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Amazon Film and Art Project |
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Written by Leonardo Ortega
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Tuesday, 05 May 2009 |
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"A Work In Progress"
This art work is a rough material scheme.
We are far from pretending to be able to produce big answers the complex matter of Indigenous Media, one very important among the many aspects that characterise the colonial process and the way it affects the culture and lives – particularly – of Indigenous people in the whole colonial world.
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The INDOMITE work program |
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Written by Leonardo Ortega
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
 Group of Aborigines watching at INDOMITE-Housing video installation in Alice Springs I’ve been living in the Australian desert for about a year now. What brought me here was my curiosity about the Aborigines who inhabit these lands, as well as the aim to refer to their political and social situation as the central subject for the video-installation INDOMITE (1) (Students Gallery, Caulfield Campus, Monash University, June 2006 and Viewing Space Gallery, Melbourne City Centre, August 2006) a project initiated in Australia thanks to a scholarship for two months as artist in residence at Monash University that was organised by The South Project. INDOMITE is a program of work that continues on mainly from what was raised in my previous artwork The Ralco Model (Galería Metropolitana, December 2002).
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Written by Philippa Barr
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Friday, 26 January 2007 |
 Joseph Rontji at his house of Ntaria Community It’s a mess in here. Blankets and crap all over the floor. Rubbish everywhere. No chairs, just people squatting on the floor. What can the artist be thinking? (1)
This work is an investigation into the aesthetics and invention of aboriginal housing. In an indigenous context, housing is most often conceived as a problem and a right. If shelter is fundamental to existence, then in order to protect its citizens the state has a duty to ensure they are housed. Indigenous communities and families should be provided with houses – a house – so that they can maintain life. A life. Because different houses come fitted out with a normal of doing things. |
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