What is Same but Different and why does it matter?

Jennifer Biddle; Lisa Stefanoff

doi:10.5130/csr.v21i1.4418

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Published: May 12, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/csr.v21i1.4418

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Desert Art, weaving, acrylic painting,

Jennifer Biddle

National Institute for Experimental Art, UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales

Lisa Stefanoff

National Institute for Experimental Art, UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales

Abstract

A detailed outline of the Same but Different Desert Art forums held in Alice Springs in 2012 and 2013, and an introduction to the essays, interviews, films and images that make up the 'Same but Different' section of this issue of CSR.

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Vol 21 No 1 (2015): Interventions

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Same but Different (Peer Reviewed)

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Author Biographies

Jennifer Biddle, National Institute for Experimental Art, UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales

Jennifer Biddle is Senior Research Fellow and Director of Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), UNSW Art & Design. She is an anthropologist of art, language and emotion, and has worked in Central Australia for over two decades. Her most recent book is Remote Avant-garde: Aboriginal art under occupation (forthcoming) with Duke University Press.

Lisa Stefanoff, National Institute for Experimental Art, UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales

Lisa Stefanoff lived in Alice Springs from 2002-2012, working as a research anthropologist, screen producer and editor at CAAMA, IAD Press and on the CRC for Remote Economic Participation’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies project. During this time she was also an independent art, radio and film producer and screen curator. Currently based in Darwin, she is an ARC Post-doctoral Research Fellow at NIEA UNSW Art & Design working on a collaborative arts-practice led new media research project with desert women artists. In 2015 she curated the exhibition ‘We are in Wonder LAND: new experimental art from Central Australia’ (UNSW Galleries) with Philip Watkins (Desart EO) and Jennifer Biddle.

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Jennifer Biddle, National Institute for Experimental Art, UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales

Lisa Stefanoff, National Institute for Experimental Art, UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales