Tim Corballis – Academy of New Zealand Literature

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Tim Corballis is a novelist, essayist and art writer based in Wellington. He is the author of five novels through Victoria University Press: Our Future is in the Air (2017), R.H.I. (2015), The Fossil Pits (2005), Measurement (2002), and Below (2001).

He has received a number of major awards and residencies for his writing, including most recently the Victoria University of Wellington Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence (2015). His essay ‘Winter’ won the Landfall Essay Competition in 2013.

Tim has a background in mathematics and philosophy as well as creative writing, has taught at tertiary level in philosophy, sociology and art and design theory, and currently teaches science communication. In 2014 he was awarded a doctorate from The University of Auckland, for work in the theoretical humanities and social sciences focusing on aesthetic theory in Antipodean contexts.

Collaborative work includes the 2007 exhibition project Si C’est (If It Is) shown at The Physics Room, Christchurch and Te Tuhi Gallery, Auckland, and the 2015 video artwork Machine Wind shown at Te Tuhi Gallery, both with photographer Fiona Amundsen. Machine Wind was subsequently shown at the 5th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2016, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei. In 2020 Tim again collaborated with Fiona Amundsen to create an exhibition ‘Human Hand’ at The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt, exploring three communities in Arizona that are all in some sense separated from the mainstream.

A Transitional Imaginary (Harvest Press, 2015) is a non-fiction book about the Christchurch earthquakes written in Christchurch with seven other writers over the course of one week.

Tim’s more recent works include ‘There is No Up, There is No Down’ in Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays from Aotearoa New Zealand (Victoria UP, 2016) and a review of John Lechte and Saul Newman, Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights in Thesis Eleven.

Tim’s latest book Our Future is in the Air (Victoria UP, 2017) is a captivating work about the invisible forces that make us who we are: science, politics, power – and our hoped-for futures.

Links

Read NZ Te Pou Muramura writer page

Victoria University Press author page

Radio NZ interview discussing Our Future is in the Air (July, 2017)

takahē review of R.H.I (April, 2016)

Landfall review of R.H.I on Jack Ross’s blog (Jan, 2016)

New Zealand Listener review of R.H.I (Nov, 2015)

Pantograph Punch interview with Tim Corballis (Nov, 2015)

Booksellers New Zealand review of R.H.I (Sept, 2015)

NZ Herald review of R.H.I (Sept, 2015)

Read’s Reader review of R.H.I (Sept, 2015)

Victoria University Press interview with Tim Corballis (Aug, 2015)

Bibliography: Tim Corballis

Fiction

Our Future is in the Air (Victoria UP, 2017)

R.H.I. (Victoria UP, 2015)

The Fossil Pits (Victoria UP, 2005)

Measurement (Victoria UP, 2002)

Below (Victoria UP, 2001)

Journals

‘Machine Stories’ Turbine, 15 (2015)

‘Colony / Art / Freedom / Debt: the Negation of the Full World’ Reading Room, 7 (Non-fiction: 2015)

‘Winter’ Landfall, 226 (Essay: Winner of 2013 Landfall Essay Competition)

‘Notes for an Unfinished City’ Landfall, 221 (Non-fiction: 2011)

‘The Writing We Don’t Hear’ Booknotes, 16 (2008)

‘A Calculus of Experience’ Landfall, 208 (2004)

‘Janie, Tom’ Sport, 35 (2007)

‘Mistaken Identity’ Sunday Star Times (3 June 2007)

Landfall, 211 (Short story, 2006)

Bordercrossing Berlin 1 (2006)

‘Not Pornography: reading Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’’ Landfall, 209 (Non-fiction: 2005)

Landfall (Short story: 2004)

‘Lactucarium’ Ramp, 2 (2004)

‘Lost and Found’ Staple, 2 (2003)

‘Against Creativity’ Landfall (2003)

‘From Behind the Ice Wall’ Glottis, 7 (2002)

‘Taking Root’ Sport, 29 (2002)

‘Geologic’ Sport, 26 (2001)

‘The Story Reinvented’ Landfall (2001)

‘Commercial’ Sport, 24 (2000)

‘Depth of Field’ Landfall (2000)

‘The Road out of Town’ Sport, 23 (1999)

‘Efforts at Burial’ Sport, 22 (1999)

Anthologies

A Transitional Imaginary: Space, Network and Memory in Christchurch (Non-fiction: Harvest Press, 2015)

‘Memories of the Invisible’ in Fiona Amundsen, The Imperial Body (Split Fountain, 2015)

‘Spirit Photograph’ in Fiona Amundsen, The Imperial Body (Split Fountain, 2015)

‘Collaboratorium Suite’ in R. O’Neill & T. Sleigh (Eds.), Over Under and Around (Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2012)

‘Die Straße zur Stadt hinaus’ in Manhire, B., & Mandelkow. M. (Eds.), Ein Anderes Land: Short Storys aus Neuseeland (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2012)

‘The Photographic Archive’ in H. Sameshima (Ed.) Bold Histories: a Photographic History Album (Rim Books, 2009)

‘See, Say’ in P. Booker & M. Slater (Eds.), Public Good: Itinerant Responses to Collective Space (Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2008)

‘The Search for the Third Thing’ in J. Ross & T. Shaw (Eds.), The Myth of the 21^st Century (Reed, 2006)

‘Taking Root’ in Wilkins, D. (Ed.), Great Sporting Moments (Victoria UP, 2005)

‘Writing That Matters: Two Views of the Place of Politics in Literature’ in M. Williams (Ed.), Writing at the edge of the universe: essays from the ‘Creative Writing in New Zealand’ conference, University of Canterbury, August 2003 (Canterbury UP, 2004)

‘False Starts’, ‘Hussein’, ‘The Cure for Solitude: An Essay’, ‘Samuel’s Dream’, ‘Spectacular Babies’ in K. Anderson & B. Manhire (Eds.), Spectacular Babies (HarperCollins, 2001)

‘A New Journalism’ in E. Perkins (Ed.), The Picnic Virgin (Victoria UP, 1999)