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ItemAll the things I should have said that I never said(Bunjil Place, City of Casey, 2022)
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ItemWhere is Art? Space, Time, and Location in Contemporary Art(Routledge, 2022-06-30)Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated. While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth-century was aligned with the question “what is art?,” a key question for many artists and thinkers in the twenty-first century has become “where is art?” Contributors explore the challenge of meaningfully identifying and evaluating works located across multiple versions and locations in space and time. In doing so, they also seek to find appropriate language and criteria for evaluating forms of art that often straddle other realms of knowledge and activity.
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ItemAnywhere iv(Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne; Project Anywhere; and Parsons Fine Arts, School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, 2021)Project Anywhere is a vehicle for illuminating the existence of art potentially located anywhere on earth. Using a peer reviewed global exhibition model and dedicated website, it is specifically designed to evaluate and promote artistic projects presented outside traditional exhibition spaces and circuits. A key feature of Project Anywhere’s innovative evaluation model is the substitution of the figure of curator with a democratizing blind peer evaluation system. Significantly, this peer evaluation model differs substantially from traditional research evaluation systems, which typically endorse the quality of project “outcomes”. Instead, by emphasizing evaluation at the proposal stage, our double-blind peer review process privileges speculation, discursive thinking and risk-taking over project “realisation”. Representations of projects hosted as part of Project Anywhere’s global exhibition program are featured on the homepage for one year, updated throughout the hosting period, and then made permanently accessible in the exhibition archive. Project Anywhere accepts both individual and collaborative proposals from artists, curators and researchers working anywhere in the world. Projects can be highly speculative or discursive in nature and can extend or contradict existing methodologies. Project Anywhere affords independent validation, feedback, and international dissemination across a range of platforms for art and artistic research at the outermost limits of location-specificity. At the cessation of the Project Anywhere annual global exhibition hosting period, all selected contributors are invited to develop a short page-based response. These responses are then presented in our biennial publication Anywhere. All the contributions featured this edited publication have been developed in response to artistic projects originally selected for inclusion in Project Anywhere’s 2019 and 2020 exhibition programs. The contributing artists, curators and researchers were all invited to develop a text/image piece that is neither straightforward documentation nor scholarly text. We are delighted to share these extraordinary ‘re-imaginings’ in this our fourth issue of Anywhere, and the second designed by Ella Egidy. Acknowledging that it is not possible to wholly explain or describe an artistic project, the contributions featured in Anywhere iv should instead be seen as alternative portals into their respective worlds.
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ItemHow artistic research ends(Surpllus, 2020)The term ‘artistic research’ shadowed the growth of graduate study in studio arts in the late twentieth century, including the integration of many art schools and polytechnics into a tightly integrated and networked higher education sector, and an accompanying interest in art’s relationship to traditional academic disciplines. As the art education sector grew, the key debates were concerned with what the future of artistic research should look like as it expands. However, given the impact of neoliberal austerity measures and funding cuts that have resulted in programme closures and declining enrolments, we now consider the likelihood of artistic research contracting. What if artistic research is now approaching the end of its university life, a fate shared by the humanities and critical social sciences? This essay considers the potential ways artistic research may end.
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ItemJunba for Yilala: An instruction book(Kimberley Language Resource Centre, 2019)Junba for Yilala was written by Johnny Nyunjuma Divilli in 2017 and 2018 withcontributions from Francis Nunburrngu Divilli, Rona Goonginda Charles, MatthewDembalali Martin and Sally Treloyn.Each year, young Ngarinyin, Worrorra and Wunambal dancers and singers, supported byelders, teach younger community members Junba choreography and practices. Junba forYilala: An instruction book was written by Johnny Nyunjuma Divilli to provide young boysand young men with a resource to support this teaching and learning.In developing the book, Nyunjuma also drew upon contributions from his brother FrancisNunburrngu Divilli, elder Matthew Dembalali Martin, Rona Goonginda Charles, andethnomusicologist Sally Treloyn.The book includes photos that document the revival of skin-based bodypaint designs andtechniques by Divilli, Martin, and others, in 2016. The book also includes transcriptions ofinterviews with key teachers of Junba in the Ngarinyin community conducted by Divilli in2016 and 2017 that document how they learned Junba as children.
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ItemWunggurr nyindi Warrunga jirri, The Rainbow Serpent and the Young Man(Kimberley Language Resource Centre, 2019)The Rainbow Serpent and the Young Man Wunggurr nyindi Warrunga jirri was illustrated and told by Eamarlden Rivers in 2016 in Mowanjum, an Aboriginal Community in the Kimberley, Western Australia. In May 2018 Matthew Dembalali Martin and Pansy Ngalgarr Nulgit retold Eamarlden’s story in Ungarinyin with the assistance of Rona Goonginda Charles, at Mangkajarda wetlands near Mowanjum. The retelling of Eamarlden’s story was translated by Matthew Dembalali Martin, Pansy Nalgarr Nulgit, and Thomas Saunders. The translation was edited by Sally Treloyn to fit the format of Eamarlden’s book. This is a new story in English by a young Nyikina and Ngarinyin dancer and storyteller, retold in Ngarinyin language by elders in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. A young man, chased by his brothers, is protected by the Rainbow Serpent until they join together to dance Junba. The Rainbow Serpent and the Young Man, Wunggurr nyindi Warrunga jirri is a cultural story about bullying and the healing power of Country and dancing.
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ItemJ is for Junba: A bilingual alphabet book in Ngarinyin language and English(Kimberley Language Resource Centre, 2019)J is for Junba was developed by Rona Goonginda Charles and Sally Treloyn as a resource tosupport teaching and learning through Junba in Ngarinyin language speaking communities.Pansy Ngalgarr Nulgit provided Charles and Treloyn with sample sentences in Ngarinyinlanguage for each word in the course of several sessions at Mangkajarda wetlands nearMowanjum. These sample sentences were then transcribed and translated by Pansy NgalgarrNulgit, Rona Goonginda Charles, Thomas Saunders and Sally Treloyn with assistancefrom Matthew Dembalali Martin. Francis Nunburrngu developed illustrations overseveral months.The book follows the format of a typical English-language alphabet book, A – Z, andincludes sounds that are additional to (e.g., rn, rl, rd, ny) and absent from (e.g., c, f, h, k, p, q,s, t, v, x, z) Ngarinyin language and orthography. A guide to reading Ngarinyin language isat the end of the book
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ItemNo Preview AvailableArtistic Research in the Future Academy(Intellect Books, 2017)The rapid growth of doctoral-level art education challenges traditional ways of thinking about academic knowledge and, yet, as Danny Butt argues in this book, the creative arts may also represent a positive blueprint for the future of the university. Synthesizing institutional history with aesthetic theory, Artistic Research in the Future Academy reconceptualizes the contemporary crisis in university education toward a valuable renewal of creative research.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableA Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild(Australian National University Press, 2017)The title of this collection honouring Stephen Wild—A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes—is drawn from his own essay celebrating the 50th anniversary of the journal Ethnomusicology (Wild 2006). While Stephen pondered whether there might be a distinctive voice in the ethnomusicology of Australia and New Zealand, we have turned his question into a statement of fact and applied it to him as someone who very much embodies such a distinctive voice through his writings, influence, and other academic activities. Further support for our appropriation of Stephen’s 2006 title can be found in the frequency with which that article is cited in the contributions here. The chapters submitted for Stephen’s festschrift were written by scholars living in different parts of the world and with a diversity of backgrounds and interests. There is a similar diversity of approaches in the chapters themselves, both reflecting the state of ethnomusicological studies and also the range of Stephen’s own concerns.
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ItemAnywhere and Elsewhere: Art At The Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity(Parsons Fine Arts, School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design; Project Anywhere; and University of Newcastle, 2016)