Indigenous Media Arts in Canada: Making, Caring, Sharing

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Claxton, Dana

Winton, Ezra

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New media art--Canada.

New media art.

Indigenous art--Canada.

Indigenous art.

Indigenous peoples in art.

Indigenous films.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.) ill

Place of Publication:

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Summary:

Indigenous and settler scholars and media artists discuss and analyze crucial questions of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance, and decolonizing creative practices.Humans are narrative creatures, and since the dawn of our existence we have shared stories. Storytelling is what connects us, what helps us give shape and understanding to the world and to each other. Who tells whose stories in which particular ways leads to questions of belonging, power, relationality, community and identity. This collection explores those issues with a focus on settler-Indigenous cultural politics in the country known as Canada, looking in particular at Indigenous representation in media arts. Chapters feature roundtable discussions, interviews, film analyses, resurgent media explorations, visual culture advocacy and place-based practices of creative expression.Eclectic in scope and diverse in perspective, Indigenous Media Arts in Canada is unified by an ethic of conciliation, collaboration, and cultural resistance. Engaging deftly and thoughtfully with instances of cultural appropriation as well as the oppressive structures that seek to erode narrative sovereignty, this collection shines as a crucial gathering of thoughtful critique, cultural kinship, and creative counterpower.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I DECOLONIZING MEDIA ARTS INSTITUTIONS

Introduction to part I / Ezra Winton

ch. 1 Our Own Up There: A Discussion at imagineNATIVE / Shane Belcourt

ch. 2 Curating the North: Documentary Screening Ethics and Inuit Representation in Cinema / Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

ch. 3 Sights of Homecoming: Locating Restorative Sites of Passage in Zacharias Kunuk's Festival Performance of Angirattut / Claudia Sicondolfo

pt. II PROTECTING CULTURE

Introduction to part II / Ezra Winton

ch. 4 Addressing Colonial Trauma through Mi'kmaw Film / Bretten Hannam

ch. 5 Not Reconciled: The Complex Legacy of Films on Canadian "Indian" Residential Schools / Brenda Longfellow

ch. 6 The Resurgence of Indigenous Women in Contemporary Quebec Cinema / Karine Bertrand

ch. 7 "Our Circle Is Always Open": Indigenous Voices, Children's Rights, and Spaces of Inclusion in the Films of Alanis Obomsawin / Joanna Hearne

pt. III METHODS/KNOWLEDGES/INTERVENTIONS

Introduction to part III / Ezra Winton

ch. 8 Indigenous Documentary Methodologies: ChiPaChiMoWin: Telling Stories / Jules Arita Koostachin

ch. 9 Marking and Mapping Out Embodied Practices through Media Art / Carla Taunton

ch. 10 Curatorial Insiders/Outsiders: Speaking Outside and Collaboration as Strategic Intervention / Toby Katrine Lawrence

ch. 11 The Generative Hope of Indigenous Interactive Media: Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Futurism / Michelle Stewart

pt. IV RESURGENT MEDIA/ALLIES/ADVOCACY

Introduction to Part IV / Lindsay LeBlanc

ch. 12 "Making Things Our [Digital] Own": Lessons on Time and Sovereignty from Indigenous Computational Art / Lindsay LeBlanc

ch. 13 Careful Images: Unsettling Testimony in the Gladue Video Project / Lisa Jackson

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

pt. I Beyond Words And Images / Ezra Winton

pt. 2 Setting The Record Straight / Lisa Jackson.

ISBN:

1-77112-542-X