Precarities and Opportunities

This session was part of the Australian Academy of the Humanities' 56th Annual Symposium, The Humanities and Creative Practice, convened by Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA. --- Many areas of cultural production from design to animation to film need to be reconsidered as a part of the inter-disciplinary approach of the humanities and creative practice. We open the Symposium with a focus on a creative practice which has always embraced the gesamtkuntswerk: opera. We foreground a researcher connecting contemporary classical music, composition, improvisation, text, sound design, performance, direction and an interrogation of gender in music. A response from a musicologist launches themes of opportunity and precarity that characterise much of the creative tension and labour in the creative disciplines. Chair Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA Keynote Speaker Dr Felicity Cox Response Professor Sarah Collins FAHA --- Subscribe to our newsletter: https://humanities.org.au/subscribe/ Follow the AAH on LinkedIn:   / australian-academy-of-the-humanities   Follow the AAH on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/humanitiesau...