Tim Corballis

Tim Corballis is a novelist and art writer living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. His most recent work includes the literary science fiction novel Our Future is in the Air (Victoria University Press, 2017) and R.H.I. (Victoria University Press, 2015) as well as the exhibition Human Hand (Dowse Art Museum, 2020). He is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, where he researches on the political aesthetics of the sciences.

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Essay: Susan BallardTim Corballison Writing the Tasman

You Will Have Things to Say: Writing the Tasman

‘Coiled loops of time.’ (Tim, part two of an undated letter, possibly begun before xmas 2019, part three finished 4…
Nov. 2021 • •
Review: Tim Corballison Laurence Aberhart
  • ANZAC book cover
  • South of No North: Laurence Aberhart, William Eggleston, Noel McKenna cover
  • ANZAC Photographs by Laurence Aberhart by Laurence Aberhart Victoria University Press
    96pp
    $90 AU
    Published July, 2014
    ISBN 9780864739339
  • South of No North: Laurence Aberhart, William Eggleston, Noel McKenna by Glenn Barkley Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
    140pp
    $39.95 AU
    Published August, 2013
    ISBN 9781921034596

Statues with blind eyeballs

The danger that ANZAC will seem like just another commemorative album relates, I think, to a tendency that is legible across Aberhart’s considerable oeuvre, one that is not in itself problematic. This is a pull almost in the direction of nostalgia – a preference for folk cultures, throwbacks and remnants; a preference for obsolete things and for places that seem like outliers from the busier and slicker centres of late modernity.

Aug. 2014 • • •

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Review: Nic Lowon Tim Corballis
  • Our Future is in the Air by Tim Corballis Victoria University Press
    272pp
    Published July, 2017
    ISBN 9781776561179
  • Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam Lawrence and Gibson
    180pp
    Published September, 2017
    ISBN 9780473410292

Hope and Carnage: Tim Corballis and Brannavan Gnanalingam

Climate change, migration, activism, terrorism: for people living in a small country at the bottom of the world, what does hope for the future look like in the teeth of that gale?
Nov. 2019 • • •