Tag Archives: Jennifer Deger

Christmas Spirit

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

Darwinians, mark your calendars.  Top Enders and outsiders, make your reservations.  Christmas is coming to town.  And you do not want to miss it this year. On December 7, at the Chan Contemporary Art Space in Darwin’s CBD, Miyarrka Media … Continue reading →

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Topsoil

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

Our flight home to the United States left from Sydney, so our last day was spent back in the temperate sunshine down south.  We ended our three-week residency by returning to the Sydney Opera House once more to see Bangarra’s … Continue reading →

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Honoring Kirk Endicott

Posted on March 13, 2011 by

Kirk Endicott, Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, is such a modest man that I had a hard time getting a photograph of him last weekend.  We were at Dartmouth to take part in the celebrations that marked his retirement … Continue reading →

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“The Remote Avant-Garde”

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

Here is another video from COFA Talks Online, out of the the University of Sydney’s College of Fine Arts and its Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics. This one features Jennifer Biddle, author of Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert art … Continue reading →

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“The Production of Art as an Area of Social Action”

Posted on December 13, 2009 by

A new and quite different exhibition of “Aboriginal art” is on display in Sydney now at the Macquarie University Art Gallery. Curated by Jennifer Deger, interventions: experiments between art and ethnography was opened on December 9, 2009 by Djon Mundine. The exhibition … Continue reading →

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Video Rom

Posted on May 6, 2007 by

It is not often that a book, especially a work of non-fiction, moves and excites me enough to make me want to send its author fan mail. While reading Jennifer Deger’sShimmering Screens: making media in an Aboriginal community (University of Minnesota … Continue reading →

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