Sabra Thorner
Biographic Data
| ID | 628421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabra Thorner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabra |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorner |
| SIGNATURE | THORNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Making Is the Story
In spring 2022, the authors co-led an experimental course and artists' residency called "Decolonizing Museums." The major outcomes were a possum-skin cloak (the first of its kind made in the United States) and a series of high-art photographs of project participants wearing the cloak. This project is part of an initiative to imagine and forge a Living Archive of Aboriginal Art, based in Australia. The objective: to radically reimagine what archiv…
Maree's Backyard
In this article, four women engage, talk, and write about Indigenous sovereignty in Australia's southeast—the region of Australia most devastated by colonial incursion and the site of vibrant cultural activism in the present day. We are two non‐Indigenous academics (Sabra Thorner and Fran Edmonds) working together with two Indigenous artist‐curators (Maree Clarke and Paola Balla) in a process of collaborative, intercultural culture‐making. We mob…
Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
First Australians by Rachel Perkins and Beck Cole
Two Exhibitions Resignify Aboriginality and Photographyin Australia's Visual Lexicon
Photography has long been central to the construction of Aboriginal peoples in the Australian national imaginary. In the last 20 years, the social role of photography has shifted: from origins in scopic regimes that racialized and dispossessed Aboriginal peoples to an era of contemporary reappropriation, recontextualizing colonial archives, and producing new Indigenous high art photography. Photographs are no longer stable, visible testimony of I…
Two Exhibitions Resignify Aboriginality and Photographyin Australia's Visual Lexicon
Photography has long been central to the construction of Aboriginal peoples in the Australian national imaginary. In the last 20 years, the social role of photography has shifted: from origins in scopic regimes that racialized and dispossessed Aboriginal peoples to an era of contemporary reappropriation, recontextualizing colonial archives, and producing new Indigenous high art photography. Photographs are no longer stable, visible testimony of I…
Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
First Australians by Rachel Perkins and Beck Cole
Two Exhibitions Resignify Aboriginality and Photographyin Australia's Visual Lexicon
Photography has long been central to the construction of Aboriginal peoples in the Australian national imaginary. In the last 20 years, the social role of photography has shifted: from origins in scopic regimes that racialized and dispossessed Aboriginal peoples to an era of contemporary reappropriation, recontextualizing colonial archives, and producing new Indigenous high art photography. Photographs are no longer stable, visible testimony of I…
Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
First Australians by Rachel Perkins and Beck Cole
Maree's Backyard
In this article, four women engage, talk, and write about Indigenous sovereignty in Australia's southeast—the region of Australia most devastated by colonial incursion and the site of vibrant cultural activism in the present day. We are two non‐Indigenous academics (Sabra Thorner and Fran Edmonds) working together with two Indigenous artist‐curators (Maree Clarke and Paola Balla) in a process of collaborative, intercultural culture‐making. We mob…
The Making Is the Story
In spring 2022, the authors co-led an experimental course and artists' residency called "Decolonizing Museums." The major outcomes were a possum-skin cloak (the first of its kind made in the United States) and a series of high-art photographs of project participants wearing the cloak. This project is part of an initiative to imagine and forge a Living Archive of Aboriginal Art, based in Australia. The objective: to radically reimagine what archiv…
Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Citation (2 works)