Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation
Jennifer Loureide Biddle is Director of Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
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Published:February 2016
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route debuted in 2010 and toured nationally for two years before coming to reside at the National Museum of Australia. This exhibition is not really about history; rather, it is about the archive. The deceptively simple version of this story is that it tells the Aboriginal point of view of the Canning Stock Route, a watering route for cattle blazed in 1906 and running 1,850 kilometers across Western Australia. But this Indigenous-modelled, relational-curatorial project achieved an arts industry first of staggering proportion. Over a four-year period, an intercultural project team of community arts experts...
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