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The Instability of Truth: Aspects of Developing a Specific Indigenous Methodology on Experimental Practice‐Led Research
Author(s) -
Croft Brenda L.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12149
Subject(s) - indigenous , performative utterance , insider , ethnography , sociology , aesthetics , colonialism , identification (biology) , media studies , history , visual arts , gender studies , anthropology , law , political science , art , botany , ecology , biology
This visual essay aims to incisively intervene in the colonial construction of “Aboriginality,” which continues to have a significant bearing on the nature of self‐identification for Indigenous people in Australia. It elaborates culturally appropriate and attenuated models for representing a singular Gurindji‐specific history, and the contemporary experience for those culturally affiliated with the Gurindji people—whether on customary lands or part of a dispossessed sub(altern) group within one’s own country. Through a body of experimental moving‐image/video/film/sound and body/performance, shown in conjunction with multimedia, including installation, it probes a dynamic and fluid methodology to involve family and community members in a practice‐led research from an Indigenous auto‐ethnographic, performative immersive, insider/outsider standpoint.