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Sky Swimming
'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife—black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the clouds reflected there just as a solitary duck swims into view. Everything in the photograph is familiar yet the effect is entirely strange. The duck is swimming across the sky...' The reflections in Sky Swimming can be read as meditations on the enigmas of love, family, ageing, memory, home and belonging. At its heart is a mudbrick house built by two women on an ancient lava flow in the Warrumbungle Mountains, circling back to a childhood filled with music in Melbourne and an early career in the theatre. It fans out across the world to a family mystery in The Netherlands of the 1950s and a friendship in Montreal in the 1990s. Reflections on the process of writing feminist biography are included and the women from Martin’s biographies thread their way through the narrative alongside the people who have helped shape her life, often in unexpected directions.
Passionate Friends
Mary Fullerton (1868-1946) and Mabel Singleton (1877-1965) met in Melbourne as suffrage and peace activists in Vida Goldstein's Women's Political Association. They remained together for thirty-five years as loving friends, raising Mabel's son born in 1911. Through her literary friendship with Miles Franklin (1879-1954), Mary Fullerton's last two volumes of poetry were published in the 1940s. Rescued from near destruction, a box of Mary's manuscripts eventually made its way to the Mitchell Library. It contained poems she never sent to Miles Franklin. These poignant poems, many dedicated to Mabel, trace a love story that sheds light on how women of the early twentieth century may have understood their love for each other.
Ida Leeson: A Life
Ida Leeson was no ordinary librarian. At a time when only men rose to such positions in the Australian library world, she won an epic struggle to become Mitchell Librarian - a position previously held only by men.
Haunted
"An ethnography of risk, death, and culture in the Hollywood and Hong Kong media industries"--
Futurism
In canvases vivid with movement, light, color, and speed, the Futurists created one of the most lively documents of the technological turn of the 20th century. This monograph covers the key protagonists, influences, and controversies of the movement which at once championed progress and glorified war, scorned femininity, and undermined the academy elite.
Video Art
"Moving pictures -- Balkan Baroque / Marina Abramovic -- 3 adaptation studies (1. Blindfolded catching) / Vito Acconci -- Talo/The house / Eija-Liisa Ahtila -- Electric earth / Doug Aitken -- Homeward : bound / Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé -- Mother + father / Candice Breitz -- Sept visions fugitives / Robert Cahen -- Three transitions / Peter Campus -- The Bordeaux piece / David Claerbout -- Journey into fear / Stan Douglas -- Schnitte. Elemente der Anschauung / Valie Export -- Lock again / Yang Fudong -- Sturm / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- Twenty four hour psycho / Douglas Gordon -- Video piece for two glass office buildings / Dan Graham -- Incidence of catastrophe / Gary Hill -- Impres...
Sylvia Plath
Recounts the troubled life of the American poet and uses her unpublished letters and journals to depict the feelings that led her to suicide
Unnamed Desires
The first in-depth study of female same-sex desire in twentieth century Australia, Unnamed Desires explores the compelling stories of ordinary women who struggled to build lives and express their love for other women in a hostile society. Focusing on Sydney and country New South Wales in the mid-twentieth century (1930–1978), it traces the development of lesbian culture, identities and material spaces from the interwar period to the first Mardi Gras. This book offers fascinating new insights into the social and cultural history of mid-twentieth century NSW. ‘Elegantly written, Unnamed Desires … tells stories of sadness and persecution, but also accounts of bravery, ingenuity and fun … It is a very welcome and important addition to the scholarship on sexuality in Australian history.’ — Jill Julius Matthews
Sky Swimming
Dr Sylvia Martin is an academic attached to the University of New England, a published author, single mother and former actress, researcher, biographer and storyteller. In this collection of essays, memoir, sketches, correspondence and more, the she explores the ways in which researching other women's lives has led her to a deeper understanding of her own. Martin explores memories from her early life in 1950's Melbourne to becoming an actress and a single mother in Sydney, to love, the building of a house in the Warrumbungles and her correspondence with friends.
