The art of the Aborigines is seen and classified in Germany quite differently than in Australia. Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, Director of the South Coast Writer's Center, has written a dissertation on the topic of On the Aboriginal Art Reception in German Artspace and talks with us about the fact that "art" has not traditionally existed in our Western sense but that painting, music and dance were all part of a universal system that determined the law and the whole of life and was part of handing on knowledge.
The art of the Aborigines is seen and classified in Germany quite differently than in Australia. Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, Director of the South Coast Writer's Center, has written a dissertation on the topic of On the Aboriginal Art Reception in German Artspace and talks with us about the fact that "art" has not traditionally existed in our Western sense but that painting, music and dance were all part of a universal system that determined the law and the whole of life and was part of handing on knowledge.
