Trading on Art

Sarah E.K. Smith is an associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture, and Global Relations, and leads the Practitioner Media Lab. She is the author of General Idea: Life & Work and co-editor, with Sascha Priewe, of Museum Diplomacy: How Cultural Institutions Shape Global Engagement. She is a co-founder of the multidisciplinary research network the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative, a member of the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance, and an editorial board member of the Canadian Journal of Communication. She also has an active curatorial practice.

• IntroductionPart 1: Exhibiting Diplomacy1 Mexican Art in Canada2 Canadian Art at 49th ParallelPart 2: Picturing North America3 Exhibiting the Continent4 Settler State Claims to IndigeneityPart 3: Creating Resistance5 Reading inSite against the Cultural Exemption6 Changing Narratives of Free Trade in Video ArtEpilogue: Art and the Invention of North AmericaNotes; Bibliography; Index