A process for unmapping
Speculative Polaroid of an 1882 geological map with audio of walking through the scrub of Wreck Beach Farm.
Continue readingMemoryscoping the Bunurong Coast: A project-based PhD speculating on the intimate and complex histories of a personally significant place
Speculative Polaroid of an 1882 geological map with audio of walking through the scrub of Wreck Beach Farm.
Continue readingFinally, I reach my resolution, choose a desk. One angled 154 degrees southeast. One facing the backdrop for the content and landscape I interrogate.
Continue readingThis interactive digital map interrogates the contested and highly lucrative space on which tech corporations jostle for our data. But what do our digital footfalls look like? It asks what do we give up by handing over our location information?
Continue readingThis interactive historical map narrative tells the story of the 1901 wreck of the Artisan – a three-masted 1,155 ton wooden barque – at Wreck Beach.
Continue readingThis work was developed on the unceded lands and waterways of the Boon wurrung and Woi Wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nations. Much of the fieldwork, including visitation, writing and documentation, was undertaken on the lands of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people.
The Bunurong/Boonwurrung people are the first storytellers of these lands. Their sovereignty was never ceded. This is, and always will be Aboriginal Land.
I respectfully acknowledge the Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.
In terms of my position as a visitor on those lands, I state my lineage and purpose. I am Rees Quilford. I am a fourth-generation settler of Welsh-Irish descent. I am a writer, communications professional and a PhD candidate with RMIT University.
I was born and currently live on Bunurong/Boonwurrung land. I try to tread lightly, understand my place and listen to what it’s telling me.