New Paper Alert - 🚨 - co-authored with Joel Liddle: Decolonisation doesn’t Disentangle: anthropological archives and Arrernte knowledge regeneration in Museum History Journal. There are 50 free eprints to download below if you get in quick! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BERF2...
Opening night of the Birrundudu Drawings exhibition. A community-led unveiling of a national treasure. Apart from a handful of drawings, most of the collection has never been seen. Their scale and complexity will transform understandings of Indigenous art and social history.
Always great to be back in Laramba where the arlwengarlpwer (spangled perch) is boss.
🎓 Dr Joel Perrurle Liddle 🎓 and his supervisory team, of which I was honoured to be part of. Wonderful to celebrate his hard won achievement with Dr James Rose and Prof Shawana Andrews.
Group of people sitting in front of a large Aboriginal painting.
‘Humanising Natural History Collections’ workshop, Deakin University Melbourne.
It was a real treat to talk about the Birrundudu Drawings and anthropology with these two star communicators - Shelley Krape and Amy Carmichael on the best regional radio station in the country, MainFM. Listen to the cracking Drones song at the start: www.mixcloud.com/MainFm/the-n...
Discharge has ongoing relevancy.
Our book on these incredibly important drawings, their making and legacies is now in physical form! Birrundudu Drawings...John Carty, Jason M. Gibson, Alistair Paterson, Luke Scholes, @Jessyca Hutchens, Stephen Gilchrist. Pre order now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr....
It was a honour to help launch Marty’s first solo exhibition.
Martin Hagan’s art. Australian desert iconography rendered with crushed native grasses and natural pigments.
The Spencer and Gillen: A Journey Through Aboriginal Australia website is up and running again: spencerandgillen.net
🚨🚨 After 7 years of research and 4 years of community consultation a new book emerges. Birrundudu Drawings showcases a body of imagery representing ceremony, country and Dreaming produced by 16 Aboriginal men in 1945. Preorder available now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...
The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland
theconversation.com/the-desert-a...
New Article on the Future of Connected Museum Collections out now: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
Is a list of the projects released to the public?
The proofs are in for our new paper in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 12 (2024): 126–141
http://doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120111
An absolute honour to help the Anmatyerr men of central Australia bring their cultural performances to Swiss audience ms at the Fondation Opale.
Work begins on the Anmatyerr @ingkantety.bsky.social ground painting project at Fondation Opale in Lens, Switzerland.
“Figure made of carved wood depicting an anteater standing on four feet with a long nose, large rounded tail, and inset black and red seeds for eyes.” “Collection History Collected by photojournalist Claire James Steinberg during a trip to the Orinoco and Amacuro River delta region between December 1976 and January 1977; donated to NMAI by Claire James Steinberg in 2009.”
#Anteater figure, 1975-77
Warao artist, El Pajal, Venezuela
Carved Balsa wood with inlaid seeds
38.2 x 13.4 x 6.2 cm
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 26/7561
americanindian.si.edu/collections-...
#IndigenousArt #SourhAmericanArt
The perfect soundtrack to finishing a writing project.
As a archive/collections enthusiast and lover of music I can't get enough of the Numero Group. They are an archival record label unearthing and re-releasing 20th century sonic curios and forgotten artists of great diversity. www.gq.com/story/numero...
I had the pleasure of lunching with the Dischord Records crew back in the day. Their philosophy and principles had a huge impact. I continue to share their interest in diy culture-making and and archiving. festival.si.edu/blog/fugazi-...
Interesting development in the USA. The Cleveland Museum of Art has installed opaque covers on display cases containing Native American artworks and objects in compliance with the new NAGPRA amendments... www.cleveland.com/news/2024/01...
Anthropologists still longing for pristine and untouched Native cultures is always a trip (as it was for Radin in the 1930s), there's a kind of country and the city logic to it, those cultures were pristine in 1900 or 1850, always over that last temporal hill
Now that Bluesky numbers have improved, here’s a recent article I contributed to on the ‘New Protectionism’ in Indigenous collections and archives: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...
A snip of my profile. Banner image incldes Arendt, Durkheim, Fanon and others drawn rouglys on eggs in Black and White. Profile picture is me in front of some autumn leaves. Key descriptive text identifies me as a criminologist working on atrocity crime. At the bottom, highlighted by a big red arrow is my ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7463-1302
A snip from my ORCID profile page - at the left is a list of institutional and other links to social media, including one to Bluesky, highlighted by a big red arrow.
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.
#AcademicSky
2024 was big year for fieldwork. Always a thrill to be mapping sites in central Australia amongst the spinifex.
Last weekend, Museums Victoria's Coburg storage facility was flooded and collection items literally washed out onto the streets:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The Anmatyerr ingkantety team are heading to Switzerland in a few weeks to make a ground painting. Stay tuned!
