Research Project
Researchers: Jonathan Richards , Professor Trish FitzSimons (Managed by)
Brief description The Braided Channels creative research project is constructed from some seventy hours of oral history interviews with women of Australia’s Channel Country, together with archival film &photographs, music and artwork. It explores the capacities of digital technologies to facilitate new versions of the ‘documentary project’ and uses visual metaphors to give local and personal stories a wider resonance. It is ‘relational art’ (Bourriaud 2002) where the artwork comprises all its associated events and elements and the cultural connections it facilitated. It is also an example of ‘shared history’ (Goodall 2002), bringing Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians into the same frame through ‘place’. It includes the underlying Oral History Archive, the Channels of History social history exhibition, the Durham Downs broadcast documentary (in development) and research articles in the fields of historiography; museology; and documentary studies. The Centenary of Federation funding supported the creation and digitisation of the oral history archive. It includes the digitisation of 27 interviews that were filmed and sound recorded across outback and rural Queensland, Brisbane and Sydney. Key contributors to the project include Georgina Greenhill, David Huggett, Julie Hornsey, Erika Addis, Jonathan Richards and Ashleigh Harding.
Notes Project Status: Completed,