Afterlives of Indigenous Archives (original) (raw)

Statement of Theme/Figuration/ the Curatorium American Indian people and cultures have circled and circulated, and continue to circle and circulate, through, in and around acts of curates, curators, curation, and the lesser and greater installations of American curatoriums by engaging, disengaging, avoiding, resisting, and redressing the people, places, proj ects, contexts, jurisdictions, and critical interventions involved in the development of the Great American Indian curatorium, whether curated by Natives or nonNatives, or by some combination of both. Curatoriums rely on legal, social, cultural, and po liti cal orga nizational pro cesses of se lection, collection, ordering, exclusion, removal, relocation, production, and interpretation, along with structured event development, to recontextualize Native culture, peoples, places, and repre sen tations, as filtered through human/technical adaptations. (Let me say that current engagements with and extensions of the digital human arc...