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Unpacking the Collection
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts and the people and institutions who made, traded, collected, researched and exhibited them have generated complex networks of material and social agency. In this innovative volume, the contributors draw on a broad range of source materials to explore the cross-cultural interactions which have created museum collections. These case studies contribute significantly to the...
De-signing Design
De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice, and philosophy from leading scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Themes include spatiality, difference, cultural aesthetics, and identity in the expanded field of place-making and being. The concept that design can be de-signed is presented as a way of exploring different approaches to an experimental and experiential thinking-doing that promises to further open up research possibilities in the fields of design and art thinking and practice. The book enacts a series of cartographic devices to articulate the spaces between theory and practice.
Art and Social Change
This book documents the genesis of the idea and the creative collaborations that led to seven successful seasons of the music theatre production Dust, from 2008 to 2013. At its core, Dust is a show about the endurance, integrity and courage shown by those with asbestos-related diseases.You can read this book from cover to cover or explore sections of it.The Journey to Dust contains articles on the inspiration and influences used to create the style and content of the work. The method used to develop and structure it is also presented. Collaborating to Create Dust contains articles from eight colleagues who discuss the way they work and/or their experience on the project. The Impact of Dust features articles from Lindy Allen, the evaluator of the last two seasons of Dust. She discusses her framework and the processes she used to prove that Dust did create social change.Dust the Project contains the script of the theatre show. Dust Resources comprises a recording of the songs by Mark Seymour and a copy of the half-hour ABC documentary Making Dust by Malcolm McKinnon. Here you will also find the song scores, the concert version of the show, lesson plans, and a bibliography.
The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections
This volume of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections. These collections are a principal source of information on how Aboriginal people lived in the past. Knowing the context in which any collection was created-the intellectual frameworks within which the collectors were working, their collecting practices, what they failed to collect, and what Aboriginal people withheld-is vital to understanding how any collection relates to the Aboriginal society from which it was derived. Once made, collections have had mixed fates: some have become the jewel of a museum's holdings, while others have been divided and dispersed across the world, or retained but neglected. The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.
The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art
This publication brings together existing research as well as new data to show how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical in the making of Indigenous Australian contemporary art and the self-determination agendas of Indigenous Australians. It identifies how, when and what the shifts in the reception of the art were, especially as they occurred within institutional exhibition displays. Despite key studies already being published on the reception of Aboriginal art in this area, the overall process is not well known or always considered, while the focus has tended to be placed on Western Desert acrylic paintings. This text, however represents a refocus, and addresses this more fully by integrating Arnhem Land bark painting into the contemporary history of Aboriginal art. The trajectory moves from its understanding as a form of ethnographic art, to seeing it as conceptual art and appreciating it for its cultural agency and contemporaneity.
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts - are being received and reintegrated into the ongoing social and cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians. Combining a critical examination of the making of these collections with an assessment of their contemporary significance, the book exposes the opportunities and challenges involved in returning cultural heritage for the purposes of maintaining, preserving or reviving cultural practice. Drawing on ethnographic work undertaken with Aboriginal communities and the institutions that hold significant collections, the author reveals important new insights about the impac...
Makarrata
This book contains the information about the meeting of heads of cultural institutions with the Yolngu of Milingimbi held in August 2016. The event had its conceptual format in the traditional peace making ceremony of Arnhem Land. An objective of the event was to bring about understanding between the two groups over the cultural heritage of theirs held in museums and other institutions around the world. It was a collaboration between researchers on an ARC grant between the Australian National University and Museum Victoria and the people of Milingimbi.
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers
Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast. It examines cultural "rituals" and objects; the re-enactments of various events and encounters of exchange, conciliation and diplomacy that occurred on colonial frontiers between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples; commemorations of historic events; and how the histories of colonial conflict and conciliation are politicized in nation-building and national identities.
