Dr Kiley Gaffney
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Arts,
Music
Biography
Background Kiley Gaffney is the Academic Lead (Learning & Teaching) in the School of Creative Practice and is Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and the Bachelor of Creative Industries (BCI) degrees. Kiley is a composer, musician and performer who released two albums, Bitter Fluff and Sweet Meat, through Warner Music during the 1990s and 2000s. She remains active in the local, national and international music community. Kiley's doctoral thesis, Cosmopolitan Tendencies in Intersubjective Art, looked at the complex and paradoxical relations between advanced capitalism and cosmopolitanism, focussing on the art world's embrace of relational art practices as a social ameliorative. Her theoretical research is informed by cultural studies, critical theory, gender studies and affect theory. Kiley draws on both her critical training and creative experience in her multidisciplinary teaching and research.Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Creative Arts,
Music
Research field
Cultural studies, Performing arts, Communication and media studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
- Bachelor of Arts with Honours (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
- Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA)
- International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
- 4ZZZ board member (2010-2012)
- IMP Labs -research centre of QUT
Teaching
2020-onward
Academic Lead (Learning and Teaching), School of Creative Practice
Course Coordinator, BFA & BCI
Academic Program Director, School of Creative Practice (previously nomenclature for above roles)
2019
- KMB222 Music and Culture (unit coordinator and lecturer)
- KYB103 The Creative Body (lecturer)
2015-2019: Performance Studies area coordinator and lecturer
- KMB250 Creative Performer 1
- KMB251 Creative Performer 2
- KMB350 Creative Performer 3
- KMB351 Creative Performer 4
2014-18: Music Study Area Coordinator (SAC) 2010-14: Developed, coordinated and taught the following units:
- KMB122 Music and Sound Concepts I
- KMB132 Music and Sound Concepts II
- KMB200 Music Scenes and Subcultures
- KMB215 Music Industry
- KMB004 World Music
Experience
Kiley was signed to WEA (Warner Music) in 1996 and released two albums:
- Bitter Fluff (1996)
- Sweet Meat (2001)
Performed and toured throughout Australia and internationally. Compositions included in the following soundtracks:
- Dust off the Wings (1997)
- Good Guys, Bad Guys (1998)
- Sample People (2000)
Compositions included in the following compilations:
- Core (1996)
- To Hal and Bacharach (1998)
Recent musical commissions:
- QAG GOMA 5th anniversary song (2011)
Musical composition installed in internationally exhibited artwork
- The composition, Lachesis, installed within New York-based artist Jeff Gibson's video artwork, Smoke (2010).
- Exhibited at the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York City (2010).
Recent collaborative performances
- Chicks on Speed at MONA FOMA (2013)
Recent collective performances
- Lady Electronica (2010-2012), who we were awarded two competitive Australian Council grants and a competitive Arts Queensland grant
Publications
- Browning, Y. & Gaffney, K. (2019). Practice in play: Music, play and spaces of experimental practice. Social Alternatives, 38(1), 45–52. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129161
- Graham, P., Arthurs, A., Willsteed, J., Gaffney, K., Carfoot, G., Luttrell, B., Magoo, .., Browning, Y., Hunt, T., Kourtidis, J., Miller, A., Tuck, J., Pilsneniks, P., Lee, D., Humphrys, A., Smallman, M., McGahan, G., Millard, B., McCullough, C., Godwin, B. & Konstantine, .. (2014). Indie 100 2014. Presented at: Indie 100 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/76484
- Gaffney, K., (2013). Ephemerality, affect and the "Art Dump". Presented at: Ephemerality, affect and the "Art Dump" [Play]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/65061
- Graham, P., Arthurs, A., Willsteed, J., Gaffney, K., Howlett, M., Carfoot, G., Luttrell, B., Noonan, T., Magoo, .., Quaife, A., Mackie, M., Browning, Y., Hunt, T., Kourtidis, J., Miller, A. & Tuck, J. (2013). Indie 100 2013. Presented at: Indie 100 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/76437
- Gaffney, K., (2011). GOMA Birthday Song. Presented at: GOMA Birthday Song [Film/Video]. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/65057
- Gaffney, K., (2009). Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies [Book Review]. Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, 131, 165–166. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/65189
- Gaffney, K., (2007). The other APT: an exhibition of other perspectives. Machine Magazine, 2, 17. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/65173
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kiley, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- Awarded Vice Chancellor's Performance Award
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Community
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- 2013 - ongoing. Industry liason, educational lisaon and community advocate for Sweet Freedom, a not for profit social organisation that uses participatory music-making to create and/or facilitate `community' for marginalised groups
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Arts Queensland Development and Presentation Grant awarded to the Lady Electronica collective to develop and stage the Lady Electronica Showcase in 2012. The five individuals of the Lady Electronica collective worked to develop individual works to showcase as a collective performance at the Judith Wright Centre in November 2012.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Australia Council for the Arts Performance and Presentation Grant awarded to the Lady Electronica collective to develop and stage the Lady Electronica Showcase in 2012. The five individuals of the Lady Electronica collective worked to develop individual works to showcase as a collective performance at the Judith Wright Centre in November 2012.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Australia Council for the Arts Artist Development Grant awarded to the Lady Electronica collective to develop and host the Lady Electronica Workshop Series in 2012. The Lady Electronica collective progressively hosted a number of music industry figures at QUT's Gasworks Studio, including Wally de Baaker (Gotye), Quan Yeomans (Regurgitator), Scott Horscroft (producer - Silverchair, The Presets, Birds of Tokyo, The Temper Trap, etc), to work closely with the collective's five members to help develop our production and songwriting skills.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Awarded Women in Research grant.
- Type
- Publicly commissioned Artworks
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Commissioned to create a song to commemorate GOMA's fifth birthday celebrations.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Invited speaker on the Music and DIY Nostalgia panel, UnConvention Conference, Brisbane
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Invited speaker, in conversation with Lindy Morrison on the state of Women in the Music Industry as part of Pig City Then and Now: A symposium on the Past, Present and Future of the Rock Music Industry at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2004
- Details
- Awarded Valedictorian - Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The New (Queer) Look: Fashion Curatorial Methodologies for the New Museum
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Ms Kathleen Horton
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- I'm With Muriel: Applying a Persona-Centred Songwriting Technique to the Creation of a New Australian Musical (2021)
- The Brisbane Sound (2019)
- A cultural semantics of string arrangement for recorded Popular music: A model for analysis and practice (2017)
- The Role of Collaboration in Contemporary Opera Creation: a Practice-Led Approach (2016)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.