http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11578 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:20:18 GMT 2013-05-24T00:20:18Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12328 Cultural landscapes of tourism in New South Wales and Victoria Collins, Jock; Darcy, Simon; Jordan, Kirrily; Skilbeck, Ruth; Grabowski, Simone; Peel, Vicki; Dunstan, David; Lacey, Gary; Firth, Tracey The field of cultural landscapes tourism is under-developed in Australia at the level of theory, research and policy development. Yet international research suggests that cultural landscapes tourism has significant potential in attracting new tourists. This research project is a scoping study designed to set out the parameters involved in cultural landscapes tourism research in Australia. It aims to identify how cultural heritage and contemporary cultural diversity impact on visitor experience and on local communities. The objective is to assist the Australian tourism industry particularly those located in regional and rural areas in understanding the growing importance of cultural tourism, by developing a number of case studies of cultural landscapes tourism in two Australia states. These case studies provide examples of existing tourism in a range of different cultural landscape sites, enabling the development of a process by which to identify change in cultural heritage tourism regions, including examining how multicultural precincts can operate as sustainable tourism destinations. Fieldwork with tourists and stakeholders will enable the development of industry strategies to increase tourism in the future. In addition, this fieldwork will facilitate the development of an innovative, multi-disciplinary theory of cultural landscapes tourism. This will set the stage for future research and policy development. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12328 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12325 Sound of Missing Objects Vanni Accarigi Ilaria Blair French Background Sound of Missing Objects is a collaborative text, object and sound installation on the gaps in the history of Aboriginal material culture and the role of exhibitions in creating representations of aboriginality in 19th century. It was commissioned by the gallery Performance Space in 2003 and subsequently invited to tour at the Long Gallery, University of Wollongong in 2005. The work consists in five cabinets containing tissue paper stamped with designs, texts and a sound system and in texts inscriptions on the walls. The exhibition received good critical acclaim and specialised media attention (see portfolio). Contribution I researched and developed the concept of this installation and invited artists Jonathan Jones and digital composer Panos Couros to be my collaborators. I wrote all the textual elements in the installation; collaborated in the design and realization of the cabinets, stamped designs and sounds; I oversaw the production and installation of the exhibition. Significance Although Aboriginal art has an extraordinary critical success very little is known and written about early exhibitions of Aboriginal objects. Sound of Missing Objects is based on the research I carried out in my PhD on Aboriginal objects exhibited in International Exhibitions in Europe and US 19th century. It focuses on the narratives and representations woven in the exhibitions and their relations to contemporary politics. On another level it dwells on the absence of the objects, which were never returned to Australia, investigating the role of museums in producing knowledge and memory gaps. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12325 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12324 Deborah Kelly's gods, monsters and probable histories Vanni Accarigi Ilaria Background This essay was commissioned by Artlink, one of the leading magazines on contemporary arts. It was part of a special issue exploring the work of eight innovators in Australian art. The issue was launched at the Singapore Biennale in 2008, to coincide with the Biennale¿s opening featuring Deborah Kelly¿s ephemeral installation Beware of the God. I followed this project from its beginning as cinematographer for her Beware of the God Project Documentation, exhibited at Barry Keldoulis Gallery Knicker Knot, 11 April 5 May 2007. Contribution I wrote this 2200 words essay based on a series of conversations and exchanges with Deborah Kelly. The essay takes the form of a fictocritical tale, using storytelling to introduce three themes: the growing influence of religion in contemporary society; vignettes of sexualised monstrous femininity; fictocritical histories of `forgotten¿ events in the Australian past. Significance This essay constitutes a new, innovative and thorough critical appraisal of Deborah Kelly¿s work. It is based on five years of research and collaboration with the artist, in the area of arts and design as tools of political intervention (see also 2005 `Conversation with Deborah Kelly¿, Klartext! The Status of the Political in Contemporary Art and Culture, January 14-16, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien and Volksbuhne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin). It shares its theoretical premises and aims with my ARC Discovery project, Contact Zones: activism, art and media in Italy, 1994-2006 in the production of new understandings of the use of communicative practices in activism in the age of knowledge economy. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12324 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z