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Reflection: 20th Anniversary Issue

Reflection: 20th Anniversary Issue

Vol 20 no 3


Guest editor Stephanie Radok Looking back and looking forward. Revisiting some of Artlink's favourite themes over the 2 decades and offering new perspectives for the next decade: ecology, new media, regional arts, Indigenous art, museum practice, craft, theories of art especially that of Donald Brook, multiculturalism and social change. Also an account of Artlink's last decade. Reviews.


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Indigeneity

Author & Artist: Mr Michael A. Mel, feature

Art from an indigenous context cannot be transferred wholly into another context for reading. This denies the fact that indigenous contexts do have ways of seeing and making sense of their 'art'. Mel presents a discourse for alternate ways of viewing such indigenous 'art' with reference to terms such as postmodern, objectivity and subjectivity. The Mogei people of Mt Hagen area in Papua New Guinea are examined through this text.



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