Archive for the ‘art’ Category

broken dreams

11May12

Broken Dreams 3 2010 Michael Cook Bidjara people digital colour photograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra purchased 2011 One of the pieces in unDisclosed, the 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, May 11 – July 22, 2012. Lifted from ABC News.


Zapiro’s pen, form Sunday Times (19 Feb 2012). See more here. Hat-tip, LK.


I abandoned my thatch, my cobblestones, my tolerant Dutch protectors. For barren oak trees. On empty shores. Under grey skies. The cold bites me in the arse. I died in great numbers. Half of me died. Most of my women. I am not a Sachem, God damn it! I cannot heal. I cannot lead. And [...]


check it out here.


From an exquisite Victorian-era guest house, KwaZulu-Natal.


Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity (Palgrave UK, 2010) Edited by Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds. To be launched by Patrick Wolfe. The new journal, settler colonial studies, introduced by Jane Carey and Lorenzo Veracini. When: Thursday 30th June, 5.00pm for a 5.30pm start Where: Gertrudes Brown Couch, 30 Gertrude [...]



the settler

03Mar11

from here


Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the first issue of settler colonial studies is now available for your viewing. Check it out here. In this stage of its life, settler colonial studies is an online, open-access journal. There are may benefits of such a medium (among them, universally free access, and immediate registration [...]


Here’s a teaser for the forthcoming settler colonial studies 1 (2011). ARTICLES Lorenzo Veracini: Introducing settler colonial studies pp. 1-12 Patrick Wolfe: After the Frontier: Separation and Absorption in US Indian Policy pp. 13-50 Scott Lauria Morgensen: The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now pp. 51-75 Ivan Sablin and Maria Savelyeva: Mapping Indigenous [...]



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