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Biography
Han Reardon-Smith (they/them) is a white settler musicker, radio/podcast producer, community organiser, and thinker-scholar living on the unceded land of the Jagera, Yuggera Ugarapul and Turrbal Peoples. Their work and thinking are rooted in queer/trans and disabled collaborative and contaminative co-creation with other “holobionts with history”—soundmakers and artmakers, physical and social environments, ecologies, histories, complicities, and narratives, exploring the emergent possibilities of making-kin and finding agency within community (soundmaking as kinmaking: musickin).
Han works as a postdoctoral research associate to Wiradjuri trans/non-binary Professor Sandy O'Sullivan on their project Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQA+ creative artists in the Critical Indigenous Studies Department (Macquarie University, on Dharug Country) and as part of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures.
As a flutist and electronic musician, Han plays solo under the moniker cyberBanshee, and with Magan-djin's radically inclusive symphonic pop collective Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra, as well as improv and experimentation trios Rogue Three and It’s Science And Feelings. They are one of the community organising thinker-troublemakers behind the Brisbane Free University, its Radical Reading Group, and its 4ZZZ community radio and podcast offshoot, the Radio Reversal Collective. Han also produces the podcast Saltwater Library with RMIT DECRA scholar Dr Rebecca Olive.
Education/Academic qualification
Music, Doctor of Philosophy, Sounding Kin: A Queer-Feminist Thinking of Free Improvisation, Griffith University, Queensland Conservatorium of Music
1 Feb 2017 → 21 Jun 2021
Award Date: 16 Nov 2021
Music, Advanced Master of Contemporary Performance Practice, codex: Improvising with the composed structures of Richard Barrett, Hogeschool Gent
1 Sept 2014 → 31 Aug 2016
Award Date: 31 Aug 2016
Music, Master of Philosophy in Music Performance, The Other Flautist: Vocal Sounds in Contemporary Flute Music, The University of Queensland
20 Jul 2010 → 1 Feb 2013
Award Date: 1 Feb 2013
Music Performance, Bachelor of Music with Honours, What is" new Music"?: An Examination of Music Terminology in the 20th-and 21st Centuries, Griffith University, Queensland Conservatorium of Music
20 Feb 2005 → 30 Nov 2008
Award Date: 30 Nov 2008
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research Outputs
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Queer Indigenous screen representation: beyond a gift from the past or a problem to be solved
O'Sullivan, S., Reardon-Smith, H., Blakers, A. & Miller, T., Jun 2024, In: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 20, 2, p. 289-297 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Queer As…: a deep dive into complex queer television
O'Sullivan, S., Reardon-Smith, H., Blakers, A. & Miller, T., 13 May 2024, In: Journal of Global Indigeneity. 7, 2, p. 1-14 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Musickin as in Free Palestine: vulnerable listening in violent times
Reardon-Smith, H., 2024, Disclaimer.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
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Companion thinking in improvised musicking practice
Rottle, J. & Reardon-Smith, H., 2023, In: Contemporary Music Review. 42, 1, p. 82-99 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reclaiming the landbodymind erotic: queer First Nations "storytelling wholeness" and "some properly hot gay sex"
Reardon-Smith, H., 6 Sept 2023, In: Journal of Global Indigeneity. 7, 2, p. 1-14 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Nonbinary on screen (on Stolen Land)
Reardon-Smith, H. (Speaker)
7 Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation