Denise Ferris—Being There—Innovate Heritage—Berlin, Germany—June 7, 2014
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2014-11-13

Denise Ferris (Australia) - “Being There: imaging narratives of absence”
15:30–16:30 CEST (Berlin)/ 2:30pm BST (London)/ 13:30 GMT/ 9:30am EDT (New York)

Stone races, dams and waterways endure as monuments to Chinese mining practices 150 years ago In the Australian Snowy Mountains. Photographs accurately describe this heritage but such realism falls short of ‘being there’ or understanding the lives of the miners. However photography can expand imaginative possibilities in a project of retrieval, disclosing presence where only absence is now felt.

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