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Autor/inn/en | Waitt, Gordon; Gibson, Chris |
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Titel | The Spiral Gallery: Non-Market Creativity and Belonging in an Australian Country Town |
Quelle | In: Journal of Rural Studies, 30 (2013), S.75-85 (11 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0743-0167 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.12.003 |
Schlagwörter | Foreign Countries; Cultural Activities; Creativity; Municipalities; Cultural Context; Rural Areas; Feminism; Females; Cooperatives; Art Products; Art Activities; Arts Centers; Rural Urban Differences; Australia |
Abstract | This paper seeks to explore creative practice in an Australian country town, and in so doing, to unsettle market-orientated interpretations of creativity that privilege the urban. Instead of focusing on creative practice as a means to develop industries, we focus on how creativity is a means to establish a cooperative gallery space that helps to sustain a sense of self in an otherwise antithetical social and cultural context. The example we discuss is The Spiral Gallery, a women's co-operative arts space established in the 1990s in the small (but somewhat iconic) country town of Bega--in a place where avenues for feminist arts were otherwise absent. We demonstrate the Spiral Gallery does more than showcase creativity in the Bega Valley. In addition, the gallery has become a means to "becoming" and "belonging", to cultivate subjects through various practices including sculpture, performance and photography; which in turn enrich cultural life. In this way creativity in rural life comes to be understood as social, performative, visceral and political. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |