Courting Blakness
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Courting Blakness

Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Courting Blakness

Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University

About this book

A celebration of 'Courting Blakness', a groundbreaking exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art In September 2014, Adjunct Professor Fiona Foley and a team of eight Aboriginal artists delivered a cutting-edge installation to the sandstone heart of the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus – the Great Court. Universities have traditionally been elite institutions, isolated and dissociated from the concerns of Indigenous people. For generations, the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander thinkers, activists and artists have been invisible or undervalued in our universities. This history is etched into the walls of the Great Court, with anachronistic concepts of humanity and racial difference revealed in many of the friezes and sculptural reliefs. The Courting Blakness exhibition aimed to reclaim this historically white space, to create a visual dialogue between contemporary Aboriginal art and colonial-inspired architecture. Students and other members of the university community, as well as the general public, were invited to re-engage with the Great Court through conversations about issues that matter to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Comprising beautiful images and essays by the artists, curators and academics who presented at the associated symposium, Courting Blackness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University is a stylish and comprehensive tribute to this innovative project.

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Information

Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9780702256295
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction: What Can Art Do in a University
  6. Part One: Architecture, Space and Possession
  7. Part Two: History, Identity and Power
  8. Part Three: Haunting Institutions of Settler-Colonialism
  9. Part Four: 14 Nations: Flagging Sovereignty
  10. Part Five: Debt
  11. Part Six: The Blaktism
  12. Conclusion: Through My Eyes
  13. Contributors
  14. Acknowledgements
  15. Imprint page

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