Remote Avant-Garde

Aboriginal Art Under Occupation

Jennifer Loureide Biddle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9780822360551 (ISBN)

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In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages.

In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art responds to national emergency, from the creation of locally hunted grass sculptures to biliterary acrylic witness paintings to stop-motion animation. Following directly from the unprecedented success of the Western Desert art movement, contemporary Aboriginal artists harness traditions of experimentation to revivify at-risk vernacular languages, maintain cultural heritage, and ensure place-based practice of community initiative. Biddle shows how these new art forms demand serious and sustained attention to the dense complexities of sentient perception and the radical inseparability of art from life. Taking shape on frontier boundaries and in zones of intercultural imperative, Remote Avant-Garde presents Aboriginal art "under occupation" in Australia today.

Jennifer Loureide Biddle is Director of Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art as Experience.

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction. The Imperative to Experiment 1

1. Humanitarian Imperialism 21

Part I. Biliteracies

2. Tangentyere Artists 41

3. June Walkutjukurr Richards 77

4. Rhonda Unurupa Dick 91

Part II. Hapticities

5. Tjanpi Desert Weavers 109

6. Warnayaka Art: Yurlpa 139

7. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists 159

Part III. Happenings

8. Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route 181

9. The Warburton Arts Project 197

Epilogue: (Not) a "Lifestyle Choice" 217

Notes 221

Further Resources 233

References 235

Index 257

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.2.2016
Reihe/Serie	Objects/Histories
Zusatzinfo	112 illustrations, incl. 20 in color
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780822360551 / 9780822360551
Zustand	Neuware