Aboriginal cultural expression assignment
Roadworks: Automobility and
belonging in Aboriginal art
Ursula Frederick
Life is old there
Older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growin like a breeze
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong1
Introduction
As a growing corpus of contemporary art reveals, automobility has a strong
presence in Aboriginal cultural expression. The manner in which this theme
is conveyed and what meanings these works communicate vary considerably
across media, style and individual treatment. I would like to suggest that as a
collective, these roadworks might reveal as much about Aboriginal relations to
Country2 as any other Aboriginal art of place.
For several decades the concept of Country has played a pivotal role in the public
discourse of Australian Aboriginality. It is a term that succinctly communicates
the vast network of relationships that binds many Aboriginal people to their
ancestry, their kin, their languages and their land in all its sentient creative
capacity. In the context of Australian art, Country has been a particularly useful
term (along with Dreaming) for describing the dominant theme of Aboriginal
visual culture. It effectively encompasses a plethora of visual devices, formal
properties, modes of representation and material substances as well as the
underlying structures, stories and meanings that so many Aboriginal artworks
1 Denver, John, Nivert, Taffy and Danoff, Bill 1970, Take Me Home, Country Roads. Although originating
within an American country-western genre, these lyrics aptly convey both the permanence and the
ephemerality that I understand Aboriginal notions of Country to embrace. They also capture a sense of
movement, journey and a longing for home. Inserting them here, I am gesturing to the importance of sound
and music in augmenting experiences of automobility. As Michael Bull notes: For many contemporary drivers
the proximity of the aural now defines car habitation. Bull, Michael 2004, Automobility and the power of
sound, Theory Cul
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