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Indigenous Histories — Creative Histories — decolonising Histories — Jonathon Jones — Hyde Park Barracks I reflect upon how these two distinct creative history projects – one visual art, the other performative – associated with this project which renegotiate the complex and contested pasts of the Hyde Park Barracks and suggest that these examples speak to the role of memory and creativity in shaping cultural responses to Australia’s colonial past and hows Indigenous artists and academics are making a profound intervention into contemporary understandings of the past in ways that demand fresh consideration about how history is ‘done’ in Australia.
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Indigenous artists and academics are making a profound intervention into contemporary understandings of the past in ways that demand fresh consideration about how history is ‘done’ in Australia.
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It was an honour to be involved with Jonathan Jones' outstanding project at Hyde Park Barracks. This article reflects upon that experience, offers a working definition for Creative Histories in Australia and explores how these ideas can be applied in different artistic and performative ways — particularly in the GLAM sector — to cultivate deeper understanding of Indigenous past and present and further the decolonisation of history practice.
Kiera Lindsey
University of Technology Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Indigenous approaches to the past: ‘Creative histories’ at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, March 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00017_1.
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