Research Seminar
Transindigeneity: Between Local Specificities and Global Complexities
Global Indigenous Arts Network
22.11.23
Aula Jane Addams,
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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According to David Garneau (2020), Métis artist, curator, and critic, Indigenous art is an emerging category that extends and adapts First Nations Peoples’ ways of being and knowing to the contemporary moment and well beyond the sites of Indigenous territories of origin. Within this context, Indigenous peoples from around the world are increasingly seeking to establish connections in order to produce international networks and a collective consciousness. In this regard, Chickasaw academic Chadwick Allen (2013) argues for a “trans-Indigenous” research programme within the field of Indigenous Studies that would allow for a site of enunciation embedded in the specificities of the local Indigenous while simultaneously grappling with the complexities of the global Indigenous.
Following this spirit of establishing a simultaneous interplay between the synchronic, the diachronic, and the transdisciplinary by recognizing the mobility and multiple interactions of Indigenous peoples, cultures, histories, and texts, we invite artists, theoreticians, and researchers to participate in the Research Seminar “Transindigeneity: Between Local Specificities and Global Complexities”. Some of the key questions we aim to address are: What forms of local specificities inform and/or travel from local contexts to the global stage? How can Indigenous artistic production address this migration between the local and the global? What configurations do Indigenous ways of being and knowing come into play in the global art scene today? And what points of tension are evidenced through this displacement from local Indigenous realities to global points of contact between different indigeneities worldwide?
Programme
Wednesday – November 22nd, 2023
Morning session
10.30
Introduction: presenting the Global Indigenous Arts Network
Nasheli Jiménez (independent researcher)
11.00
Keynote: Devenir Universidad
Ursula Biemann (artist and researcher)
12.30
Q&A session
Afternoon sesssion
15.30
Arte e indigenismo: una genealogía
Anna Maria Guasch (Universitat de Barcelona)
16.15
From Mars to Venus: Activism of the Future
Ignacio Acosta (artist and researcher, Uppsala University)
17.00
Towards a Decolonial Theory of Visual Culture
Nasheli Jiménez (independent researcher)
Seminar coordinators: Anna Maria Guasch (Universitat de Barcelona), Nasheli Jiménez (independent researcher) and Chiara Sgaramella (Universitat Politècnica de València)
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