An exploration of ethnographical art -- the Paiwanese case.
Seminar
The objects of my inquiry of this thesis are divided into four categories. Firstly, I explore how Paiwanese social organization and genealogical systems are based on a primogenitary system. Secondly, I examine the representational systems that convey cultural meanings that are in turn encoded in…
Art in the Time of Colony and the Importance of Being Anachronistic
Seminar
In this lecture Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll presents recent cases of restoration claims from European museum collections to Indigenous communities. The complex biographies of key museum objects exemplify, embody, and refract the tensions of nineteenth-century Australian history. She focuses on…
Critical making, creativity and play for disruptive heritage practice
Seminar
Critical making is a mode of engagement that can challenge and change interpretation and presentation of heritage. Matt Ratto defines critical making as a way to “use material forms of engagement with technologies to supplement and extend critical reflection...to reconnect our lived experiences…
Anangu and Tourism at Uluru: Opportunities, Benefits and Impediments
Seminar
26 October 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the handback of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to its traditional owners, the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people, who collectively identify as Anangu. On the eve of this anniversary, this paper presents key results from three years of…
Lirrgarn, Agency & Art in the east Kimberley
Seminar
This research examines the Warmun community and how its members exert agency and maintain their values, lifestyles and aims through the prism of art. It links three trajectories: the journey of the Warmun Community Collection, the history of adjustment experienced by Warmun people and the…
Songlines Desert Storm: Community controversy and museum exhibitions
Seminar
Journalists created a media storm around the Ngintaka Exhibition opening at the South Australian Museum in 2014 claiming they were giving ‘voice to the voiceless’ Indigenous community. In fact it was the senior Ngintaka Songline custodians who had co-curated the exhibition whose voices they…