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Professor Jennifer Biddle

Professor Jennifer Biddle

Professor

BA Honours (1st) Anthropology and Comparative Sociology (Macquarie); PhD Anthropology (USyd).

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

Professor Jennifer L ÌęBiddle is Associate Dean Engagement and Impact for UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture.

Biddle joined UNSW in 2007, recruited as a VC Strategic Research Appointment (SPF) from the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, where she taught interdisciplinary approaches to the comparative study of culture. ÌęShe is founding Director of Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture, NIEA, UNSW School of Art & Design; an international program specialising in Indigenous and Asia Pacific research, one of only a few programs in Australia to support ethnographic and practice-led research as a basis for creative and critical research innovation in the arts. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, former Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, she is currently a Chief Investigator on two internationally collaborative ARC and SSHRC funded research projects. ÌęShe is acting member of the ARC’s College of Experts (2019-2021). ÌęIn 2022-2023, she is Gough Whitlam and Malcom Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University.

An anthropologist with a background in linguistics, she has worked with northern Warlpiri in Lajamanu for over two decades, and more recently, in partnership with (select) Central and Western Desert community art organisations. ÌęHer most recent monograph, Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation, was published by Duke University Press. and models the importance of new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival.

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Phone
02-89360751
E-mail
j.biddle@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2016
    Biddle J, 2016, Remote Avant Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation, Duke University Press, Durham, NC,
    Books | 2007
    Biddle JL, 2007, Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art As Experience., Original, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia.
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Biddle J, 2020, 'Approaching the Sovereign: From Art Centres to Art Fairs', in Bennett T; Stevenson D; Myers F; Winikoff T (ed.), The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Markets, Routledge, New York and Abingdon, pp. 237 - 251,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Biddle J, 2019, 'Milpirri: Activating the At-Risk', in Kahn D (ed.), Energies in the Arts, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 351 - 371
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Biddle J, 2018, 'Remote Avant-Garde: Tjanpi Desert Weavers', in Howes D (ed.), Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources, Bloomsbury Academic, London and New York, pp. 179 - 196,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Biddle JL, 2018, 'Notes on the Hapticity of Colour', in Young D (ed.), Rematerializing Colour: From Concept to Substance, Sean Kingston Publishing, London, pp. 193 - 210,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Biddle J, 2013, 'Provocations from the Margins: the production and curation of the Warburton Arts Project', in Tu-Di Shen-Ti: Our Land Our Body, Phoenix Science Press Ltd and Waburton Arts Project, Warburton, WA, pp. 16 - 31
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Biddle J, 2013, 'Radical Realism and Other Possibilities in Contemporary Indigenous Intercultural Cinema', in Atkinson M; Richardson M (ed.), Traumatic Affect, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastele upon Tyne, pp. 230 - 240,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Biddle J, 2013, 'Yapa-Kurlangu Jukurrpa (Proper Human Art)', in Warnayaka Art Centre: Life in the Digital Desert, Warnayaka Art and Cultural Aboriginal Corporation, Lajamanu, pp. 11 - 14,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Biddle JL, 2012, 'Literate Savages: Central Desert Painting as Writing', in Berman Tressa (ed.), No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession, School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, pp. 72 - 87,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Biddle JL, 2011, 'Reading Aboriginal Art', in McLean I (ed.), How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: An anthology of writing on Aboriginal art 1980-2006, IMA & Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 246 - 249,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Biddle JL, 2011, 'The new performativity of Western Desert Women's art', in McLean I (ed.), How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: An anthology of writing on Aboriginal art 1980-2006, IMA & Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 200 - 202,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Biddle JL, 2010, 'Shame', in Harding J; Pribram D (ed.), Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 113 - 113
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Biddle JL, 2009, 'Not a Provenance, not a Collaboration: Lamparnu Kala!', in Deger J (ed.), Interventions: Experiments Between Art and Ethnography, Macquarie University, Sydney, pp. 32 - 33
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Biddle J, 2003, 'Anthropology as Eulogy: On Loss, Lies and License', in World Memories: Personal Trajectories in Global Times, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire & New York, pp. 43 - 58
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Biddle J, 2001, 'Inscribing Identity: Skin as Country in the Central Desert', in Ahmed S; Stacey J (ed.), Thinking Through the Skin, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 177 - 193
    Book Chapters | 2000
    Biddle J, 2000, 'Writing without Ink: Literacy, Methodology and Cultural Difference', in Lee A; Poynton C (ed.), Culture and Text: Discourse, and Methodology in Social Research and Cultural Studies, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, pp. 170 - 187
    Book Chapters | 1991
    Biddle J, 1991, 'Dot, Circle, Difference: Translating Central Desert Paintings', in Diprose R; Ferrell R (ed.), Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the Mapping of Bodies and Spaces, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Biddle JL; Hibberd L, 2023, 'The Artificial as an Intelligent Indigenous/Indigenizing System: The Experimental Art and Artifice of r e a', Visual Anthropology Review, 39, pp. 458 - 474,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Biddle JL, 2019, 'Inheritance', Cultural Studies Review, 25, pp. 237 - 240,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Biddle JL, 2019, 'Tjanpi Desert Weavers and the Art of Indigenous Survivance’, Special Edition (Neimanis A. and Hamilton J., eds.) “What Do We Want? Feminist Environment Humanities”', Australian Feminist Studies, 34, pp. 413 - 436,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Biddle J; Lea T, 2018, 'Introduction: Faking it With the Truth’ Special Edition (Biddle, J. and Tess, L., eds.) “Hyperrealism and other Indigenous forms of ‘Faking it with the Truth’”', Visual Anthropology Review, 34, pp. 5 - 14,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Patrick SWJ; Biddle J, 2018, ''Not just ceremony, not just dance, not just idea: Milpirri as hyperrealism, a key word discussion', Special Edition (Biddle, J. and Tess, L., eds.) “Hyperrealism and other Indigenous forms of ‘Faking it with the Truth’”', Visual Anthropology Review, 34, pp. 27 - 35,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Biddle J; Hibberd L; Taylor C, 2016, 'The Phone Booth Project Martu Media Memories: a conversation in three parts', Public, 27, pp. 110 - 121,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Biddle J, 2016, 'Sentience and Sentimentality in Remembering Yayayi', The Cine-Files, 10, pp. 1 - 4,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Biddle J; Newth T; McMicken D; Biddle J, 2015, 'Milpirri: Jennifer Biddle in Discussion with Tracks Dance Company', Cultural Studies Review, 21, pp. 132 - 148,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Biddle J; Stefanoff L, 2015, 'What is 'Same but Different': Why experimentation in desert art matters', Cultural Studies Review, 21, pp. 97 - 120
    Journal articles | 2015
    Biddle J, 2015, '''My Name is Danny': Indigenous Animation as Hyper-realism'', Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 20, pp. 105 - 113,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Biddle JL; Stefanoff L, 2015, 'What is Same but Different and why does it matter?', CULTURAL STUDIES REVIEW, 21, pp. 97 - 120,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Biddle JL, 2012, 'A Politics of Proximity: Tjanpi and Other Experimental Western Desert Art', Studies in Material Thinking, 8, pp. 1 - 15,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Biddle JL, 2012, 'Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route - making (not taking) history', Art Monthly Australia, August, pp. 32 - 36
    Journal articles | 2010
    Biddle JL, 2010, 'Art under Intervention: the radical ordinary of June Walkujukurr Richards', Art Monthly Australia, 3, pp. 35 - 37
    Journal articles | 2009
    Biddle JL, 2009, 'Wurra Wiyi', Voices of the Land: Federation for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, 3
    Journal articles | 2008
    Biddle JL, 2008, 'Festering Boils and Screaming Canvases: Culture as Contagion or Why Place No Longer Matters', Emotion, Space and Society, 1, pp. 97 - 101
    Journal articles | 2006
    Biddle JL, 2006, 'Breasts, bodies, art : Central Desert women's paintings and the politics of the aesthetic encounter', Cultural Studies Review, 12, pp. 16 - 31
    Journal articles | 2005
    Biddle JL, 2005, 'Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art [Book Review]', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 6, pp. 120 - 123
    Journal articles | 2003
    Biddle J, 2003, 'Country, Skin, Canvas: The Intercorporeal Art of Kathleen Petyarre', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 4, pp. 61 - 76,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Biddle J, 2002, 'Bruises that won't heal: Melancholic identification and other ethnographic hauntings', Mortality, 7, pp. 96 - 110,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Biddle J, 2002, 'The Warlpiri Alphabet and Other Colonial Fantasies', Visual Communication, 3, pp. 267 - 291
    Journal articles | 2002
    Biddle JL, 2002, 'The Politics of Ritual in an Aboriginal Settlement: Kinship, Gender and the Currency of Knowledge [Book Review]', Oceania, 72, pp. 232 - 233,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Biddle JL, 2002, 'The Warlpiri alphabet and other colonial fantasies', Visual Communication, 1, pp. 267 - 291,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Biddle J, 1997, 'Shame', Australian Feminist Studies, 12, pp. 227 - 239
    Journal articles | 1996
    Biddle J, 1996, 'When Not Writing is Writing', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, pp. 21 - 33
    Journal articles | 1993
    Biddle J, 1993, 'The anthropologist's body, or what it means to break your neck in the field', The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 4, pp. 184 - 197
  • Conference Presentations | 2024
    Patrick WJ; Peckham M; King M; Biddle J; Dowsett S, 2024, 'Hip Hop as Survivance', presented at Big Trauma/Big Change, UNSW, Kensington, 21 March 2024 - 23 March 2024
    Creative Written Works | 2023
    Biddle J, 2023, Performing Country,
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Biddle J; Dowsett S; McMicken D, 2022, 'Music as Living Heritage: Milpirri Aboriginal Ceremony', presented at Telling Stories, Manchester, UK., 19 November 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Biddle J; Kite S; Saunders REA; Garneau D; Howes D; Salter C, 2020, 'Sensory Entanglements: Decolonising the Senses', presented at ISEA 2020 (International Symposium on Electronic Arts) "Why Sentience", Fully online (Due to Covid 19), 13 October 2020 - 18 October 2020,
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Biddle J, 2020, Less * Notes from the Field: Black Summer Sydney 2019-2020, Sensory Orders (print, online, exhibition), curated by Chris Salter and ErikAdigard, Chryzanowska E; Ladycka D; Wojceszak M; Salter C, (eds.), Art + Science Meeting, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art,
    Other | 2020
    Blacklock F; Nagam J; Biddle J, 2020, Indigenous Research Methodologies: Theory, Practice, Action, UNSW Art & Design
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Biddle J, 2018, 'Composting Death', presented at Composting Feminism: Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, 29 August 2018 - 01 September 2018,
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Biddle J, 2018, 'Composting Death: Indigenous Futurity', presented at Hacking the Anthropocene 3: What do we WANT, University of Sydney, 18 May 2018 - 18 May 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Biddle J, 2018, 'Keynote – Un-recordable Memories of the Senses, intangible heritage, traditional futurity: Tjanpi as Radical Archive', presented at Women, art and feminism in Australia since 1970, Victoria College of the Arts, 22 February 2018 - 23 March 2019,
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Biddle J, 2018, 'Sensory Diversity and Media Practices: Exploring Productive Tensions (7-minute video delivered in absentia)', presented at American Anthropological Association, San Jose, USA, 14 November 2018 - 18 November 2018,
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Biddle J; Howes D; Salter C, 2017, '[Convened Workshop]', presented at Sensory Entanglements Workshop 3, Hexagram, Concordia University, -
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Biddle J, 2017, 'Invited Speaker – Unfinished Business', presented at The Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC), in collaboration with Forum for Indigenous Research Excellence (FIRE), University of Wollongong, and the South Coast Writers Centre, Wollongong., 16 April 2017 - 16 April 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Biddle J, 2017, 'Invited Speaker – What market, whose value and the remote Avant-garde', presented at Art, Audiences, Markets, NYU Sydney, 21 June 2017 - 22 June 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Biddle J, 2017, 'Invited Visiting Scholar Seminar – Intangible Memory of the Senses: Milpirri as Experimental Cerem', presented at Centre for Sensory Studies and University Research Chair in Computational Media and Indigenous Futures, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, 21 September 2017 - 21 September 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Biddle J, 2017, 'Invited speaker – Activating the At-Risk: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony', presented at Indigenous Australia: Precarious Times (series), Centre for Media, Culture and History, NYU Native Studies Forum and Department of Anthropology, New York University, 04 October 2017 - 04 October 2017,
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Biddle J, 2017, 'Keynote – Beyond the Archive: Imperatives of Intangible Heritage', presented at Performance, Empathy, Trauma and the Archive International Symposium, The Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, 13 August 2017 - 14 August 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Biddle J; Howes D; Salter C, 2016, '[Convened Workshop]', presented at Sensory Entanglements Workshop 2, Bundeena, NSW, -
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Biddle J; Munster A; Tello V, 2016, '[Convened Seminar Series]', presented at precarity//futurity//aesthetics, CCAP and Visual Anthropology, NIEA, UNSW Art & Design, -
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Biddle J, 2016, 'Invited Speaker – Art under Occupation: Aboriginal avant-garde’', presented at Future Tense: Gender and Cultural Studies Research Seminar, University of Sydney, 06 May 2016 - 06 May 2016
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Biddle J; Stefanoff L; Croft B; Watkins P, 2015, '[Convened Symposium]', presented at We are in Wonderland: New Experimental art from Central Australia: Exhibition,, UNSW Galleries, - ,
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Biddle J, 2015, 'Introduction – We are in WonderLAND: New Experimental Art from Central Australia', presented at We are in WonderLAND Symposium, National Institute for Experimental Art and UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 15 May 2015 - 15 May 2015,
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Biddle J, 2015, '[Workshop Presentation] Colour as Hapticity’', presented at SSHRC Sensory Entanglements Workshop, Hexagram, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 02 March 2015 - 04 March 2015
    Curatorial Outputs | 2015
    Watkins P; Biddle J; Stefanoff L, 2015, We are in Wonder LAND: New Experimental Art from Central Australia, exhibited at: UNSW Galleries, 15 May 2015 - 15 August 2015,
    Conference Presentations | 2014
    Biddle J, 2014, 'Indigenous Animation as Hyper-Realism', presented at Hyper-Realism and other forms of ‘faking it with the truth, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 03 December 2014 - 07 December 2014,
    Curatorial Outputs | 2013
    Biddle J; Stefanoff L; Desart , 2013, Desert Animations, exhibited at: 4 April, 2013: COFA UNSW; Oct 16, 2013: University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, Brisbane; 9 Dec 2015: American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, 04 April 2013 - 09 December 2015,
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    Biddle J, 2013, 'Animation as radial realism', presented at Desert Animations, National Institute of Experimental Art, UNSW Art & Design, 04 April 2013 - 04 April 2013,
    Conference Presentations | 2013
    Biddle J, 2013, 'Experimentation in Same but Different: Innovation and Experimentation in Desert Arts', presented at Same but Different - Experimentation and Innovation in Desert Arts II, Desert Knowledge Precinct, South Stuart Highway, Alice Springs., 25 March 2013 - 25 March 2013,
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Biddle J, 2012, 'A Politics of Proximity: Tjanpi and other experimental Western Desert Art', presented at National Institute of Experimental Art, UNSW Art and Design, 14 August 2012 - 12 August 2012
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Biddle J, 2012, 'Invited Speaker –Tjanpi and other Experimental Desert Arts', presented at Kura-Ala Forum, Jam Factory, Adelaide, 16 July 2012 - 16 July 2012
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Biddle J, 2012, 'Keynote – Animus, Sentience and Sentient in Desert Animations', presented at Materialities, Economies, Empiricism and Things: SSAA Annual Conference, University of Sydney, 04 December 2012 - 06 December 2012,
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Biddle J, 2012, 'What is Same but Different? why experimentation matters', presented at Same but Different: innovation and experimentation in Desert Arts, Alice Springs, 02 April 2012 - 02 April 2012,
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    Biddle J, 2011, 'Literate Savages', presented at American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Quebec, 16 November 2011 - 20 November 2011,
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    Biddle J, 2011, 'Tjanpi and other experimental Aboriginal arts', presented at Department of Anthropology Staff Colloquium, New York University, NY, 10 November 2011 - 10 November 2011
    Conference Presentations | 2011
    Biddle J, 2011, 'Who says “4 out of 5 Aboriginal Children in Remote Communities Can’t Read', presented at International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, the Australian Anthropological Society and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa / New Zealand, University of Western Australia, 05 July 2011 - 08 July 2011,
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Biddle J, 2010, 'Art under Intervention', presented at American Anthropological Association, 17 November 2010 - 21 November 2010,
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Biddle J, 2010, 'Back to Lajamanu’ Introduction to the Screening of ABC 4 Corners ‘Back To Lajamanu', presented at Anti Racism Collective, University of Sydney, 18 August 2010 - 18 August 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Biddle J, 2010, 'Following Indigenous Culture, Following Indigenous Art', presented at Following Commodities: A Symposium with Professor John Law, University of South Australia, 04 October 2010 - 04 October 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Biddle J, 2010, 'June Walkutjukurr Richards: The Radical art of the Ordinary', presented at Art and Appropriation Post the Apology, Center for Contemporary Art and Politics, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, 31 August 2010 - 31 August 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Biddle J, 2010, 'Keynote – Art under Occupation', presented at 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 03 April 2010 - 08 April 2010,
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Biddle J, 2010, 'Remote Avant-Garde: UNSW COFA Partnerships with Remote Aboriginal Communities', presented at COFA Talks, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 July 2010 - 27 July 2010,
    Creative Written Works | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, Wurra Wiyi or Why I Love Speaking Warlpiri, The Voice of our Land, Federation for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, 'Art Under Occupation', presented at Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Australian National University, 26 November 2009 - 28 November 2009,
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, 'Art Under Occupation', presented at Infectious: Crisis, Contagion and Communication Aesthetics, Center for Contemporary Art and Politics, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, 11 September 2009 - 11 September 2009
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, 'Implicated Touch and other Intercultural Demands of Central Desert Women’s Art. Art Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Central Desert Australian Aboriginal Art', presented at The Mary Jane Crowe Seminar Series, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA, 18 February 2009 - 18 February 2009
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, 'In conversation with Indigenous filmmaker Warwick Thornton', presented at Flash: Art, Film, Culture, Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, 13 October 2009 - 13 October 2009
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, 'In conversation with intercultural film theorist Prof. Laura Marks', presented at Flash: Art, Film, Culture, Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, 13 October 2009 - 13 October 2009
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, 'Not a Provenance, not a Collaboration: Lamparnu Kala! Interventions: experiments between Ethnography and Art', presented at Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 09 December 2009 - 11 December 2009
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, 'Texture, Tactility, and Touch: The Feminization of the Dreaming', presented at Icons of the Desert Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 14 February 2009 - 14 February 2009,
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    Biddle J, 2008, 'Affect and the Maternal', presented at Affect at the Interface: A Workshop on the Bio/Social Life of Affect, Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW, 10 June 2008 - 10 June 2008
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    Biddle J, 2008, 'Introduction – The Ethnographer, The Artist, The Collaborator', presented at Neither Here nor There: Biennale of Sydney Constellation 1, Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 18 June 2008 - 18 June 2008
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    Biddle J, 2008, 'The Politics of Affect and Aesthetics', presented at Articul8ate, University of Technology, 14 May 2008 - 14 May 2008
    Curatorial Outputs | 2008
    Biddle J, 2008, Lamparnu Kala!, interventions: Experiments between Art and Ethnography, exhibited at: Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney, 09 December 2008 - 03 February 2009
    Creative Written Works | 2008
    Biddle JL, 2008, Sentiment and Absence: the “Stolen Generation” Apology, Sorry, Busby C, (ed.), St Mary’s University Art Gallery
    Creative Written Works | 2008
    Biddle JL, 2008, The Imperative to Feel: New Intercultural Australian Cinema, Unimaginable: Australian Chapter
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    Biddle J, 2007, 'Art and the Intercultural: Why it Matters', presented at Research School of Pacific and Asia Studies Colloquium, Canberra, ACT, 14 March 2007 - 14 March 2007
    Conference Presentations | 2007
    Biddle J, 2007, 'Introduction for Convened Panel: Intercultural Affect and the Politics of the Aesthetic Encounter] – The Politics of Exuberance: Intercultural Art and Affect', presented at Beyond Text: Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in Anthropology, Manchester, UK, 30 June 2007 - 02 July 2007
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    Biddle J, 2006, 'Aboriginal art as Interculture', presented at Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Cairns, Queensland, 07 December 2006 - 09 December 2007
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    Biddle J, 2006, 'Keynote – On Affect and the Politics of Central Desert Art', presented at Is Affect Multicultural? Decolonizing Affect: A Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 14 June 2006 - 16 June 2006
    Conference Presentations | 2006
    Biddle J, 2006, 'The Presence of Absence: On Affect and the Intercultural in Dorothy Napangardi', presented at Re-materialising Colour: a two day interdisciplinary symposium,, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 06 September 2006 - 08 September 2006,
    Conference Presentations | 2005
    Biddle J, 2005, 'Not so much Cruisin’ as Kickin’: Central Desert Painting as Affective “Drive”’', presented at Cruising Country: Automobilities in non-urban Australia, Cruising Country: Automobilities in non-urban Australia, 26 May 2005 - 28 May 2005
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Biddle J, 2004, 'Becoming Breasted: Contemporary Aboriginal Women’s Art from the Central Desert of Australia', presented at Migration, Affect and the Senses, Australian National University, -
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Biddle J, 2004, 'Breasted Embodiment and the aesthetic experience: the intercultural art of the Central Desert', presented at Colloquium: Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Biddle J, 2004, 'Breasts, Bodies Canvas: Central Desert Women’s Painting and the Politics of the Aesthetic Encounter', presented at Australian and New Zealand Art Association Annual Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, -
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Biddle J, 2004, 'Intercultural Memory and Other Impossible Imperatives of Central Desert Art', presented at Time, Affect and Autobiographical Memory, Tusculum Museum and Macquarie University, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Biddle J, 2004, 'Phenomenology and Anthropology', presented at Australian Society for Continental Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 2004
    Biddle J, 2004, 'Whose experience is it?: translating Central Desert Aboriginal paintings', presented at Sydney Society for Language and Culture, University of Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 2003
    Biddle J, 2003, 'On Breasted embodiment and other ways of experiencing Central Desert Painting', presented at Bod/mod Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 2003
    Biddle J, 2003, 'The imperative to feel: Central Desert Aboriginal art and the politics of the aesthetic encounter', presented at Colloquium: Department of Anthropology, New York University, NY, USA, -
    Conference Presentations | 2003
    Biddle J, 2003, 'Why no more story?: the intercultural translation of Central Desert Paintings', presented at Humanities Research Institute, Stoney Brook, New York, USA, -
    Conference Presentations | 2003
    Biddle J, 2003, '[Human Sciences Distinguished Lecture] The Imperative to feel: contemporary Aboriginal art from the Central Desert of Australia', presented at Institute for Ethnographic Research, George Washington University, USA, -
    Conference Presentations | 2003
    Biddle J, 2003, '[Plenary Address] Country, Skin, Canvas: the intercorporeal work of Kathleen Petyarre', presented at Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming: Feminist Aesthetics meets Indigenous Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, -
    Conference Presentations | 2001
    Biddle J, 2001, 'Impossible Identifications and Other Ethnographic Wounds', presented at Colloquium: Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, -
    Conference Presentations | 2001
    Biddle J, 2001, 'Inscribing Identity: Skin as Country in Central Desert Aboriginal Art', presented at Colloquium: Department of Anthropology, New York University, NY, USA, -
    Conference Presentations | 2000
    Biddle J, 2000, 'Inscribing Identity: Skin as Country in the Central Desert', presented at Australian Continental Philosophy Association, University of New South Wales, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1999
    Biddle J, 1999, 'Shame about the Difference', presented at Millennium World Conference in Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1999
    Biddle J, 1999, '’Free Timber’’: an exhibition of paintings by John von Sturmer', presented at Free Timber, Casula Power House, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1998
    Biddle J, 1998, 'On Loss, Lies and License', presented at Colloquium: Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1998
    Biddle J, 1998, 'The Trauma of Fieldwork and the Limits of Difference', presented at Trauma and Memory: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1998
    Biddle J, 1998, 'Who are You?: the name, the person and the imperative of the sign', presented at Encore Le Corps, Women’s College, Sydney University, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1997
    Biddle J, 1997, 'Beyond Gender? Feminist Theory engages Reconciliation', presented at Papers Thrown up by the Present, Department of Women's Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1997
    Biddle J, 1997, 'Country, body, canvas: Meaning and Identity in Central Desert Aboriginal Women's Paintings', presented at Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, -
    Conference Presentations | 1997
    Biddle J, 1997, 'Shame', presented at Colloquium: Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1996
    Biddle J, 1996, 'Loss and the Letter: Warlpiri Figurations of the Proper Name', presented at Colloquium: Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1996
    Biddle J, 1996, 'Shame', presented at Bold, Philosophy and Women's Studies, Australian National University, Canberra., -
    Conference Presentations | 1996
    Biddle J, 1996, 'Shame', presented at The Politics of Erotics, Philosophy and Women's Studies, Macquarie University, University of New South Wales and University of Western Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1996
    Biddle J, 1996, 'The Warlpiri Alphabet: on mimesis, writing and difference', presented at Colloquium: Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1995
    Biddle J, 1995, 'The Anthropologist's Body or What it Means to Break your Neck in the Field', presented at Colloquium: Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1995
    Biddle J, 1995, 'The Anthropologist's Body or What it Means to Break your Neck in the Field', presented at Colloquium: Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, -
    Conference Presentations | 1988
    Biddle J, 1988, 'On Translation: Jacques Derrida and Roman Jacobson', presented at Derrida and the Politics of Writing (Gayatri Spivak, Convener), International Summer Institute for Semiotics and Structural Studies (ISISSS), Vancouver, CANADA, -

Competitive Grants History (Select)

*J. Biddle D. McMicken, T. Newth, Australian Research Council Linkage Project Indigenous Futurity: Milpirri as Experimental Ceremony 2020-2023 $469,000

*J. Biddle, Sarah Kenderdine, Chris Salter, David Howes (Lead CI: Biddle) 2017-2019 $243,000 Australia Research Council Discovery Project Cultural Sensorium: An ethnography of the senses

*J. Biddle, Chris Salter, David Howes and Marcelo Wanderley 2014-2017 $445,000 (AUS $461,000) Canadian SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Sensory Entanglements: New Cross Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Directions in the Creation and Evaluation of Multi-Sensorial Experience

* J. Biddle, Ross Harley, Jill Bennett, Mark Ledbury, Jaynie Anderson, Peter McNeil, Deb Verhoeven, Catherine Speck, Marie Sierra, Joanna Mendelssohn, Alison Inglis, Gillian Fuller 2014-2015 $190,000 Australian Research Council LIEF Design and Art Australia Online

*J. Biddle 2010-2014 $777,000 Australian Research Council Future Fellowship Remote Avant-Garde: Experimental Indigenous Arts

* J. Biddle 2010 $25,000 Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Yawulyu as Intergenerational Art: A Pilot Study

*J. Biddle, Robyn Ferrell 2005-2007 $250,000 Australian Research Council Discover Project Feminist Aesthetics meets Indigenous Art

*J. Biddle 1989 $20,000 Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS, now AIATSIS) Postgraduate Research Award on Warlpiri Art and Writing

PUBLICATIONS

Authored Books

* J. Biddle Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation Durham and London: Duke UniversityÌęÌęÌęÌęÌę Press, 2016

* J. Biddle Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Aboriginal Art as Experience Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007

Edited Journal Editions

* J. Biddle and Tess Lea (eds) Special Edition ‘Hyperrealism and other Indigenous forms of ‘Faking it with the Truth” Visual Anthropology Review 2018

* J. Biddle and Lisa Stefanoff (eds) Special Edition “Same but Different: Interventions” Cultural Studies Review 21:1 2015

Book Chapters

*J. Biddle (forthcoming 2021) in Doing Feminism: Women's Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia 1968-2018. Melbourne University Press

* J. Biddle (2020) ‘Approaching the Sacred:Ìę from Art Centers to National Art Fairs’ in Tony Bennett, Deborah Stevenson, Fred Myers, and Tamara Winikoff (eds) The Australian Art Field: Practices, Policies, Markets: Routledge

* J. Biddle (2019) ‘Milpirri: Activating the At-Risk’ in Kahn, Doug (ed), Energies in the Arts Cambridge: MIT Press

* J. Biddle (2018) ‘Notes on the Hapticity of Colour’ in Diana Young (ed), Re-materialising Colour London: Sean Kingston Publishers

* J. Biddle (2018) ‘Tjanpi Desert Weavers’ in Marcus Boone and Gabriel Levine (eds), Practice, Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press

* J. Biddle (2018) ‘Remote Avant-Garde: Tjanpi Desert Weavers’ in David Howes (ed.),ÌęSenses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources, vols. I-IV. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

* J. Biddle ‘Provocations from the Margins: the production and curation of the Warburton Arts Project’ in Tu-Di Shen-Ti: Our Land Our Body Warburton: Warburton Arts Project (2013a)

* J. Biddle ‘Radical Realism and Other Possibilities in Contemporary Indigenous Intercultural Cinema’ in Atkinson, M. and Richardson, M. (eds) Traumatic Affect Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2013b)

* J. Biddle ‘Yapa-Kurlangu Jukurrpa (Proper Human Art)’ in Art in the Digital Desert: Warnayaka Arts Lajamanu: Warnayaka Arts and Craft (2013c)

* J. Biddle, ‘Literate Savages: Central Desert Painting as Writing’, in T. Berman (ed.), No Deal! Indigenous Art and the Politics of Possession, Santa Fe: SAR Press (2012)

* J. Biddle ‘The new performativity of Western Desert Women’s Art’ in I. McLean (ed.), How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: 1980-2006, Power Publications and the Institute of Modern Art (2012a)

* J. Biddle ‘Reading Aboriginal Art’ in I. McLean (ed.), How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: 1980-2006, Power Publications and the Institute of Modern Art (2012b)

* J. Biddle, ‘Shame’, in J. Harding and D. Pribram (eds.), Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader, London and New York: Routledge (2010)

* J. Biddle, ‘Sentiment and Absence: the “Stolen Generation” Apology’, in C. Busby, Sorry, Vancouver: St Mary’s University Art Gallery (2008a)

* J. Biddle, ‘The Imperative to Feel: Recent Intercultural Australian Cinema’, in F. Fenner (ed.), Unimaginable: Australian Chapter, Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery (2008b)

* J. Biddle ‘Anthropology as Eulogy: On Loss, Lies and License’ in J. Bennett and R. Kennedy (eds), World Memories: Personal Trajectories in Global Times, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire and New York (2003)

* J. Biddle, ‘Inscribing Identity: Skin as Country in the Central Desert’, in S. Ahmed and J. Stacey (eds) Thinking Through the Skin, London and New York: Routledge (2001) pp. 177-193

* J. Biddle, ‘Writing Without Ink: Literacy, Methodology and Cultural Difference’, in A. Lee and C. Poynton (eds), Culture and Text: Discourse and Methodology in Social Research and Cultural Studies, St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin (2000) pp.170-187

* J. Biddle, ‘Dot, Circle, Difference: Translating Central Desert Paintings’ in R. Diprose and R. Ferrell (eds) Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the mapping of bodies and spaces, St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin, (1991)

Journal Articles

* J. Biddle (2020) ‘Tjituru, Tjituru: Tjanpi Desert Weavers and the art of Indigenous Survivance’ Special Edition (Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Hamilton, eds.) “Feminist Environment Humanities” Australian Feminist Studies 34:102, pp.413-43

*J. Biddle (2019) ‘Inheritance’ Cultural Studies Review 25:2 pp. 237-240

* J. Biddle and Patrick, Wanta Steve Jampijinpa (2018) ‘Not just ceremony, not just dance, not just idea: Milpirri as hyper-realism, a key word discussion’ in Biddle, J. and Tess, L. (eds) Special Edition ‘Hyperrealism and other Indigenous forms of ‘Faking it with the Truth” Visual Anthropology Review

* J. Biddle and Lea, Tess (2018) ‘Introduction: Faking it With the Truth’ in Biddle, J. and Tess, L. (eds) Special Edition ‘Hyperrealism and other Indigenous forms of ‘Faking it with the Truth” Visual Anthropology Review

* J. Biddle, Lily Hibberd and Curtis Taylor (2016) ‘The Phone Booth Project: Martu Media Memories: A conversation in three parts’ Public 54, 110-121

* J. Biddle ‘Sentience and Sentimentality in Remembering Yayayai’ The Cinefiles 10 (Spring) 2016

* J. Biddle ‘”My Name is Danny”” Indigenous Animation as Hyper-realism’ Angelaki (2015) 20:3 105-113

* J. Biddle and Lisa Stefanoff ‘What is Same but Different and why does it matter’ Introduction to Cultural Studies Review Special Edition (eds. Biddle and Stefanoff) ‘Same but Different: experimentation and innovation in Desert Arts’ 2015 21:1 pp. 97-120

* J. Biddle, Tim Newth and David McMicken ‘Milpirri: Jennifer Biddle in Discussion with Tracks Dance Company’ Cultural Studies Review Special Edition Same but Different (eds. Biddle and Stefanoff) 2015 21: 1 pp. 132-148

* J. Biddle ‘Making (not taking) History: Yiwarra Kuju The Canning Stock Route’ Art Monthly, No. 252, August, 2012, pp. 32-36

* J. Biddle ‘A Politics of Proximity: Tjanpi and other experimental Western Desert Art’ Studies in Material Thinking Vol 8, Paper 12, 2012, pp 1-15

* J. Biddle, ‘Art Under Intervention: the radical ordinary of June Walkujukurr Richards’ Art Monthly, Issue 227, March 2010, pp 35-39

* J. Biddle, ‘Culture as Contagion or Why Place No Longer Matters’, Emotion, Society And Space, 1:1, 2009, pp. 1-27

* J. Biddle, ‘Breast, Bodies, Art: Central Desert Women’s Paintings and the Politics of the Aesthetic Encounter’, Cultural Studies Review, 12:1, 2006, pp. 16-31

* J. Biddle Review Article ‘Jill Bennett Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art’ AAANZ Journal of Art 6 (1), 2005, pp. 120-123

* J. Biddle, ‘Country, Skin, Canvas: The Intercorporeal Art of Kathleen Petyarre’, AAANZ Journal of Art, 4:1, 2003, pp. 61-76

* J. Biddle, ‘The Warlpiri Alphabet and Other Colonial Fantasies”, Visual Communication, 3:1, 2002 pp. 267-291

* J. Biddle, ‘Bruises that Won’t Heal: Melancholic Identification and Other Ethnographic Hauntings’, Mortality, 7:1, 2002, pp. 96-110

* J. Biddle, ‘Shame’, Australian Feminist Studies, 12:26, 1997, pp. 227-240

* J. Biddle, ‘When Not Writing is Writing’, Australian Aboriginal Studies 1, 1996, pp. 21-33

* J.Biddle, ‘The Anthropologist’s Body or what it means to break your neck in the field’ Australian Journal of Anthropology 1993 4 (3) 184-197

Public Forums and Other Publications (select)

* J, Biddle S. Kite, D. Garneau, r e a, D. Howes, C. Salter 2020 Sensory Entanglements:Ìę Decolonising the Senses (Project Website)

*J.Biddle in conversation with convenors Chris Salter and Erik Adigard (2020) Sensory Orders Conversation #3 – ‘on borders and difference’ ÌęThursday, December 10,

* J. Biddle 2020 ‘Less: Notes from the Field, Black Summer, Sydney 2019-2020’ Experimental Ethnography, Sensory Orders, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Gdansk, Poland.

* J. Biddle ‘Introduction to Visual Anthropology Lab’ UNSW Art & Design Resources 2015, UNSW:ÌęÌęÌę

* J. Biddle ‘Art from Out There: Talking Point with Dr. Jennifer Biddle ’ UNSW Uniken article 2013 ÌęÌęÌę YouTube: UNSWTV:

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Ìę* J. Biddle ‘Remote Avant-garde’ UNSW COFA Partnerships with Remote Aboriginal Communities COFATalks 2011

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* J. Biddle and Tasman, Rosie Napurrurla ‘Lamparnu Kala!’ A multi-media art installation including remixed sound and voice (Biddle and Tasman, 1989, recording Biddle 1989) and Yawulyu (traditional Women’s Song, Dance and body designs, recording Biddle 1991); Yukurukuru (Women’s ceremonial dancing boards, in ochre, acrylic and oil) by Tasman 1989, 1991 and 2009, and acrylic painting ‘Lamparnu Kala’ (Tasman 2007), accompanied by installed text ‘Lamparnu Kala’ (Biddle 2009). Sound Mixing by Hugh Benjamin. Interventions: Experiments between Ethnography and art, Macquarie University and Australian Anthropological Association Conference 2009

* J.Biddle ‘Not a Provenance, not a Collaboration: Lamparnu Kala!’ in Deger, J. (ed) Interventions: experiments between Ethnography and Art Sydney: Macquarie University, 2009, pp. 32-33

* J. Biddle ‘Wurra Wiyi or Why I Love Speaking Warlpiri’ Voice of the Land: Federation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages Issue 41 October, 2009

* J. Biddle in conversation with Warwick Thornton UNSW YouTube ‘Flash of Indigenous Life’:

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