Spirit Blong Bubu I Kam Bak [The Return of the Spirits of the Ancestors]

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Braddon Snape: Internal pressures
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Faye Neilson

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Looking on, listening in: Wendelien van Oldenborgh's Bete & Deise
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John Mateer

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Butcher Joe's multiple world Stephen Muecke
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Stephen Muecke

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ACE Open
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Archie Barry: Entangled listening
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Jacqui Shelton

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Meg Porteous: Dissociative bodies
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Amy Weng

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Adam Cullen: Acute misanthropy
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Wes Hill

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City of Unley
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James Newitt: Working with the trouble
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Hayley Millar-Baker: I will survive
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Claire G. Coleman

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Reflections on an exhibition in Vanuatu of old pieces of ni Vanuatu art held in European collections. Touring Exhibition 'Arts of Vanuatu' 29 June - 10 August 1996 at the National Museum of Vanuatu in the national capital of Port Vila.

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