Resaerch Network
Global Indigenous Arts Network (GIAN)
Universitat de Barcelona and the Art, Globalization, Interculturality research group
2023
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Gun Hofgaard. Still from Drones and Drums, Ignacio Acosta
Ignacio Acosta joins the Global Indigenous Arts Network (GIAN), a research group dedicated to cultivating links between Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics, contemporary artists, and other cultural agents with the aim of forging long-lasting intercultural and inter-epistemic alliances within, and beyond, the global arts scene. GIAN aims to provide increased visibility to Indigenous situated knowledges as a means for decolonizing current Western-hegemonic ways of belonging and looking at the world. Echoing Tuscarora scholar Jolene Rickard (2017), GIAN recognizes the urgent need to take into account Indigenous knowledges in global art, art history, and visual culture studies in order to exercise an effective intervention on modernity / coloniality and its framing of Indigenous cultures within a hegemonic metanarrative of the West.
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