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Books

Biddle J, 2016, Remote Avant Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822374602

Biddle JL, 2007, Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art As Experience., University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia.

Book Chapters

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, https://www.routledge.com/The-Australian-Art-Field-Practices-Policies-Institutions/Bennett-Stevenson-Myers-Winikoff/p/book/9780367184414

Biddle J, 2019, 'Milpirri: Activating the At-Risk', in Kahn D (ed.), Energies in the Arts, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 351 - 371

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, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/senses-and-sensation-9781474274050/

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, http://www.seankingston.co.uk/publishing.html

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

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, http://www.cambridgescholars.com/traumatic-affect-14

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, https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/185778059?q&versionId=202276938

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, https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/167952249?q&sort=holdings+desc&_=1551688249291&versionId=183111095

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, http://sydney.edu.au/arts/power/publications/catalogues.shtml?id=HAITIOCA

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, http://sydney.edu.au/arts/power/publications/catalogues.shtml?id=HAITIOCA

Biddle JL, 2010, 'Shame', in Harding J; Pribram D (ed.), Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 113 - 113

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

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

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

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

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

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/var.12284

Biddle JL, 2019, 'Inheritance', Cultural Studies Review, 25, pp. 237 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v25i2.6910

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2019.1697179

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/var.12148

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/var.12148

Biddle J, 2016, 'Sentience and Sentimentality in Remembering Yayayi', The Cine-Files, 10, pp. 1 - 4, http://www.thecine-files.com/biddle2016/

Biddle J; Hibberd L; Taylor C, 2016, 'The Phone Booth Project Martu Media Memories: a conversation in three parts', Public, 27, pp. 110 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/public.27.54.110_7

Biddle JL; Stefanoff L, 2015, 'What is Same but Different and why does it matter?', CULTURAL STUDIES REVIEW, 21, pp. 97 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v21i1.4418

Biddle J, 2015, '''My Name is Danny': Indigenous Animation as Hyper-realism'', Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 20, pp. 105 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2015.1065127

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v21i1.4421

Biddle J; Stefanoff L, 2015, 'What is 'Same but Different': Why experimentation in desert art matters', Cultural Studies Review, 21, pp. 97 - 120

Biddle JL, 2012, 'A Politics of Proximity: Tjanpi and Other Experimental Western Desert Art', Studies in Material Thinking, 8, pp. 1 - 15, http://www.materialthinking.org/sites/default/files/papers/SMT_V8_P10_Biddle.pdf

Biddle JL, 2012, 'Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route - making (not taking) history', Art Monthly Australia, pp. 32 - 36

Biddle JL, 2010, 'Art under Intervention: the radical ordinary of June Walkujukurr Richards', Art Monthly Australia, pp. 35 - 37

Biddle JL, 2009, 'Wurra Wiyi', Voices of the Land: Federation for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, 3

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

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

Biddle JL, 2005, 'Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art [Book Review]', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 6, pp. 120 - 123

Biddle J, 2003, 'Country, Skin, Canvas: The Intercorporeal Art of Kathleen Petyarre', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 4, pp. 61 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2003.11432725

Biddle JL, 2002, 'The Warlpiri alphabet and other colonial fantasies', Visual Communication, 1, pp. 267 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147035720200100301

Biddle J, 2002, 'Bruises that won't heal: Melancholic identification and other ethnographic hauntings', Mortality, 7, pp. 96 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576270120102526

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.2002.tb02790.x

Biddle J, 2002, 'The Warlpiri Alphabet and Other Colonial Fantasies', Visual Communication, 3, pp. 267 - 291

Biddle J, 1997, 'Shame', Australian Feminist Studies, 12, pp. 227 - 239

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

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

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

Biddle J; Dowsett S; McMicken D, 2022, 'Music as Living Heritage: Milpirri Aboriginal Ceremony', presented at Telling Stories, Manchester, UK., 19 November 2022

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, https://isea2020.isea-international.org/

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, https://www.americananthro.org/AttendEvents/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=22345

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, https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/4s18/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Paper&selected_paper_id=1391872&PHPSESSID=4fc8f4embhgm3ddrainn9fivb1

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


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