Title: Genealogical ghostscapes : unsettling settler colonial home-making legacies in South Australia
Author: Waters, Sera, author.
Author: University of South Australia. School of Art, Architecture and Design.
Dissertation: Thesis (PhD(Visual Arts))--University of South Australia, 2018.
Subjects: Art, Colonial -- South Australia
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- South Australia -- History -- 19th century
Subjects: Women colonists -- South Australia
Subjects: Handicraft -- Australia -- History
Subjects: thesis
Abstract: 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.
Creation Date: 2018
Format: 1 ethesis (xxi, 202 pages) : colour illustrations.
Source: Alma