Associate ProfessorIan Maxwell

My research seeks to understand both how people use creative practices to make sense of their lives and experiences, particularly in the context of extreme circumstances, and how we might use the idea of performance, more generally, as a way of thinking about being human.

My current projects are, first, a performance-led exploration of performance work made by German/Austrian refugess in Australia durng the Second World War, and, second, a book about avant-garde performance in Austraila from the 1960s.