Irish Reel

Scott, Cyril; Scott-Baker, H.

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“…Uplifted I was as I have always been; must be. 40 These various images of landscape, country and cloud-strewed sky (in the work of Petyarre, Moffatt and Scott, to which we might add the films of Rachel Perkins and Ivan Sen) articulate the specificity of Aboriginal relation to land with-while they also defy and critiquedominant White histories, law and politics. Through what Paul Gilroy describes, in another context, as a 'double consciousness' attained through being at once inside and outside culture, they elaborate an aesthetically intricate hybrid experience.…”

Section: Coda: Double Visionmentioning

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Petyarre and Moffat: 'Looking from the Sky'

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2013

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Moffatt’s Up in the Sky series draws attention to the relation between sky and earth, through the content and camera angles of the images. Similarly, Kathleen Petyarre’s Central Desert acrylic dot painting evokes this relation representing country and Dreaming from a celestial perspective—as she says ‘looking from the sky’. Yet here any association between these artists seems to end with the urban artist refusing to engage Aboriginal tradition and the desert artist focused on Dreaming, country and heritage. However, a further connection between these disparate works may also be discerned as each, in differing ways, transforms our conventional perceptions of space and time. Reading these images in relation to Walter Benjamin’s concepts of the auratic and of messianic time, I suggest that each restructures dimension and duration putting in question the (post)modern calibrations of our space/time experience. This paper stages an engagement between these artists’ works and Benjamin’s concepts exploring the variations and modifications of the spatial and the temporal that hybrid cross-cultural exchanges require and facilitate.

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Section: Coda: Double Visionmentioning

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Petyarre and Moffat: 'Looking from the Sky'

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2013

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Irish Reel

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