Abstract
This paper explores the theory, practice and ongoing outcomes of two projects in relational/dialogical/participative art, narrated from two subjective perspectives: that of a participant, and that of artist. The two projects explored are FX Harsono’s “In Memory of a Name Curatorium” and my own resulting project “Nee (Born As).” This paper positions contemporary participatory art practice as a medium, through which differing cultural perspectives can be explored. In this model, methodology is a kind of a neutral construction -uncultured- to which artists and participants apply their own experiences of culture and context, extracting raw data from which creative responses emerges. Input: output.
Highlights
What name were you given when you were born? What name do you use now? What name will you be remembered by when you are gone?What’s in a name? This is one of many questions I came across in the path towards the paper I present to you today
What is in a name, and how can conversation be art? I’ll be exploring the theory, practice and ongoing outcomes of two projects in relational/ dialogical/ participatory art
I approach both of these projects from different subjective perspectives: that of a participant, and that of artist
Summary
What name were you given when you were born? What name do you use now? What name will you be remembered by when you are gone?. We consisted of a curatorium of artists, poets, emerging theorists, curators, social researchers and historians; Harsono introduced us to his own familial background He described how an exploration of his personal experience grew outwards to become broader research into social and institutional discrimination against Chinese Indonesians, and returned to a subjective standpoint in in his creative practice. Harsono chose to use Franciscus Xavier, his baptismal names, and Harsono, a name he chose in consultation with an acquaintance This is a highly personal response to Harsono’s experience of name change, but it is informed by the larger research he has conducted, collecting primary data through interviews and site visits, documentation and reflection. The background to Harsono’s practice, and in particular this work, formed the jumping off point for our curatorium to explore the context of naming, name change, discrimination and power in the Australian context. To change one’s name is sometimes to save one’s life – to reveal how and why might cause death
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