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each completed a research thesis in 2004 at the College
of Fine Arts (UNSW) under the supervision of Professor
Richard Goodwin. Both papers were awarded First Class
Honours.
The ideas explored in these papers continue to inform
our practice in other areas,
particularly our work on Ngapaprtji
Ngapartji and our role in establishing Changex.
Further academic research may be forthcoming in the
years ahead...
Most recently Tessa has written essays for publication
in un
magazine and runway;
in Brisbane-based Hiromi Tango's single-edition artist
book; and in the new Gang
re:Publik anthology of Australia-Indonesia creative
exchange. Her writing can also be found online at makeshift
journal, our not-quite-finished satellite space
for publishing critical and creative responses to things
we encounter in the course of our work and perambulations
(and for posting updates on said work, sometimes).
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VISIT MAKESHIFT JOURNAL
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Cross Currents: Negotiating
Cultural Difference
in Design |
 arl’s
honours paper critically examined situations of cross-cultural
exchange within the field of design. Two projects, from
two very different practitioners, located in West and
East Timor, were analysed through the lens of post-colonial
theories of entanglement, translation and exchange. A
range of strategies were proposed for approaching and
understanding cultural exchange as an ongoing, dynamic
and transformative process within the context of design. |
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Curating Change: Design Exhibitions
and Critical Discourse |
 essa’s
Honours thesis investigated the potential agency of the
exhibition curator to generate an engaged critical discourse
within the design discipline. Local design exhibitions
were assessed with reference to two visual arts theorists
interested in radical new strategies for curatorial practice,
Binghui Huangfu (curator of Asian Traffic) and
Nikos Papastergiadis. The paper argued for a more critically
engaged design practice based on a considered and responsive
relationship to the contemporary world and articulated
through the medium of the exhibition. |
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