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ItemNo Preview AvailableIntercultural research: Aboriginal young people and the digital storytelling process as knowledge exchange(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022-12-13)In this chapter, we discuss a digital storytelling project conducted over three years with a cohort of 10 Aboriginal young people. The participants were alumni of the Korin Gamadji Institute (KGI). KGI recruits Aboriginal young people from across southeast Australia (mainly Victoria) to take part in an Aboriginal youth leadership programs. Two workshops were conducted at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), located in central Naarm/Melbourne, where young people acquired new digital skills and were exposed to a range of sophisticated media-making technologies. The final workshop shifted to Camp Jungai, a place of cultural significance for the Victorian Aboriginal community, where participants were able to experiment with mobile technologies (iPads and apps) and explore story-making in a community-based space. As a longitudinal study, the digital storytelling workshops exposed our developing intercultural research agenda as it progressed throughout the project. Researchers worked closely with KGI and the young participants to learn from them about their ambitions for the project, including young people's capacity to create innovative digital stories that reflected their identities and culture, alongside their lived experiences and ideas for the future. As an intercultural research project, the digital storytelling workshops revealed the significance of two-way learning and of supporting Aboriginal led programs to promote Indigenous knowledge exchange as an essential component in nurturing Aboriginal young people's connections to their culture and identity.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableArtery: A podcast on art, authorship and anthropology. Episode One: Maree Clarke with Fran Edmonds(The Work of Art in Contemporary Japan, 2022)Maree Clarke is a Mutti Mutti/Wemba Wemba/Boonwurrung/Yorta Yorta artist, from Mildura in northwest Victoria, Australia, now living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). With over 30 years experience as an artist, Clarke’s work focuses on new ways of telling old/ongoing stories through art-making, much of which occurs in her backyard. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/maree-clarke/ https://vivienandersongallery.com/artists/maree-clarke/ Fran Edmonds is an interdisciplinary scholar who has worked extensively with Aboriginal artists, community organisations and galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) for almost 30 years. Her work supports First Nations people to reclaim their stories from the ‘archives’. https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/livingarchiveofaboriginalart/ https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/livingarchivenaidoc/blog https://www.facebook.com/LivingArchiveofAboriginalArtandKnowledge/
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Item'All Aboriginal Art is Political': Can't See for Lookin' and the Climate of Change(Koorie Heritage Trust, 2021)The essay is framed by events surrounding the Can’t See for Lookin' exhibition (1993 ) – the first all-female Aboriginal exhibition to be held in Melbourne and one of the first major exhibitions co-curated by renowned Aboriginal artist and cultural matriarch Maree Clarke.
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ItemMaree Clarke: Making Memories(National Gallery of Victoria, 2021)Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist and designer Maree Clarke constantly pushes the boundaries in her art-making and storytelling. Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories, on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, traverses Clarke’s work in photography, printmaking, sculpture, jewellery, video and glass over the past three decades. The works show Clarke’s extraordinary ability to impart stories and make memories, from documenting her life and sharing the culture and knowledge of her Ancestors, to acknowledging the communal and welcoming art-making world she inhabits and invites others into.
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Item'Living and Breathing art and culture': Maree Clarke and the 'art' of cultural maintenance(National Gallery of Victoria, 2021)Covering more than three decades of artistic output, the exhibition traverses Clarke multidisciplinary practice across photography, printmaking, sculpture, jewellery, video, glass, and more...
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ItemNo Preview AvailableExploring the Ngukurr Feather Flowers: From Collections to Community(The Great Aboriginal People, 2021)This film is a recording of the visit from Ngukurr by two women, Daphne Daniels and Karen Rogers as they explore their collections at Museums Victoria and visit the southeast Australian Aboriginal artist Maree Clarke to explore and revitalise the story of Feather Flowers, including the making of a feather flower
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ItemThe Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Expressions of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Through Collaborative Art-Making(University of Barcelona, 2020-12-01)In 2018, the Mutti Mutti/ Wemba Wemba/Boonwurrung artist Maree Clarke was commissioned by the University of Melbourne to create two large scale eel traps for two very different sites. The first a spectacular glass eel trap for the newly renovated Old Quad – the oldest building on the University’s campus and the second, a 10-metre woven eel trap constructed at the Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne’s inner-west. The story of the eel traps is a launch pad and an end point for our discussion about the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art. Like eels and the eel traps, Aboriginal knowledge has endured across millenia – and art-making supports processes for this knowledge to be sustained. We discuss a series of workshops held in Maree’s backyard/artist studio and argue that Maree’s generosity and willingness to share her art-making knowledge with broad networks of people, fosters communal bonds that instil a sense of collective responsibility for Aboriginal cultural knowledge. We then discuss the two eel trap artworks to show how their stories offer different possibilities for decolonising Western knowledge institutions (the university and the art gallery) through engagement with Indigenous knowledge systems. How this emerges through knowledge exchange in Maree’s backyard, we argue, reveals a Living Archive.
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ItemWhat's ya Story: The making of a digital storytelling mobile app with Aboriginal young people(University of Melbourne, supported by a grant from the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network, 2014-11-11)