Jennifer L. Biddle Jennifer L. Biddle i(11971415 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Inheritance Jennifer L. Biddle , 2019 single work
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , December vol. 25 no. 2 2019; (p. 237-240)
1 1 y separately published work icon Remote Avant-Garde : Aboriginal Art under Occupation Jennifer L. Biddle , London : Duke University Press , 2016 12379857 2016 multi chapter work criticism

'In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art responds to national emergency, from the creation of locally hunted grass sculptures to biliterary acrylic witness paintings to stop-motion animation. Following directly from the unprecedented success of the Western Desert art movement, contemporary Aboriginal artists harness traditions of experimentation to revivify at-risk vernacular languages, maintain cultural heritage, and ensure place-based practice of community initiative. Biddle shows how these new art forms demand serious and sustained attention to the dense complexities of sentient perception and the radical inseparability of art from life. Taking shape on frontier boundaries and in zones of intercultural imperative, Remote Avant-Garde presents Aboriginal art "under occupation" in Australia today.' (Publication summary)

1 When Not Writing Is Writing Jennifer L. Biddle , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 1 1996; (p. 21-33)

'There is something strange going on. O n the one hand, Aborigines traditionally were deemed to be 'without writing', a status that remains even if the terms shift currently from that of historical 'pre-literate' to contemporary 'illiterate'. O r so education and government policy, program, and publication suggest.1 Indeed, in this view, the Aborigine's resistance to literacy heralds a certain notoriety, celebrated in the burgeoning of 'oral' histories, 'oral' literatures, and successful entry into electronic media. Even if pejorative connotations are reversed in these 'oral' reckonings, the prognosis remains: Aborigines don't write.' (Publication abstract)

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