Of course the question was rhetorical but BTW "Officially" you have to be
*born* within the sound of Bow bells to be a cockney. To be an East Ender
though ...is perhaps very much a citizenship of the heart. Im not sure if
the concept of global citizenship quite makes it to the heart for a lot of
people...?
best,
Fin McMorran
Senior Lecturer/ Multimedia
Research Student/ Fine Art
Northumbria university
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Sent: 10 January 2006 20:39
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Subject: First Nations
Hope everybody had a great holiday.
Just following on from the recent First Nations' new media posts...
and referring that back to re-enactment (- doesn't everything get
back there sometime somehow?). The work I did with Marcus Coates on
Franklin's first voyage to the Arctic (pretty flawed) was
specifically looking at notions of discovery and ownership of
discovery in light of the extremely close relationships Franklin and
his men enjoyed with native peoples. These were often mediated by
Metis and French voyageurs (how long do you need to live in the East
End of London to be cockney? ). Clearly Franklin was on an
imperialistic venture and his discoveries were for him a political
weapon. However he was virtually helpless without his guides. So
his accomplishments for him were death defying and extraordinary but
more nearly ordinary for his voyageurs (Franklin ate quite a few of
them - obviously that bit wasn't ordinary). The point being that a
voyage of discovery through known (to someone) territory is an act of
re-enactment in itself. The trick is to hold in one hand the very
real evil of the colonialist experience in North America and in the
other the awe and wonder of individuals involved in that process. Not
easy.
Not much New Media in that post but a good deal of technology, mainly
for measuring. How can you own it if you haven't measured it?
Slightly different is breaking the virgin crust at the South Pole or
conquering Everest. Scott was plainly gutted by Amundsen's foot
prints everywhere. Hundreds of people have now re-enacted those two
journeys, some more faithfully than others. (Franklin would have
been delighted to see any footprints at all by the end) Interestingly
it was Edmund Hilary (who reached the top of Everest just after
Sherpa Tenzing) who first drove to the South Pole. Nice one Edmund.
The people who made Atanarjuat directed by Zacharias Kunuk also made
a fantastic TV re-enactment series of 1930's Inuit life. I think
Sarah Cook has more details. It's probably fabulously well known in
Canada - but for every one else.
I have a good deal to say about Pantomine but will save that for
another time.
Off to make some butternut squash soup...
Ben
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