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y separately published work icon Dave Hullfish Bailey, Sam Watson : CityCat Project 2006-2016 anthology   prose   essay   criticism   art work  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Dave Hullfish Bailey, Sam Watson : CityCat Project 2006-2016
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'CityCat Project 2006–2016 is the record of an extraordinary collaboration between American artist Dave Hullfish Bailey and senior Aboriginal writer and activist Sam Watson. The collaboration is structured around Maiwar Performance, in which the CityCat ferries that ply the Brisbane River (Maiwar) execute unannounced maneuvers near a site of significance to the Aboriginal people who lived on the lands around Brisbane before British colonization in the early nineteenth century.

'After its first iteration in 2006, Watson designated the event a “Dreaming,” which meant that it should be periodically repeated. The performance has since been restaged in 2009, 2012, and 2016, with Watson seeing it as an important act of Indigenous empowerment: a way of restoring agency to the local Aboriginal people in bringing their past alive and allowing them to think that the future has not been definitively determined.

'Parallel to this recurring event is an evolving body of works in diverse media. At its core is Bailey’s lateral research-based process, which combines a highly reflexive approach to language with granular descriptions of material and cultural systems. The call-and-response collaboration between Watson and Bailey and the many irreducibilities within it, generates an articulation of place that is playfully extrapolative, yet politically and intellectually resistant.

'This publication includes an introduction by its editor, Rex Butler, and an essay and detailed timeline by CityCat Project curator, David Pestorius, which covers the activities of Bailey and Watson both before and throughout their work together. In addition, art historian Sally Butler reflects upon Watson’s literary production, while curator Michele Helmrich sheds light on the local historical context that significantly informs the collaboration.

'Copublished with Australian Fine Arts/David Pestorius, Brisbane' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Contents:

    • Preface / Rex Butler -- CityCat dreaming / Rex Butler -- A speculative genealogy of the CityCat Project / David Pestorius -- Appendix of illustrations -- Past and present: Dave Hullfish Bailey's Collaborative CityCat Project for Brisbane / David Pestorius -- Secrecy, sensuality and politics in the writings and spoken word of Sam Watson / Sally Butler -- Brisbane's boundaries: excluded by race / Michele Helmrich -- List of illustrations -- Index of works -- Bibliography -- Index of names -- Colophon.

    • Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107) and index of names.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Berlin,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Sternberg Press ,
      2017 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 111p.
      Description: chiefly color illustrations, photographs, facsimiles
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2017

      ISBN: 9783956792984
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