About tond + Hamish McIntosh

Welcome to tond. This is where I write independent, reparative criticism with the aim of encouraging dialogue around the role and meaning of performance and dance in society. If you're interested in having me write about your work, I would love to hear from you. I set up tond to be an uncommissioned service, with my reviews offered in-kind to support emerging artists and our community at large.

Hamish McIntosh is a Pākehā artist-researcher living on Wurundjeri Country in so-called Australia. Born in Whakatū / Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand, Hamish trained in contemporary dance at the New Zealand School of Dance before pursuing postgraduate studies. Hamish recently submitted his PhD at the University of Melbourne, where he examined the possibilities of treating death as a queer theory of dance aesthetics. Drawing heavily on visual and performance art traditions, his dance practice focuses on acts of duration and endurance. Treating dance as a site for political and philosophical inquiry, Hamish has published writing and scholarship on queerness, pedagogy and dancing masculinities internationally, and exhibited his performance work at venues including the Gus Fisher Gallery (Auckland), play_station (Wellington), Temperance Hall (Melbourne), and the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne).