Creative Presence

Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Self-Determination and Decolonial Contemporary Artwork

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Emily Merson

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-09-08
Mått154 x 231 x 13 mm
Vikt313 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieKilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
Antal sidor230
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781785523212

Tillhör följande kategorier

Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi
Politik och statsskick inom Samhalle och politik
Konstteori inom Kultur

Chapter 1. Introduction: Settler Colonial Claims to Sovereignty and Decolonial Contemporary Artwork Chapter 2. Creative Presence: Tracing the Coloniality of Global Power and Decolonial World Politics Through the Materials, Media Forms and Place-Making of Contemporary ArtworkChapter 3. Unsettling International Relations: Decolonizing International Relations Theories of Global Power and Settler Colonial Claims to Exclusive Sovereignty Chapter 4. Decolonizing Settler Colonial Art Institutions: Brian Jungen’s Visual Exhibition Methods of Prototypes for New UnderstandingChapter 5. Materializing Indigenous Self-Determination: Brian Jungen’s Materials and Sculptural Methods in Prototypes for New UnderstandingChapter 6. The Scenario of Naming Power: Remembering Traumas of Canadian Settler Colonialism in Rebecca Belmore’s filmed performance installation The Named and the UnnamedChapter 7. International Art World and Transnational Artwork: Creative Presence in Rebecca Belmore’s Fountain at the Venice Bienna

Taking artwork to be a powerful force in (un)making world politics, Emily Merson’s Creative Presence is a major contribution to our understanding not only of sites and practices of decolonial resistance but also of International Relations and where else we ought to look in theorizing relations between political communities. This important book reveals how failing to inquire beyond disciplinary convention sustains our implication in colonial violence.