Black on White: or varying shades of grey? Indigenous Australian photomedia artists and the ‘making of’ Aboriginality

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Title:	Black on White: or varying shades of grey? Indigenous Australian photomedia artists and the ‘making of’ Aboriginality
Author(s):	Riphagen, M.
Publication year:	2008
Source:	Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 8, iss. 1, (2008), pp. 78-89
ISSN:	0729-4352
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Publication type:	Article / Letter to editor
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Subject:	Anthropology and Development Studies
Organization:	SW OZ NISCO CAOS
Journal title:	Australian Aboriginal Studies
Volume:	vol. 8
Issue:	iss. 1
Page start:	p. 78
Page end:	p. 89
Abstract:	In 2005 the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne presented the Indigenous photo-media exhibition Black on White. Promising to explore Indigenous perspectives on non-Aboriginality, its catalogue set forth two questions: how do Aboriginal artists see the people and culture that surrounds them? Do they see non-Aboriginal Australians as other? However, art works produced for this exhibition rejected curatorial constructions of Black and White, instead presenting viewers with more complex and ambivalent notions of Aboriginality and non-Aboriginality. This paper revisits the Black on White exhibition as an intercultural event and argues that Indigenous art practitioners, because of their participation in a process to signify what it means to be Aboriginal, have developed new forms of Aboriginality.