Melbourne Symposium on current audience research across artforms
Date: Wednesday 14 March 2018
Location: Deakin Downtown, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
The first public event in Australia: a symposium on current audience research across the artforms was held on 14 March 2018.
The symposium comprised of keynote speeches from Dr Caroline Heim (Queensland University of Technology) on The Performing Audience, and Lisa Walsh (Research Manager, Australia Council) on The Participating Audience; featured academic and practitioner papers as well as discussions on audience research techniques, challenges, impacts and trends.
To see photographs from the day (Jason Smith Photography)
Speakers and Presentations
- Lisa Walsh, Australia Council for the Arts
The Participating Audience - Dr Tully Barnett, Flinders University and Dr Mark Taylor, University of Sheffield
Audiences or publics; value or benefit: digging in the data for new ways of understanding audiences - John Smithies, Cultural Development Network (CDN) and RMIT
Imperatives in policy and planning for audience research: The White Box tool to support evidence-based, outcome-focussed work - Dr Amanda Krause and Professor Jane Davidson, The University of Melbourne
Exploring modern-day audience response to historical artworks through multi-pronged methods - Saara Moisio, University of Helsinki
How to Study the Spectator’s Process of Value Creation? A Case Study of Contemporary Dance Spectators - Ross Coulter
The Artists’ Audience - Matthew Reason, York St John University
The Particularly Implicated Spectator: Authenticity, Closeness and Distance - Heather Robinson, Flinders University
In the Eye of the Beholder: exploring the application of a “Neo-Institutional” approach to report the meaning and value generated by the State Library of South Australia - Simon Piening, Australian Stage Online
The idea of audience: Conceptualizing Audience Engagement - Dr Caroline Heim, Queensland University of Technology
The Performing Audience: Capturing Relational Theatre Experience - Associate Professor Paul Rae and Abbie Trott, The University of Melbourne, Jeremy Rice, Melbourne Theatre Company
‘I don’t know why I cried, but I did’: Researching Affective Impact in Melbourne Theatre Company’s Education Programme