The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Expressions of Indigenous Knowledge Systems through Collaborative Art-Making
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https://doi.org/10.1344/%25xKeywords:
Indigenous knowledge, Intercultural, intergenerational, art-making archive-making, decolonizing approaches, Indigenous sovereignty, Sistemas de conocimiento indígena, Intercambio de conocimientos intergeneracional, Intercambio de conocimientosAbstract
In 2019, southeast Australian Aboriginal artist Maree Clarke was commissioned to create two stunning supersized eel traps. Both were made for very different sites: one for a gallery at an elite university, the other for an inner-city community arts organisation. Both, however, told stories about the enduring nature of Indigenous knowledge. In this article, the eel traps form part of the story for a project we are calling the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art (LAAA). The LAAA aims to encapsulate Maree’s art world and her generosity, which emerges from her backyard (arts studio), and includes intergenerational and intercultural exchanges. The backyard is where the concepts and practice for her art-making begin, and where her work to reclaim the knowledge and practice of her Ancestors from the colonial archive, via art-making, has been bought back to life. Such endeavours form part of the archive-making we are working towards encapsulating as living, dynamic and ongoing.
El Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Expresiones de los Sistemas de Conocimiento Indígena a través de la Creación Artística Colaborativa
En 2019, la artista aborigen del sureste de Australia, Maree Clarke, recibió el encargo de crear dos impresionantes trampas para anguilas de gran tamaño. Ambas fueron hechas para sitios muy diferentes: una para una galería en una universidad de élite, la otra para una organización de arte de la comunidad del centro de la ciudad. Ambas, sin embargo, contaron historias sobre la naturaleza perdurable del conocimiento indígena. En este artículo, las trampas para anguilas forman parte de la historia de un proyecto que llamamos Archivo Viviente de Arte Aborigen (LAAA por sus siglas en inglés). El LAAA tiene como objetivo encapsular el mundo artístico de Maree y su generosidad, que surgen de su patio trasero (estudio de artista), e incluyen intercambios intergeneracionales e interculturales. El patio trasero es donde comienzan los conceptos y haceres para su creación artística, y donde su trabajo para recuperar el conocimiento y la práctica de sus Ancestros del archivo colonial, a través de la creación artística, ha vuelto a la vida. Tales esfuerzos forman parte de la creación de archivos que estamos trabajando para encapsular como vivos, dinámicos y continuos.
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