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Varieties of Imagination,Creativity and Wellbeing in Australia—Edited by Anita Archer, Aaron Corn, Frederic Kiernan, Peter Otto, and Anthea Skinner

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Welcome to the Launch of Varieties of Imagination, Creativity, and Wellbeing in Australia, which brings together First Nations, migrant, and settler artists/writers/musicians, as well as people interested in the history of imagination (in whatever tradition) and those interested in creativity and disability, to explore what creativity, imagination and wellbeing might mean in different Australian traditions and contexts.

The book attempts to re-envision these phenomena in a way that respects their multiplicity in contemporary Australia, across about 450 pages of essays, critiques, visual artworks, photography, poetry, and much more.

“Welcome, Introductions, and Acknowledgements”—Peter Otto, Anita Archer, Aaron Corn, Frederic Kiernan, and Anthea Skinner

“Designing Common Ground: Layout, Fonts, Images”—Ethan Tsang, Mia Murone, and Georgia Hodgkinson

“Creative Responsibility: Shaping Purposeful Communities through Ceremonial Performance”—Samuel Curkpatrick, Aaron Corn, Glenn Loughrey, Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu, and Brian Djangirrawuy Gumbula-Garawirrtja

“The AirDancer: The Rhythm of My Body Shapes”—Melinda Smith, Anthea Skinner, Alon Ilsar, Libby Price, and Aaron Corn)

“AirDancer” (video)—Melinda Smith, Alon Ilsar, Aaron Corn, Anthea Skinner, and Libby Price

“An Imagined Tradition: Varieties of Imagination in Enlightenment and Romantic Thought"—Jodie Lee Heap

“The Rockchick Files”—Victoria Nicole Cini

“The Groove of Raypirri’: Following the Clapsticks into a New Generation”— Samuel Curkpatrick and Daniel Wilfred

“Loneliness, Music and Gay Men: A Reflection on Darren Hayes’ Homosexual (2022)”— Frederic Kiernan

“Opera in a Time of Social Crisis: Developing a Community of Creative Care, Melbourne 2020” —Jane W. Davidson

“Lumbung as Method: Community, Wellbeing, and the Participation of Safdar Ahmed and Refugee Art Project in documenta fifteen”—Anita Archer

“‘Minus Plus’ and The Art Project, 1975–1980”—Anthony White

“Re-envisioning Imagination: Revisiting Kant”—John Rundell

“Untitled” [with eight paintings]—Tim Ferguson

“A Transition to Crip Lit: A Plea for Disability Literature to be Included as Compulsory Reading for Secondary and Tertiary Students”—Jess Kapuscinski-Evans

“Creating an ‘Archive’ that Centres the Legacy of Artists with Disability”— Bree Hadley, Katie Ellis, Janice Rieger, Eddie Paterson, Michael Whelan, Christen Cornell, Caitlin Vaughan, Caroline Bowditch, Annie Rolfe, Jordan Fyfe, Erin Scudder, Jung Yoon, Hannah Mason, and Ruth Williams

“The Source of a Haunting and —ial Survival in Aboriginal Australian Literature”—Dashiell Moore

“100 Years of Turbulence” [a fifteen-metre panorama]—Lyndell Brown and Charles Green

“Romanticism, Capitalism, Wellbeing, and the Long Age of Imagination”—Peter Otto

“Highlighting the unseen to co-create another reality”— Maria Alejandra Pinero de Plaza and Penelope McMillan, with Ricky Buchanan, Hila Dafny, Michael Lawless, Alline Beleigoli, Alexandra Mudd, Penelope Del Fante, Geoffrey Hallmann, Renuka Visvanathan, Zulimel Leon, and Alison Kitson