Shanghai report

Met some terrific people and heard some stimulating presentations at the 3rd FASIC conference convened by Professor David Walker and supported by the Foundation for Australian Studies in China  and hosted by East China Normal University

Links here to some of the speakers
Dr Mei-fen Kuo is interviewed here on ABC radio about the Kuo-Min Tang in Australia



Dr Nilanjana Deb from Jadavpur University is a member of Project E-qual. This is her (old) blog Subaltern Literatures

Exhibition of photographs in London in November made in 1870s and '80s by Thomas Child, part of Asia Art in London

Shanghai street (c) Helen Idle

Documenta 14

For Documenta 14 ( 2017)  South as a State of Mind Magazine is publishing a number of issues here is Issue 1

Ahmed Basiony

Links for research
Ahmed Basiony (1978-2011) Egyptian sound and visual artist killed in Tahrir Square Cairo on 28 January 2011
Link to film about his work here
Represented Egypt at Venice in 2011 30 Days of Running in the Space 
Video interview with curators and clip of Tahrir Square in days before he was killed

Hell is other people

Paola Totaro interviews Grayson Perry on the occasion of his exhibition in Sydney at MCA where the white ceramacist reasserts his Eurocentricity

The Rosetta Vase combines classicism with social commentary. Photo: Kate Peters

Grayson Perry- My Pretty Little Art Career at the MCA Sydney from 10 Dec 2015 to 1 May 2016

Resources for Lee Miller | Roee Rosen

Lee Miller archive

Lee Miller at dOCUMENTA13 blogposting here

Roee Rosen Live and Die as Eva Braun

Review of Neue Galerie NYC display of 1936 Degenerate Art in 2014

Iraq Inquiry

Summary of events surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly in July 2003 :  the revisions to the document, Gilligan's modus operandi and the stouche with BBC
John Cassidy The New Yorker 8 December 2003
 The David Kelly Affair: A scientist’s death, a reporter’s credibility, and the unravelling of Tony Blair’s case for war.


Link to interested parties following the Chilcot Inquiry Iraq Inquiry Digest

The Chilcot inquiry website

Indies outback

Links to NG Media Independent Yarnangu Corporation showreel

Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association CAAMA established in 1980.

Ngaanyatjarra council website with links
http://www.ngaanyatjarra.org.au

Noongar links

SWALS Native Title representative body

History of Noongar people

Kaartdijin Noongar website: culture, country, people, protocols

Pinjarra Massacre Site  28 October 1834

Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Project

 Noongar Boodjar Waangkiny Noongar Language Centre

Derbal Nara  katijin bidi  'Kaya … Welcome! Let's go for a walk down to the Wardan Gepa Boodjaralup at Derbal Nara – the sea shore at Cockburn Sound. We would like to lead you along a katitjin bidi – a knowledge trail.'

Glossary with pronunciation

Footie and Art

Helen Davidson in Alice Springs to visit the Hermannsburg potters: her report here.

 AFL stars celebrating on top of the Hermannsburg pots for the NGV exhibition. Photograph: Tobias Titz 

Hayley Coulthhard at work in the studio. Photograph: Helen Davidson for the Guardian 

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/07/aussie-rules-and-aboriginal-art-meet-the-hermannsburg-potters

Kaninjaku

An artwork titled ‘Kaninjaku’ by Kumpaya Girgaba shows no sign of the Canning stock route, just the sandhills of the desert through which the route was carved. The artwork is part of an exhibition titled ‘Kaninjaku: stories from the Canning stock route’ at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, which runs until August 2016.

Photograph: Kumpaya Girgaba, Martumili Artists/National Museum of Australia

Paul Daley writes on the Canning Stock route artists to discuss the upcoming Canning by-election and Aboriginal histories in the Guardian

An artwork titled ‘Natawalu’ (2007) by Myapu Elsie Thomas, Ngurra Artists. Acrylic on canvas. This painting recounts a fatal clash between a white explorer and a desert man on the Kaninjaku (Canning Stock Route).

Photograph: Myapu Elsie Thomas, Ngurra Artists/National Museum of Australia

dOCUMENTA (13)

Crit by Roberta Smith 2012

Alex Farquharson and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie in Frieze
Wilson-Goldie on Etel Adnan ( Lebanese poet painter)

Quinn Latimer in  Art Agenda
Filipa Ramos Art Agenda
Ana Teixeira Pinto Art Agenda

Kader Attia, The Repair From Occident To Extra-Occidental Cultures, 2012. Slide show projection, genuine artifacts from Africa, video films, vitrines, artifacts from Africa and Europe, medical and military elements from World War I, life-size sculptures in wood and marble, plinths, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Galleria Continua, San Gimignano/Beijing/Le Moulin, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin/Cologne/Antwerp, and Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
Photo by Nils Klinger.

Afghanistan

logging research on Hazara people

Human Rights Watch  The massacre in Mazar-i Sharif 1998

Papunya Tula resources

Papunya Tula Artists 

Exhibition in Melbourne and Paris Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Painting

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri story links: wiki

Carrolup Paintings

Felicia R. Lee Aug 15 2005 New York Times
Youthful art, Aboriginal history
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/arts/design/youthful-art-aboriginal-history.html?_r=0

Paintings from late 1940s and 50s made at the 'Carrolup River Native Settlement' (stolen children) Western Australia, taken on tour in 1950s by British patron Florence Rutter, donated to Picker Gallery in 1966 by Herbert Mayer, rediscovered by Howard Morphy in 2004.

Artists include: Parnell Dempster, Revel Cooper

Florence Rutter and M.D. Miller, Child Artists of the Australian Bush, 1952

Colgate University Collection here  flickr

Tracie Pushman and Robyn Smith Walley, Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago). The University of Western Australia Berndt Museum of Anthropology Occasional Paper No.8,  (Perth, The University of Western Australia, 2006).

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25475896?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Bella Kelly Website here
Bella Kelly exhibition at Curtin

Anna Haebich, The Return of the Carrolup Paintings in Griffith Review 47 

Inuit Children Taken from Families 1950s

Dubbed the Inuit Experiment, the Danish Government took children from their families in Greenland to mainland Denmark to immerse them in a re-education programme, robbing them of their language and culture in order to make them into 'model Danish citizens'.

Article and video here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33060450

BBC Radio 4 Witness 

Save the Children Denmark apologised in 2009
"They (Danish government) wanted to create role models so that they could return to Greenland and move that society on. That was the political thinking behind the project. And Save the Children were asked by the Danish state to help - which unfortunately we did."

Process, practice, creativity, emotion

Open Arts Journal here

Creativity and Innovation in a world of Movement (CIM) research project here

Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement’ (CIM) explored the dynamics of cultural production and creativity in an era of intensifying globalisation and transnational connectivity, conducted by a team of scholars in the United Kingdom, Norway, the Netherlands and Austria. Instead of assessing the relative novelty of end products, the project took a processual approach by analysing practices of appropriation, consumption and (re)contextualisation in the spheres of (popular) art, religion and museums. Acknowledging the significance of individual or groupspecific understandings of ‘creativity’, CIM explored critically how different notions of cultural value and processes of authentication, authorisation and commoditisation have affected people’s engagements with objects and images. A broad perspective was obtained by investigating concrete, partially interlinked processes across five continents, following successful ethnographic fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Argentina, Brazil, Barbados, Trinidad, Suriname, Guyana, Canada, Australia, Norway, France, Austria and the UK. (Leon Wainwright page 4)

Creativity and Innovation in a world of Movement blog here

Cultural Dynamics and emotions here

Jukuja Dolly Snell 2015 Telstra Winner

 Jukuja Dolly Snell wins the 2015 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art award.

Article here

Vincent Namatjira painting

Interview with Vincent Namatjira  here

This screen grab of interview is of a painting about Captain Cook being shocked at seeing Aboriginal people for the first time

Vincent Namatjira: This one here is when he first come into contact with Indigenous in the inland. This is James Cook also. He had a shocked face when he seen Aboriginal for the first time. And he had that, "Oh, what's that? What's that? Is that - must be mammal."

Ink Remix

Yao Jui-Chung, Yao’s Journey to Australia, 2015, biro, blue ink with gold leaf on India handmade paper, 195 x 539 cm.

Ink Remix contemporary Art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Extending the long tradition of using the medium of ink, these emerging artists on show in Canberra 3 July to 18 October  2015.


Yao Jui-Chung, Taiwan

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and social construction of temporality

Gumbrecht: “We have to rethink political organization”

Michał Sutowski speaks with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - philosopher and literary theorist, Professor at Stanford University published here in Political Critique 23 January 2015

uses term history for old mode of perception:

'I try to historicize History, admitting that it is still around, but no longer as the dominant way under which we think about time and make our experience with regards to time.'

'I have a different understanding of the end of history than my Stanford colleague, Fukuyama. Certainly, there is no such thing as a literal end of history: there will always be transformations, there will always be new events, unexpected events – in that sense, history continues. What differs is the regime d’histoire, the chronotope. History – in the Hegelian sense – was the chronotope of the 19th c. and most of the 20th c. It can be characterized by three features. First, you progressively leave the past behind, and the further behind you leave it, the less its orientational power matters. Second, the future is an open horizon of possibilities from which you can choose. Third, between the past and the future the present has shrunk to an imperceptibly short moment. Such a construction of time comes from the 18th c. and was so heavily institutionalized throughout the 19th and 20th century that people thought: “this is time in and by itself”'.

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Production of Presence

All the World's Futures

Okwui Enwezor curating  56th Venice International Art Biennale 2015:  tackling global politics and disorder, and the disconnect between how things are and how they appear.

copied from AN
The Nigerian-born international writer and curator promises to look back over the 120-year history of the Biennale as a parable from which to consider historical narratives and counter-narratives. Taking on an at once global and fragmented worldview, the exhibition aims to reflect on the disconnect between how things are and how they appear.

Asking ‘How can the current disquiet of our time be properly grasped, made comprehensible, examined, and articulated?’, Enwezor has initiated a multi-layered approach to the exhibition, using three intersecting sub-themes as a way of facilitating multiple perspectives. These are: Liveness: On epic duration; Garden of Disorder; and Capital: A Live Reading

Liveness: On epic duration will consider the whole exhibition as a stage-set for changing narratives. With this, Enwezor is positioning All the World’s Futures as “a program of events that can be experienced at the intersection of liveness and display.”

Garden of Disorder proposes a simultaneously irreverent and deeply serious reappraisal of the current geo-political climate. Inspired by its location within the Giardini – the enclosed exhibition garden famed for its imposing national pavilions that through the microcosm of artistic diplomacy play out a form of world politics – artists are invited to create new work taking inspiration from the historical concept of the ‘garden’ as a paradisiacal site for tranquility, pleasure, order and purity.

A live reading of the four volumes of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital will occur daily over the seven months of the Biennale, gradually evolving into a series of work songs, librettos, script readings, discussions and film screenings. Artists, theorists, students, performers and members of the public will be invited to present their concepts and ideas around Capital today.

“Capital is the great drama of our age,” says Enwesor. “Today nothing looms larger in every sphere of experience, from the predations of the political economy to the rapacity of the financial industry. In All the World’s Futures, the aura, effects, affects, and spectres of Capital will be felt in one of the most ambitious explorations of this concept and term.”

Venice Biennale president Paolo Baratta adds: “It is not the first time that an exhibition faces a world filled with uncertainty and turmoil whilst the ‘garden of the world’ appears to us as a “garden of disorder”, and it is also not the first time that faced with a complicated reality, an exhibition responds with the enthusiasm and dynamism evident in the one we are in the throes of organising.”

Links to useful resources

Central Land Council

AIATSIS

'Most culturally sensitive exhibition'

Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyes Indigenous Australia show is one of the most culturally sensitive projects in the British Museum's history 

By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor, The Telegraph

10:29PM BST 02 May 2015

Bringing great Australian indigenous works of art into the light at British Museum by Gaye Sculthorpe

Bicornual basket. Mulgrave River region, near Cairns, Queensland, before 1900. British Museum

Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation at the British Museum

Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation

Guardian summary of launch
Jonathan Jones review 21 April 2015

Kungkarangkalpa (detail) Kunmanara Hogan, Tjaruwa Woods,
Yarangka Thomas, Estelle Hogan, Myrtle Pennington.
Tjuntjuntjara Great Victoria Desert Western Australia 2013.

'What is civilisation? Westerners tend to think it has something to do with Greek statues and classical music. No wonder they failed to recognise it when they saw it in the great southern continent that James Cook claimed as a British possession in 1770. The expressions of civilisation that could be clearly seen all over Australia were so different and so unfamiliar that Aboriginal culture was denied to even exist.

No people has been quite so consistently disparaged by Europeans as Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, whose tragic story is movingly told in this thought-provoking exhibition.'

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Blog posts from British Museum here by Gaye Sculthorpe, Maria Nugent, Rachael Murphy etal

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Events

French researchers

Aboriginal communities should not be closed ! 
By Martin Préaud, Barbara Glowczewski and 16 French researchers working in Australia - 27 avril 2015

'invasion is not a linear process'

'So just imagine one day getting told that your suburb will « be closed ». That you won’t have access to electricity, water, health care and education for your children any longer, i.e. to the services that every other citizen of the country where you live is entitled to. The reason ? Not a war, as is the case in many places where populations are forced to flee and hide, but the simple fact that the government has decided that you cannot live more than 100 kms away from a town, sharing with others a « lifestyle » in a community deemed « unsustainable and unlikely to attract development opportunities for the future ».' Read full article here

Stop Closures of Communities in Western Australia

Draft discussion paper revealed on ABC here.

'Government investment would be stopped in 75 remote Aboriginal communities and very limited in 53 more under a new funding strategy proposed by Western Australia's housing department.

The draft discussion paper, seen by the ABC, used 15 specific criteria to determined the risks to further investment and viability of communities, before placing them in five separate funding categories.'

Stop the Closures in Western Australia

The United Nations legal definition of Genocide

Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as 

"any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

Djambawa Marawili talks about Yolngu homelands as he drives through country

Bobby West of Kiwirrkurra, Pintupi elder, speaks of the fear of being pushed off country by the West Australian Government.

The Federal Government identified 192 settlements as unsustainable back in 2010 

'The majority of those assessed as unsustainable are in the Kimberley, with 160 in the region, including Koorabye, Djugerari, Kadjina, Wurrenranginy, and Molly Springs.

The document names 14 unsustainable communities in the Pilbara, 11 in the Goldfields, four in the Midwest and three in the Wheatbelt.'

Priority Investment Communities - WA

Town Based Communities

“Town based communities generally have access to services and facilities in adjacent town. Future investment should facilitate the formal integration of the community into the Town Planning Scheme and have access to the same level of services as the town residents.”

Bilgungurr	Bindi Bindi
Bondini	Budulah
Bungardi	Burawa
Burrinunga	Cheeditha
Cullacabardee	Darlngunaya
Djimung Nguda	Gnangara
Gooda Binya	Irrungadji
Junjuwa	Karmulinunga
Kurnangki	Madunka Ewurry
Mallingbar	Mardiwah Loop
Marmion Village	Mindi Rardi
MirIma	Morrell Park (Four Mile)
Mungullah	Nambi Village
Nicholson Block	Nillir Irbanjin (One Mile)
Ninga Mia Village	Nullywah
Parnpajinya	Pipunya
Red Hill (Lundja)	Tkalka Boorda
Warrayu	Wongatha Wonganarra

Priority Investment Communities - WA

Category A

“Communities where the preconditions for sustainable development exist. Residents have access to key services/opportunities and the community can offer services tot he surrounding related communities. New investment is very likely to further facilitate and support long term Closing the Gap outcomes in these and their related communities.”

Bardi (Ardyaloon)	Beagle Bay
Bidyadanga	Billard
Blackstone (Papulankutja)	Djarindjin
Glen Hill (Mandangala)	Jigalong
Kalumburu	Kurrawang
Lombadina	Mowanjum
Mt Margaret	Ngurawanna
Wakathuni	Wangkatjungka
Warakurna	Warburton
Warmun (Turkey Creek)	Woolah (Doon Doon)
Yandeyarra (Mugarinya)	Yardgee
Youngaleena	Yungngora

Priority Investment Communities - WA

Category B

“Communities where many preconditions for growth exist and residents have access to most key services and limited opportunities. New investment in these communities would support communities in Category A in providing services to other communities in the cluster.”

Balgo (Wirrimanu)	Bayulu
Bobieding	Cosmo Newberry
Cotton Creek (Parnngurr)	Ganinyi (Louisa Downs)
Goolgaradah	Guda Guda
Imintji	Innawonga
Jarlmadangah	Joy Springs (Eight Mile)
Koongie Park	Kundat Djaru (Ringer Soak)
Kupungarri (Mt Barnett)	La Djadarr Bay
Looma	Milba
Mindibungu (Billiluna)	Mulan (Lake Gregory)
Muludja	Ngalingkadji
Ngumpan	Pandanus Park
Pia Wadjari	Pullout Springs (Girriyoowa)
Punju Njamal	Punmu
Rocky Springs	Wararn
Wingellina	Wuggan (Wuggabun)
Yakanarra	Yiyili
Yulga Jinna

Priority Investment Communities - WA

Category C: “Communities where there are constraints to sustainable development and opportunities for future growth are limited. Investments will be limited to sustaining existing assets and services.”

Alligator Hole	Badjaling
Balginjirr	Barrel Well
Baulu Wah	Bawoorrooga
Bedunburra	Bell Springs
Bells Point	Bidijul
Billinue	Bindurrk
Biridu	Birndirri
Bow River	Brunbrunganjal (Kittys Well)
Budgarjook	Bulgin
Bunnengarra	Bunningbarr
Burrguk (Banana Wells)	Burringgurrah
Buttah Windee (Gidgee Gully)	Carnot Springs
Chile Creek	Chinaman Garden
Cockatoo	Cockatoo Springs
Cone Bay (Larinyuwar)	Coonana
Crocodile Hole	Darlu Darlu
Dillon Springs	Dingo Springs
Djaradjung	Djarworrada
Djibbinj	Djilimbardi
Djugaragyn	Djugerari (Cherabun)
Djulburr	Dodnun
Embulgun	Emu Creek (Gulgagulganeng)
Five Mile	Fletcher Family
Fly Well	Four Mile
Frazier Downs	Galamanda
Galeru Gorge	Geboowama
Gillaroong	Gilly Sharpe
Gnylmarung	Goobinj
Goodarlargin	Goojarr Gonnyool
Goolarabooloo	Goolarrgon
Goombading	Goombaragin
Goonjarlan	Goose Hill
Gudumul	Gulberang
Gullaweed	Gulumonon
Gumbarmun	Gurrbalgun
Hollow Springs	Honeymoon Beach
Iragul	Jabir Jabir
Jameson (Mantamaru)	Janterriji
Jarlmadanka	Jilariya
Jimbalakudunj	Jimbilum
Jinparinya	Julgnunn
Jundaru	Kadjina
Kalungkurriji	Kalyadan
Kandiwal	Karalundi
Karnparni (Three Mile)	Kartang Rija
Kayirriwarney	Kearney Range
Kiwirrkurra	Koorabye
Kumbrarumba	Kunawarritji
Kupartiya	Kurinyjarn
Kurlku	Kutkabubba
Lamboo Station (Loongie Park)	Linga
Loongabib	Loumard
Lumuku (Osmond Valley Station)	Maddarr
Majaddin	Malaburra
Marribank	Marta Marta
Marunbabidi	McGowan Island
Mercedes Cove	Mia Maya
Middle Lagoon	Millargoon
Mimbi	Mingalkala
Mingullatharndo	Miniata
Molly Springs	Monbon
Moongardi	Morard
Mowla Bluff	Mud Springs
Mudjarrl	Mudnumm
Mulga Queen	Mullibidee
Mundud	Munget
Munmural	Munthanmar
Murphy Creek	Neem
Ngadalargin	Ngallagunda
Ngamakoon	Ngarlan
Ngarlan Burr	Ngulwirriwirri
Ngurtuwarta	Nilargoon
Nillygan	Nimbing
Norman Creek	Nudugun
Nulla Nulla	Nunju Yallet
Nygah Nygah	Nyumwah
Oombulgurri	Pago
Pantijan	Parukupan
Patch Up	Patjarr
Raddajali	RB River Junction
Red Creek	Red Shells
Rollah	Strelley
Tappers Inlet	Tirralintji
Tjalka Wara	Tjirrkarli
Tjukurla	Tjuntjuntjara
Ullawarra	Walgun
Wamali	Wanamulnyndong
Wandanooka (Kardaloo)	Warralong
Weymul	White Rock
Whulich	Windida
Windjingayre	Woodstock Homestead
Wulununjur	Wungu
Wurrenranginy	Yandarinya
Yardoogarra	Yarri Yarri
Yatharla	Yawuru
Yirralallem	Yulumbu