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S. J. Norman S. J. Norman i(11336267 works by)
Also writes as: Onyx B. Carmine
Gender: Non-binary
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri
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BiographyHistory

'S.J. Norman is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer. Their work traverses performance, installation, sculpture, text, video and sound. Live performance remains the core of their practice: working with extended duration, task-based, and endurance practices, as well as intimate/one-to-one frameworks, Norman’s primary medium is the body: the body as a spectacle of truth and a theatre of fantasy; a siphon of personal and collective memory; an organism with which we are infinitely familiar and eternally estranged; a site which is equally loaded and empty of meaning, where histories, narratives, desires and discourses converge and collapse.

'Norman has toured, exhibited, performed and spoken about their work internationally and in Australia, including Venice International Performance Week (IT), Spill Festival of Live Art (UK), Fierce Festival (UK), In Between Time (UK), Arnolfini (UK), Performance Space, Sydney (AU, Next Wave (AU) and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (AU), Edinburgh Festival (UK) and Brisbane International Festival (AU), Melbourne Festival (AU), Dancehouse (AU), Tarnanthi Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art (AU) and Tate Modern (UK).

'A proud Indigenous Australian of both Wiradjuri and European heritage, they grew up in Sydney and regional NSW. They have lived in the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany, and divide their time between Berlin and regional NSW.'

Source: Vital Statistix (http://vitalstatistix.com.au/artist/mish-grigor-sj-norman-and-sarah-rodigari/). (Sighted: 07/06/2017)

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Their piece 'Blood from a Stone' was longlisted for the Lifted Brow's 2018 Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction and commended for the Peter Blazey Fellowship.

Personal Awards

2021 commended Australian Centre Literary Awards Peter Blazey Fellowship for 'Blood from a Stone'.
2020 winner National Indigenous Arts Awards Emerging and Experimental Arts Fellowship
2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Emerging and Experimental Arts Australia Council Fellowships $80,000

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Permafrost St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2021 21864698 2021 selected work short story

'This brilliant collection of short fiction explores the shifting spaces of desire, loss and longing. Inverting and queering the gothic and romantic traditions, each story represents a different take on the concept of a haunting or the haunted. Though it ranges across themes and locations – from small-town Australia to Hokkaido to rural England – Permafrost is united by the power of the narratorial voice, with its auto-fictional resonances, dark wit and swagger.

'Whether recounting the confusion of a child trying to decipher their father and stepmother’s new relationship, the surrealness of an after-hours tour of Auschwitz, or a journey to wintry Japan to reconnect with a former lover, Permafrost unsettles, transports and impresses in equal measure.' (Publication summary)

2022 longlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
2022 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Indigenous Writing
2022 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
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