Visual arts

Our Mob and Cancer | Testing Content and Creative Concepts with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

Although Australia has made strides in improving cancer survival rates an estimated 150,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed across the country in 2020.[1] The Minister

The Artificial as an Intelligent Indigenous/Indigenizing System

This article explores the vital importance of the sensory at the nexus of the artificial and real life.

AusStage LIEF 7: the oldest and most extensive national dataset on live performance

AusStage is a pioneering database that holds over quarter of a million records about Australian performance.

Creative Barkly: Sustaining the Arts & Cultural Sector in Remote Australia

This project looks at creative and performing arts activities across the Barkly to understand the role of the arts in community and regional development.

Connecting Indigenous Community Photographies: a transnational case study

The project aims to conduct the first transnational comparison of Indigenous community-controlled photography, exploring Indigenous peoples ways of seeing and documenting their worlds.

Facing new worlds: comparative histories of Australasia and North America

Facing New Worlds turns around a major exhibition to be held at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020 in conjunction with the Smithsonian.

Rock Art of the Western Desert and Great Basin: long term social responses to environmental change

Rock art was integral to modern humans colonising Australia (earth's most arid continent) as well as the deserts of the USA.

Indigenous Futurity: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony

This project aims to develop a long-term research partnership between Warlpiri Indigenous knowledge holders, anthropologists, and community arts industry partner Tracks Dance Company.

Collecting at the Crossroads: Anthropology, Art and Cultural Change (1939-85)

The Berndt collection is a nationally significant collection of Aboriginal art and material culture, with aspects recognised under the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

Tracking three significant Songlines of Country

This project aims to track three significant Songlines and the intersecting and interconnected cultural relationships between northwest NSW Aboriginal language groups, and their neighbouring langua