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Creative Presence: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Self-Determination and Decolonial Contemporary Artwork
Contributor(s): Merson, Emily (Author)

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 ISBN: 1785523201     ISBN-13: 9781785523205
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
OUR PRICE: $139.65  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Political Science | Civics & Citizenship
Dewey: 700.971
LCCN: 2020025687
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.12 lbs) 230 pages
 
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Historically, artwork has played a powerful role in shaping settler colonial subjectivity and the political imagination of Westphalian sovereignty through the canonization of particular visual artworks, aesthetic theories, and art institutions' methods of display. Creative Presence contributes a transnational feminist intersectional analysis of visual and performance artwork by Indigenous contemporary artists who directly engage with colonialism and decolonization. This book makes the case that decolonial aesthetics is a form of labour and knowledge production that calls attention to the foundational violence of settler colonialism in the formation of the world order of sovereign states. Creative Presence analyzes how artists' purposeful selection of materials, media forms, and place-making in the exhibitions and performances of their work reveals the limits of conventional International Relations theories, methods, and debates on sovereignty and participates in Indigenous reclamations of lands and waterways in world politics. Brian Jungen's sculpture series Prototypes for New Understanding and Rebecca Belmore's filmed performances Vigil and Fountain exhibit how colonial power has been imagined, visualized and institutionalized historically and in contemporary settler visual culture. These contemporary visual and performance artworks by Indigenous artists that name the political violence of settler colonial claims to exclusive territorial sovereignty introduce possibilities for decolonizing audiences' sensibilities and political imagination of lands and waterways.
 
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