Art as Voice: Indigenous epistemologies for research about arts and practice-based research

2016–2017 Art as Voice: Indigenous epistemologies for research about arts and practice-based research

University of Melbourne Indigenous Hallmark Initiative

Sally Treloyn, Tiriki Onus and Richard Frankland (University of Melbourne), Payi Linda Ford (Charles Darwin University)

Art as Voice responded  to  the  need  for  collaborative, interdisciplinary research that investigates both explicit (articulated) and implicit (embodied, performed)  Indigenous  epistemologies  in  and  through  research  about  arts  and  practiceQbased  research.  Drawing  on  an interdisciplinary  and  intercultural  team  with  specialisms  in  theatre  and  film-making,  visual  arts,  ethnomusicology, anthropology,  education  and  archives,  research  produced  knowledge  about  the  practices  and perspectives  of  Indigenous  arts  researchers  and  artists-as-researchers  (traditional  and  contemporary,  across music, dance,  visual,  theatre,  literary,  oral).