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Saturday 23 August 2008
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If the 25th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award is anything to go by, there's a flowering in the Western Desert and Arnhem Land. But the decision by a group of seven Aboriginal art centres to withdraw their artists from competition has struck at the heart of the awards, otherwise known as the Telstras. Has it affected the quality and scope of the work in the award, or has it missed the mark? We ask the judges and the curator of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, which hosts the Telstra.
Saturday 16 August 2008
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In the late 1990s, two Aboriginal artists, Eddie Burrup and Wanda Koolmatrie, are revealed to be white people producing, respectively, art and literature - and receiving financial reward - under Aboriginal identities. Homage or fraud? And why assume Aboriginality is an advantage?
Saturday 09 August 2008
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Kevin Gilbert was a playwright, artist, poet and activist. His work was by turns comic, humanitarian and deeply spiritual - but always had a hard political edge. In 1957 he was sentenced to life for murder, and spent almost 15 years in jail. While in jail in 1968, he wrote The Cherry Pickers, the first written Aboriginal play. It was performed once in Melbourne in 1971, but true to his beliefs, Gilbert refused to let it be staged professionally until it could be done by an all-Aboriginal cast. That finally happened in 1994, a year after his death.
Saturday 02 August 2008
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Baryulgil is a tiny Aboriginal town in northern New South Wales. The giant James Hardie Industries mined raw, white asbestos for 36 years in Baryulgil until the late 1970s. The residents breathed in the toxic dust fumes and washed in asbestos-polluted water. Tailings were even deposited in roads. In the late 1990s the bulldozers moved in. Produced by Awaye!'s Lorena Allam in 1997, 'Burying Baryulgil' is a story about people who risked their lives to make a safe future for their children.
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