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The Indigenous Uncanny: Accounting For Ghosts in Recent Indigenous Australian Experimental Media
Author(s) -
Ginsburg Faye
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.12154
Subject(s) - uncanny , indigenous , settlement (finance) , history , white (mutation) , art , art history , aesthetics , computer science , ecology , biochemistry , chemistry , world wide web , gene , payment , biology
This essay departs from Freud's 1919 essay, Das Unheimliche (The Uncanny), exploring the Indigenous uncanny instantiated in recent works that traffic in ghostly encounters, by well‐known Australian Indigenous artists: (1) Tracey Moffatt's Night Spirits photographs from her 2013 show, Spirit Landscapes , and The White Ghosts Sailed In, from her solo show, My Horizon (2017 Venice Biennale); (2) Warwick Thornton's 2013 experimental documentary, The Darkside , based on Indigenous ghost stories, and his 2015 show The Way of the Ngangkari . These works create a powerful aesthetic that acknowledges the displacement of Aboriginal people during European settlement as well as long‐standing ancestral connections.