Crime Scene Motel Outputs
Exhibitions
Crime Scene Motel, solo exhibition, Scratch Art Space, Sydney 23 June – 3 July 2022 including collaboration with VR artist Nick Creecy https://www.scratchartspace.com/crime-scene-motel/
Finalist: 2022 Lake Art Prize – Museum of Art & Culture (MAC), Yapang https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Events/Lake-Art-Prize-2022#:~:text=The%20Lake%20Art%20Prize%202022%20has%20a%20%2425%20000%20acquisitive,his%20work%20Allusive%20Object%202022. https://mac.lakemac.com.au/Home/News/Finalists-announced-for-Lake-Art-Prize-2022
Finalist: 2023 Blacktown City Art Prize – The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre https://blacktownarts.com.au/bcap/bcap22-finalists/
Publications
McKay, C (2022) Who's been sleeping in my bed? Cheap motel rooms and transgression. In Fiddler, M, Linnemann, T & Kindynis, T, Ghost Criminology, New York University Press. https://academic.oup.com/nyu-press-scholarship-online/book/42480/chapter-abstract/356758241?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Bosch, M & McKay, C (2019) Traumascapes https://livingroomtheatre.org/2019/09/traumascapes/
Citations
Fredriksson, T (2022) “Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis and Travis Linnemann (Eds) (2022) Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment. New York: New York University Press”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 11(2), pp. 237-239. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.2387. https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/2387
Academic Presentations
McKay, C (2022) Making: Aesthetic methods - invited guest speaker. Innovative & Creative Methods Workshop, Melbourne, Vic: The University of Melbourne.
McKay, C (2021) The Aesthetics of Violence, panelist, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
McKay, C (2021) The Overnight Researcher: Sleeping in Crime Scene Motels. ANZSOC Conference (online) https://anzsocconference.com.au/events/the-overnight-researcher-sleeping-in-crime-scene-motels
McKay, C (2020) The Crime Scene Motel: guesthouse or ghosthouse? European Society of Criminology Conference, Romania (online)
McKay, C (2020) Crime Scene Motel Project. Sydney Environment Institute, Sites of Violence Imagination Hole, University of Sydney
McKay, C (2019) Who's been sleeping in my bed? Ghost Criminology Panel. American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, USA
McKay, C & Joyce, B (2019) trueTRUECRIMEcrime, performative lecture, The Violence Conference, Verona, Italy
McKay, C, Joyce, B & Lee, M (2019) trueTRUECRIMEcrime, performative lecture, ANZSOC Conference, Perth, WA
Performance & Podcast
Carla Field and Harry Peters (2022) Podcast interview: Carolyn McKay: Crime, Art and the Age of Zoom: The Road To Find Out, a student-run podcast where academics from the University of Sydney chat about their remarkable personal journeys and ground-breaking research, 11 March 2022 https://anchor.fm/theroadtofindout/episodes/Carolyn-McKay-Crime--Art-and-The-Age-of-Zoom-e1fi6ll/a-a7ia2m1
McKay, C (2021) The Dream Test collaboration with Jacques Emery, Jim Denley & Romy Caen, Bottled-Up Festival, curated by Michelle St Anne & Jacques Emery, East Sydney Community & Arts Centre https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/bottled-up-hearing-the-unheard