Cultural Burning and the Interstices of Two Vernacular Cultural Forms

Drake, C

Cultural Burning and the Interstices of Two Vernacular Cultural Forms

Drake, C

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Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation, 2020, 1, pp. 43 - 54
Issue Date:: 2020

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dc.contributor.author	Drake, C https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4447-8404	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Suartika, GAM	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Nichols, J	en_US
dc.date.issued	2020	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation, 2020, 1, pp. 43 - 54	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-030-22448-6	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/137312
dc.description.abstract	Investigating the complexity of vernacular subjects within the context of intercultural land ownership in Australia, this research examines how site specific performance can activate engagement in the spatial politics of contested Australian landscapes. The paper is centred on a performance event titled Cultural Burn that took place in 2016, on an 8000-hectare property acquired by the Indigenous Land Corporation as part of a land bank established for the dispossession of Aboriginal people. Drawing a comparison between the traditional Aboriginal land management practice of cultural burning, and the burning of a western cultural artefact, the research explores the cultural, ethical and political resonance of burning a piano on Barkanji Country within an ephemeral billabong. Addressing vernacularity in relation to how we are positioned at the interstices between subjects, knowledge systems, histories, traditions and practices, the research explores how vernacular subjects are presented, represented and practiced within an intercultural, cross-disciplinary and post-colonial context.	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer International Publishing	en_US
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dc.title	Cultural Burning and the Interstices of Two Vernacular Cultural Forms	en_US
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Abstract:

Investigating the complexity of vernacular subjects within the context of intercultural land ownership in Australia, this research examines how site specific performance can activate engagement in the spatial politics of contested Australian landscapes. The paper is centred on a performance event titled Cultural Burn that took place in 2016, on an 8000-hectare property acquired by the Indigenous Land Corporation as part of a land bank established for the dispossession of Aboriginal people. Drawing a comparison between the traditional Aboriginal land management practice of cultural burning, and the burning of a western cultural artefact, the research explores the cultural, ethical and political resonance of burning a piano on Barkanji Country within an ephemeral billabong. Addressing vernacularity in relation to how we are positioned at the interstices between subjects, knowledge systems, histories, traditions and practices, the research explores how vernacular subjects are presented, represented and practiced within an intercultural, cross-disciplinary and post-colonial context.

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