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Name: Dr Zachar Alexander Leonid LASKEWICZ
Email: zachar@nachtschimmen.eu
Birthdate: 19 March 1971
Origin: Australia (birth), Belorussia/Russia (parentage)
Languages Spoken: Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian.

My name is Zachàr Alexander Leonid Laskewicz and I was born in Western Australia in 1971 to a mixture of Slavic and other European backgrounds; before ending up in Australia on colonial missions from Eastern Europe or as refugees during the second world war, my family was spread out among countries as diverse as Belorussia, Montenegro and Ireland. As a child I was always interested in theatre and music, and its therefore logical that I ended up receiving a Bachelor degree (Hons.) in Theatre and Drama Studies, a First License in Experimental Composition from the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, a Graduate Diploma in Linguistics, a PhD in the Arts at the University of Ghent, A Post-Doctoral Certificate in World Musicand finally (and most recently) a Masters of Letters from the University of Central Queensland where I majored in Gender Studies and Queer Theory. Somewhere in between all that I started a Balinese Gamelan Orchestra (Called SALING ASAH v.z.w.; they still rehearse weekly at the Indonesian Embassy in Brussels), picked up a Graduate Diploma in Multimedia Management, achieved the Advanced Dutch Proficiency Certificate in Amsterdam and went to teach literature and theatre to the Taiwanese (in English) and after that music composition to the Chinese (in Mandarin). Now I'm back at home in Ghent, Belgium, entirely exhausted but still frenetically creative. I hope that my work will mean something to you; it means a lot to me - it makes up every thing I am...

 


EDUCATION

 

2005

Masters of Letters [Gender Studies]
Central Queensland University

2003

Post-doctoral Certificate in World Music
University of New England

2002

Graduate Diploma in Multimedia
University of Southern Queensland

1997-2002

PhD in the Theatre Sciences
University of Ghent

1996

First License in Experimental Composition
Conservatorium of Ghent

1995-1996

Graduate Diploma of the Arts in Language Studies
Edith Cowan University

1994-1995

Certification in French, Russian and German Studies
Adult education in Ghent & Brussels

1991-1993

Bachelor Degree with Honours in Theatre & Drama Studies
Murdoch University


SELECTED LECTURES & PROFESSORSHIPS

 

2004-2005

Assistant Professor in Music & Composition
Department of Music
Zhao Qing University, Mainland China

 

2003-2004

Assistant Professorship in English, Literature & Theatre,
Department of Foreign Languages & Literature,
Kaohsiung National University, Kaohsiung (Taiwan)

Graduate Course Designer & Lecturer in Asian Ritual Performance (Masters & PhD programme)
Theatre & Drama Studies Department, Taipei National University of the Arts

2003

Assistant Professorship in English, Theatre & Performance
English Department, Chinese Culture University, Yang Ming Shan (Taipei)

Graduate Course Designer & Lecturer in Indonesian Performance - dance and theatre
Theatre & Drama Studies Department, Taipei National University of the Arts

2002-2003

Assistant Professorship in ELT, Literature & Theatre
(Department of Applied Foreign Languages)
Shih Chien University (Kaohsiung Campus), Southern Taiwan

2002

March 20-23
Paper presented at conference: "Wondrous Textual Machines"
The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, The Institute for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

2001

April 16
Lecture to composition students on own music-theatre compositions
LASALLE-SAI College of the Arts (Singapore)

1998

December 8-10
Paper presented at symposium: "The Self-Reflexive Cultural Myth"
10th International Symposium of the Austrian Association of Semiotics
Vienna (Austria)

1997

July 13-19

Paper presented at congress: "The Organic Presence of the Sign in
Balinese Performance Texts"
6th International Congress of the Association for Semiotic Studies Guadalajara (Mexico)

1996

September 5-9
Paper presented at congress: "Time and Space in Balinese Musical Texts"
International Semiotics Congress, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

November 4 & 5
Lecture series presented in Finland: Towards a Multimedial Approach to Musical Experience
(3 lectures), University of Helsinki (Finland)

1995

November 14-16
Paper presented at congress: "The Balinese Musical Sign Embodied in Time and Space"
Fifth International Congress on Musical Signification, Bologna (Italy)

1993

June 10-16
Paper presented at congress: “ZAUM: Towards a musical understanding of language”
International Summer Congresses for Structural and Semiotic Studies, Imatra (Finland)

1992

July 17
Paper at colloquium: "Rethinking language and text in terms of a musical aesthetic"
Colloquium on Australian, American and British poetry set to music
Edith Cowan University, Perth

1991


January 28
Lecture on New Music-Theatre, Logos Foundation, Ghent (Belgium)

November 16 & 23
Workshops for youth training programme
The workshops concentrated on new ways of exploring music,
resulting in performance on December 21.
PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts)
 


August 25
New Music-Theatre Workshop
Murdoch University, Western Australia.

 

 

 

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