About
I am an independent researcher, and writer. I was born in Australia and now live in the south of France. I write hybrid, speculative, experimental, sound-based texts, crossing genres. I have a transgression impulse. I am interested in un-natural narratives. I love and champion women’s voices, in that, I have done extensive research into monologues, testimony, love, language, women mystics, and ecstatic voice utterances, the writer Gertrude Stein, and matriarchal underpinnings in language (MFA, MPHIL and Ph.D.). I have a novel in my bottom draw, about light and two women discussing it in its various guises. And I am presently working on a text featuring a mouthless woman detective and her sassy speech device (ventriloquist dummy) looking for something quite peculiar. I am interested in and have read quite widely into feminist theory. I like undoing or rewinding the threads of women’s lives as they are depicted in Greek and other ‘early’ myths, and reimagining and reanimating their voices. I’m interested in the lost, the unsaid, the unutterable, the refused, the denied … the voices in the margins.
Education
PhD, Transdisciplinary Thesis – “Soundage” – a Practice-led Approach to Gertrude Stein, Sound and Generative Language (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia) 2012.
MPhil. Creative text – Sounding the Other Light … a biography.
Thesis – Sounding the Ineffable: the pre-Socratic Notion of Subtle Light, Mystical Testimonies and Brilliance in Gertrude Stein’s Song. Deans Award for Excellence 2007 (The University of Queensland Australia) 2007
Master Class in Experimental Narrative – (California State University California, Fresno USA.) 2004.
MFA. Making Apparitions: Maps of Flesh and Light & Five Grappled Steps in the Making of Writing (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) 2000.
BA.Honours(VA). Alchemy: a reading of alchemical processes in contemporary art making – Art & Photography (Canberra School of Art – The University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia) 1994. Publications
For links click here
https://independent.academia.edu/MMafeSelected publishing –
*peer reviewed
FESTIVAL: GLI.TC/H ?? 24 HOUR NO PASSWORD PARTY ?????????????? Link:
http://tinyurl.com/readerror
Via Error, How2. Vol.3., Issue 3., Strictly Speaking Caroline Bergvall 1–6 August 2010
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal//current/index.html
Kipple
http://kipplepoetry.blogspot.com/2010/03/three-poems-majena-mafe.html March 2010
*(INSIDE ALICE’S FACETS) Figuring the Unstable World of Perceptual Meaning (meanings and unmeanings) … in the word of a lit up face. Bukker Tillibul Journal Vol. 3 Swinburne University, 2009
What does a feminist writer look / sound like Delirious Hem, June 2009
http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-does-feminist-poet-look-like-by.html
3 Opera for Glossalali’ Zswound 2008,
http://zswound.blogspot.com/2008/05/majena-mafe-operafor-glossolalia
Issue 1. Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter
http://www.forgodot.com/labels/issue%201.html
*5 Grappled Steps in the Method Making of Writing (a mary-festo). Chloe Outskirts Journal, peer-reviewed journal on Ficto-criticism, June 2009
http://www.chloe.uwa.edu.au/outskirts/archive/volume20/mafe
Henry/etta. Enoagh Journal
http://eoagh.com/issuefive/mafe.html September 2009
Meritage Press
http://www.meritagepress.com/index.htm 2009
Hollandnineteenfourtyfive
http://www.holland1945.net.au/index.htm 2010 Issue 1, Fall 2008. ed.
Pintuckers. Gargoyle Journal 50 Arlington, V.A. Paycock Press 2005
Blue-. Rachel Haynes artist’s catalogue. Metro Arts 2006
No Writing Annie Oakley. Shampoo Journal of Experimental Writing 2004
http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentytwo/mafe.html
Artists’ Catalogue Essays (Rachael Haynes 2004, Daniel Mafe 2004, Susan Buret 2006)
Self-publishing
‘Neil Cameron – projects’ Unsound Press, Australia 2010
‘Abstract Spaces – Daniel Mafe’ Unsound Press, Australia 2009 ‘Sounded-Language and Gertrude Stein – notes towards saying it’ Unsound Press, Australia 2007
‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ Unsound Press, Australia 2007 ‘Cowgirls and Monsters’ Unsound Press, Australia 2007
‘Inside Alice’s Facets’ Unsound Press, Australia 2006
Projects
ACADEMIC
PhD CREATIVES INDUSTRIES (ART, SOUND, LITERATURE) – QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY BRISBANE AUSTRALIA 2013
Soundage: a practice-led approach to Gertrude Stein, Sound and Generative Language – Thesis
Soundage: an appendix (visual scores and images from practice-led research degree)
Re-score Two as sound bites
The Generative Machine of Sounded Language – Confirmation Paper
The Biography of Things as told to me by Gertrude Stein (part of Confirmation Paper)
Singling as an ‘Unproper’ Theory: Gertrude Stein and The Sounding Jouissant
An Improper Radiant Sound – Gertrude Stein and the Sounded Jouissance (conference paper)
What does a Feminist Poet Sound like?
ASSOCIATED SOUND COLLECTIONS:
A Sockdolager – Phraseology of Pictured Moutherings – pouting the theory of lisped hinting at/of surpassed joy
Via Error 48 Variations on Dante (mirrored variations of Bergvall (of Dante))
Speech – is this the place to put the screech sound …?
Anthropology of the Mouth … painted as the History of Hinting
My 3clin3ers
Telling Experience … ‘experience’
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MPHIL CREATIVE WRITING – QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY, BRISBANE. AUSTRALIA 2005
Sounding the Other Light … a biography. Creative text submitted with thesis 2005.
Sounding the Ineffable: the pre-Socratic Notion of Subtle Light, Mystical Testimonies and Gertrude Stein. Thesis 2005.
Visioning: Testimonies of Interior Light. Appendix.
The Bright Visual Soundings in Worded Writing (conference paper and whole project outline)
Strips of light-like patterns on the Asylum Floor
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MASTERS VISUAL ART – QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
5 Grappled steps in the making of writing
Also called The Making Apparitions …
Also called Skirt submission – Grappled Steps
Apparition: maps of flesh and light (MFA Vis Arts)
But the Eye cannot see the eye
BACHELORS DEGREE IN VISUAL ARTS – CANBERRA SCHOOL OF ART – UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA
Alchemy: a reading of alchemical processes in contemporary art making
….
SORT OF STAND-ALONE SHORT POETIC – FICTO – CRITICAL THEORY
Singling as an ‘Unproper’ Theory: Gertrude Stein and The Sounding Jouissant
An Improper Radiant Sound – Gertrude Stein and the sounded Jouissance (conference paper)
What does a Feminist Poet Sound like?
Broader SOUND COLLECTION:
A Sockdolager – Phraseology of Pictured Moutherings – pouting the theory of lisped hinting at/of
surpassed joy
Via Error 48 Variations of Dante Variations (variations of Bergvall (of Dante))
Speech – is this the place to put the screech sound
Anthropology of the Mouth … painted as the history of hinting
My 3clin3ers
Telling experience
The Biography of Things as told to me by Gertrude Stein
5 Grappled steps in the making of writing pub. Skirt submission
Also called The Making Apparitions …
Apparition: Maps of Flesh and Light. Vis A Masters discussion of creative work
But the Eye cannot see the eye
Inside Alice’s Facets: Figuring the Unstable World of Perceptual Meaning (meanings and unmeanings)… in the word of a Lit up Face
Sounding the Ineffable: the pre-Socratic Notion of Subtle Light, Mystical testimonies and Gertrude Stein
Visioning : Testimonies of Interior Light, Appendix
Strips of Light like patterns on the Asylum floor
A Little Glossary of Big Whoppers
Also called – Whoppers at Jouassant Play
Also called – A little glossary of whoppers as an interdisciplinary framework
Singling as an ‘Unproper’ Theory: Gertrude Stein and The Sounding Jouissant Con. 2008
An Improper Radiant Sound – Gertrude Stein and the sounded Jouissance Con.
