NOTES
- This paper was delivered at the ‘Visually Crossing Cultures’ conference of the Art Association of Australia, at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, in October 1997.
- Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays, London, 1967, pp.14, 12, 13; Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, New York, 1975, p.19.
- Michel Foucault, quoted in Patricia O'Brien, ‘Michel Foucault's history of culture’, in Lynn Hunt (ed.) The New Cultural History, Berkeley, 1989, p.25.
- See Greg Dening, Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty, New York, 1992, pp.297–98.
- Herbert Blau, Take up the Bodies, Urbana, 1982, pp.1–2.
- Roland Barthes, ‘Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein’, in Philip Rosen (ed.), Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology, New York, 1986, p.172.
- Victor Turner & Edward M. Bruner (eds), The Anthropology of Experience, Urbana, 1986, p.35.
- John Dewey, Art as Experience, New York, 1980, p.35.
- The historical data for my story is to be found in Greg Dening, ‘Possessing Tahiti’, in Performances, Melbourne, 1996, pp.128–68, and Mr Bligh's Bad Language, pp.191–281, 283–303.