Title: Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia / Sera Waters (Torchio)
Material Type: Book
Creator: Waters, Sera, author.
Subject: Art, Colonial--South Australia.
Subject: Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--South Australia--History--19th century.
Subject: Women colonists--South Australia.
Subject: Handicraft--Australia--History.
Subject: thesis
Subject: exemplar thesis
Description: Genealogical ghostscapes is a practice-led research project which aims to identify and unsettle continuing settler colonial home-making practices in Australia. It specifically draws upon archival evidence from South Australian regions where my ancestors have made their homes since 1838. Repetitive textile and home-craft methods are used to unsettle familial home-making traditions which have been passed along for generations, in order to recognise the continuation of colonising inheritances and their legacies. This research requires knotted conglomerate methodologies: genealogical methodology along side modes of art practice which can be summarised as spectral-seeking methods. These combined approaches culminate in a historiographical enquiry; one that brings in feminist perspectives, privileges local and family archives, and conjures the embodied knowledge within intergenerational traditions. Repetitive crafting, as a form of practice-led research, is used to dwell within and beyond archival finds, to explore the rhythm and repetition of home-based colonising behaviours, and ruminate upon their effects and affect over many generations.
Date of Publication: 2018
Publisher: Thesis (PhD(Visual Arts))--University of South Australia 2018
Date: 2018