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The Redfern Riots: Performing the Politics of Space

Abstract

This paper approaches the 2004 Redfern ‘riots’ a performance event that is both indicative of, and constituted through, specific socio-historical formations. Central to the discussion are issues relating to the intersection of agency, the politics of space and he mediatised representation of the ‘riots’. As a core narrative, the paper explore how these media representations construct the ‘criminal’ body in the context of the ‘riots’, and how a piece of street graffiti can be read as a liminal enactment of memorialisation and the search for agency.The conference was sponsored by A.D.S.A., the Department of Performance Studies, the School of Letters, Arts and Media, and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Sydney

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