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Le collectif d'artistes Nation to Nation crée en 1996 CyberPowWow, une galerie d'art numérique autochtone en ligne. Entre 1997 et 2004, le projet voit quatre éditions se succéder et plus d'une vingtaine d'artistes y participer. CPW développe un modèle alternatif pour une production, une diffusion et une critique autodéterminée des arts numériques autochtones au Canada, ce qui lui confère une place importante dans la structuration de cette scène. Le présent mémoire vise à étudier la position de CPW - sa plateforme muséographique et ses œuvres - au sein d'un ensemble de discours chronopolitiques qui opèrent à l'intersection des arts, des technologies numériques et des identités autochtones

To date, game studies has largely undertheorized the co-production of postcolonial stories, exploration, and mapping in games. Furthermore, as has been noted before (Carr, 2006), the work that has been done on postcolonialism and play so far often leaves the player out of the equation, even sometimes as a theoretical construct. Yet player experience is crucial to understanding such games, as narratives are not only built on the ‘master’ level of game mechanics, but also through the personal stories players processually (Ash, 2009; Thrift, 2008) develop through their journey of touring and mapping, thereby developing spatial stories (De Certeau, 1984; Jenkins, 2004; Lammes, 2009) that may present us with conflicting spatio-temporal accounts. Through a comparative and collaborative auto-ethnographic analysis of Civilization VI (Sid Meier, 2016) – a turn-based strategy game – we want to push this discussion further and improve our theoretical understanding and analytical purchase of the triad relation between narrative and postcolonialism in games, thereby contributing to the field of postcolonial theory and game studies. Drawing on postcolonial geography, science and technology studies (STS), non-representational theory and game studies, we argue that games, through their playful, explorative and emergent qualities, are a powerful means of rethinking and reimagining colonial (hi)stories in this postcolonial era (Lammes, 2009, 2010) including issues of spatio-temporality, cartography and the hybrid relation between women and machines.

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Resident Evil 5is a zombie game made by Capcom, featuring a White Americanprotagonist and set in Africa. This article argues that approaching this as a Japanesegame reveals aspects of a Japanese racial and colonial social imaginary that are missedif this context of production is ignored. In terms of race, the game presents hybridracial subjectivities that can be related to Japanese perspectives of Blackness andWhiteness, where these terms are two poles of difference and identity throughwhich an essentialized Japanese identity is constructed in what Iwabuchi calls“strategic hybridism.” In terms of colonialism, the game echoes structures of Japa-nese colonialism through which Japanese colonialism is obliquely memorialized and a“normal” Japanese global subjectivity can be performed.

Este artículo propone una reflexión sobre las prácticas vitales, artísticas y políticas de Liliana Felipe y Jesusa Rodríguez y sus experiencias de desobediencia frente a los regímenes de sexualidad y género articulados a regímenes de terror en México y Argentina. La metodología usada para llegar a la reflexión fue un análisis crítico multimodal del discurso hecho desde una perspectiva interseccional y descolonial que supone el análisis tanto de contextos como de los textos, subtextos y texturas que componen la obra y vida de estas artistas. Desde esta postura epistemológica, la obra performática y musical de Liliana y Jesusa es vista como un acervo de discursos multimodales. Nuestra reflexión muestra cómo la creación, la experiencia —entendida como lugar político— y las propuestas colectivas de Liliana y Jesusa se ponen en juego en un campo de lucha performativa donde sus discursos desobedientes proponen maneras de resistencia y fuga a los regímenes coloniales-modernos- capitalistas de género y sexualidad. Jesusa y Liliana proponen una obra multimodal y multimedial que fisura los límites de los géneros discursivos, los géneros musicales, el género gramatical y el sistema sexo género, lo cual amerita una mirada indisciplinada. Este artículo resulta ser un abordaje novedoso en la medida en que se acerca a la experiencia y a la obra de estas dos mujeres, no desde una visión disciplinar, sino a partir de una mirada transdisciplinaria, interseccional y descolonial que asume la producción artística como una apuesta política donde los límites entre lo personal y lo público se borran. This article seeks to do a reflection both on the vital, artistic and political practices of Liliana Felipe and Jesusa Rodríguez and on their experiences of disobedience to the regimes of sexuality and gender, which are articulated to regimes of terror in Mexico and Argentina. The methodology used in order to make this reflection was a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis from both an intersectional and decolonial perspective. This methodology implies the analysis of contexts, texts, subtexts and textures that make up the work and life of these artists. From this epistemological position, the performative and musical work of Liliana and Jesusa is seen as a collection of multimodal discourses. Creation, experience —understood as a political locus— and the collective proposals of Liliana and Jesusa are put into play in a field of performative struggle where their disobedient discourses propose ways of resistance to colonial-modern-capitalist regimes of gender and sexuality.Jesusa and Liliana propose a multimodal and multimedial work that fissures the limits of the discursive genres, the musical genres, the grammatical gender and the gender sex system, which deserves an undisciplined look. This article proposes an original approach insofar as it approaches the experience and work of these two women not from a disciplinary view, but from a transdisciplinary, intersectional and decolonial point of view, that assumes artistic production as a political commitment in where the boundaries between the personal and the public are erased.

The postcolonial has still remained on the margins of Game Studies, which has now incorporated at length, contemporary debates of race, gender, and other areas that challenge the canon. It is difficult to believe, however, that it has not defined the way in which video games are perceived; the effect, it can be argued, is subtle. For the millions of Indians playing games such as Empire: Total War or East India Company, their encounter with colonial history is direct and unavoidable, especially given the pervasiveness of postcolonial reactions in everything from academia to day-to-day conversation around them. The ways in which games construct conceptions of spatiality, political systems, ethics, and society are often deeply imbued with a notion of the colonial and therefore also with the questioning of colonialism. This article aims to examine the complexities that the postcolonial undertones in video games bring to the ways in which we read them.

"Si tous les groupes humains sont touchés par la violence à grande échelle, les femmes la subissent sous des formes spécifiques, comme en témoignent les assassinats systémiques des femmes et des filles autochtones en Amérique du Nord et en Amérique latine, ou encore les nombreux conflits armés (Syrie, Lybie, Birmanie, entre autres) dans lesquels le viol est érigé en arme de guerre. Les deux phénomènes peuvent d'ailleurs se recouper puisque l'un des tout premiers féminicides à avoir été qualifié et documenté comme tel en Amérique est celui ayant été perpétré contre les femmes mayas durant la guerre civile guatémaltèque au début des années 1980. Cependant, les femmes ne sont pas seulement les victimes de la violence de masse, puisqu'elles sont aussi les premières à témoigner et dénoncer pour faire barrage à cette violence. Ce numéro hors-série regroupe des articles et des projets visuels qui décrivent et analysent la violence de masse liée au genre. Il s'agit de réfléchir sur la manière de représenter cette violence et d'en témoigner, d'autant plus qu'elle est bien souvent rendue invisible et inaudible par le patriarcat, le colonialisme, les intérêts politiques en présence ou l'impéritie de l'État."

Burn the Boards (Causa Creations, 2015) portrays the life of an Indian worker who recycles electronic waste in a precarious environment. Phone Story (Molleindustria, 2011) simulates the journey and process of production and consumption of mobile phones, from Congo and China to Pakistan. Whereas Phone Story is described as ‘an educational game’ that addresses the player directly as a consumer, Burn the Boards is a resource management puzzle that creates compassion through role playing. These games bring to the fore a hidden reality of the everyday that is ingrained in historical relationships and power dynamics, drawing attention to what Michael Rothberg has recognized as ‘exploitation in an age of globalized neo-liberal capitalism’ (2014: iv).  This article explores how these games denounce the smartphone industry by using that same technology. For this purpose, we refer to Game Studies theory on procedural rhetoric; values and ethics; and the role of the player, combined with questions of (neo)colonization, globalization, and neoliberalism drawn from Postcolonial Studies. Our analysis shows the complicity of users and their confrontation with the extreme vulnerability of others, emphasizing how the coloniality of power works in our global consumer society. Thus we study the power relationships described and established by these games, the affective reactions which they seek to trigger, and their potential to transform players from passive observers into ethical players and consumers.

This article offers a qualitative and quantitive analysis of the critical reception of two exhibitions, Sakahàn:International Indigenous Art (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2013) and Beat Nation: Art, Hip-Hop and Aboriginial Culture (organised and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery, 2013-2014). The study treats articles which appeared between 2012 and 2015 in English and French visual-arts publications. The comparative analysis intends to highlight general trends, in order to identify challenges that contemporary Indigenous arts pose for art criticism. A review of the texts shows that all commentators, whether francophone or anglophone, indigenous or non-Indigenous, have welcomed these two exhibitions warmly. The discrepancy between the number of essays in French and those in English reflects the demographic weight of these two linguistic communities and the geographic distribution of First Nations in Canada. This will qualify, without denying, the hypothesis of Quebec's tardiness on the indigenous question. The authors largely recognize the necessity of initiating indigenization of the museum and emphasize the movement to internationalize contemporary indigenous art. Yet many commentators, particulary Indigenous people, dispute the efficacity of the concept of "strategic essentialism" put forward by the commissioners of the Sakahàn catalog. Despite both a real interest in these two major exhibitions and the quality of the commentary, in the end, for events of such a scale few texts have been published on the subject. The criteria for appreciation rooted in the institutional sociology of art endeavour to fully take into account the challenges posed by certain central aspects of the approach of several Indigenous creators, such as the intangible dimensions of their civic engagement, the dissolution of particular outside venues and the sisterhood of certain projects.

Bringing Latin American popular art out of the margins and into the center of serious scholarship, this book rethinks the cultural canon and recovers previously undervalued cultural forms as art. Juan Ramos uses "decolonial aesthetics," a theory that frees the idea of art from Eurocentric forms of expression and philosophies of the beautiful, to examine the long decade of the 1960s in Latin America--a time of cultural production that has not been studied extensively from a decolonial perspective. Ramos looks at examples of "antipoetry," unconventional verse that challenges canonical poets and often addresses urgent social concerns. He analyzes the militant popular songs of nueva canción by musicians such as Mercedes Sosa and Violeta Parra. He discusses films that use visually shocking images and melodramatic effects to tell the stories of Latin American nations. He asserts that these different art forms should not be studied in isolation but rather brought together as a network of contributions to decolonial art. These art forms, he argues, appeal to an aesthetic that involves all the senses. Instead of being outdated byproducts of their historical moments, they continue to influence Latin American cultural production today.

Shelley Niro is widely known for her ability to explode myths, transgress boundaries and embody the ethos of her matriarchal culture in a wide variety of mediums including photography, installation, film and painting. Niro creates photographic series that emphasize the medium?s inherent capacity for narrative and representation. She pushes the limits of photography by incorporating Mohawk imagery, re-appropriating traditional stories such as Skywoman and The Peacemaker, and by focusing on contemporary subjects with wit, irony and campy humor. Niro marries portraiture, performance art and satire by having her subjects and herself perform for the camera in ways that gently invite audiences to rethink their beliefs and preconceptions about indigenous peoples and themselves. With compassion and deep insight, Niro opens up the fault lines and desires of gender, sexuality and culture to create images of freedom from the status quo in representation. Photography was a medium that helped subjugate indigenous peoples, but in Niro?s revolutionary hands it empowers

En el presente trabajo nos proponemos reflexionar sobre el surgimiento de la categoría Fotografía Latinoamericana hacia fines de la década del setenta. Una reflexión sobre las prácticas fotográficas que refleja un intento de descolonizar las definiciones y categorías sobre la fotografía realizada en América Latina.Desde aquel momento, se estableció un concepto que englobaba bajo una misma rúbrica la fotografía latinoamericana y la representación del Ser latinoamericano, su identidad y su historia compartida en las diferentes naciones de la región. Una definición que cambia en los años noventa donde puede observarse una renovación de los modos de representación que complejizan las miradas sobre el pasado colonial y la heterogeneidad de nuestras identidades.Tras el análisis general de la búsqueda de definir una práctica cultural desde una perspectiva poscolonial de la fotografía latinoamericana, buscaremos centrarnos en el caso de la fotografía brasileña en dicho período.

Se trata de revisar las concepciones canónicas de la modernidad artística latinoamericana desde una perspectiva crítica y situada desde los estudios decoloniales y el hacer en las cátedras Historia de las Artes Visuales III e Historia de la Música III de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. En ambas materias se trabajan contenidossobre las artes locales, nacionales y latinoamericanas/sudamericanas, en comparación conlos movimientos europeos de la modernidad y la contemporaneidad. Este proyecto revisa algunas líneas historiográficas recientes sobre la historia y la teoría de las artes locales ylatinoamericanas. Se revisarán, también, algunos casos de producciones artísticas.

L’article part de la notion wendat d’ohtehra’ pour développer une approche de l’art contemporain autochtone comme processus de « ré-ensauvagement » à l’œuvre, entre autres, chez les artistes Kent Monkman (Cri-Irlandais) et Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe-Française). L’auteur, en s’appuyant sur les théoriciens Deborah Doxtator (Kanien’kehá:ka), Georges Emery Sioui (Wendat) et Taiaiake Alfred (Kanien’kehá:ka) propose également une analyse de l’autochtonie en Amérique du Nord comme un fait glocal d’Américité.

Cet article revient sur la polémique qui a éclaté en juin 2017, lorsque des artistes, des intellectuels et des militants cherokees ont publié une lettre ouverte dénonçant comme frauduleuse l'identité cherokee de l'artiste Jimmie Durham, l'une des figures les plus reconnues de l'art contemporain autochtone. Loin de vouloir trancher un débat aux ramifications complexes, cet article entend plutôt restituer les termes de la querelle et examiner la façon dont cette controverse éclaire la notion d'« autochtonie

Ce numéro, composé de contributions d’auteurs autochtones et allochtones, éclaire les débats actuels entourant la notion d’« autochtonie » dans le champ des arts visuels et de la littérature, tout en rendant compte de la nouvelle effervescence de la création autochtone contemporaine, tout particulièrement au Québec et au Canada. Chacun des textes se penche sur la question de savoir ce que signifie être un artiste autochtone aujourd’hui. Ils mettent tous en évidence que la création contemporaine contribue à l’énonciation de l’identité autochtone. This issue sheds light on current debates surrounding the notion of “Indigeneity” in literature and the visual arts, most particularly in Quebec and Canada. At the same time, the articles by Indigenous and Non-Indigenous authors account for the renewed effervescence of contemporary Indigenous creativity. Each of the texts reflect upon what it means to be an Indigenous artist today. They all bring to light the part played by contemporary Indigenous arts in the utterance of Indigenous identity.

"Through innovative and critical research, this anthology inquires and challenges issues of race and positionality, empirical sciences, colonial education models, and indigenous knowledges. Chapter authors from diverse backgrounds present empirical explorations that examine how decolonial work and Indigenous knowledges disrupt, problematize, challenge, and transform ongoing colonial oppression and colonial paradigm. This book utilizes provocative and critical research that takes up issues of race, the shortfalls of empirical sciences, colonial education models, and the need for a resurgence in Indigenous knowledges to usher in a new public sphere. This book is a testament of hope that places decolonization at the heart of our human community." -- Prové de l'editor.