Indigenous Animations travel to England
- Posted:
- April 7th, 2009
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Brolgas entwined
Dr John Bradley of the Centre for Australian Indigenous Stuudies has been invited to attend a workshop on Orality and Transmission at the University of London. The seminar will examine cultural transmission by focusing closely on oral practices as aspects of intangible heritage. He will take the six completed animations developed with staff from Berwick Campus to demonstrate how the Yanyuwa people of Borroloola have engaged with technology as a way of maintaining important community narratives. The seminar will also explore contemporary indigenous performance, demonstrating that across a range of artistic, social, legal, cultural and educational domains, orature functions not so much as a preliterate mode of communication but rather as an emphatically embodied transaction. In this respect, a key aim is to explore ways in which orality, literacy and mediality dynamically interact, particularly in the reception and preservation of oral practices. Performative aspects of storytelling and witnessing, and their role in collective constructions of historical memory in indigenous cultures, will all be a part of the discussion at this two day event.
