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

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/Striking-art-enthrals-viewers-at-Pepper-House/2014/07/07/article2317814.ece

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