Dr Keely Macarow
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Position |
Associate Professor |
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School / |
Art |
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Contact Details |
+(61 3) 9925 5208 |
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Location |
Building: 39 |
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College/Portfolio |
Design & Social Context |
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Key activities
Dr Keely Macarow is Director of Research and Innovation in the School of Art.
Keely’s research interests are focused on the home and homelands, diaspora and forced migration, memoir and fiction, disease, health and wellbeing, HIV and cancer.
Her film, video and exhibition projects have been presented in Australia, the UK, the US, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, France, Scotland and Denmark.
Qualifications
BA, RMIT, 1993; MA, LCP, The London Institute, 1995;
PhD, Uni of Melb, 2006.
Professional interests
Keely completed her PhD in 2006 at the University of Melbourne, where she explored the lived experience of people affected by HIV/AIDS and cancer in film, video and photographic works produced during 1961 – 2004 by artists and activists from the US, South Africa, England, Canada, France and Australia.
In 2007, Keely received an RMIT Emerging Researchers Grant for the Activist, artistic and cultural responses to the HIV pandemic in South Africa project to research how South African AIDS activists, artists, filmmakers and public health researchers are responding to HIV and AIDS.
Keely's video work is represented in collections of The Lux (UK), the Institute of Contemporary Art, (London), the British Council and the Modern Image Makers Association (now Experimenta, Australia).
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