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Your Dream Home Awaits You: Engaging with People and Place through Painting in an Australian Public Housing Precinct Undergoing Renewal
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Abstract This article presents an example of how convergent art-anthropology methodologies provided insights into the concepts of house and home in a large public housing precinct scheduled for demolition. Drawing is discussed as both a means to experience embodied understandings of place, as well as a metho... view more
This article presents an example of how convergent art-anthropology methodologies provided insights into the concepts of house and home in a large public housing precinct scheduled for demolition. Drawing is discussed as both a means to experience embodied understandings of place, as well as a method for initial engagement with the residents of the housing precinct. A series of oil paintings are presented, along with an exegetical discussion of how the paintings elicited ongoing conversations and interviews. The research process demonstrates how the artworks produced became a point of discussion, around which entangled emotions of anxiety could be expressed, as people were relocated to replacement housing. The final paintings aim to offer the residents and broader community an alternative representation of the houses, as a platform to consider the issues of housing affordability, gentrification and homelessness in our cities.... view less
Keywords
Australia; urban renewal; cultural anthropology; art; native country; residential area; gentrification; homelessness
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
art-anthropology; demolition; home; house; painting
Document language
German
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 58-90
Journal
EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 21 (2019) 1
Issue topic
Post-Home: Dwelling on Loss, Belonging and Movement
ISSN
2199-7942
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed