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Chronicles the global critical reception of Aboriginal art since the early 1980s and argues for a re-evaluation of Aboriginal art's critical intervention into contemporary art.

The cityscape holds the memories of indigenous bones and bodies that resurrect a deep sense of place that exists in the landscape of the city of Toronto. This deep sense of place is part of a connection to the land and stories of place. In this article, the author bridges the creative work of Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore with the living histories of the indigenous bodies and bones that are buried beneath the ground of the city of Toronto and the city of Vancouver. She argues that Belmore's artwork is part of the living archive that performs cultural memory and employs telling as part of an embodied experience and a political act. Belmore's performance work creates, records, and stores indigenous stories of place. This article uses the ideas of cultural theorists Katherine McKittrick, Mishuana Goeman, and Matthew Sparke. Each of these people brings a different element to theories of the body and space. This article also uses feminist geographers Alison Blunt and Gillian Rose's work in women's colonial geographies to unpack the affects of the map in colonial spaces and the colonial gaze. (Contains 4 figures and 50 notes.)

Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on forty years of experience as an art historian, curator, exhibition critic, and museum director, she emphasizes the complex and situated nature of the problems that face museums, introducing new perspectives on controversial exhibitions and moments of contestation. A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transformative power of museum controversy and analyses shifting ideas about art, authenticity, and power in the modern museum.

Multiple expressions of sovereignty beyond a narrow legal interpretation are discussed through the artwork of contemporary Iroquois artists, G. Peter Jemison (Seneca), Alan Michelson (Mohawk), Samuel Thomas (Cayuga), and Marie Watt (Seneca). Michelson's installation at the Massena homeland security border checkpoint between the United States, Canada, and the Mohawk Nation, titled The Third Bank of the River, draws on the Guswentah or Two Row Wampum underscoring the problematic yet ongoing assertion of Haudenosaunee sovereignty. A link is made between the work of these artists and the 2008 Courtney Hunt film, Frozen River, based on the cultural and political understanding of the Two Row Wampum. The Guswentah is discussed as a demonstration of sovereignty and is historicized through Cayuga chief Deskaheh's call for the recognition of Haudenosaunee sovereignty at the League of Nations in Geneva, in 1923, John Mohawk's 1978 Basic Call to Consciousness, and more recently, Taiaiake Alfred's 1999 Peace, Power, Righteousness. These artists demonstrate the critical role they play in the ongoing formation of sovereignty as a visual or aesthetic issue in conjunction with its historic legal positioning.

Nadia Myre is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of language, culture, and memory, and who sources the culture of her Algonquin ancestors as a way of confronting contemporary realities. This monograph provides a comprehensive first look at this Montreal-based artist's remarkable career

The culmination of three seminars at SAR's Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) that brought together Native women artists to discuss the balancing of their art practice with the myriad roles, responsibilities, and commitments they have. The artworks were diverse in media and content and are featured in the plates section of this volume, along with the artist statements that accompanied the pieces in the exhibit. The chapters reflect some of the seminars emerging themes: gender, home/crossing, and art as healing/art as struggle

This major retrospective publication confirms Carl Beam (1943 - 2005) as one of North America's most important artists. Beam broke new ground throughout his career, notably as the first artist of Native Ancestry (Ojibwe) to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as Contemporary Art. Working in various mediums - photography, oil, acrylic, stone, cement, wood, ceramics and found objects - Beam's work continually explored the tensions between Western and Aboriginal relations. Featuring more than 50 of Beam's most remarkable works from his early career in the 1970s to the end of his production in the early 2000s, this richly illustrated monograph illuminates the artist's investigations into the metaphysical aspects of Western and Indigenous culture, while powerfully illustrating the wideranging physicality of his work. Source: Publisher

Combines post-modern theory with the comic wisdom of the tribal trickster to explore the effects of nostalgic simulations of "Indian-ness".

Catalogue d'exposition avec des textes de Ryan Rice; Jason Baerg; Lori Blondeau; Martin Loft; Cathy Mattes; Nadia Myre; Ariel Lightningchild Smith.

Catalogue d'exposition

Ce mémoire est globalement axé sur la légitimité de la notion d'identité dans les contextes postcolonial et postmoderne. Plus précisément, il porte sur le concept de métissage dans l'art actuel à l'heure de la mondialisation culturelle, lieu propice à un renouvellement de l'identité et de l'imaginaire pour les communautés des Premières Nations d'Amérique du Nord. Il est divisé en deux parties. Les deux premiers chapitres énoncent une perspective socio-ethnohistorique autour des notions d'identité et de métissage, alors que le troisième chapitre expose un point de vue analytique à partir d'un corpus d'oeuvres de trois femmes artistes autochtones du Québec et de l'Ontario s'exécutant sur la scène artistique contemporaine, soit Sonia Robertson, Sylvie Paré et Rebecca Belmore. Plus spécifiquement, le premier chapitre fait état des connaissances et des discours sur les définitions même d'identité et de métissage dans les contextes colonial / postcolonial et moderne / postmoderne. Par extension, je pose cette question concernant l'hybridité culturelle: s'agit-il d'un principe d'homogénéisation et d'essentialisation des cultures ou d'un facteur garant d'hétérogénéité, favorable au mélange et aux échanges interculturels ? Le deuxième chapitre, quant à lui, énonce les contextes de dépossession territoriale et d'exiguïté culturelle dans lesquels ont été contraints les peuples des Premières Nations depuis l'époque coloniale. Il fait aussi mention des métissages artistiques (post)postmodernes, qui contribuent à un renouveau de l'imaginaire amérindien. Dans un esprit à la fois de contestation face à l'image folklorisée de l'« Indien » et de transmission des valeurs traditionnelles, les artistes autochtones font place à la réappropriation culturelle. Enfin, le troisième chapitre souligne les parcours identitaires de Sonia Robertson (Ilnue), Sylvie Paré (métisse huronne-wendat) et Rebecca Belmore (Anishinabekwe). À titre de comparaison, j'analyse un corpus d'installations et de performances sous le thème de la mémoire et de l'identité en lien avec les concepts élaborés dans les chapitres précédents. Le choix d'examiner le travail de trois femmes artistes provenant de communautés différentes permet de rendre compte de réflexions personnelles de la part de femmes autochtones face à la culture dominante et par rapport à leur culture d'origine. Ce choix vise par ailleurs à circonscrire, au sein même de leur production, l'importance de la tradition en fonction de leur affirmation identitaire. Je souhaite ainsi étudier comment ces propositions se positionnent dans un contexte de déterritorialisation culturelle en fonction d'une réalité post(néo)colonialiste, corrélative d'un entre-deux mondes. Pour conclure, je reviens sur les questions d'identité, de mémoire et de territoire en soulignant l'importance idéologique du combat identitaire des communautés autochtones, qui vise la mise en échec des préjugés et des constructions mythiques persistantes entre le « Blanc » et l' « Indien ». Je mesure en ce sens l'impact que pourrait avoir la pensée universelle amérindienne sur nos sociétés hypermodernes en crise et en quête de valeurs.

Knopf samples a variety of Native American filmmaking genres, including documentary, short films, and full-length narrative films, providing a detailed synopsis and content analysis of several films. Since its genesis in the early 19005, film has been an effective colonizing tool, impacting Indigenous peoples around the globe.

Eight artists from across Canada create works identify varying forms of nationhood that either serve or detract from the concept of a national accord. Each artist explores the idea of ₃anthem₄ through a wide-angle lens, broadening the national discourse to include not only colonial histories, but also distinctive and multicultural liberties that take various forms: treaties, blood, languages, sexual orientation, faith, and oral traditions. The dynamic range of art works exhibited contribute to a more inclusive national narrative and expose and accept the diverse forms of nationalism that exist across the country.

Catalogue d'exposition avec des textes de Ryan Rice, Françoise Charron, Emily Falvey et Hilda Nicholae.

Le présent document est un rapport sur la série de consultations tenues en 2007 avec des artistes, des administrateurs des arts, des aînés, des jeunes et d’autres membres de la communauté autochtone. Cette série de consultations a eu lieu dans le cadre de l’initiative de recherche sur les arts autochtones, mise sur pied dans le but de planifier et d’entreprendre les travaux de recherche nécessaires pour appuyer et orienter le plan d’action sur les arts autochtones du Conseil des arts du Canada.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, from October 6, 2007, to April 27, 2008, and at the George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, in New York, New York, from May 26 through September 30, 2008

Replaçant chaque oeuvre dans son contexte familial, social, géographique, économique et spirituel, cet album présente l'art des peuples premiers d'Amérique du Nord, des Inuits aux peuples des déserts du sud-ouest des Etats-Unis, des origines à la période contemporaine

"Art of the Northwest Coast is a comprehensive survey of the Native arts of the Pacific Northwest Coast, spanning the region from Puget Sound to Alaska, and proceeding from prehistoric times to the present. Incorporating the region's social history with the observations of anthropologists, historians of art, and Native peoples, this rich, vibrant book reveals how a complex web of factors informed these groups' varied responses to the changes and challenges brought about by contact with Europeans."-