[Anthropgrad] Friday Seminar 26th of October

[nelia.hyndman-rizik at anu.edu.au]

Hi all,

We have a seminar this Friday the 26th of October at 3pm in the Milgate
Room, AD Hope.  The presenter will be Marianne Riphagen.
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Background on Marianne:

Marianne Riphagen is currently in the second year of her PhD research on the
subject of contemporary Indigenous Australian photography. Her research is
carried out for the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in
affiliation with the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)
at the Australian National University. Focusing on the photographic oeuvre
of artists Christian Thompson, Dianne Jones, Darren Siwes and Brook Andrew,
Marianne examines the ways in which their images become meaningful and
valuable through the cooperative activity of various actors within art
worlds. Her research has a strong focus on the intercultural and on
photographs as socially salient objects.

Title and abstract:

"Trauma, history and cultural memory: forging connections between the local
and global in Brook Andrew's photographic art"

In Confronting World Art: an Introduction Eric Venbrux and Pamela Rosi argue
that 'the contemporary visual arts of non-Western or Indigenous peoples are
increasingly part of a capitalistic global art world'. As Ian McLean has
stated, the concepts Indigenous and global have long been considered
incongruous. Whilst the word Indigenous has a connotation of locality, of
being grounded in a specific place, the ideology of the global signifies
universalism, worldwide phenomena and dissolution of links to territorial
location. Although this binary logic largely dissipated at the end of the
twentieth century, coinciding with the progressive popularity of Indigenous
arts in the global artscape, up until now little is known about the
interrelationship between contemporary Indigenous arts practices and
globalization

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I am aware that the Arch and Anth staff have a workshop on that will clash
with the seminar for this week, but it would be good to have a solid turn
out from the PhD students and any other staff that would be able to attend
as Marianne is visiting from overseas.  See you there.

Yours truly,



Nelia Hyndman-Rizik
PhD Candidate
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
The Australian National University
Canberra,
nelia.hyndman-rizik at anu.edu.au
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