Writing: essays/scripts/reviews/projects


PUBLISHED WORKS OF ART IN TEXT FORM
Hibberd, L. (2007) “Endless summer”, a monologue for an installation at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces. (100%). This work explores the frontier of memory, subjectivity and the spectacle of vision through one man’s recollection of the past in his collection of sunglasses, documented as photographs with a voice-over narration.
Hibberd, L. (2006) “The Perfect Future Game”, a script for an installation at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (100%). This is a play in seven acts, written in the form of a closet drama. The form of the text refers to Plato's dialogs and Beckett’s Endgame (1957) in functioning as a philosophical proposition.
Hibberd, L. (2001) “Atavis: Burning Collective Memory”, screenplay to accompany exhibition, Burning Memory (100%). Completed as a Master of Fine Art research project in 2001, Burning Memory comprised an installation of paintings, documentary video, and a paper in the form of a screenplay. The thesis explored the transformations of human perception, vision and memory at the advent of cinema in early 20th century, with a focus on the Deleuzean notion of the ‘time-image’ (1989). Gerhard Richter’s Atlas and the “Baader-Meinhof” series (October 18, 1977) were examined as repositories and representations of collective and individual memory.

PUBLISHED FEATURE ARTICLES and ESSAYS
Hibberd, L. (2007) “ The punctiform arabesque” Natalya Hughes’ exhibition essay, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
……….. (2007) “un Magazine”, Too near too far exhibition catalogue text, at C/O careof gallery, Milan
………... (2006) “Impossible lightness”, The Artreader, Asia Pacific Triennial (APT)5 companion, p.1
……... (2006) “A legitimate disguise: when fiction redresses the documentary”, The Artreader, APT5, p.13
……….. (2005) “Matthew Griffin: Disappointment Now”, un Magazine, Autumn issue/3, pp.20-21 (100%).
………... (2005) “Peter Burke: Serial personalities, serial interventionist”, Photofile issue 75, pp.46-49
………... (2005) “Where have all the people gone?” Photofile issue 73, pp. 34-39 (100%).
…... (2004) “Assorted thoughts on the work of Laresa Kosloff”, un Magazine, Summer issue/2, pp.9-11

PUBLISHED REVIEWS
Hibberd, L. (2007) “Asia-Pacfic Triennial (APT)5”, ARTiT issue 14, Japan, p.024
………... (2007) “Anne Landa Award”, ARTiT issue 14, Japan, p.010
………... (2005) “Yokohama Triennale 2005”, un Magazine, Summer issue/6, pp.67-69
……….. (2005) “Justine Khamara: Legion”, un Magazine, Spring issue/5, pp.32-33
………... (2005) “Sharon Green: Dark Silence”, Photofile issue 74, pp. 71-73
……….. (2004) “Exhibitions at Spacement & Containers at Federation Square”, RealTime, online No 63
………... (2004) “Light made dark”, RealTime, No. 59, February-March, p.32

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
1. Founding and managing Editor, un Magazine issues #1–#7, 2004-2006.
An independent art journal, based in Melbourne and voluntarily run by a group of artists, writers and curators. The project was initiated as an effort to develop a critical dialogue around local contemporary art practice in Melbourne, but reached a wide national and international audience. As Editor, I oversaw the management of the magazine’s content, design, distribution, promotion, financial planning, and copy editing, as well as contributing to many of the seven issues.
2. Co-editor (with Bullock N. curator AGNSW), “Shifting Ground”, Photofile 76, 2005/6.
Photofile is an Australian contemporary photography magazine. Guest editors are invited to develop a theme, design content, select and commission authors and artists’ works, edit and proofread content and contribute to the final design consultation process. For this issue, Natasha Bullock and I published on a theme of land and landscape, with a particular focus on contemporary political photography.
3. Editor, Rapt! weblog to accompany exhibition program, Rapt!: 20 contemporary artists from Japan, 2006. An independent initiative, aimed to share experiences of the collaborative exchange program developed by the Japan Foundation for the year of Japan-Australia exchange in 2006. I commissioned and edited all of the articles, and made a number of contributions.

CONFERENCES and CONFERENCE PAPERS
Presenter AAANZ conference, "Whither Feminisms", Monash University, Caulfield, December 2006
Why write about art? paper Hatched Symposium, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, May 2005

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Artistic counsel member, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, 2007 (current).
Curatorial advisory team, Rapt!: 20 contemporary artists from Japan, 2005-2006.
Assessment panel, Arts Development Creation Fund, Arts Victoria, 2005.

KEY PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Panellist, Newcastle Young Writers Festival (TINA), October 2006.
Panellist, Melbourne Art Fair Forum, Futures for art criticism, National Gallery of Victoria, August 2006.
Panellist, Artist Run Initiatives, 2006 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts Artists’ Week, March 2006.
Panellist, “Fostering the critical voice”, Vital Signs, RMIT conference, September 2005.
Ethics and the Arts, Centre for Ideas Professional Development Seminar presentation, 2004-2006.
Panellist, Artists and money, Survivor VCA alumni seminar, 2004.