AH 270: Art/Identity/Politics
LG 8: Week 9, Module 10: Contemporary American Indian Art and Postcolonialism
Fred Wilson: Views from Mining the Museum (1992-93)

–The Contemporary, The Maryland Historical Society
–Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglas

James Luna: Artifact Piece (1987), The Drinking Piece (1986), Four Sacred Colors

(1992), Before Columbus/After Columbus; Half Indian/Half Mexican (1992), Petroglyphs in Motion (2000), I’ve Always Wanted To Be an American Indian (1992)

Jimmie Durham: Self Portrait Pretending To Be Rrose Selavy (1994), Bedia’s First

Basement (1985), Selections from On Loan from the Museum of the American Indian(1986: Self Portrait, Current Trends in Indian Land Ownership, Pocahantas’s Underwear, Types of Arrows, Daggers), I Forgot What I Was Going to Say (1992)

–Indian Arts and Crafts Act (1990)

Brian Jungen: Nike Masks (1998-2005), Red Cedar Pallets (2005), Furniture Sculpture

(2006), Shapeshifter (2002), Beer Cooler (2005)

Institutional critique

“white cube”

Postcolonialism, neocolonialism

Salvage paradigm (James Clifford)

“Authenticity is a racist concept which functions to keep us enclosed in ‘our world’ (in our place) for the comfort of a dominant society.”

“What I want them to know is that they can’t know.”