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Afterword: Diorama, Defamiliarization, Indigenous Presence
Author(s) -
Myers Fred
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12157
Subject(s) - defamiliarization , indigenous , exhibition , semiotics , colonialism , sociology , aesthetics , hegemony , posthumanism , media studies , visual arts , history , epistemology , art , political science , philosophy , ecology , biology , archaeology , politics , law
In this overview, I reflect on how the essays of this issue exemplify a range of “entanglements” between emerging Indigenous practices and art theory. Further, I try to draw attention both to some earlier models of the experiments in the projects presented as well as to the specific history of exhibitions that has influenced the developments in the art world. Finally, following the ways in which the essays attend to the disruptions Indigenous practice presents to settler colonial hegemony, I introduce a resonance between the interventions of decolonization and the semiotic concept of defamiliarization.