Working with Indigenous Arts & Artists (CREA20001)

Source: https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/subjects/crea20001 Parent: https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/components/btrack-127

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About this subject

Contact information

Semester 2

Evelyn Araluen Corr: evelyn.araluen@unimelb.edu.au

Semester 2

Evelyn Araluen Corr: evelyn.araluen@unimelb.edu.au

Overview

This subject introduces issues, methods, principles, and protocols to guide you in your arts industry, practice, teaching and/or research when working with Indigenous arts, artists and cultural heritage. The subject encompasses music, dance, story, language, and visual arts, and other forms of cultural heritage expression.

The subject is aimed at students from a wide range of fields and industries, bringing an intercultural and multidisciplinary team perspective to topics including decolonisation and the arts, industry protocols and standards, ethical principles, issues in intercultural appropriation and use of music, dance, and arts in Australia and other settler states, collaboration and positionality. Students will use knowledge from webinars and resources to design, propose and critique a project in their chosen area, and complete a short critical reflection essay.

This subject provides you with the opportunity to develop knowledge of good practice when working with Indigenous arts, artists, and cultural heritage, insight into decolonising arts industries, practices, curriculum and research, and to demonstrate skills to apply this knowledge in your field and career.

Indigenous Knowledges

This subject is developed and lead by Indigenous scholarship, pedagogies and knowledges in creative and cultural practices.

The subject is co-taught with First Nations people.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• identify and summarise issues, methods, principles, and protocols that pertain to working with Indigenous arts, artists and cultural heritage;
• compare and contrast examples of intercultural work with Indigenous arts, artists and cultural heritage;
• describe and contextualise good practice in working with Indigenous arts, artists and cultural heritage;
• contribute to discussions and critique of artistic practice, arts industries, teaching and/or research in relation to colonisation and decolonisation;
• apply knowledge and insight to the design, proposal and critique of a project.

Generic skills

On the completion of this subject, students should be:

• well-resourced in aspects of the nation’s shared history and the role of our artists, and establish a dialogue across cultures;
• able to identify and access areas of greater cultural diversity within their own community;
• better resourced in problem solving and communication skills within diverse cultural frameworks;
• well-versed in alternative methods of recoding, maintaining and perpetuating history and identity.

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Last updated: 3 March 2026