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Water+shed: A 20-year survey of artwork on the Murray Darling Basin, Australia.
- Source :
- Thesis Eleven; Feb2019, Vol. 150 Issue 1, p131-149, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The Murray Darling Basin is the primary watershed of the Australian continent. It is central to the national imaginary as both major food bowl and natural resource. Two hundred years of unsustainable pastoral and farming practices are threatening its ecological future and with it the nation-state's industrial agricultural economic base. I am a visual artist who works in multiple media. For most of my career I have been living and working in this region. A major component of my intellectual and artistic expression has been expended in a critical and aesthetic response to this watershed. The artworks documented in this essay were part of a 20-year (1989-2009) survey exhibition of my mediations and responses to the crisis of water allocation in the Murray Darling Basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07255136
- Volume :
- 150
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Thesis Eleven
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 135463968
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513618823778