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When we interrogate 'place' we tread on tender ground. “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” ― Joan Didion
ABSTRACTWhen we interrogate 'place' we tread on tender ground. “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” ― Joan Didion
It's
touchy stuff 'place' and
invokes all kinds of deep emotional responses to it. “Where you come from is gone,
where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no
good unless you can get away from it." Flannery O'Connor, Wise
Blood.
Speaking of place, O'Connor said "where is there a
place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place...
In yourself right now is all the place you've got” ... and it’s true!
If you are a 'blow in' where
you come from at best can only teach you about 'placedness' ... not
yours but placedness alone ... and no matter how long it has been since
you've arrived, contemplating 'hereness' and 'elsewhereness' locates
you on the planet ... and here ... and it keeps on posing questions. Here is an exploration of
Launcestonian placedness with layered histories in mind .........CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE
ABSTRACT:
Launceston has no history, rather it has histories and every one imagined and every one belonging to someone. James Baldwin said "people are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them." ~ Notes of a Native Son. John Aubrey (1626–1697) said "how these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down!" ~ Lives of Eminent Men, but this is no history, rather it is a muse upon 13 words written 1969 while imagining a place as it was then and before – Launceston.
These 13 words are the first to appear in John Reynolds "Launceston: history of an Australian city" and in a 21st Century context they spark imagining not quite entertained 1969 when Launceston's 'history' was being compiled and imagined."
Then Launceston was a different place, placescaped somewhat differently and a place imagined in the world somewhat differently to most of the ways it is imagined 'now'. Its 'placedness' was quite different then as it has been before then, right now and looking forward.........CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE
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• 'Necklace making and placedness in Tasmania' Ray Norman 2013 ... Coolabah, No.11, 2013, ISSN
1988 -5946, Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians,
Australian Studies Centre,
Universitat de Barcelona
ABSTRACT:
This paper has been
written against the backdrop of John B Hawkins’ paper ‘A Suggested History of
Tasmanian Aboriginal Kangaroo
Skin or Sinew,
Human Bone, Shell,
Feather, Apple Seed
& Wombat Necklaces’, published
in Australiana, November 2008 and the research it
sparked. Hawkins proffered some
contentious propositions concerning unlikely
and speculative connections
between Tasmanian Aboriginal
shell necklace making
and the making
of socalled “Tasmanian
Appleseed necklaces”. Within the
acknowledgements section of
his paper Hawkins said
that he
“[looked] forward to a
response to [his] article by the museum authorities, for it is only by the cut and thrust of debate that knowledge can be
further enhanced”. This paper takes up that challenge albeit
from outside the Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery
and totally independent of any
institutional sponsorship.........CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE
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Paper presented to the amnnual
'LOW HEAD JANUARY CONFERENCE 2010'
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