Remote Avant-Garde

Aboriginal Art under Occupation

Bibliographic Data

ID5825433
AuthorsJennifer Biddle (0000-0002-0962-4552, corresponding author), Jennifer Loureide Biddle
Year2016
Pages296
Publication date2016-02-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRemote Avant-Garde (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9780822374602
OpenAlexW4252409229
ISBN9780822374602
Open LibraryOL29728866M
LanguageEN
Citations received19

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

Avant garde · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Games and Media · Aboriginal Australian Art · Aboriginal Australian Artists · Aboriginal Australians · Aboriginal australians, government relations · Art, aboriginal australian · Artists · Australia · Government relations

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