Beyond the Stage: Interpreting history through performing arts practice. The project aims to examine the ways that performance is able to shape and challenge prevailing historical narratives in times of social upheaval. In particular, the project aims to document and interpret the impact of World War 1 on the performing arts in urban and regional South Australia. Archival research is expected to generate scholarly outputs, regional exhibitions, and research-informed performances.
Representation, Remembrance and the Monument. This project is designed to respond to the repeated high-level calls for a national memorial to Aboriginal loss. The project considers the crucial role that contemporary memorials play in societies that are increasingly addressing traumatic histories, and how international memorial projects shift public memory and cultural understanding. As Australia continues to strive for reconciliation, this project embraces the potential for memorials to become p ....Representation, Remembrance and the Monument. This project is designed to respond to the repeated high-level calls for a national memorial to Aboriginal loss. The project considers the crucial role that contemporary memorials play in societies that are increasingly addressing traumatic histories, and how international memorial projects shift public memory and cultural understanding. As Australia continues to strive for reconciliation, this project embraces the potential for memorials to become powerful public spaces where the history of the Frontier wars can be addressed. Ways of representing and remembering this past will expand and strengthen civil society.Read moreRead less
Performing nations and cultures: rethinking authenticity in the performing arts. This project examines how notions of cultural authenticity have been deployed and changed over time within national and transnational contexts in relation to cross-cultural performances produced by Indigenous Australians and American Indian people between 1800-1950. This research offers a new perspective on Australian and US cultural histories.
Reclaiming indigenous performance in southeast Australia, 1935-75. This project aims to reframe a period of Australian history, the Assimilation era (1935-1975), to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' active intervention in public affairs through performances of music and dance. The project will collaborate with present-day communities aiming to construct an alternative history of cultural resilience and agency. Outcomes directed at academic, community and public audiences aim to ....Reclaiming indigenous performance in southeast Australia, 1935-75. This project aims to reframe a period of Australian history, the Assimilation era (1935-1975), to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders' active intervention in public affairs through performances of music and dance. The project will collaborate with present-day communities aiming to construct an alternative history of cultural resilience and agency. Outcomes directed at academic, community and public audiences aim to better inform current debates on Australian identity, support the work of contemporary practitioners, build international networks and validate histories hitherto hidden at the heart of Australian nationhood.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170101351
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$335,427.00
Summary
Visualising archaeologies: Art and the creation of contemporary archaeology. This project aims to investigate contemporary archaeology method and theory, specifically the proposition that art practice can create and communicate archaeological knowledge. Connecting contemporary Australian society with its material past is part of developing ideas about place, identity, and community. Using qualitative research and art practice-based studies, the project will trace the emergence of art-archaeology ....Visualising archaeologies: Art and the creation of contemporary archaeology. This project aims to investigate contemporary archaeology method and theory, specifically the proposition that art practice can create and communicate archaeological knowledge. Connecting contemporary Australian society with its material past is part of developing ideas about place, identity, and community. Using qualitative research and art practice-based studies, the project will trace the emergence of art-archaeology collaborations and investigate the application of visual methods in representing Australia’s rich heritage. Through the visualisation of archaeology and heritage, the project seeks to further understand how the past is mediated in the present. This will enable better engagement in public discussions about what Australia is as a society and how it values its heritage.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE140100120
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$190,000.00
Summary
Design & Art Australia Online Research Tool: enabling next generation e-Research in Australia's visual and design cultures. Design and art Australia online research tool: enabling next generation e-Research in Australia's visual and design cultures: This project builds on the recent and highly successful transformation of Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO). As DAAO increases its information base through its automated harvest facilities (LIEF2012) and draws more active engagement from researc ....Design & Art Australia Online Research Tool: enabling next generation e-Research in Australia's visual and design cultures. Design and art Australia online research tool: enabling next generation e-Research in Australia's visual and design cultures: This project builds on the recent and highly successful transformation of Design and Art Australia Online (DAAO). As DAAO increases its information base through its automated harvest facilities (LIEF2012) and draws more active engagement from researchers, new demands are being placed on the facility. Modifications are required to enhance the capabilities of researchers to expand the scope of research facilities offered. This project will refine schema and mappings of events and works to better match researcher queries and enabling data repurposing for visualisation; automate linking facility between established entity links; and develop researcher collaboration functionalities.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE120100056
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$240,000.00
Summary
Design and Art Australia Online: Sustainable data sharing for Australian researchers and collections. This project will produce a comprehensive and authorative research facility of national and international signi?cance. The enhanced Design and Art Australia Online facility will provide crucial information pertaining to Australia’s art and design heritage that will be open for researchers of all levels, from school students through to higher-education researchers.
Players: the lives and work of the actors who created the national theatre of Australia between 1950-2012. The transformation of Australian theatre since the 1950's is explored through the lives and work of 80 actors working in Australia during a critical phase of Australian cultural history. This study will extend knowledge of the creative achievements of these actors and enrich understanding of our national culture and creative industries.
From Sarah Wills Howe to Thomas Wentworth Wills: An Australian Family Biography. This project will be the first biographical study of the Wills family, a significant yet forgotten colonial family. Across three generations, from 1798 to 1880, the project will use the innovations and insights of family biography to reassess key turning points in Australian history in which the Wills family figured prominently. From the economic success of its matriarch Sarah Wills, to the tragic decline and suicid ....From Sarah Wills Howe to Thomas Wentworth Wills: An Australian Family Biography. This project will be the first biographical study of the Wills family, a significant yet forgotten colonial family. Across three generations, from 1798 to 1880, the project will use the innovations and insights of family biography to reassess key turning points in Australian history in which the Wills family figured prominently. From the economic success of its matriarch Sarah Wills, to the tragic decline and suicide of her grandson, the sublimely gifted sportsman Tom Wills, the project will bring a new perspective to those years. Through the illustrative capacity of family biography this project will not only uncover some forgotten historical figures but will also offer new interpretations of critical aspects of Australian colonial history.Read moreRead less
Human kind: transforming identity in Australian and British portraits 1700-1900 in the National Gallery of Victoria. The National Gallery of Victoria's outstanding collection of Australian and British portraits, spanning the Enlightenment and the dawn of Federation, say much about this nation's cultural evolution within a global context. This project will produce the first interdisciplinary study of these portraits, enabling their online publication and extensive educational programs.