Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Memoryscope Experiments on the Bunurong Coast
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'This essay performs that restless search, undertaken in countless iterations across the globe, for meaning in the places that are important to us. By engaging with the everyday historical forces and currents that shape localities, it examines the intimate associations and connections that exist between people and the places they inhabit. Experimenting with the use of Ross Gibson’s notion of the memoryscope – an aesthetic form created to ‘contain, focus and direct the forces of the past’ (Gibson 2015b: vi) – as a framework to inform place-based historically informed storytelling, it offers a series of speculations on an unruly strip of the southern Australian bush, the Bunurong Coast. In doing so, the paper explores how disparate echoes of the past plucked from various sources – the archives, memories, reflections, and the landscape itself – might be cajoled to form coherent reflections on personal connections to a specific place. Speculating on local stories, objects and experiences, it examines how an aesthetic and forensic creative practice might be used to develop intimate narratives about our complex associations to places and their past.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs vol. 24 no. 1 April 2020 19275730 2020 periodical issue 'Since the last issue of TEXT in October 2019, the world changed. During Covid-19 lockdowns, arts practitioners worldwide responded with web-based music sessions, comedy performances and art exhibitions. None of these outputs sound or look like products in conventional industry spaces. There has been a discovery of the home as stage and gallery, the desk as broadcast studio, and creative arts work as a commodity related to personal space. This links us to the idea of creative work at its origin: a home-grown and personal thing given legitimacy.' (Nigel Krauth Editorial introduction) 2020
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