Clothing the postcolonial body

Art, artifacts and action in south eastern Australia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5823720
AutoresSylvia Kleinert (Charles Darwin University, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Fascículo02
Data de publicação2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
Periódicocraft + design enquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1837-445X • E-ISSN: 2200-6931
EditoraANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/cde.02.2010.03
OpenAlexW1583874592
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas10

In this paper I explore the significance of dress as an expressive and performative genre within contemporary art in south eastern Australia.My aim is to build on and expand recent studies in cross-cultural discourse to offer a broader, more inclusive framework for contemporary art practice in the south east grounded in dynamic Aboriginal cosmologies that demonstrate both continuity and innovation.Specifically I will examine two arenas of practice usually treated as separate domains: the revitalization of fibre seen in shell necklaces, baskets and possum skin cloaks -once worn or carried on the body -and the appropriation by artists of items of colonial and contemporary dress such as blankets, trousers, knitwear and T-shirts.My research reveals how art, as a form of action, contributes to social and cultural sustainability by engaging with an Aboriginal landscape and a postcolonial world to imagine 'cultural futures.' 2 Morphy (2008, p 194) argues that accepting Aboriginal art as Indigenous modernism imposes constraints which set Aboriginal art on an alternative trajectory determined by the modernist concern with innovation and originality.When Aboriginal art is celebrated for its hybridity, this redirects the interpretation of Aboriginal art away from its own Indigenous trajectory

Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles