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 Heritage Trails Network funded the creation of the social history exhibition, Channels of History that started at the State Library of Queensland, then travelled to nine other venues between 2002-2005. The funding was critical to the creation of the final research outcome. Key contributors included Georgina Greenhill, David Huggett, Julie Hornsey, Erika Addis and Jonathan Richards.
Notes Project Status: Completed,
