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October 5, 2011
reCollections is journal published by the National Museum of Australia. It consists of contributions relating to the role of museums in society, museum practice, and the history, collection, interpretation and display of museum collections relating specifically to Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
In 'We have survived': South-east Australian Aboriginal art exhibitions since 1988 Fran Edmonds uses the Homi Bhabha's concept of hybridity to provide a lens through which to view the progressions and adaptations south-east Australian Aboriginal people have made in their art practices and in the staging of art exhibitions, as they intersect with developing ideas about their own identity and their place in the world.
It is also used to opposed constricting and essentialist representations, where purity of culture is equated with authenticity, namely colonialist assumptions about south-east Australian Aboriginal culture as inauthentic.The emphasis is on the complex history of colonial encounters.
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