Abstract:

This book provides a significant and innovative contribution to the areas of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, graduate-level curriculum creation, and academic research. The contributors enhance, generate, establish, and delineate Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the development, discussion, and composition of Indigenous art history.

The companion aims to unite experts in Indigenous art history, critical museology, cultural studies, and curatorial practice. Its purpose is to encourage the exploration and sharing of Indigenous art, as well as to spark discussions on important topics such as visual sovereignty, self-determination, resurgence, resilience, land-based knowledge, embodied knowledge, nation-specific knowledge, epistemologies, ontologies, curatorial methodologies, museological methodologies, language, decolonization, Indigenization, collaboration, consultation, and mentorship.