PROJECTS/EXHIBITIONS:
2023
The Sokhumi Elegies (feature premiere), Kino House, Tbilisi, Georgia
GeoAIR - Artist in Residency Program (with Sofia Tabatadze), Tbilisi, Georgia
Anthropological Fieldwork, Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
2022
We Have Never Been Modern (curated by Robert McDougall), Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
On Shamanism, with Liudmilia Nikakorova (Solo Show), Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
Rare Earth, Stray Voltage, KINGS Artist Run, Melbourne, AU
Fault Lines (electroaccoustic exposition), Giraffe Tapes fundraiser for Ukraine, Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022
Resan: A journey into the visual, acoustic and hauntological ecology of Cold War nuclear proliferation, Crawlspace Radio, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne, AU
Rare Earth, Asia Pacific Triennale film program, QAGOMA, Brisbane, AU
Bucharest Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Bogota Experimental Film Festival, Bogota, Colombia
2021
Rare Earth, Prototype 2021 Season, Melbourne, AU
Taklamakan Highway, Discostan, NTS Radio, London, UK
2020
Electroacoustic Retrospective Works 2016-2020, Waxing Gibbous, Mutant Radio, Tbilisi, Georgia
Vidya Darshana: Deities and Perspectivism in Indian Traditional Knowledge Practice, Seminar for Institute of Speculative and Critical Inquiry, UC Berkeley, California + Porto, Portugal
2018
Doraskhaiveli Shankaracharya, electroacoustic exposition, Tusheti, Georgia
Aqtusheti - Artist in Residency Program, Tusheti, Georgia
Anthropological Fieldwork, Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
2017
Black Garden: Agdam City Number One (Solo Show), Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, AU
The Sokhumi Elegies #2 (Solo Show), Kings Gallery, Melbourne, AU
The Sokhumi Elegies #1 (Solo Show), Trocadero Gallery, Footscray, Melbourne, AU
2016
Svaneti (Solo Show), Kochi A.I.R, Pepperhouse Studios, Kochi, Kerala, India
Anthropological Fieldwork, Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
2015
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s Beijing Residency Studio Program with Shen Shaomin, Beijing, China
Sixty-Five Abstracts 2015, NIICE Public Education, Otar Karalashvili, Tbilisi Art Books, Kiev, Ukraine
Reflection and Proposal on Death and Possible Futures, Shen Shaomin’s There is No Problem, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Natasha’s House, Art Nova 100, Agricultural Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
2014
…And Which Has Left In You An Infinity of Traces, Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tanpura Study (Solo Show), Pepperhouse Studios, Kochi, India
Kochi AIR Artist in Residency Program, Kochi, India
A Chance Operation of Minor Histories, Moon Lairs, Little Woods Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Limbang Study #2, Bivouac Et. Al., Video Art Screenings, George Revival, Melbourne, AU
Tunnel Study #4, Love/City Festival, Toote Fanute, Melbourne, AU
2013
Tunnel Study #1, Bivouac Et. Al, Video Art Screenings, George Revival, Melbourne, AU
Patterns (After Feldman), John Cage 101: Past, Present, Future Conference, UPSI, Tanjong Malim, Malaysia
Windsor Hotel Study, Luminescence, Hotel Windsor Art Prize, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, AU
In Memoriam (Kayan K’ledi), VCA Honours Group Exhibition, VCA and MCM, Melbourne, AU
2012
Video Study #1, .MOV, New Low Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Scratch Ensemble, TarraWarra Biennial 2012: Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Museum of Art, VIC, AU
2010
Installation Study #1, Whateverology, RMIT Open Space Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Installation Study #2, Sunshine and Grease, Melbourne, AU
AUDIO RECORDINGS:
2012 ‘Unfinished Studies’ 12” LP, ANG01, Angklung Editions
2008 ‘Trans-Substantiation’, Independent Web Release
2005 ‘Untitled’, Independent Web Release
EDUCATION:
2019 Graduate Diploma (Advanced) (Anthropology), University of Melbourne
2017 Graduate Diploma of Arts (Anthropology), University of Melbourne
2013 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts – University of Melbourne
2010-2012 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, AU
AWARDS:
2015 – 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s Beijing Residency Studio Program with Shen Shaomin
PRESS:
Inverting resolution: accounting for the planetary cost of earth observation, Journal of Visual Culture - Volume 22, Number 1, April, 2023
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/vcua/22/1
Voyages dans les systemes obscurs, 23 November, 2023
Planetary efficiency and the inorganic demon - Guillaume Boissinot
https://guillaumeboissinot.net/Planetary-efficiency-and-the-inorganic-demon
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, April 23, 2021
Can Cinema Exist Without the Story? Bold New Visons Break the Mold - Jake Wilson
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/can-cinema-exist-without-the-story-bold-new-visions-break-the-mold-20210419-p57kjo.html
Melbourne Art Review, July 20, 2017
http://mattolucas.com/melbourne-art-review/trocadero-five-walls-20-07-17#item-20
New Indian Express, July 7, 2014
Baker Fish, Bob. Cyclic Defrost Magazine, February 4, 2013 :
http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/2013/02/robert-mcdougall-unfinished-studies-angklung-editions/
Olewnick, Brian. Just Outside, November 18, 2012 :
http://olewnick.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/robert-mcdougall-unfinished-studies.html
Prescott, Shaun. Crawlspace Magazine, January 22, 2013 :
http://crawlspacemagazine.com/2013/01/22/robert-macdougall-unfinished-studies-lp/
Pescott, Steve. The Sound Projector, November 2, 2013:
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2013/11/02/gauzy-dreams-that-melt-away/
Harwood, Mark. Selected Records 2012, Secret Thirteen, December 18, 2012 :
http://secretthirteen.org/selected-records-2012-by-various-artists/
De Waard, Frans. Vital Weekly, no. 855, November 1, 2012:
http://www.vitalweekly.net/855
Lanoe, Cyril, Revue et Corrigee, no. 95, March 2013
http://www.revue-et-corrigee.net/?v=parutions&parution_num=95
Masurock, Doug, Still Single, July 18, 2013
http://still-single.tumblr.com/post/54969456693/robert-mcdougall-unfinished-studies-lp-angklung