and State Library of Victoria: “Football Stories from Country Victoria” – artist in residence project producing short films and multi-media material for on-line exhibition, (2006 – 2007). • Melbourne Workers Theatre and CFMEU (Victoria): “We Built This City” – video work presenting stories by building industry workers, for presentation within large-scale performance event, (2005-2006). • Mildura Rural City Council: “Inspirational Feats” – creation of six short films about sporting heroes past and present from across the Sunraysia and Mallee. A community project and touring exhibition for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, (2006). See www.cv.vic.gov.au/CV/Stories/7945/?t=5077&s=7945 • “Triggered Stories” – project with five regional museums in South Australia & Victoria, developing multi-media installations to present local stories triggered by historic artefacts (2002 – 2006). (Project supported by an Australia Council Creative Fellowship). • Nukunu Peoples' Council and Melrose & Districts History Society - “Nukunu: Stories of Heritage & Identity”, a collaborative project to create a series of short films and related interpretive materials for permanent exhibition at Melrose Museum & Heritage Centre, (2004 – 2006). • Murray Arts Inc: “Stories of the Upper Murray” – project with community museums and local filmmakers in north-east Victoria, producing series of short films inspired by significant historic artefacts, sites and events, (2005.) • Museums Australia ( Victoria ): “Stories from Regional Victoria” – series of short films based around exhibitions developed by several regional museums throughout Victoria , for presentation at Melbourne Museum and distribution on DVD, (2004 – 2005). • Northern Regional Development Board & Marree Arabunna People's Committee, SA: “Living Two Ways” – series of short films for permanent exhibition at Marree Arabunna Museum, (2004). • Regional Arts Victoria & Horsham Agricultural Society: “Show Stories” – series of short films for presentation at “Meeting Place” national regional arts conference, Horsham (2004). • Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery & AusBulk Ltd, SA: “Talking Silos” – project with farmers and grain industry bodies leading to public art projection events and multi-media exhibition, (2003 – 2005). • Mackay Regional Tourism & Development Board: “Stepping Out of the Shadows”, a short documentary for permanent exhibition at the Australian South Sea Islander Meeting House, (2002). Curatorial projects (selected): • City of Greater Geelong: “Memory Bank”, an exhibition and web-site presenting personal stories of change across a range of Geelong localities, National Wool Museum, Geelong, 2008 • City of Melbourne : “Walk, Talk & Chalk”, an exhibition about the history and culture of parking enforcement, presented at City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall , 2007 • Horsham Regional Arts Association: Editor of book Dam Fine Yarms , a community writing project engaging communities across the Wimmera and Mallee, 2005 • Next Wave Festival: Development of public art project “Colliding Worlds”, involving artists and young people in four different communities across Victoria, 2003 – 2004 • Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne: “Memory and Place” project, sourcing material for permanent multi-media installation in ACMI Screen Lounge, 2002 • Marree Arabunna Peoples' Committee: Touring photographic exhibition “Working Together – Stories of Aboriginal Involvement in the Overland Telegraph & the Old Ghan Railway”. (Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute and other venues.) Collaboration with Reg Dodd, 2001 • Adelaide Festival of Arts: “Essential Truths, Readily to Hand”, a multi-venue project for the 2000 Adelaide Festival (curatorial collaboration with Reg Lynch), 1999 - 2000 Exhibitions (selected): |
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