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Dr. Laresa Kosloff is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University's School of Art, located on the City Campus in Melbourne, Australia. She has been with RMIT since 2012 and is open to supervising Masters and PhD students in areas such as the performing body in art, humor, conceptual art, and video art.
Her research interests focus on the body's agency within everyday contexts, employing strategies like slapstick physicality and narrative overlays. She has exhibited widely, including at the Institute Modern Art (Brisbane), Monash Prato Centre (Italy), and Artspace Sydney. Her work explores themes of humor, tension between cultural values, and individual agency.
Awards and Recognition:
- Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize (2023)
- Incinerator Art for Social Change Award (2021)
- Guirguis New Art Prize Winner (2019)
- Finalist, 67th Blake Art Prize (2022)
Advising and Collaborations: Laresa has supervised numerous research projects, including Bogeybabies – an exorcism of the virtual damaged child figure (2024) and Theres no going back: chaos and destruction as compositional strategies in performance and video (2023). She collaborates with institutions like Buxton Contemporary and Sutton Gallery.
Labs and Teams: While no specific lab is mentioned, her participatory artworks often involve collaborative sculptural practices and posthuman ethics, as seen in projects like Life-Extending Breadcrumbs (2021).
