Abstract

Last Drinks at the Hibernian (Frederick & Ireland 2016) is a collaborative art work that explores what happens when archaeological materials are reconstituted as art and how the ‘creative turn’ might swivel archaeology’s critical lens back onto its own practices and materialities. This creative engagement explores the history and political economy of Australian archaeology, particularly historical archaeology, in order to understand how archaeology is an affective and aesthetic framing of materials, as well as an epistemology for knowledge production about the past from materials in the present. Approaching archaeology as a set of generative practices, ‘ways of seeing’ and making, we wonder how entangled these sensibilities towards material remains might be and what effect this entanglement has on how heritage is generated, and how the past is represented and remembered through images and things.

摘要

希伯来人的最后一杯酒（Frederick＆Ireland 2016）是一项合作艺术作品，探讨了将考古材料重构为艺术时会发生什么，以及“创造性的转变”如何将考古学的重要视角转回到自身的实践和物质上。这项创造性的活动探索了澳大利亚考古学的历史和政治经济学，尤其是历史考古学，以了解考古学如何成为材料的情感和美学框架，以及从当前材料中获取过去知识的认识论。将考古学视为一种生成方式，“观察方式”和“制作方式”，我们想知道这些敏感性如何与物质遗迹纠缠在一起，以及这种纠缠对遗产的产生方式有何影响，