| Título: | Clothing the postcolonial body: art, artifacts and action in south eastern Australia |
| Autores: | Sylvia Kleinert; Adjunct Associate Professor at the Australian National University and Charles Darwin University |
| Fecha: | 2010-07-06 |
| Publicador: | Craft + design inquiry |
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| Tema: | Indigenous, Craft, Design, Collaboration, Art, Australian, Cross-Cultural |
| Descripción: | In this paper I explore the significance of dress as an expressive and performative genre within contemporary art in south eastern Australia. My aim is to build on and expand recent studies in cross‐cultural discourse to offer a broader, more inclusive framework for contemporary art practice in the south east grounded in dynamic Aboriginal cosmologies that demonstrate both continuity and innovation. Specifically I will examine two arenas of practice usually treated as separate domains: the revitalization of fibre seen in shell necklaces, baskets and possum skin cloaks – once worn or carried on the body ‐ and the appropriation by artists of items of colonial and contemporary dress such as blankets, trousers, knitwear and T‐ shirts. My research reveals how art, as a form of action, contributes to social and cultural sustainability by engaging with an Aboriginal landscape and a postcolonial world to imagine ‘cultural futures.’ |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
1 In the Spaces of the Archive por Caroline Bartlett | 6 |
2 Developing and Defining Migratory Practice for the Museum por Emma Martin | 7 From Baskets to Bodies: Innovation Within Aboriginal Fibre Practice por Christiane Keller; Honorary Research Fellowship at the University of Western Australia, and is Research Associate at the Western Australian Museum |
3 Listening when others talk back por Kay Lawrence | 8 Outsourcing the hand: An analysis of craft-design collaborations across the global divide por Kevin Murray; RMIT University, University of Melbourne, Monash University |
4 Beyond the seas por Steven Dixon | 9 From shell work to shell art: Koori women creating knowledge and value on the South Coast of NSW por Daphne Nash; Research School of Humanities, Australian National University |
5 Migratory Practices: introduction to an impossible place? por Amanda Ravetz,Jane Webb | 10 Craft and sustainable development: reflections on Scottish craft and pathways to sustainability por Emilia Ferraro; Lecturer in Sustainable Development, School of Geography and Geoscience, University of St. Andrews,Rehema White; Biologist and a Lecturer in Sustainable Development, School of Geography and Geoscience, University of St. Andrews,Eoin Cox; Owner and a director of Buy Design Gallery Ltd,Jan Bebbington; Professor of accounting and Sustainable Development, and the Director of St Andrews Sustainability Institute at the University of St Andrews,Sandra Wilson; Programme Director of the Jewellery & Metal Design department at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee |