The Great Exhibitions and their Lost Indigenous Objects

伟大的展览及其失落的本土物品

• 批准号: IN240100030
• 负责人: Prof Gaye Sculthorpe
• 金额: $ 56.98万
• 依托单位: Deakin University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Indigenous
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/IN240100030
• 关键词: Great; Exhibitions; their; Lost; Indigenous

This project will rediscover the Australian Indigenous objects sent overseas to the Great Exhibitions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Such objects acted as powerful forms of cultural, political and economic display, and a form of imperial and colonial projection. It will excavate the hidden histories of Indigenous people involved in these events and the many objects lost to Australia. Through collaborative work at community dialogues, the project will repatriate knowledge and remake connections between objects, museums, and Indigenous people. In doing so, it will bring contemporary Indigenous perspectives to global attention, generate new exhibition possibilities and influence international museum practice.

该项目将重新发现十九世纪和二十世纪初期被送往海外参加大型展览的澳大利亚本土物品。这些物品是文化、政治和经济展示的有力形式，也是帝国和殖民投射的一种形式。它将挖掘参与这些事件的原住民隐藏的历史以及澳大利亚丢失的许多物品。通过社区对话的协作工作，该项目将返还知识并重建物品、博物馆和原住民之间的联系。在此过程中，它将让当代土著观点受到全球关注，产生新的展览可能性并影响国际博物馆实践。