Backyard Culture

Cover of Backyard Culture
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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
Feature
Hannah Donnelly

Published 01 June 2019
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imagineNATIVE at 20
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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

Published 01 June 2019
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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

State Library of NSW

Feature
Jonathan Jones

Published 01 June 2019
ACE Open
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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
Feature
Kirsten Thorpe

Published 01 June 2019
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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
Feature
Ali Cobby Eckermann

Published 01 June 2019
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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
Feature
Bruce Pascoe

Published 01 June 2019
NAVA
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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
Feature
Lorena Allum

Published 01 June 2019
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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
Feature
Pauline Clague

Published 01 June 2019

Questions of memory, history and identity in the work of Leandro Salomone.

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Multicultural, Aboriginal or Just Plain Australian
Feature
James Jupp

A great deal of agonising has gone on since the 1988 Bicentenary about the nature of Australian identity and therefore the nature of our distinctive culture.

Published June 1991
Karin Lettau
Feature
Jane Deeth

Brief article looking at the art practice of Karin Lettau. Good colour photographs of the work.

Published June 1991
Crossing Cultures in Dance
Feature
Stephanie Britton

Looks at the dance practice of the Bharatam Dance Company from Melbourne and at that stage in its 5th year of operation. Photos of the dancers in production included.

Published June 1991
Collaborative Impressions
Feature
Nola Routoulas

Exhibition review: Works by Nola Routoulas, Helen Karpathakis, Nora Mantzioris and Alexandra Akritidis.
Artzone Gallery, Adelaide South Australia April 1991

Published June 1991
National Multicultural Arts Network
Feature
Eugenia Hill

The Network links NESB, ethnic and arts organisations, sets up cross cultural and other training programs for artists, arts organisations and the media and lobbies governments and other funding bodies to reassess their policies and practices.

Published June 1991
Cultural Iconographies
Feature
Stephanie Britton

Cultural Iconographies is an exhibition of work by migrant and refugee artists who have been in Australia for a relatively short time. To take place in the Bondi Pavilion, Sydney during Carnivale October 1991.

Published June 1991
Juggling the Roles
Review
Jude Adams

Exhibition Review: An Art and Working Life Project
Hosted by the Working Women's Centre Prospect Gallery
South Australia
March 1991

Published June 1991
Some Cultural Baggage on the Australian Literary Scene
Feature
Lolo Houbein

Above all we need new myths to suit the new Australian culture which is part of the Asia Pacific region. We can't live by Aboriginal myths alone, as some have suggested, in a land so changed by our coming. The unpacking of cultural baggage by writers of all cultural groups, old and new, has to continue until it gives rise to a myth which we all recognise as fitting the Australia to which we have contributed. Wrote David Malouf.

Published June 1991
Setting an Agenda for the Arts in Tasmania
Review
Sandi Young

Review: State Arts Conference
Tasmanian Arts Industry Council
April 1991
Photographs of delegates to the conference included.

Published June 1991
Art and Racism: Inter-National Issues
Feature
Alison Carroll

The way that I want to convey that meaning [racism] here is to use a small number of relatively random examples of current art/race = art/power debates from around the world. They give a flavour of the issues. They have obvious relevance to Australia's relationship to the rest of the world, as well as to relationships within Australia.

Published June 1991
Satellite Dreaming
Feature
Tony Dowmunt

Making a TV documentary about indigenous people's television in Australia. Photographs on location at Ernabella in the Pitjantjatjara lands of far north west South Australia.

Published June 1991
BulaBula: New High Tech Arts Centre, Ramingining
Feature
Steve Bunk

The three storey facility looks incongruous in the ramshackle Aboriginal settlement of Ramingining which crouches along a dirt road in an Arnhem Land eucalypt forest 550 km east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Photos of people in Ramingining.

Published June 1991
 
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