Select Publications
Books
, 2016, Remote Avant Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822374602
, 2007, Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert Art As Experience., University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia.
Book Chapters
, 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
, 2019, 'Milpirri: Activating the At-Risk', in Kahn D (ed.), Energies in the Arts, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 351 - 371
, 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/
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 2010, 'Shame', in Harding J; Pribram D (ed.), Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 113 - 113
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 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, 'Emily Kam Kngwarray', VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW, 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/var.70004
, 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
, 2019, 'Inheritance', Cultural Studies Review, 25, pp. 237 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v25i2.6910
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 2016, 'Sentience and Sentimentality in Remembering Yayayi', The Cine-Files, 10, pp. 1 - 4, http://www.thecine-files.com/biddle2016/
, 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
, 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
, 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
, 2015, 'What is 'Same but Different': Why experimentation in desert art matters', Cultural Studies Review, 21, pp. 97 - 120
, 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
, 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
, 2012, 'Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route - making (not taking) history', Art Monthly Australia, pp. 32 - 36
, 2010, 'Art under Intervention: the radical ordinary of June Walkujukurr Richards', Art Monthly Australia, pp. 35 - 37
, 2009, 'Wurra Wiyi', Voices of the Land: Federation for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, 3
, 2008, 'Festering Boils and Screaming Canvases: Culture as Contagion or Why Place No Longer Matters', Emotion, Space and Society, 1, pp. 97 - 101
, 2006, 'Breasts, bodies, art : Central Desert women's paintings and the politics of the aesthetic encounter', Cultural Studies Review, 12, pp. 16 - 31
, 2005, 'Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art [Book Review]', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 6, pp. 120 - 123
, 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
, 2002, 'The Warlpiri alphabet and other colonial fantasies', Visual Communication, 1, pp. 267 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147035720200100301
, 2002, 'Bruises that won't heal: Melancholic identification and other ethnographic hauntings', Mortality, 7, pp. 96 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576270120102526
, 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
, 2002, 'The Warlpiri Alphabet and Other Colonial Fantasies', Visual Communication, 3, pp. 267 - 291
, 1997, 'Shame', Australian Feminist Studies, 12, pp. 227 - 239
, 1996, 'When Not Writing is Writing', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, pp. 21 - 33
, 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, 'Hip Hop as Survivance', presented at Big Trauma/Big Change, UNSW, Kensington, 21 March 2024 - 23 March 2024
, 2022, 'Music as Living Heritage: Milpirri Aboriginal Ceremony', presented at Telling Stories, Manchester, UK., 19 November 2022
, 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/
, 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
, 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