Videos
KHI Amerindian Lecture Series
The KHI Amerindian Lecture Series 2021 is conceived as a forum to reflect on Indigenous arts/visual cultures and aesthetic practices created on the American continent, past and present. It gathers scholars who present novel research in/linking art history, anthropology/ethnology, (ethno)history, archaeology, museum studies, artistic and curatorial work, as well as other areas of inquiry concerned with images and artifacts and their handling. The diversity and richness of indigenous ‘visual modes’ across the continent is shown through a range of case studies which serve as a starting point to develop methodological and conceptual tools for the study of a variety of subjects, such as: the relationship of Amerindian art and ritual, and a specific ontology of images; the relation between aesthetics, cosmology and ecology; the encounter between Amerindian and European artistic and scriptural conventions; representations of connectedness of native practices across time and space in different media; the tension between locality and globality; pattern and form; politics of display; memory, identity, gender, ethnicity and violence in visual manifestations, among other themes. The studies break the artificial borders between fine art and craft, and question scholarly canons, as well as museal and exhibitory forms. https://www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2021/09/khi-amerindian-lecture-series.php
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Plants for Connection, Wellness and Healing panel discussion
This panel discussion took place on January 15, 2019 in conjunction with Gallery 1C03’s exhibition “locating the little heartbeats” (January 10 – February 16, 2019), a multi-media installation honouring Indigenous plants by artist Julie Nagam. The panelists discussed concepts of the flora of Manitoba and beyond, and its strong connection to science, Indigenous knowledge and epistemologies, ceremony and well-being and aesthetics.
Introduction to Afternoon Sessions & The Problematics of Making Art While Native and Female (TFAP@CAA 2017: Panel 2)
The Problematics of Making Art While Native and Female:Are we artists who "happen to be native" or are we native artists? Six artists will scrutinize, question and respond with work that "has it both ways" as they speak from "a native perspective" yet are uncompromisingly universal. Discussion will address navigating the staying power of the colonization and empire from within institutions.
The Future is Indigenous Symposium
Dr. Nagam hosted and organized the third annual Symposium Initiative of Indigenous Futures entitled, The Future is Indigenous, which brought together a critical mass of artists, community activists, curators, and academics to present their visions of the future of Indigenous people. Over 45 speakers from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, and United States held multidisciplinary conversations about Indigenous art and media, scholarship, and cultural innovation. Performances such as Yakaskwan Mihkiwap “Light Tipi” and opening exhibition at Urban Shaman Gallery: InDigiNous Aotearoa: Virtual Histories, Augmented Futures with PATAKA Art + Museum and Urban Shaman Gallery. Dr. Nagam organized an Indigenous Video Game Arcade and Virtual Reality (VR) Stations showcasing Indigenous games, apps and hands-on makerspace activities with over 350 attendees.
Collective and creative methodologies within the future of Indigenous Arts
Dr. Julie Nagam Collective and creative methodologies within the future of Indigenous Arts
Julie Nagam / Topographies of Mass Violence: symposium at the MAC
The 11th annual Max and Iris Stern International Symposium, Topographies of Mass Violence, was held at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (March 31 - April 1, 2017), accompanying the exhibitions Mundos by Teresa Margolles and Now Have a Look at this Machine by Emanuel Licha. The symposium addressed the phenomena of mass violence and the ways in which it is intimately linked to the territories and spaces in which it is perpetrated, but also the spatial and architectural arrangements through which it is mediated.