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(Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice

thesis
posted on 2025-04-22, 01:24 authored by Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis
(Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice is a project that maps the intersections of Place, identity, and family, critically examining the encoded biases embedded within photographic technologies from an Indigenous perspective. Using a practice-led research approach, this project interrogates archival representations and explores the concept of photographs as entities with their own agency. By disrupting and subverting colonial approaches to image-making and mapping systems, (Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice highlights the omission of significant Indigenous Knowledges. It explores how archival documents, particularly those from the Tindale Genealogical Collection, enable family mapping practices and strengthen ties to Country.

History

Campus location

Australia

Principal supervisor

Peta Jane Clancy

Additional supervisor 1

Dr Kirsten Lyttle

Additional supervisor 2

Professor Melissa Miles

Year of Award

2025

Department, School or Centre

Fine Art

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

DOCTORATE

Faculty

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture