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Jorgensen, Darren und Ian McLean (Hg.): Indigenous Archives. The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art, UWA Publishing, Crawley 2017, ISBN 9781742589220

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

Darren Jorgensen and Ian McLean: Preface -vii-

Ian McLean: Introduction: Convergent Archives -1-

Part 1: Limits to Archives -23-

Anne Marie Brody: Reflections on the Rodney Gooch Files -25-

Chrischone Schmidt: Creating the Archive - Research into the History of the Utopia Art Movement -50-

Suzanne Spunner: Three Certificates Arte Not Enough: Rover Thomas and Art Centre Archives -62-

Alec O'Halloran: Namarari and the Papunya Tula Archive:Linking Art History and Biography -88-

Part 2: Histories From Archives -111-

John Kean: Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula: History, Landscape and La Nina 1974 -113-

Philippa Jahn: Between Rocks and Hard Places: Mary Puntji Clement and the Kalumburu Art Project -167-

Darren Jorgensen: Wild Styles at the Outstation: Jackie Giles and Ngipi Ward at Patjarr -192-

Part 3: Indigenising Archives -207-

Emilia Galatis: Memory, History, Archive: Ngaanyatjarra History Paintings -209-

Robert Lazarus Lane: Wukun Wanambi's Nhina, Nhäha, Ga Ngäma (Sit, Look, and Listen) -227-

John Dallwitz, Janet Inyika, Susan Lowish and Linda Rive: Our Art, Our Way: Towards an Anangu Art History with Ara Irititja -250-

Margo Neale: The Third Archive and Artist as Archivist -269-

Part 4: Decolonising Archives -295-

Jessyca Hutchens: Losing the Archive: Julie Gough at the MAA, Cambridge and Christian Thompson at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford -297-

Genevieve Grieves and Odette Kelada: Bleeding the Archive, Transforming the Mythscape -321-

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll: Anachronic Archive: Turning the Time of the Image in the Aboriginal Avant-Garde -342-

Jane Lydon: Aboriginal Transformations of the Photographic Archive - 362-

Brook Andrew and Katarina Matiasek: Kept in Silence - an Archival Travelogue -383-

Darren Jorgensen: Afterword: Diagrammatic and Database Dreamings -414-

Bibliography -430-

Cover Text

The archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous archivists were at work well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began its own archiving. Sometimes at odds, other times not, these two ways of ordering the work have each learned from, and engaged with, the other. Colonialism has been a struggle over archives and its processes as much as anything else. The eighteen essays be twenty authors investigate different aspects of this struggle in Australia, from traditional Indigenous archives and their developments in recent times to the deconstruction of European archives by contemporary artists as acts of cultural empowerment. It also examines the use of archives developed for other reasons, such as the use of rainfall records to interpret early Papunya paintings. Indigenous Archives is the first overview of archival research in the production and unterstanding of Indigenous culture. Wide-ranging in its scope, it reveals the lively state of research into Indigenous histories and culture in Australia.