Introduction    Nescio, sed sentio et excrucior: the many faces of art and pain
by Paul Monaghan

Keynote Address    Art Through Pain - The Panacea, by Angela O’Brien

Depression and Expression: Life Begins on the Other Side of Despair, by Ann McCulloch in consultation with Aliki Pavlou

On Depression Considered as Acephalic Melancholia, by Justin Clemens

Pain and the Sublime, by Tim Mehigan

Reconciling Difference: Art as Reparation and Healing, by Estelle Barrett

Heiner Müller’s Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man: Atrocity and Pain in German History and Theatre, by Denise Varney

Surveillance Aesthetics and Theatre against "Empire", by Peter Eckersall

Bloody Roman Narratives: Gladiators, "Fatal Charades" & Senecan Theatre, by Paul Monaghan

Nervous Dramaturgy: Pain, Performance and Excess in the Work of Dr Jean-Martin Charcot, 1862-1893, by Jonathan Marshall

Toni Dove's Artificial Changelings: Collapsing Time and Feeling e/Motional Spaces, by Peta Tait

Loss, Grief and Representation: "Getting on with It", by David Ritchie

Abstract Art: Pain and Discomfort, by Rob Haysom

"Ravaged Kingdom": Approaching Pain through Gameplay, by Kathy Mueller

Anecdotes and Antidotes: Stories as Balms, Storytelling as Healing, by Stephen Goddard

Art, Pain, Children: Utopian and Dystopian Discourses in Picture Books, by Clare Bradford

Waking from the Porcelain Dream: the Role of Government in Reducing Anthropocentrism, by Scott Rawlings

Art and Pain Exhibition

Review of Double Dialogues Art and Pain Exhibition, by Justin Clemens

Double Dialogues Art and Pain Exhibition, poetry by Tim Potter

Text & Image: Narrative Responses to Double Dialogues Art and Pain Exhibition

Creative Work

Art & Pain, poetry by Myron Lysenko

Writing the Ache, a Melbourne University Graduate Writers Collective

Poems and Pain, poetry by Eddie Paterson