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Author(s) -
Stefanoff Lisa
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.12152
Subject(s) - painting , desert (philosophy) , visual arts , precarity , art , narrative , literal and figurative language , temporality , performative utterance , mode (computer interface) , history , art history , aesthetics , sociology , literature , gender studies , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , operating system
This article introduces paintings by Pintupi/Luritja‐Arrernte town camp artist Kunmanara M. Nampitjinpa Boko from the Tangentyere Artists group in Alice Springs and discusses a project we began together before her death, to explore new media futures for her graphic desert narratives. I argue that Kunmanara’s figurative and entextualized images articulate a specific central Australian mode of “survivance” and perform the “precarity” of their emergence through an aesthetic I call “vocal listening.” The artworks carry a new desert art “aura” linked to lived experiences of a bush‐station‐mission‐community‐outstation‐town camp‐town landscape that might “migrate” into animated, immersive, and interactive new media forms.