Staff Profiles

Areas of Expertise

Art theory; contemporary art; international and postcolonial art and theory; art and politics; art and globalisation.

Teaching Areas

Postcolonial art (Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia.), Art of the 1990's, aesthetics.

Publications

Books

McNeill, D. , 2005 , Sojourners and Satellite Families. Contemporary Asian Art in a Global Setting (TBA) , Beijing, China , forthcoming .

McNeill, D. , 2005 , Identity,Sport and Race in the Era of Late Nationalism: An Australian Case Study (TBA) , Singapore/Adelaide , forthcoming .

McNeill, D. , 2005 , Disobedience , Sydney , IDG .

Book Chapters

McNeill, D. (2005). Art and Disobedience. Disobedience. ( - ). Sydney, IDG.

McNeill, D. (forthcoming). The Sincerest Form of Flattery (an essay on the Slovenian art collective, IRWIN). forthcoming. ( - ). Sydney, Artspace Publications.

McNeill, D. (2005). On "Freedom of Speech" and Other Bourgeois Fairytales. catalogue essay for the 'Anti-censorship Show'. ( - ). Sydney, Mori Gallery.

McNeill, D. (2004). Imagined Relations. On Reason and Emotion (A critique of the 2004 Sydney Biennale). ( - ). Sydney, Artspace Publications.

McNeill, D. (2002). Planet Art: Aesthetics and Labour in the Era of Globalisation. Site and Sight: Translating Cultures. ( - ). Singapore, Earl Lu Gallery.

Published Articles

McNeill, D. (2005). Review of Nicolas Bourriaud ‘Postproduction’. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, ((forthcoming)). ( - ).

McNeill, D. (2005). ‘Black Magic’. Racism, and Sport in AFL Football. Broadsheet, (June). ( - ).

McNeill, D. (2005). The Importance of Being un-Australian. Artlink, (Vol. 24:4). (10 - 13).

McNeill, D. (2004). Home and Host: Contemporary Asian art in Diaspora. Broadsheet, (Vol. 33:3, Sept-Nov). (28 - 31).

McNeill, D. (2004). Wang Jian Wei: Giant Steps. Broadsheet, (Vol. 33:2, June-Aug). (50 - 50).

McNeill, D. (2004). Ethics and Aesthetics (curatorial roundtable discussion, David McNeill as chair. Panellists: Okwui Enzewor, Julian Stallabrass, Jenny Harper, Djon Mundine, Ken Watson, Charles Merewether, Tony Bond). Broadsheet, (Vol. 23:4, Dec 2003-Feb 2004 ). (10 - 11).

McNeill, D. (2002). Planet Art: Resistance and Affirmation in the Wake of "9/11". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, (Vol. 3:2). ( - ).

Exhibitions Curated

2005, Disobedience. Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

2002, African Marketplace (plus catalogue essay). Ivan Dougherty Gallery (co-curated with J. Bennett), Sydney, Australia.

Conference Papers

McNeill, D. (2005). Sojourners and Satellite Families. Contemporary Asian Art in a Global Setting. Asia Traffic Conference, (Zendai Art Foundation, Shanghai, China.

McNeill, D. (2005). Art and Activism. Sydney Social Forum Coference, (Sydney Social Forum, Sydney, NSW.

McNeill, D. (2005). Biting the Hand that Feeds…Contemporary Russian Art and Vandalism. Transforming Aesthetics, (Conference sponsored by The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand,The Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW.), Sydney.

McNeill, D. (2005). Black Magic. Racism, Sport and Masculinity in Contemporary Australia. Contemporary Art Centre, South Australia, Annual Symposium, (Contemporary Art Centre, South Australia, Adelaide, SA.

McNeill, D. (2004). Neo-Primitivism and the Presentation of Contemporary African Art. Art Association Australia Conference, (Art Association Australia, Auckland.

McNeill, D. (2004). Home and Host. Contemporary Asian Art and Diaspora ASIAN TRAFFIC conference, (College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

McNeill, D. (2004). Roundtable discussion with Caroline Turner and Xing Ruan. Contemporary Asian Art Criticism, (Gallery 4A, Sydney.

Grants

ARC Discovery Grant ( (Fellow CI’s, Anthony Bond, Janet Taylor, Ernst van Alphen and Jill Bennett), Rethinking Political Intervention: The Epistemic Shift in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice, [and the Emergence of Ethical Globalism]. (2004-2006),