Visual Ethnographies of Place – during and after
How do we use visual ethnography to represent places? Landscape images alone often render a place somewhat opaque – capturing a static moment, leaving out the dynamism of country, weather, sensory...
View ArticleDebates on agency, management and interventionism in Aboriginal Art
Contemporary Australian Aboriginal art can be argued to be one of the most well known examples of collaborative ethnographic practice using creative art – the multiple functions of works, the layers of...
View Article1000 Voices – online storytelling as advocacy
Thanks to reader Naomi Sunderland for writing in with a link to 1000 Voices – a project gathering first person stories of people living with disabilities in Australia to use in disability research,...
View ArticleSide by Side back in action & interview with Big hART’s Scott Rankin
After a long pause, Side by Side blog is back in action. Check out a great interview with Big hART director Scott Rankin recently broadcast on ABC radio national from the Melbourne Festival ‘Talking...
View Article‘Cut the Sky’– contemporary dance as cultural history and storytelling
I’ve been musing of late on how collaborative art is one of our most pervasive forms of cultural history. In an e-book published by the Griffith Review, Creating Australia Chairperson Sue-Anne Wallace...
View Article“Insider” documentary photography
I really love the work of Australian documentary photographer Raphaela Rosella who has recently won the World Press Prize for portraiture. I have followed her documentary photography a number of...
View ArticleIndigenous Australia comics at the National Library of Australia
See this great blog post from the National Library of Australia about their collection of comics from Indigenous Australia. The collection goes back to early days including works in Aboriginal...
View ArticleVanuatu feature film
Check out the Sydney Morning Herald’s coverage of this new feature film about marriage, conflict and kastom in Tanna, Vanuatu. Made in close collaboration between professional film makers from...
View Article25 Years of Big hART
Check out a short video show reel from one of my favourite Australian collaborative community art organisations, showcasing their work over the past decades. Their tag line “it’s harder to hurt someone...
View ArticleNgaanyatjarra language video game
Congratulations to the team at the Australian National University (ANU) who are developing the first computer game in the Ngaanyatjarra language, believed to be the worlds first kids computer game in...
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