1.

Editorial: Mutter, ich bin dumm Jarrod Rawlins

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Is the research your practice, or is the practice your research? Helen Johnson

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Post-irony Timothy McCool

4.

The university in the age of witchcraft Lauren Bliss

5.

No creation but through submission Justin Clemens

6.

Experience and perceptions of ‘children’s research’ and the educational turn Kym Maxwell

7.

The whore’s hustler and the hustler’s whore: A speculative review of Melbourne Now Aodan Madden & Beth Rose Caird

8.

Funny or serious? Not necessarily light material Anya Henis

9.

Information management: << . >> post-script: BORING BORING Simon McGlinn & Lisa Radford

10.

Theses on art and knowledge Danny Butt

11.

The importance of being earnest while conducting nonsense research as strategic credibility mongering: a defence Thomas Jeppe

12.

Towards a positive cynicism Dan Arps

13.

Cloth of the world Matthew Shannon

14.

Doctor Doctor: The emergence of the practice-led PhD Sophie Knezic

15.

Visible actions Helen Grogan, Eugenia Lim & Elvis Richardson

16.

Conversation with a Head, Severed Harriet Kate Morgan

17.

Ghost in the speakers: Interview with Philip Jeck Dan Rule

18.

Kim Donaldson, tomorrow a well, VCA Student Gallery, 27–28 February 2013 Anusha Kenny

19.

Clare Milledge, Motivated Reasoning: Strategic, Tactical, Operational, The Commercial Gallery, 22 March – 13 April 2013 Isobel Parker Phillip

20.

Joshua Petherick, Cusp and Cornice, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 8 February – 24 March 2013 Shena Jamieson

21.

Matthew Greaves, MF, West Space, 22 March – 13 April 2013 Georgina Criddle

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Occasional Miracles: Contemporary artists respond to the Shepparton Art Museum ceramics collection, Shepparton Art Museum, 8 February – 30 June 2013 Shelley McSpedden