Life Narrative Lab—Lunchtime Seminar: "Footsteps and Corridors: applying Mad Studies and creative practice to the Ballarat Asylum's fragmented histories"

Description

A creative nonfiction multimedia presentation incorporating archival research, autoethnographic life writing, poetry, visual and digital artwork, original audio and video creative content, and historic imagery. The Ballarat Asylum remains relatively silent 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. With few physical reminders and little or no historical memorialisation, the Ballarat Asylum is rapidly fading from history.

Period	24 Jun 2024
Event title	Life Narrative Lab: Lunchtime Seminars
Event type	Seminar
Location	Adelaide, AustraliaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local