Ancestral memory: out of the shadows

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Nagesh's recipe for Biryani
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Nagesh Seethiah

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Geological pit stops: Kate Hill and Isadora Vaughan
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Abbra Kotlarczyk

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Duchamp and Australia: In opposition
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Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson

Published 01 March 2020
The Torch
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The Brazilian moment: A picture gallery in transformation
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John Mateer

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Crafty prepping
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Sera Waters

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2019: The year of our cyberpunk future
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Darren Jorgensen

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Art in the time of the burning
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Ian Milliss

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

Published 01 December 2019

University of Melbourne Research Fellow Fran Edmonds along with Victorian artists Lee Darroch, Maree Clarke and Vicki Couzens looks at the story of Aboriginal art in Victoria as a determined reclamation of the past, a cross-generational celebration in the present and a visionary guide for the future.

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