Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
Start Date
17-7-2019 12:30 PM
Description
In this talk, I will discuss the increasing importance of future-oriented Indigenous representations within and beyond the Kimberley. Popular representations have tended to temporally slot Indigenous people into mythical pasts and suffering presents, while dispossessing their futures. These temporal imaginings and silences continue to have dire policy implications, as decades of deficit-discourse and imagery have exacerbated the passing of futureless Indigenous
policies of defunding and assimilation. Drawing on my years of collaborative fieldwork experiences, I will engage hopeful Aboriginal media productions in relation to the current rise of Indigenous futurisms scholarship and media, which have a vital role in decolonizing and visually reimagining not only how Aboriginal people are imagined, but also when.
Recommended Citation
Lempert, Willi, "“Down the Track”: Kimberley Indigenous Media Futures" (2019). Talking Heads Seminar Series. 19.
https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/nulungu_talkingheads/2019/schedule/19
“Down the Track”: Kimberley Indigenous Media Futures
The University of Notre Dame Australia, Broome Campus
In this talk, I will discuss the increasing importance of future-oriented Indigenous representations within and beyond the Kimberley. Popular representations have tended to temporally slot Indigenous people into mythical pasts and suffering presents, while dispossessing their futures. These temporal imaginings and silences continue to have dire policy implications, as decades of deficit-discourse and imagery have exacerbated the passing of futureless Indigenous
policies of defunding and assimilation. Drawing on my years of collaborative fieldwork experiences, I will engage hopeful Aboriginal media productions in relation to the current rise of Indigenous futurisms scholarship and media, which have a vital role in decolonizing and visually reimagining not only how Aboriginal people are imagined, but also when.
