Drawing Spirits in the Sand: Performative Storytelling in the Digital Age
For First Nations people living in the central desert of Australia, the performance of oral storytelling drawing in the sand drives new agency in the cultural metamorphosis of communication practices accelerated by the proliferation of portable digital devices. Drawing on the ground sustains the pro...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2077-1444/10/9/492/ 2023-08-20T04:06:31+02:00 Drawing Spirits in the Sand: Performative Storytelling in the Digital Age David I. Tafler 2019-08-21 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10090492 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10090492 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Religions; Volume 10; Issue 9; Pages: 492 storytelling sand drawing Aboriginal media performative speech digital economy oral culture Text 2019 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10090492 2023-07-31T22:32:18Z For First Nations people living in the central desert of Australia, the performance of oral storytelling drawing in the sand drives new agency in the cultural metamorphosis of communication practices accelerated by the proliferation of portable digital devices. Drawing on the ground sustains the proxemic and kinesthetic aspects of performative storytelling as a sign gesture system. When rendering this drawing supra-language, the people negotiate and ride the ontological divide symbolized by traditional elders in First Nations communities and digital engineers who program and code. In particular, storytelling’s chronemic encounter offsets the estrangement of the recorded event and maintains every participants’ ability to shape identity and navigate space-time relationships. Drawing storytelling demonstrates a concomitant capacity to mediate changes in tradition and spiritual systems. While the digital portals of the global arena remain open and luring, the force enabled by the chiasmic entwinement of speech, gesture and sand continues to map the frontier of First Nations identity formation and reformation. Text First Nations MDPI Open Access Publishing Religions 10 9 492 |
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For First Nations people living in the central desert of Australia, the performance of oral storytelling drawing in the sand drives new agency in the cultural metamorphosis of communication practices accelerated by the proliferation of portable digital devices. Drawing on the ground sustains the proxemic and kinesthetic aspects of performative storytelling as a sign gesture system. When rendering this drawing supra-language, the people negotiate and ride the ontological divide symbolized by traditional elders in First Nations communities and digital engineers who program and code. In particular, storytelling’s chronemic encounter offsets the estrangement of the recorded event and maintains every participants’ ability to shape identity and navigate space-time relationships. Drawing storytelling demonstrates a concomitant capacity to mediate changes in tradition and spiritual systems. While the digital portals of the global arena remain open and luring, the force enabled by the chiasmic entwinement of speech, gesture and sand continues to map the frontier of First Nations identity formation and reformation. |
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