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Lyndal Jones: climate change, performance and the Avoca Project
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Bywaters, M, Lyndal Jones: climate change, performance and the Avoca Project, Fusion, (4) pp. 1-11. ISSN 2201-7208 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
The Avoca Project (2005–15) by Lyndal Jones is a broad communal artwork based on a German prefabricated house, transported in 1850 to the small Australian town of Avoca in rural Victoria. The Avoca Project is a place where Jones and visiting artists, academics and members of the local community can gather to deliberate the effect of climate change and regional identity within a changing Australian socio-economic rural environment.The Avoca Project bridges the divide between contemporary art practice and local community. Jones’s 2010 performance, Rehearsing Catastrophe #1: The Ark in Avoca, illustrates her belief in The Avoca Project as a keystone for environmental discussion and survival of the local community. This performative video work exemplifies Jones’s reasons for utilising art as a powerful expression of climate change and the notion of local. Under her management, The Avoca Project signposts the creative challenge of a changing natural environment and its effect upon a small regional township.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | climate change, contemporary art |
Research Division: | Creative Arts and Writing |
Research Group: | Visual arts |
Research Field: | Fine arts |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Arts |
Objective Field: | The creative arts |
UTAS Author: | Bywaters, M (Dr Malcom Bywaters) |
ID Code: | 93836 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Deposited By: | School of Creative Arts and Media |
Deposited On: | 2014-08-19 |
Last Modified: | 2018-01-25 |
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