Ancient & Contemporary Indigenous Arts 2 (AIND20012)

This subject engages with Indigenous creative arts and cultural practices, with an emphasis on relational on country learning to enhance the student experience of Indigenous perspectives of place. There is focus on the significance of continuing, reclaiming and revitalizing Indigenous cultural and artistic practice in the context of ongoing settler colonialism. Students will reflect on their own positionality and develop their capacity to act in a culturally safe manner to engage with Indigenous communities.

Students will attend a 5 day off campus immersive cultural experience working with Indigenous lecturers, tutors and community members, participating in creative practice workshops to build their understanding of Indigenous creative and cultural practices.

The subject will provide opportunities for students to interact meaningfully with each other, and with Indigenous teaching staff and local Indigenous community members. Activities may include identifying, collecting and working with traditional technologies and materials from Country, and performative practices in whole class, small group and one to one activities. Following their immersive cultural experience, students will design a new creative project responding to knowledges shared during the intensive.

This subject has a fieldwork component. Students will undertake a 5 day visit to a location in Victoria to undertake creative practice learning activities on Country.

This subject will incur costs in addition to tuition fees.

These costs include:

• Transport Return V-Line ticket. Approximately $25 – 30 depending on location, student concession.
• Accommodation, food, materials, and transport during intensive. Approximately $450 - $500.

*Additional costs are subject to change.

This subject is developed and lead by Indigenous scholarship, pedagogies and knowledges in creative and cultural practices.

The subject is co-taught with First Nations people.