num_pages: 296
description: Visualizing Genocide examines how creative arts and memory institutions selectively commemorate or often outright ignore stark histories of colonialism. The essays confront outdated narratives and institutional methods by investigating contemporary artistic and scholarly interventions documenting settler colonialisms including land theft incarceration intergenerational trauma and genocide. Interdisciplinary approaches including oral histories exhibition practices artistic critiques archival investigations and public arts are among the many decolonizing methods incorporated in contemporary curatorial practices.Rather than dwelling simply in celebratory appraisals of Indigenous survival this unprecedented volume tracks how massacres disease removals abrogated treaties religious intolerance theft of land and relocation are conceived by contemporary academics and artists. Contributors address indigeneity in the United States Norway Canada Australia and the Caribbean in scholarly essays poems and artist narratives. Missions cemeteries archives exhibitions photography printmaking painting installations performance music and museums are documented by fourteen authors from a variety of disciplines and illustrated with forty-three original artworks.The authors offer honest critique but in so doing they give hopeful and concrete strategies for the future. This powerful collection of voices employs Indigenous epistemologies and decolonial strategies providing essential perspectives on art and visual culture.ContributorsT. Christopher AplinEmily ArthurMarwin BegayeCharlene Villaseor BlackYve ChavezIris ColburnEllen Fernandez-SaccoStephen GilchristJohn HitchcockMichelle J. LanteriJrmie McGowanNancy Marie MithloAnne May OlliEmily VoelkerRichard Ray Whitman 
language: English
title: Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums
publisher: University of Arizona Press