Notes from a Cross-Cultural Frontier: Investigating Australian Aboriginal Art through Podcasts
by Siobhán McHugh, Ian McLean, and Margo Neale
» download full three-part essay [pdf]
The following audio files are linked to the essay. They are presented here for additional convenience.
audio clip 1 (page 6): Artist Richard Bell: Aboriginal art, it's a white thing. Dur: 0:10
audio clip 2 (page 10): Massacre at Gangan. Dur: 0:51
audio clip 3 (page 11): Color can be changing (Garawan Wanambi) Dur: 0.23
audio clip 4 (page 13): An example of a crafted audio mix in Heart of Artness podcast, Episode 2. Dur: 1.03
audio clip 5 (page 19): Artist Jennifer Herd: our story is an urban story. Dur: 0.25
audio clip 6 (page 22): Manager Will Stubbs describes himself as a dung beetle. Dur: 1.07
audio clip 7 (page 23): Art center managers Cecilia Alfonso and Gloria Morales. Dur: 0.27
audio clip 8 (page 24): Dallas Gold, art dealer and "drug pusher," with Warlpiri women singing in the background. Dur: 11 secs.
audio clip 9 (page 25): Vernon Ah Kee, Aboriginal artist and founding member, proppaNOW artists' collective. Dur: 0.40
audio clip 10 (page 33): Margo introduces Cecilia, manager of Warlukurlangu. Dur: 0.39
audio clip 11 (page 34): manager Will Stubbs can't explain the two worlds. Dur: 1.05
audio clip 12 (page 36): Artist Richard Bell: we paid the highest price. Dur: 0:11
audio audio clip 13 (page 37): Richard Bell, inside the tent. Dur: 0.06
Resources
Heart of Artness podcast homepage
Buku-Larranngay Mulka Art Centre
Warlukurlangu Art Centre
» Siobhán McHugh is an internationally recognised podcast scholar, producer, critic and teacher. She is founding editor (2013) of RadioDoc Review, the first journal to develop critical analysis of podcasts and audio documentaries. She has co-produced multi-award-winning podcasts, some with The Age newspaper in Melbourne. Siobhán has published widely on podcasting as a new media genre, in scholarly journals and mainstream outlets such as The Conversation and Harvard University's Nieman Storyboard. She is Associate Professor in Journalism at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
» Ian McLean is Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on Australian art and particularly Indigenous art. His books include Indigenous Archives—The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art (with Darren Jorgensen); Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art; Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous art; How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art; White Aborigines Identity Politics in Australian Art; and The Art of Gordon Bennett (with a chapter by Gordon Bennett).
» Margo Neale is Head of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges, Senior Indigenous Curator and Principal Advisor to the Director at the National Museum of Australia. She is a co-recipient of eight Australian Research Council grants and has published across disciplines including social history, art and culture in Asia-Pacific and Aboriginal Australia. She is the author, co-author or editor of 10 books including The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture and has curated major pioneering award-winning exhibitions nationally and internationally, most notably Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters (2018), destined for Europe, UK, USA and Asia.
