This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America.
This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, graduate-level curriculum development, and academic research. The contributors expand, create, establish and define Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the production, discussion, and writing of Indigenous art histories.
Bringing together scholars, curators, and artists from across the intersecting fields of Indigenous art history, critical museology, cultural studies, and curatorial practice, the companion promotes the study and dissemination of Indigenous art and stimulates new conversations on such key areas as visual sovereignty and self-determination; resurgence and resilience; land-based, embodied, and nation-specific knowledges; epistemologies and ontologies; curatorial and museological methodologies; language; decolonization and Indigenization; and collaboration, consultation, and mentorship.
Author(s): Heather Igloliorte, Carla Taunton
Series: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 463
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Author Biographies
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: The Path Before Us: Generating and Foregrounding Indigenous Art Theory and Method
Section I Sovereignty and Futurity
1 Art, Visual Sovereignty and Pushing Perceptions
2 Dancing Sovereignty: Reclaiming the Grease Trail Through Protocol, Movement, and Song
3 Shifting the Paradigm of Art History: A Multi-sited Indigenous Approach
4 An Inuit Approach to Archival Work Based on Respect and Adaptability
5 Overclock Our Imagination!: Mapping the Indigenous Future Imaginary
6 A Manifesto of Close Encounters
Section II Kinship, Care, Relationality
7 Kitchen Tables and Beads: Space and Gesture in Contemplative and Creative Research
8 Expanding Relationships: Beyond the Non
9 Wisdom in Beauty: Respect in Indigenous Curation
10 Balancing Curatorial Indigenous and Queer Belonging:
11 Taking Good Care: Collaborative Curating and the Alberni Indian Residential School Art Collection
12 Betraying the Object: Relational Anxieties and Bureaucratic Care in Indigenous Collections Research
13 A Brief Conversation on Visiting, Mentoring, The Land, and Art History
Section III Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being
14 miýikosiwin: Spirit, Land and Form Among Turtle Island’s Indigenous Artists, Designers and Architects
15 Indigenous Curation in LA: The People’s Home: Winston Street 1974
16 The Giving Tree: Methodologies of Generosity
17 Frontrunners as an Exploration of Indigenous Littoral Curation
18 A:Shiwi Art History: The Strength of Pueblo Place
19 Inuit Research Methodologies: Conversations Toward Reclaiming Inuit Protocols with Robert Comeau
20 A Braided Process: Decolonizing, Indigenizing, and Self-Determination
21 There are No Metaphors: A Proposal for Dreaming Indigenous Philosophies into Studio Arts Education
Section IV Anti-colonial Practices
22 From Colonial Trophy Case to Non-Colonial Keeping House
23 An Ethic of Decolonial Questioning: Exercising the Quadruple Turn in the Arts and Culture Sector
24 Unsettling Artistic Expectations With Two-eyed Seeing
25 Decolonizing Representation: Ontological Transformations Through Re-mediation of Indigenous Representation in Popular Culture and Indigenous Interventions
26 Care Full Discomfort: Engaged Decolonial Practice, People and Admin
27 Telling the Stories of Objects in Museum Collections: Some Thoughts and Approaches
28 Art Racism to Indigenography Methodology
29 A Glossary of Insistence
Section V Stories, Living Knowledges, Continuity and Resurgence
30 Writing and Sharing Our Art Histories: Storying Histories of Art: Activating the Visual
31 Bringing Stories to Sites at Shore Lunch Clarkson/Mississauga
32 “The Words You Choose are Purposeful”: On Inuit Writing and Editing
33 Beyond Queer Survivance
34 Indigenous Abstraction: A Vehicle for Visioning
35 Alaska Native Artistic Reclamation and the Persistence of Indigenous Aesthetics
36 Foregrounding Pivalliatitsinik/Piggautigijaunikkut: Indigenous Mentorship in Creative Spaces
Bibliography
Index
