Aesthetics and ethics informing an exhibition of artworks by Indigenous youth
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Paper/Presentation Title | Aesthetics and ethics informing an exhibition of artworks by Indigenous youth |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Jones, Janice K. |
Journal or Proceedings Title | 12th International Conference on The Arts in Society |
Number of Pages | 1 |
Year | 2017 |
Place of Publication | Champaign, Illinois, United States |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://artsinsociety.com/about/history/2017-conference |
Conference/Event | 12th International Conference on the Arts In Society: Gestures that Matter |
Event Details | 12th International Conference on the Arts In Society: Gestures that Matter Event Date 14 to end of 16 Jun 2017 Event Location Paris, France |
Abstract | For arts educators, and particularly for non-Indigenous facilitators working with Indigenous communities, exhibiting children’s works raises issues of representation, voice, authenticity and power. Over 12 weeks, non-Indigenous university arts educators ran workshops in visual arts, music, storytelling and dance with 60 young people attending an Indigenous Youth group in regional Queensland. At the end of that time, 32 young people agreed to exhibit their artworks, several of which included Augmented Reality (AR) overlays of young peoples’ songs, dances and words, in the city art gallery during National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) week. Preparing works for public display engaged non-Indigenous facilitators in negotiating a range of ethical, aesthetic and cultural decisions with the community and gallery curators. This paper explores how colonising thought may be manifest though aesthetic decision-making around the mounting of an exhibition. It raises questions also for educators exhibiting children’s creative works: by applying adult conceptions of what constitutes professional and aesthetic displays the organisers may literally re-frame and mis-translate children’s meanings. |
Keywords | Indigenous youth, arts education, ethics, aesthetics, art exhibitions, augmented reality, power, postcolonialism, colonising thought, colonisation, The Big House, NAIDOC |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390499. Specialist studies in education not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | © 2017 Common Ground Research Networks. Abstract only published in Program. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q469w/aesthetics-and-ethics-informing-an-exhibition-of-artworks-by-indigenous-youth
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