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Utopia Or Dystopia: A Contested Space On Sydney's Urban Frontier, Ian Willis
Utopia Or Dystopia: A Contested Space On Sydney's Urban Frontier, Ian Willis
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Australia is a settler society where the rural-urban fringe of the major cities and regional centres is a contestable stage. There are a range of actors who compete in place making processes re-shaping the cultural landscape when there is collision over the ownership of space and the dominant narrative. This paper examines the proposition that Sydney's urban growth has created a zone of conflict on the city's metropolitan frontier between cultural heritage and the interests of development. In recent years Sydney's rural-urban fringe has encroached on the village boundaries of Menangle where there has been a collision between the expectation …
Erewhon: Media, Ecology, And Utopia In The Antipodes, Susan (Su) Ballard
Erewhon: Media, Ecology, And Utopia In The Antipodes, Susan (Su) Ballard
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
On June 22, 2005, an essay by the Association of Freed Time was published in Artforum International. With little contextual information, "El Diaro del Fin del Mundo: A Journey That Wasn't" described environmental damage to the Antarctic ice shelf and the subsequent mutations that were occurring within the Antarctic ecosystem. One of these mutants was rumored to be a solitary albino penguin, living on an uncharted island near Marguerite Bay. The Artforum article tells of French artist Pierre Huyghe's journey with ten others to find the island and its mysterious inhabitant. The article forms the first part of an event …
Slash As Queer Utopia, Ika Willis
Slash As Queer Utopia, Ika Willis
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In Text, John Mowitt writes that textuality can be understood “in terms of the interplay between what takes place within a cultural production… and what, as yet, has no place within the social”. In this paper I will be trying to tease out the complicated topography produced by this interplay between what takes place and what has no place, in its specific relation to the utopic and queer spaces produced by slash fan fiction. I argue that Mowitt’s understanding of the text allows us to interrogate and to reframe the relationship between textuality and historical/social context (often metaphorized as ‘situatedness’, …
Dreams Of Utopia: An Exhibition By Gadens' Artist In Residence, Madeleine T. Kelly
Dreams Of Utopia: An Exhibition By Gadens' Artist In Residence, Madeleine T. Kelly
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
These works explore recurrent themes of energy consumption, processing nature, human folly and progress. Collage methods are used to construct lyrical scenes that suggest alternative realities, where juxtaposed and absent elements create spaces for projection and gaps to be filled. Figures interacting and processing abstract material shapes evoke mythological realms.