Miška Mandić is an artist, filmmaker and educator born in SFR Yugoslavia, living on Gadigal and Wangal Land. Through a cinematic and photographic practice, her works explore the interrelated relationship between cinema, colonial-capitalism and a structuring of time. Miška’s works have been shown at Verge Gallery, Firstdraft, Composite Moving Image, Pari Ari, Airspace, Sydenham International, and her video installations The Fold (2022) and Residue (2024) have been finalists in the Fisher’s Ghost award at Campbelltown Art Center. Miška Is a lecturer in screen production at UNSW.
Contact: miskamandic (at) gmail.com
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/miskamandic/
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QUALIFICATIONS
2019—2024, Doctorate of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney
2011—2012, Master of Arts in Communications, Media Arts and Production, University of Technology, Sydney
2003—2006, Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Media Arts and Production, University of Technology, Sydney
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2021, Bundanon Trust Residency (with Rhiannon Newtown) Bundanon, NSW
2021, UNSW Essential Costs of research Funding Scheme
2019, Frontyard Residency, Marrickville, NSW
2019, RTP Scholarship towards a PhD
2012, Lawrie Fitzgerald Prize in Innovation and Creativity in Sound & Film
2012, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Outstanding Student Award, UTS
WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
2024, Folding Cinema: How does a cinematic temporality that is relational and intimate work against dominant, established modes of temporal reproduction?, PhD Doctorate thesis, University of New South Wales, https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30110
2023, Cine-Ecologies and the temporality of a radical cinematic production, Comparative Cinema journal, Barcelona
2022, Invocation Trilogy – A Conversation on Monumentality, Language, and the Past with Miška Mandić and Kuba Dorabialski.
2022, “Folding Time: Mould, Flies and Cameras.” In Dark Eden: Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture, edited by Edward Colless, David Eastwood, Chelsea Lehmann, and Paul Thomas, 136–43. Southbank, Victoria: Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
2022, “Geological Bodies.” Counter Magazine, 2022.
2020, “Folding Time: Reframing Relationships to Ecological Crisis by Visualising the Multiple Temporalities Embedded in Everyday Experiences.” paper delivered at Dark Eden: Sixth Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference. Sydney, NSW.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS & CREATIVE PROJECTS
2024, FOLDED SANDSTONE / FRIENDS DANCING, Sydenham International, with Sam Hodge
2023, PORTALS AND RESIDUES, Campbelltown Arts Centre 61st Fishers Ghost Art Award, Open category
2023, THE FOLD, (exhibition) Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, part of the upcoming Screening Program
2022, THE FOLD, (exhibition) Airspace, Marrickville, Sydney
2020, COMPANIONS, (with Kath Fries, Reanne Chidiac, Audrey Newtown, Dianne Turner, Chevron Hassett), Pari Ari, Parramatta, Sydney
2017, HALF LIFE, (with Lachlan Herd & Anna Mcmahon), The Bearded Tit, Redfern, Sydney
2015, SINGLE USE, (with Kevina Jo Smith), 107 Projects, Redfern, Sydney
2012, SCENES FROM A FARMHOUSE, (director, writer) short film, Gulf Film Festival, Dungog Film Festival, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, ATOM Awards, Tuzla Film Festival
2010, SACRIFICE, (writer, recording artist) teenagersintokyo album released with Backyard Records
2006, THE BIRDHOUSE, (director) short film
2005, STILL LIFES, (director) short film
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