Pablo Muslera Pablo Muslera i(12949412 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Fractography as Assemblage Corinna Di Niro , Pablo Muslera , Amelia Walker , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: Axon : Creative Explorations , December vol. 10 no. 2 2020;

'This creatively-critical collaboration confronts issues of precarious employment in contemporary universities. As three early career academics currently employed on casual or fixed-term contracts in Australian universities, we have produced a writing-based fractography — a study of cracks — in order to show the effects of what Bill Readings has called ‘the ruined university’ on the bodies, minds, and lives of academic workers. To produce this work, each of us penned an individual narrative employing cracks as a metaphor for our lived experiences of working in academia. We then spliced the three separate accounts into fragments and combined them into a single text, interwoven with quotations from published sources. The quoted materials set the personal against the political, showing how our individual and particular experiences reflect specific but non-isolated instances of a much bigger, shared problem. Our polyvocal collaboration thus forms an instance of what Drager Meurtant describes in terms of ‘artistic assemblage’. In line with Cathryn Perazzo and Patrick West, we engage this approach in order to affect ‘non-didactic didacticism’ in our critique of the socio-political problems rife throughout academia today.' (Publication abstract)

1 A Girl and Her Pony i "First time on a horse", Pablo Muslera , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Viejas Tradiciones i "My father wanted us to assimilate,", Pablo Muslera , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Rivera i "She speaks of a home she never inhabited", Pablo Muslera , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Encore II / Timing Is Everything i "For players, timing is everything: make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait", Pablo Muslera , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Encore I i "So it’s wrapped up for another year", Pablo Muslera , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 Northern Wastes i "Somewhere in the Northern wastes, a resurrected heart beats.", Pablo Muslera , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
1 There’s No Place like Home : From Cultural Plurality to Convergence in Remote Heartbeats Zinia Mitra , Pablo Muslera , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 60 2020;
'The title refers to the quadruple sequences of poems, linking the importance of cuisine and childhood memories to our shared ideas of home and cultural identity. We write as two poets based in Australia and India. This poetic exchange program explores cultural milieu that incorporate rituals and cuisine which are intrinsic part of culture along with the childhood landscapes, landscapes that exist as mindscapes now and craft a major part of our psyche.' (Publication abstract)
1 Introducing Showpony : An Inclusive Space for Cross-arts Performance and Connection Heather McGinn , Chloe Cannell , Pablo Muslera , Lachlan Blackwell , Amelia Walker , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 59 2020;
'This collaborative paper argues that on-campus open mic events enrich university culture, which in turn enriches holistic learning and wellbeing. To demonstrate, we present four accounts of Showpony, our university’s monthly creative performance and pop up bar night. Originally held in a pub near campus, Showpony shifted into a student lounge space in early 2018. The move followed queerphobic and ableist discrimination against Showpony participants making continued use of the public venue untenable. Initially, we went to campus out of necessity: there is no other nearby venue with a suitably-sized, fully-accessible performance space. However, since moving, we recognise that operating on campus provides other benefits. Showpony nights intervene in and to degrees, cuts through the institutional space. Or, in Deleuze and Guattari’s terms, Showpony introduces something smooth into an otherwise striated territory. This prompts different ways of being in and working through the space, fostering styles of learning and interaction that don’t necessarily occur in lectures or tutorials. Our paper’s four accounts of Showpony encompass staff and student perspectives, including participant as well as organiser viewpoints. We aim to elucidate how Showpony has enriched our university culture, and to provide insights for those interested in running similar events.' (Publication abstract)
1 Postcard From a Post-Covid Supermarket Stroll i "That song by Nena, in the glory of the original German: Neunundneunzig Luftballons", Pablo Muslera , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 58 2020;
1 ‘What We May Be[come]’ : A Case of Identity – Quinn Eades’ Rallying Pablo Muslera , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 21 no. 2 2017;

'Identity is central to Rallying, a collection of poetry from a trans writer so candid about his journey from mother of two to identifying as a male. The introductory ‘How to disappear in your name’ is a fourteen-page stream of consciousness prose poem introducing nine of Eades’ former personas. ' (Introduction)

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