The Imprisonment of the Archpriest

Moffatt, Gaston

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“…Moffatt explains that she hoped to capture a sense of the in-between here: between documentary and invention, present and past, time and space, and between cohesive narrative moments. 25 The effect is decidedly not auratic or transcendent but a surreal dystopic estrangement. And yet Up in the Sky nonetheless transports us with its emotional and dramatic tensions, and more specifically touches us through its spatio-temporal ambiguities.…”

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Petyarre and Moffat: 'Looking from the Sky'

Secomb

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: North Writesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Petyarre and Moffat: 'Looking from the Sky'

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2013

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The Imprisonment of the Archpriest

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Petyarre and Moffat: 'Looking from the Sky'

Petyarre and Moffat: 'Looking from the Sky'

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