The Unsettling Truths of Settling: Ghostscapes in Domestic Textiles
| Autor: | Sera Waters |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Waters, Sera |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | TEXTILE. 17:378-390 |
| ISSN: | 1751-8350 1475-9756 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14759756.2019.1639418 |
| Popis: | This article focuses upon homes and domestic textile traditions as sites where disavowed settler colonial pasts linger. Through art practice, I dwell upon ancestral home-making traditions to investigate my inherited "genealogical ghostscapes" and to acknowledge how ghosting traditions pass along generationally. In specific art works from my 2017 exhibition, Domestic Arts, I scrutinize domestic matter to reveal how since 1838 family members have recalibrated regions of South Australia with imported rhythms and patterns of home-based labor, including making and maintaining comforting textiles. These familiar materialities become the conduit to recognizing the unsettling truths of settling. Overall, it is the use of time-consuming and repetitive methods, similar to those worked by ancestors on their home-fronts, that has become a means of conjuring an embodied way of understanding my settler colonial ancestry. The transfiguring of settler colonial textile traditions into works of art becomes a collective form of protest that invokes an unsettling strategy of recognition. This truth-telling is directed towards not only the under-scrutinized home-making labors of women, but also the ongoing legacies of whiteness and privilege that continue to deny pasts and continue to have repercussions in Australia today. Refereed/Peer-reviewed |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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