We would like to invite you to attend the HDR Confirmation Seminar of David Forrest, a Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the School of Business and Creative Industries. If you are external to USC and wish to participate via Zoom, please contact ASURE@usc.edu.au.

Thesis Title:

Light, Shadow, Action: Examining and testing the processual knowledge emerging from creative practice and the mimetic production of a 21st century Caravaggio.

Abstract:

This study sets out to position forgery at the focal point of a fictional narrative and its practitioners as its protagonists, and to utilize the characteristics and conventions of crime fiction in a way they are rarely manipulated: to bring together the philosophical and theoretical notions that surround forgery and trouble its practitioners (Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation (1983) and Bourdieu's theoretical Fields of Cultural Production (1984)).