@article{Gorman-Murray_Brickell_2017, title={Over the Ditch: Queer Mobilities at the Nexus of Art, Geography and History}, volume={16}, url={https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1368}, abstractNote={<p>This paper takes the form of a photo-essay that documents <em>Over the Ditch</em>, a site-specific photomedia installation in the <em>On Islands </em>exhibition, held in 2014 in Sydney, Australia. <em>Over the Ditch</em> is an outcome of collaboration between a geographer and an historian, who are also an artist and a designer, working together at the nexus contemporary art practice, geography and history. The project collates and communicates the historical and contemporary experiences of trans-Tasman mobilities by queer New Zealanders and Australians. ‘Hopping over the ditch’ is an Antipodean colloquialism for trans-Tasman crossing. <em>Over the Ditch</em> explores the trans-Tasman experiences of seven gay men from 1931-2014. The work comprises archival, found and donated photographs from these men, together with ethnopoetic verse created from their diaries, stories and blogs. The site-specific installation takes the form of a journey, with 22 route-markers created from recycled timber, which present a sequence of visual and ethnopoetic narratives. This photo-essay documents the journey of <em>Over the Ditch</em>, retracing a trek through the <em>in situ </em>work. The photomedia installation, together with its reconstruction here, offers a practice-based creative approach to the representation of queer trans-Tasman mobilities over time and space – an approach that uses visual and textual language to reach across disciplines and audiences in order to convey the experiences of queer mobilities across the Tasman.</p>}, number={3}, journal={ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies}, author={Gorman-Murray, Andrew and Brickell, Chris}, year={2017}, month={Oct.}, pages={576–604} }