Open AccessCharting hxstories in Sāmoan visual and digital art
Author(s) -
Léuli Eshrāghi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of environmental media
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2632-2471
pISSN - 2632-2463
DOI - 10.1386/jem_00056_1
Subject(s) - indigenous , exhibition , homeland , visual arts , media studies , digital media , new media , sociology , history , art history , art , political science , law , ecology , politics , biology
In this article, addressing the absences of cultural memory from existing institutional archives is accounted for in the development of new curatorial display territories, both online and in the gallery. The imperatives to claim new digital territories as extensions of homeland territories are contextualized within the discussion of the curated works in the first in a series of exhibitions titled Sāmoan Hxstories, Screens and Intimacies supported from Tkaronto/Toronto by imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival for the Indigenous world and for all Sāmoan diasporas. The co-design of new Indigenous language terms including siapo viliata are also discussed.