Arts of Engagement

Dylan Robinson is a Stó:lō scholar who holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen's University. His research focuses upon the sensory politics of Indigenous activism and the arts, and questions how Indigenous rights and settler colonialism are embodied and spatialized in public space. His current project documents the history of contemporary Indigenous public art across North America.Keavy Martin is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research interests revolve around Indigenous literatures and literary theory, with a focus on Inuit literature and performance; Indigenous research methodologies; Indigenous languages; Indigenous literary nationalism and literary history; Aboriginal rights, treaties, and land claims; and the concept and practice of reconciliation. Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature won the 2012 Gabrielle Roy Prize.

• Table of Contents for Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, edited by Dylan Robinson and Keavy MartinAcknowledgements viiIntroduction ""The Body Is a Resonant Chamber"" 1 / Dylan Robinson and Keavy MartinChapter 1 Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation: Art, Curation, and Healing 21 / David GarneauChapter 2 Intergenerational Sense, Intergenerational Responsibility 43 / Dylan RobinsonChapter 3 this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land 67 / Peter MorinChapter 4 Witnessing In Camera: Photographic Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation 93 / Naomi Angel and Pauline WakehamChapter 5 ""Aboriginal Principles of Witnessing"" and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 135 / David GaertnerChapter 6 Polishing the Chain: Haudenosaunee Peacebuilding and Nation-Specific Frameworks of Redress 157 / Jill Scott and Alana FletcherChapter 7 Acts of Defiance in Indigenous Theatre: A Conversation with Lisa C. Ravensbergen 181 Dylan RobinsonChapter 8 ""pain, pleasure, shame. Shame"": Masculine Embodiment, Kinship, and Indigenous Reterritorialization 193 / Sam McKegneyChapter 9 ""Our Roots Go Much Deeper"": A Conversation with Armand Garnet Ruffo 215 / Jonathan DewarChapter 10 ""This Is the Beginning of a Major Healing Movement"": A Conversation with Georgina Lightning 227 / Keavy MartinChapter 11 Resisting Containment: The Long Reach of Song at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools 239 / Beverley DiamondChapter 12 Song, Participation, and Intimacy at Truth and Reconciliation Gatherings 267 / Byron DueckChapter 13 Gesture of Reconciliation: The TRC Medicine Box as Communicative Thing 283 / Elizabeth KalbfleischChapter 14 Imagining New Platforms for Public Engagement: A Conversation with Bracken Hanuse Corlett 305 / Dylan RobinsonBibliography 321Discography 342About the Contributors 343Copyright Acknowledgements 349Index 351