NFSA Indigenous Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Romaine Moreton: the NFSA’s 2009 Indigenous Research Fellow
Romaine specialises in Indigenous philosophy and knowledge with a focus on media technology and communication, informed by her experience as a practitioner of film, performance art and as an academic. Romaine is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Umulliko Higher Education Research Centre of the University of Newcastle. The ABC will air her most recent short film The Farm in 2009.
Romaine will be joining the NFSA for 3 months from April - June 2009 examining the history of ethnography with the intention of reframing the ethnographic works held at the NFSA through traditional and contemporary Indigenous philosophical frameworks of interpretation. Recovering Light: From Visual Anthropology to Visual Sovereignty will explore how ethnographic works impacted upon presuppositions of Indigenous philosophy, including epistemology (how/what we know), metaphysics (what is), science (stories), and ethics (practices), and Indigenous representation within Australian cinematic narratives, culminating in the assertion and acknowledgement of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights in contemporary Indigenous media-making practices.
