Jay Kochel is a Canberra based artist who has a background in Law and Anthropology, and more recently the visual arts, having completed his undergraduate in sculpture from the ANU School of Art in 2002. He is currently engaged in post-doctoral research into the magical fetish artefact – reliquaries, voodoo dolls, votive objects, folk magic, juju, ex voto – objects that incorporate human remains or a mimesis of the body, as a material and psychic strategy to harness a spiritual or magical affect – performing a transference of energy, heat or mana, between body and object – tuning the mind’s perception to the superstitious and supernatural.
Kochel’s work work ranges across media including installation, new media, design, sculpture and photography. His work explores methods of casting and re-appropriation of the familiar into the unfamiliar, often remodeling aspects of the found object into new materials and dialogues with other objects.
Jay Kochel is a Candidate for PhD, Graduate Studies in Visual Arts, Australian National University School of Art. He is supported by an ANU CASS PhD Scholarship.
EDUCATION |
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| Current | PhD Candidate, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences |
| 2002 | Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture) Hons. 1st Class, NITA, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University |
| 1996 | Bachelor of Law/Arts (Anthropology), Australian National University |
ACADEMIC PRIZES |
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| 2008 | Neil Roberts Award |
| ANU CASS PhD Scholarship | |
| 2002 | Parker Financial Award, Emerging Artist Support Scheme Award |
| ANU Honours Scholarship | |
| 1994 | Anthony Forge Prize: Anthropology |
EXHIBITIONS |
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SOLO SHOWS |
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| 2010 | Accursed Gilded Wishes, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT |
| 2009 | Touch me Gertrude Stein, CraftACT, ACT |
| 2008 | I wish I was David Bowie, ANCA Gallery, ACT |
| 2005 | Lingoplasty, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, ACT |
| Lingoplasty_replay, ANCA Gallery Dickson, ACT | |
GROUP SHOWS |
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| 2010 | Something in the Air, Canberra Museum & Gallery, ACT |
| CAPO 27: Annual Charity Auction, The National Archives of Australia, ACT | |
| 2008 | Going South, M16 Artspace |
| Retroactive III, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka ACT | |
| CAPO: Annual Charity Auction, The National Portrait Gallery, ACT | |
| Sequence, M16 Artspace | |
| 2007 | Process: ANCA Tenants Show, Town Hall Gallery, Boroodara, VIC |
| Intimacy: ANCA Tenants Show, ANCA Gallery, ACT | |
| Community, The Hive, ACT | |
| Domain, a temporary public art project, Alinga St, ACT | |
| Art of Moving, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT | |
| 2006 | CAPO: Annual Charity Auction, The National Portrait Gallery, ACT |
| Jingoisms, The Front, ACT | |
| TAC, ANU School of Art, ACT | |
| Process: ANCA Tenants Show, ANCA Gallery, ACT | |
| 65 Roses, Canberra School of Art, ACT | |
| Compressor, The Front, ACT | |
| 2004 | Playground, Canberra School of Art |
| 2002 | Freshly Squeezed, Canberra School of Art Graduating Exhibition, ACT |
| Factor of Ten, Canberra School of Art, ACT | |
| 2001 | Cacophony, Canberra School of Art, ACT |
RESIDENCIES |
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| 2005 | Graduate in Residence, Sculpture Workshop, ANU School of Art |
MEDIA |
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| 2008 | Art Monthly Australia, July 2008, Issue #211, pp 50, Exhibition Review David Broker [DOWNLOAD] |
| 2005 | “An exhibition of sound” Canberra Times 5th Aug, 05 |
| The Program, Triple J Radio, 17th Aug, 05 [The Program_Lingoplasty] | |
| Art ‘n Soul, Radio Interview with Silvie Eventi, 1st Aug, 05 | |
PROFESSIONAL |
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| 2005-06 | Board Member, Australian National Capital Artists |
FIELDWORK |
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| 2010 | Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford; Musée du Quai Branly, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum, Owicim; Museo Zoologico e di Storia Naturale della Specola (“La Specola’), Florence; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Wellcome Collection, London; British Museum, London |
WRITING |
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| 2009 | [Review] of Restless Habitat: a kinetic textile installation by [Fibre Motion] |
CONFERENCE PAPERS |
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| 2009 | AAANZ Conference, ANU, Canberra Cool Hunting and the Fetish Object: Performance and Untranscended Materiality [ABSTRACT] |
CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE |
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| 2011 | Varilaku: Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands forum, NGA, Canberra |
| 2010 | 22nd International Sculpture Conference, London |
| 2009 | agIdeas 2009 International Design Forum, Melbourne |
TEACHING |
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| 2007 | Lecturer, Core Studies, ANU School of Art |
| Lecturer, Sculpture Workshop, ANU School of Art | |
| 2006 | Lecturer, Sculpture Workshop, ANU School of Art |