Performing Aboriginality
Encountering Culture: A Dialogue
Out of Place
Atonement
Lost in Translation
Displaced Objects
Wind in Utopia
Habitat: A Question of Place
Performing Aboriginality (2009 - current)
My artistic practice and research has grown out of an on-going
cycle of annual returning to Alice Springs/Central Australia which began
in 1993 (December-March), fortuitously enabled by winning The Alice Prize
in 1991 (Judge: Jenepher Duncan).
In time, I developed a close relationship to specific Aboriginal families living
in, and around, the township of Alice Springs, a social network made possible
through my initial relationship to Erica Franey. To date, two large bodies of
photographic work, Out of Place (2001-02) and Encountering Culture: A Dialogue
(2006) have been the result of those personal and professional relationships.
Performing Aboriginality will be the third component of what, I consider, to
be a conceptual trilogy on the everyday “lived” life of Alice Springs.
Publications
Togart Award 2010
Catalogue
Togart Award 2009
Catalogue
Links
Interventions @ The Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2009
The production of art as an area of social action
National Library of Australia—Catalogue: Interventions: Experiments between Art and Ethnography
The South Project (Melbourne 2010: How does a network…?)
Steve Gumerungi Hodder Watt
Encountering Culture: A Dialogue (2006)
Digital photographic print
112.0cm x 106.5cm
Encountering Culture: A Dialogue (2006)
Encountering Culture: A Dialogue is a contemporary document on the polemics of urban life in Alice Springs seen through the prism of Aboriginal youth - the site of testimony and lived experience. Identity politics, performance, and self-presentation are played out within the specifics of place, together with the power of encounters and human relationships. It comprises of 60 large-scale photographic works, each work 112.0cm x 106.5cm.
Publications
Auto/Biography and
Mediation
Imagine…the Creativity
Shaping Our Culture
Encountering Culture:
A Dialogue
Links
Photographic project challenges stereotypesGertrude Contemporary: Chris Barry (Past Studio Artists)
IMAGINE… THE CREATIVITY SHAPING OUR CULTUREIMAGINE… THE CREATIVITY SHAPING OUR CULTURE
Biography, Volume 28, Number 1, Winter 2005 (Chris Barry: Dialogues and Self Constructions)
Julie Woodford, Rosie Parsons, Athena Magoufakis, Sasha AhChee, Lisa Kunoth & Ricki-Lee Tilmouth
Encountering Culture: A Dialogue (2006)
Digital photographic print
112.0cm x 106.5cm
Out of Place (2001-02)
Pool
Out of Place (2001-02)
Lightjet digital photographic print
78.0cm x 108.0cm
Atonement (2002)
Polska Zlota Jesien (A Golden Polish Autumn)
Atonement (2002)
Inkjet print
70.0cm x 70.0cm
Lost in Translation (1992/1996)
Occidental Tourist
Lost in Translation (1992/1996)
Type C photographic print
127.0cm x 127.0cm
Displaced Objects (1986/1996)
Untitled (Self-Portrait)
Displaced Objects (1986/1996)
Type C photographic print
127.0cm x 127.0cm
Wind in Utopia (1996)
X is the Site of Many Accumulations (1996)
Wind in Utopia
Textiles on board
175.0cm x 240.0cm
