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Professor Jennifer Biddle

Professor Jennifer Biddle

Professor

BA Honours (1st Class) Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, Macquarie University, Sydney, 1985

PhD, Anthropology, University of Sydney, 1997

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Art & Design

Jennifer L 听Biddle is Professor and Director of emLAB (the Ethnographic Media Lab), 国民彩票 Arts, Design & Architecture.

Biddle joined 国民彩票 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 and served as Head of School. At 国民彩票, she is founding Director of emLAB (formerly Visual Anthropology & Visual Culture, NIEA), in the Big Anxiety Research Cetnre (BARC), 听国民彩票 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 has served as acting member of the ARC鈥檚 College of Experts (2019-2021), and is currently a member of ARC MRAG (Medical Advisory Group). 听Since 2022, she is Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

In 2021-2023, she served as co-Associate Dean Engagement and Impact (with Christy Newmann), 听supporting the development of the new Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA, 国民彩票).听

An anthropologist with a background in linguistics, she has worked with northern Warlpiri in Lajamanu for three decades, and more recently, in partnership with (select) Central and Western Desert community art and media organisations.听In 2023-2024, she is Gough Whitlam and Malcom Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University.
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 | 2025
    Biddle JL, 2025, 'Emily Kam KngwarrayCurated by: KelliCole (Warumungu and Luritja peoples), Curator, Special Projects, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and HettiPerkins (Arrernte and Kalkadoon peoples), Senior Curator鈥恆t鈥怢arge, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art', Visual Anthropology Review,
    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鈥, Special Edition (Neimanis A. and Hamilton J., eds.) 鈥淲hat Do We Want? Feminist Environment Humanities鈥', Australian Feminist Studies, 34, pp. 413 - 436,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Biddle J; Lea T, 2018, 'Introduction: Faking it With the Truth鈥 Special Edition (Biddle, J. and Tess, L., eds.) 鈥淗yperrealism and other Indigenous forms of 鈥楩aking it with the Truth鈥欌', 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.) 鈥淗yperrealism and other Indigenous forms of 鈥楩aking it with the Truth鈥欌', 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, 国民彩票, 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, 国民彩票 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 鈥 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 鈥 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 鈥 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 鈥 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 鈥 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 鈥 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, 国民彩票 Art & Design, -
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Biddle J, 2016, 'Invited Speaker 鈥 Art under Occupation: Aboriginal avant-garde鈥', 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,, 国民彩票 Galleries, - ,
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Biddle J, 2015, 'Introduction 鈥 We are in WonderLAND: New Experimental Art from Central Australia', presented at We are in WonderLAND Symposium, National Institute for Experimental Art and 国民彩票 Galleries, Sydney, 15 May 2015 - 15 May 2015,
    Conference Presentations | 2015
    Biddle J, 2015, '[Workshop Presentation] Colour as Hapticity鈥', 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: 国民彩票 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 鈥榝aking 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 国民彩票; 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, 国民彩票 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, 国民彩票 Art and Design, 14 August 2012 - 12 August 2012
    Conference Presentations | 2012
    Biddle J, 2012, 'Invited Speaker 鈥揟janpi 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 鈥 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 鈥4 out of 5 Aboriginal Children in Remote Communities Can鈥檛 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鈥 Introduction to the Screening of ABC 4 Corners 鈥楤ack 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, 国民彩票, 31 August 2010 - 31 August 2010
    Conference Presentations | 2010
    Biddle J, 2010, 'Keynote 鈥 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: 国民彩票 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, 国民彩票, 11 September 2009 - 11 September 2009
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Biddle J, 2009, 'Implicated Touch and other Intercultural Demands of Central Desert Women鈥檚 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, 国民彩票, 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, 国民彩票, 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, 国民彩票, 10 June 2008 - 10 June 2008
    Conference Presentations | 2008
    Biddle J, 2008, 'Introduction 鈥 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 鈥淪tolen Generation鈥 Apology, Sorry, Busby C, (ed.), St Mary鈥檚 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] 鈥 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 鈥 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鈥 as Kickin鈥: Central Desert Painting as Affective 鈥淒rive鈥濃', 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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, '鈥橣ree Timber鈥欌: 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鈥檚 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, -

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Competitive Grants History (Select)

*J.Biddle (Advisor), Sudiipta Dowsett (Coordinator), Myra Nungarrayi Herbert (Lajamanu Senior Knowledge Holder), Lynette Napangardi Tasman (Lajamanu Senior Knowledge Holder/artist), Judy Napangardi Martin (Lajamanu senior singer/artist), Biddy Napanangka Timms (Lajamanu senior singer/artist), Denise Napangardi Robertson (Lajamanu Senior Knowledge Holder/artist), Enid Nangala Gallagher (Yuendumu transcriber and arts worker), Lorraine Nungarrayi Granites (Yuendumu senior singer), Maisy Napurrurla Wayne (Yuendumu senior singer), in conjunction with Warnayaka Art & Aboriginal Cultural Corporation.
Indigenous Languages and Arts (ILA) Program听Lajamanu Women鈥檚 Ceremony: Keeping Yawulyu Strong 2021-2024听$110,270.听

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

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

*J. Biddle, Chris Salter, David Howes and Marcelo Wanderley 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听2014-2017 $445,000 (AUS $461,000)

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

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

* 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