Hidden in plain view | British war on Tasmania

Better information on the colonial wars in Tasmania is waiting to be found, and historian Nick Brodie has done the graft and produced the analysis from documents and records held in the national repositories.
Brodie’s advice: look beyond the regular sources, find the bigger picture and the context that the records are produced in.
Think about what the records were created for, how they were used during and after creation, how they were archived, how complete they appear, and only then worry about relating the stories they might contain. 

Interview with Nick Brodie on his process for new book The Vandemonian War: the Secret History of Tasmania's Colonisation

'After Mabo: Koiki's Vision For a great New Society', Jeff McMullen

https://newmatilda.com/2017/06/04/after-mabo-koikis-vision-for-a-new-great-society/

Australian journalist Jeff McMullen delivered the following speech to 25^th Anniversary Mabo Celebration in Townsville tonight.

The many distinct cultures and hundreds of different languages here have produced a national treasure of ancient knowledge of what it is to be here. Remember that in the natural world diversity is the secret of abundance, the source of strength and resilience. Each ancient language and knowledge system preserves many shades of human creativity and often a precise understanding of how to solve local problems with local knowledge.

New work in Sydney

Beyond the dot: Brigid Delaney on exhibition at SCA Sydney dot dot dot [...]

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dot, dot, dot […] Curated by Janelle Evans Opening: Wednesday 5 July, 6-8pm Exhibition: Thursday 6 July – Saturday 29 July

SCA Wingara Mura Fellow Janelle Evans in collaboration with Dr Geraldine LeRoux (University de Bretagne) is curating an exhibition opening in July 2017 at the SCA Galleries. The exhibition seeks to provide a discourse about the ways in which contemporary Australian artists interpret the dot beyond the protective skin or screen used by Central and Western Desert artists and in ways which are non-derivative.

The artists in this exhibition explore the dot as indexical markers or indicators of time, place, memory, erasure, self-determination, feminist agency and diaspora; as energy points or ways of mapping a person or architecture and as points of dislocation and relocation.

Exhibiting artists: David Asher Brook, Bronwyn Bancroft, Jon Cattapan, Dacchi Dang, John Di Stefano, Janelle Evans, Lindy Lee, Ms Saffaa, Armelle Swan and ek.1 (Katie Louise Williams + Emma Hicks) with Willl Cooke.

Lala Rukh

Lala Rukh (1948-2017)
From Natasha Ginwala documenta 14

Cook

Links for events and info in 2017 for Captain Cook and Endeavour
The 250th anniversary of Cook’s voyage, which began at Plymouth in August 1768

Nicholas Thomas, director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, recently edited the first illustrated edition of Cook’s writings, The Voyages of Captain James Cook (Murdoch Books).

Timeline

Title: Endeavour at sea
Description: Endeavour at sea from Sketches made in Captain Cook’s First Voyage
Pencil
Date: 1768-1771
Author: Sydney Parkinson
Dimensions:
Collection: British Library
Reference no: Add.Ms.9345f.16v
Record no.: 19411

East Coast Encounter; Australian National Maritime Museum

Australian National Maritime Museum

Mapping

Linguist Hedvig Skirgård links to maps here

Grenfell Tower

sadness                                                                                                 

Illustration: Steve Bell  
                                                                                                            
                                                                                                            
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2017/jun/15/steve-bell-grenfell-tower-fire-disaster-cartoon

Christian Thompson

review in realtime
performative self-portrait
http://www.realtime.org.au/christian-thompsons-performative-self-portraiture/

documenta 14

documenta Kassel
https://frieze.com/article/documenta-14-kassel-overview

10 to see in Münster

review of Skulptur Projekte Münster
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/sculpture-projects-m-nster-2017-the-essential-things-to-see/

Hili Perison June 12 review Pierre Huyghe After Life Ahead


Skulptur Projekte Münster

Typography

Apostrophe or Prime: who chooses?
A prime: a straight mark is used for minutes '  and as a double for seconds " (or feet ' and inches " )
An apostrophe: indicates a missing letter or a possessive. It’s a point with a downward curved tail. 
( ’ )  alt shift ] keys on mac make the apostrophe  ’

typography:

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