Monday 13 August 2018

Showing in Delhi

Postcolonial gaze... review of exhibition at Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art by Bhumika Popli in Sunday Guardian 
published : July 21, 2018, 11:43 am | Updated : July 21, 2018, 11:43 AM

Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia i
 at Delhi’s National Gallery of Modern Art till 26 August 2018

Monday 30 July 2018

Portico project: Entwined

National Library Australia website of journals here

Endeavour Journal of  Sir Joseph Banks
16 Jan 1769 trip into country of Tierra del Fuego resulting in death of two men: Thomas Richmond and George Dorlton ( noted as black servants)

CAPTAIN COOK'S JOURNAL DURING HIS FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD
MADE IN H.M. BARK "ENDEAVOUR"
1768-71
A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS.
WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTION
EDITED BY CAPTAIN W.J.L. WHARTON, R.N., F.R.S.
Hydrographer of the Admiralty.
Illustrated by Maps and Facsimiles

Criticism of Hawkesworth by Dalyrymple
Review of Beaglehole's edition of Cook's Journals

Illustrations from Endeavour
Parkinson breadfruit
Parkinson Lecanthus solandri

Review of Adam Smith
Adam Smith on colonies
Smith
Revolutionary bourgeois Smith
Weingast on Smith slavery and abolition
aka the Wealth of Nations
Capitalism and imperialism

Anson's map 
George Anson, First Admiral/ pirate : lost 3 of 6 ships; pirated 1,313,843 pieces of eight, from a Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga off Cape Espiritu Santo in 1743 - made him very rich!
Noted for his 'indomitable perseverance he had shown during one of the most arduous voyages in the history of sea adventure gained the reward of the capture of an immensely rich prize,' Read that character trait through the eyes of his crew !

Southern Theory: social science and the global dynamic of knowledge. Raewyn W. Connell

Alix Cooper Inventing the Indigenous: Local knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe 

'Latin Words, Vernacular Worlds: Language, Nature, and the 'Indigenous' in Early Modern Europe'
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, No. 26 (2007), pp. 17-39

Bacon Instauratio Magna 

Tupaia map and drawings

The banana tree, shown in Tupaia's drawing, is one of 70 species of the genus Musa, named in Latin by Linnaeus from the Arabic Mauz in 1753

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_(genus)

Hawkesworth on Cook Lynne Truss on 'hubristic book editor' of An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere

Maps

Saturday 14 July 2018

forcing perspectival change

Mobile Worlds | Hamburg
Through Oct. 14 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; mkg-hamburg.de.
 Curator Roger M. Buergel

Review

Thursday 31 May 2018

Deep time

Jane Lydon - archaeology and or history
Tom Griffiths :  la longue durée in Australian history
http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2000/06/01/travelling-in-deep-timela-longue-dureein-australian-history/

la longue durée



Geological Time Scale
Image Credit: Ray Troll 
http://www.geologyin.com/2016/12/10-interesting-facts-about-geological.html

Wednesday 30 May 2018

Babakiueria

1986
30mins
Babakiueria
dir Don Featherstone

https://vimeo.com/233157036

https://aso.gov.au/titles/shorts/babakiueria/



Animated journal





link to Colin Hazlehurst, Liverpool, 2011 animated Google earth following Cook's journals found on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL4zZi29RiqagQnoTphLFBA

Friday 18 May 2018

Museum objects | colonial legacies | repatriation

Repatriation of objects held in European museums

Germany - Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin article by Philip Oltermann
France - Macron's speech in Burkina Faso reported here by Benjamin Sutton
02 December 2017

Colonial legacy in Netherlands

Tuesday 3 April 2018

Methodologies



Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Eva Tuck Decolonizing Methodologies

Walter D Mignolo

Rights of nature

Giving rivers, mountains and forests legal rights
Article by Jane Gleeson-White

2008 Ecuador enshrines rights of nature in law
2014  New Zealand granted legal personhood to the Te Uruwera forest
2017 and to the Whanganui river and Mount Taranaki
2017 An Indian court granted legal personhood to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers
2017 Colombia awarded rights to the Atrato river

Rights for nature were first proposed by Christopher Stone in his 1972 article “Should trees have standing?” and were famously endorsed by Justice William O Douglas’s dissenting judgment in Sierra Club v Morton, in which he argued that trees should be granted personhood and have the ability to sue for their own protection, effectively blocking the development of Walt Disney ski resort inside the Sequoia national park. Stone argued that leaving behind the enlightenment view of nature as a collection of “useful senseless objects” would not only help to solve the planet’s material problems but would encourage a heightened awareness of nature.

“Any system that puts no value on the life around us is wrong, it’s as simple as that,” says Dr Michelle Maloney, who co-founded the Australian Earth Laws Alliance in 2012 to promote rights-of-nature law in Australia. She says rights of nature is inspired and led by Indigenous traditions of Earth-centred law and culture, but it’s also “whitefellas talking back to the white system”.



“It’s looking back to the western legal governance system and going, ‘What kind of culture develops the systems we have now that created such devastation? Can rights of nature be a bridge into a different, Earth-centred way of being?’”


Dr Anne Poelina

Tuesday 27 March 2018

Zhou Xiaoping


Zhou Xiaoping website
Zhou Xiaoping How He Sees Me (c) the artist













Ochre and Ink  - short film

ART CAN BREAK ALL THE RULES
The extraordinary story of Chinese-Australian artist Zhou Xiaoping and his inspiring but sometimes controversial 23 year collaboration with Aboriginal artists in remote Arnhem Land. Xiaoping and artist Johnny Bulunbulun prepare for the highly anticipated opening of their exhibition in Beijing, but events take a dramatic turn.

Featuring
Zhou Xiaoping, Johnny Bulunbulun, Prof. Marcia Langton, Laurie Maarbudug, Paul Pascoe, Dr Joe Gumbula, Murray Garde, Chips Mackinolty, Peter Cooke.

Curator Pei-Yi Lu National Taipei University of Education, Critical and Cultural Studies of Contemporary Art

Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art  - Manchester


Birmingham
Centre for Chinese Visual Arts ( CCVA) ( Birmingham City University)


M+Sigg collection

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