The Instability of Truth: Aspects of Developing a Specific Indigenous Methodology on Experimental Practice-Led Research

Brenda L. Croft

doi:10.1111/var.12149

The Instability of Truth: Aspects of Developing a Specific Indigenous Methodology on Experimental Practice-Led Research

Brenda L. Croft^*

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This visual essay aims to incisively intervene in the colonial construction of “Aboriginality,” which continues to have a significant bearing on the nature of self-identification for Indigenous people in Australia. It elaborates culturally appropriate and attenuated models for representing a singular Gurindji-specific history, and the contemporary experience for those culturally affiliated with the Gurindji people—whether on customary lands or part of a dispossessed sub(altern) group within one’s own country. Through a body of experimental moving-image/video/film/sound and body/performance, shown in conjunction with multimedia, including installation, it probes a dynamic and fluid methodology to involve family and community members in a practice-led research from an Indigenous auto-ethnographic, performative immersive, insider/outsider standpoint.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-26
Number of pages	12
Journal	Visual Anthropology Review
Volume	34
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12149
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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