| Título: | Beyond the seas |
| Autores: | Steven Dixon |
| Fecha: | 2009-09-16 |
| Publicador: | Craft + design inquiry |
| Fuente: |
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| Tema: | No aplica |
| Descripción: | This paper describes a practice-led research project undertaken in Australia in 2006, in which I sought to explore the relationship between radical changes in cultural/geographical environment and the production of unique forms of material culture. In this case the shift in environment was brought about by migration (enforced or otherwise) from the UK to colonial Australia, and the crafted artefacts of the colonial period (and after) were taken as representative of a particularly Australian material culture. As a maker it was important to me that this research was developed primarily through practice, supported by museum/archive study and fieldwork in Australia. The project therefore proposed a range of historical Australian artefacts as the subject of study, and my own creative practice as the vehicle of study.In section 1 (fieldwork), I describe the initial boundaries of the project, list the research questions, and consider the project's location and its context within the wider objectives of the Here and There (HAT) project. Specific artefacts and objects are identified and described, as representative of a unique material culture. Section 2 (reflective practice) considers some of the ethical issues encountered and describes the evolution of my research focus during the early stages of the project, particularly the discovery of depression era 'making-do' artefacts, and a growing interest in Australian folk narratives and 'icons' of popular culture. It then describes the development of a series of works made in response to the initial Australian fieldwork over the following two years of studio practice in the UK. Section 3 (conclusion) reflects upon the outcomes of the study - in particular the practical and conceptual changes undertaken in my creative practice as a result of the project - and lists the exhibitions, conferences and articles through which the Beyond the seas project has since been disseminated. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
1 In the Spaces of the Archive por Caroline Bartlett | 6 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 |
2 Developing and Defining Migratory Practice for the Museum por Emma Martin | 7 Outsourcing the hand: An analysis of craft-design collaborations across the global divide por Kevin Murray; RMIT University, University of Melbourne, Monash University |
3 Listening when others talk back por Kay Lawrence | 8 Clothing the postcolonial body: art, artifacts and action in south eastern Australia por Sylvia Kleinert; Adjunct Associate Professor at the Australian National University and Charles Darwin University |
4 Migratory Practices: introduction to an impossible place? por Amanda Ravetz,Jane Webb | 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 | 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 |