Dr Anne Marsh is Professorial Research Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne. Anne is author of Performance_Ritual Document_(Macmillan 2014)., LOOK: Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980 (Macmillan 2010), Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph (Quintus/University of Tasmania, 2006), The Darkroom: Photography and
the Theatre of Desire (Macmillan, 2003) and Body and Self: Performance Art in Australian, 1969-1992 (Oxford University Press,1993) which was recently revised as an e-book available on Amazon. Anne is a contributing editor for Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts and she publishes regularly in the arts press.
I think the body is a disruptive element; theorists and practitioners have come to understand that the body, the somatic, the haptic, are equally important as notions of social construction
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