Melanie Chilianis

Melanie Chilianis – musician and a sonic artist – is particularly inspired by ideas in educational philosophy that deal with enculturation, socialisation and artistic pedagogies of resistance. Her compositions have been performed in Australia and Italy, broadcast live on national radio in both countries and several of her pieces have been released through Move Records (Australia). In 2009 she exhibited sound installations at fortyfivedownstairs with Michelle Hamer and at Formverk Art Space, Sweden with Michael Chang (Denmark) and she was commissioned to write a composition for a permanent audiovisual alcove at the new Goldcoast Exhibition Centre (Queensland). Her electroacoustic work, Under the Bamboo, was recently selected to be part of an international exhibition – A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, Rutgers University, Camden, USA. She is the recipient of a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship (2007) and worked for several years as a teacher. Melanie has begun a PhD that looks at the relationship between individual music creation and the social imagination.