Leoni Schmidt
Dr. Leoni Schmidt is Head of School and a full professor in the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin, New Zealand. She leads staff research and postgraduate studies. She supervises candidates in the postgraduate programmes and oversees academic quality in the School. Her own research focuses on contemporary drawing; on its political agency, its pedagogical dimensions, its semiotics, and its performative materialities.
Research Expertise:
Contemporary Drawing, Postgraduate Programme Academic Leadership & Supervision, Staff PBRF Research and Mentoring.
Recent Publications include:
Schmidt, L. (2007). Exposing Society: Contemporary Drawing as History Writing. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 1(3). 31-48.
Interarts contemporary drawing practices 'write' political histories to expose society. Temporality, spatiality, deferral and corporeality form parameters for critiques of scopic regimes and for the "playacting" of particular traumas.
Schmidt, L. (2010). Relational Drawing as Pedagogical Action: Locational Strategies. The International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol 3, Issue 3. 27-38.
Relational drawing in space enables interdisciplinarity and facilitates provisional holding patterns within which locational, mapping strategies can involve collaborative action and communal learning with geopolitical and pedagogical implications.
Schmidt, L. (2010). Embedding Art History & Theory and Drawing in an Art Curriculum. International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol 5, Issue 5, 95-104.
An investigation of a process through which Drawing and Art History & Theory can be embedded in a transdisciplinary Art School curriculum focusing on contemporary visual arts practices.
See Staff Research for a more comprehensive Research Profile for Leoni.
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