Description
Footsteps and Corridors, adding new dimensions to Mad Studies: A creative multimedia approach to Madness in AustraliaThe Ballarat Asylum remains relatively silent in the narrative and physical world when compared to other Australian asylums currently experiencing historical, fictional, architectural, and dark tourism fame. The Ballarat Asylum’s buildings were largely demolished in the 1990s, amplifying feelings of erasure and removing the possibility to physically reclaim it as a site of trauma. Historian Catharine Coleborne says, “that reactions to personal stories of institutional confinement can transform our present understandings of mental health and mental illness; we know that storytelling has been acknowledged as playing an important part in social change.” In Creative Practice Ethnographies, Larissa Hjorth, et al., demonstrate that creative practice is a research methodology, a conceptual lens, and a creative output. This presentation employs interdisciplinary, multimodal, and creative practice to explore, interpret and express lived experiences of the Ballarat Asylum using a Mad Studies lens. Kendrea uses historical research and creative practice as research methodologies to guide the development of her exegesis and creative artefact. Kendrea’s creative practice is an assemblage of storytelling modalities of immersive meaning making practices that reframe memory and encourage the slow development of interpretations via visual and digital art, archival interrogation, history, narrative, theory, and multimedia.
| Period | 7 Dec 2023 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 31 |
| Location | Adelaide, Australia, South AustraliaShow on map |
Keywords
- Mad Studies
- History of Madness
- Place theory
- creative praxis
- creative arts
- historical methodologies