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Professor Kingsley Baird DipArts, MFA
Professor of Fine Arts
Doctoral Supervisor School of ArtRESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
For a fuller list of research outputs 2012-18 see:
https://creative.massey.ac.nz/about/our-people/school-of-art-faculty-and-staff/professor-kingsley-baird/
Edited book
The Myriad Legacies of 1917: A Year of War and Revolution
The Myriad Faces of War: 1917 and its Legacy symposium (http://myriadfaces.org) facilitated this 2018 publication edited by representatives of the organising institutions. Editors: Maartje Abbenhuis, Neill Atkinson, Kingsley Baird, and Gail Romano, London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-73684-6.
Exhibition and catalogue essay
The Anzac Pair (2017), National Army Museum Te Mata Toa, Waiouru, New Zealand. The Anzac Pair comprised two linked manifestations of the same research investigation: (i) an exhibition, The Anzac Pair, composed of two bronze sculptures: Gallipoli and Birth of a nation; and (ii) an exhibition catalogue essay, "The Anzac Pair: an allegory of national identity".
Installation, performance, sculpture, book essay
Stela (2014), Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr (Military History Museum), Dresden, Germany.
Stela comprised two linked manifestations of the same research investigation, an installation and essay, "Stela - Im Tod sind alle Kameraden". The installation was composed of (i) the stainless steel Cenotaph sculpture (ii) a performance of the biscuit stacking; and (iii) the biscuit ‘memorial’ comprising approximately 20,500 edible World War One soldier-shaped Anzac recipe biscuits.
Installation and catalogue essay
Tomb (2013), Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, France
Tomb comprised 2 linked manifestations of the same research investigation, an installation and a catalogue essay, "In memoriam: Le présent et l'absent / In memoriam: The present and the absent". The installation, Tomb, included (i) the design of multiple cookie cutter soldier shapes; (ii) a performance of stacking the biscuits over 20 days; (iii) the biscuit ‘memorial’ in the form of Sir Edwin Lutyens’s Stone of Remembrance (c. 18,600 WWI soldier-shaped biscuits).
Commissioned Artwork
Reflections (2012), Chi an Bobel Great Hall, Heartlands, Robinson's Shaft, Pool, Cornwall, United Kingdom (Kingsley Baird & Genevieve Packer)
Commissioned Reflections artwork is a 'memorial' that investigates presence and absence, spirit of place, and cross-cultural memory and identity in relation to people, place, diaspora, cultural preservation and connections (specifically between Cornwall and NZ). After developing the original concept and fundamental design, I invited NZ textile designer, Genevieve Packer, to be co-designer in the detailed resolution of this interdisciplinary (art/craft) work. The work also includes UK craft contributions that reflect local culture.
Professional Affiliations (Institutional)
Professor Baird is the chair of two 51本色-based, international research networks, WHAM () and .
WHAM (War History Heritage Art and Memory) Research Network, Chair
http://whamresearchnetwork.com
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, (NZ)
- Historial de la Grande Guerre (France)
- Imperial War Museum, London (UK)
- In Flanders Fields Museum (Belgium)
- Militärhistorisches Museum (Germany)
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (NZ)
- National Army Museum Te Mata Toa (NZ)
- National World War I Museum (US)
The Memory Waka Research Group, Chair
https://creative.massey.ac.nz/research/projects-and-initiatives/the-memory-waka/
- Syracuse University (USA)
- York St John University (UK)
Professor Baird is a visual artist and writer whose research platform is the investigation—primarily in relation to war—of memory, memorialisation, and remembrance, national identity, mythology, and place. Research is undertaken through the design of commissioned public memorials (NZ Memorial, Canberra, 2001, with Studio of Pacific Architecture; Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, Wellington, 2004; and The Cloak of Peace, Nagasaki, 2006). In addition, he makes artefacts that investigate new conceptual, aesthetic, and material ways of creating memory forms; and publishes textual outputs often integrated with creative works to form synthesized research.
Professional
Contact details
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Ph: (04) 801 5799 ext 63506
Location: 10A102A, Museum Building
Campus: Wellington
Qualifications
- Diploma in Arts - Victoria University (1997)
- Master of Fine Art - RMIT University (2000)
Research Expertise
Research Interests
Memory and remembrance; cross-cultural memorialisation; spirit of place; remembrance and national identity; visual and material culture; public art; commissioned public memorials and artefacts; leading or participating in international and national interdisciplinary public art and design research teams and projects; leading and contributing to international and multidisciplinary memory fora (research networks, conferences, publications).
Research Opportunities
- Stela (2014) Artist in residence sculpture project at the Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany
Thematics
21st Century Citizenship
Area of Expertise
Field of research codes
Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting) (190502):
Performance and Installation Art (190504):
Studies In Creative Arts And Writing (190000):
Visual Arts and Crafts (190500)
Keywords
Expertise
Memory and remembrance; cross-cultural memorialisation; spirit of place; remembrance and national identity; visual and material culture; public art; commissioned public memorials and artefacts; leading or participating in international and national interdisciplinary public art and design research teams and projects; leading and contributing to international and multidisciplinary memory fora (research networks, conferences, publications).
Research Outputs
Book
[Edited Book]Authored by: Baird, K.
[Chapter]Authored by: Baird, K.
[Chapter]Authored by: Baird, K.
Creative Work
[Artefact]Authored by: Baird, K.
Other
[Other]Authored by: Baird, K., Moore, M.Contributed to by: Baird, K.Edited by: Baird, K.
[Other]Contributed to by: Baird, K., Ortega Ayala, R.
Consultancy and Languages
Consultancy
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2009
- Heartlands Regeneration Project, Cornwall, UK
Artist consultant
Teaching and Supervision
Teaching Statement
CURRENT SUPERVISION
Current PhD students:
Primary supervisor. Liang Cui, “Living with the Unassimilable: An Investigation of Personal Sexual Identity against a Backdrop of Gender Construction in Modern China”.
Primary supervisor. Jess Richards, “Here and Elsewhere”.
Primary supervisor. Rebecca Patrick, “The Wide Path: The Outside is not Outside. Explorations of a Multiplicitous Landscape”.
Secondary supervisor. David Guerin, “Re-shaping a First World War Narrative. A sculptural investigation inspired by the letters and diaries of one New Zealand soldier”.
Secondary supervisor. Maria O’Toole, “How loud is too loud?”
Current Masters co-supervisions:
MFA, MU. Monique Sharples. “Trace: Perceptive Memory”.
MFA, MU. Katy Cottrell. “Revaluing melamine waste through functional propaganda”.
Previous Masters (co-supervisions):
MFA, 51本色 (MU). Connah Podmore, "Translating the Unknown: A representation of uncertain stories". Completion 2013. Distinction.
MFA, MU. Angela Kilford, "Walk With Me: A performative investigation researching contested memories at New Zealand’s national site for remembrance, Puke Ahu". 2015. MFA, MU. Kalya Ward, "Avon. Avon". 2014.
Prim. super, MPhil (Visual and Material Culture), MU. Wanda Lepionka-Strong, "Cultivating Continuity and Change: The Domestic Garden Tradition of the Italian Community in Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand". 2014.
MFA, MU. Anja Kutsch. "Substance and semblance and the ousted owner". 2015.
MFA, MU. Daniel Rose. “The Essential is in the Incidental: A Re-mediation of Urban Experience”. 2017.
Mark Steelsmith, “Ghosting About”. 2018.
Summary of Doctoral Supervision
| Position | Current | Completed |
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| Main Supervisor | 5 | 4 |
| Co-supervisor | 0 | 3 |
Current Doctoral Supervision
Main Supervisor of:
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Sasha Chen
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Doctor of Philosophy
Re-enacting autobiographical memory - life and death in the context of the post-covid19 era through performance photography -
Emma Pratt
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Doctor of Philosophy
Stand up and Sing - Wayfinding for P膩keh膩 in the orbit of taonga through multimodal storytelling -
Daniel Belton
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Doctor of Philosophy
Spatialising the Human Figure in Digital Narratives -
Thomas Slade
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Doctor of Philosophy
Revealing systems of power: How photography can contribute to awareness of the ongoing impact of colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand -
Leighton Upson
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Doctor of Philosophy
An exploration between art and indigenous forest.
Completed Doctoral Supervision
Main Supervisor of:
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2024
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Johanna Zellmer
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Doctor of Philosophy
Contemporary jewellery as affective experience 鈥� resisting biopolitics -
2024
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Rebecca Ora
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Doctor of Philosophy
(un)settling: Performing Landscape, Woman, Aotearoa -
2021
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Liang Cui
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Doctor of Philosophy
Living with the Unassimilable -
2020
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Jessica Richards
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Doctor of Philosophy
Illusions, Transformations and Iterations: storytelling as fiction, image, artefact.
Co-supervisor of:
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2022
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Malcolm Doidge
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Doctor of Philosophy
Inside Arcadia: An immersive virtual phantasmagoria -
2021
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Maria O'Toole
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Doctor of Philosophy
Drawn Chorus: The creation of embodied drawing processes responsive to the detrimental impact of human-produced sound on humpback whales -
2019
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David Guerin
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Doctor of Philosophy
Re-shaping a First World War Narrative: A Sculptural Memorialisation Inspired by the Letters and Diaries of One New Zealand Soldier.
Media and Links
Other Links
- - Personal website