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Touching Evidence: a case for sensation over representation
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Hogan, J, Touching Evidence: a case for sensation over representation, Non Liquet [The Westminster Online Working Papers], Law and the Senses Series: TOUCH, (3/Oct) pp. 28-51. ISSN 1758-0218 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
My article explores a small waterhole on the edge of a mountain, on an island on the edge
of the world, on the boundary between urban and natural environments and how the sense of touch
allows differences to meet and enter into a dialogue. Truganini Track on the edge of Hobart
contentiously bears the name of Tasmania’s ‘last full blood Aboriginal’, denying the existence and
ability to touch her descendants but acknowledging her previous tread and law upon this land. Using
paper as a common ground between the disciplines of law and art I reveal how a haptic space exists
that allows borders and boundaries between laws and systems to become porous and enter into a
Deleuzian ‘becoming’. The Western Landscape tradition has privileged the gaze, allowing for the land
to be possessed and appropriated for colonial interests. By challenging paper’s role as a neutral
ground for meaning to be applied to, I present evidence of its transformative and multivalent
possibilities offering a refusal of the normativity of representation. I deal with drawings potential
seepage across boundaries to make contact with other laws inherent in the land. By placing paper in
a contested zone on the fringes of urban life I build evidence of how the sense of touch challenges
the normative separation of humans from the environment and its many inhabitants.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
Research Group: | Visual arts |
Research Field: | Fine arts |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Arts |
Objective Field: | Arts not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Hogan, J (Dr Jan Hogan) |
ID Code: | 115735 |
Year Published: | 2017 (online first 2016) |
Deposited By: | School of Creative Arts and Media |
Deposited On: | 2017-04-06 |
Last Modified: | 2022-08-29 |
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