Dr Ellen (Elly) Kent
Areas of expertise
- Art Theory And Criticism 1901
- Art History 190102
- Performance And Installation Art 190504
- Visual Arts And Crafts Not Elsewhere Classified 190599
- Asian Cultural Studies 200202
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Translation And Interpretation Studies 200323
- Indonesian Languages 200313
Research interests
Indonesia, Indonesian language, contemporary art, Southeast Asian art, socially-engaged and participatory art practice, museums and galleries, museum education, environmental activism, artivism, gender relations in cultural practice, centre-periphery constructs, modernity and social change
Biography
Dr Elly Kent is a visual artist, writer, translator and researcher. She is also the editor of the New Mandala, a digital platform for new scholarly perspectives on Southeast Asia. Her doctoral research examined the historical precedents for participatory art in Indonesia and its contemporary manifestations. She has worked with national and regional galleries, has extensive experience in managing soft-diplomacy projects with youth and students as well as teaching art and design in tertiary and institutional settings in Australia and Indonesia. Elly was a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Australia-Asia Postgraduate Award and was the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s emerging artist award in 2012.
Publications
- Kent, E 2020, 'Critical Recycling: Post-Consumer Waste as Medium and Meaning in Contemporary Indonesian Art', Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 73-98.
- Kent, E 2019, 'Traditions of Dissent: Contemporary "Artivism" in Indonesia', TAASA Review: the Journal of the Asian Art Society of Australia, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 16-17.
- Kent, E 2019, 'Arts: Visual Arts and Artists: Indonesia', in Suad Joseph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (Online), Brill, Leiden.
- Kent, E 2013, 'Making it to Bandung', Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 139-150.
