Masters Research

Assisted Solo: Navigating Relational & Representational Failure in Music-Dance Collaboration

• Masters of Interdisciplinary Arts at The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2014-2018

• This practice-led project examined failure in private creative practice and the public domain. The project unpacked virtuosic pursuits and worked with the detritus of attempting to master instrumental technique, stagecraft, and composition.

• Three key components:

  1. A suite of three albums in collaboration with six dancers

  2. Drypoint etchings reflecting on rupture and repair

  3. Interviews with fellow creatives on capacity, failure, virtuosity, and potential

Link to Masters thesis: www.issuu.com/mavanui/docs/mhunter_thesis