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DESCRIPTION:Conal McCarthy will present at the seminar in Indigenous Arts i
 n Transition on Tuesday\, February 22\, at 6 pm. His talk is entitled “Ind
 igenous Theories of Indigenous Arts in Transition: Art as Whakapapa (Genea
 logy) and Contemporary Taonga (Treasure).”In the voluminous and contested 
 literature on art theory and practice\, much ink has been spilt analysing 
 customary Native and tribal “arts\,” and tracing the transition to modern 
 and contemporary “Art” from a western perspective. Not as much attention h
 as been paid to Indigenous concepts and frameworks for their own visual cu
 ltural heritage. In Aotearoa\, New Zealand\, debates in art history\, anth
 ropology\, museum studies\, and curatorial writing have circled around the
  changing forms of “Māori art”: from “traditional”/customary practices suc
 h as weaving and carving\; to “Māori modernism”\; to “contemporary Māori a
 rt.” This lecture considers two moments in this dynamic history. The first
  in the 1920s when Māori politician and intellectual Apriana Ngata led a s
 trategic engagement with museums and fieldwork anthropology and developed 
 a community-based arts and crafts movement through the revival of the arts
  and practices of the marae (communal meeting ground). The second is a cen
 tury later\, when Māori art historian\, curator and arts administrator Ann
 a Marie White curated a widely admired exhibition of the work of leading s
 culptor Brett Graham\, Tai Tangata Tai Moana\, at the Govett Brewster Art 
 Gallery in New Plymouth in 2021. Both case studies reveal Indigenous ideas
  of arts in transition: in the first\, whakapapa (genealogy\, relatedness)
  is materialised across a range of visual culture: netting\, lattice work\
 , weaving\, carving\, and house building\; and in the second\, contemporar
 y art is seen as taonga (ancestral treasures).Professor Conal McCarthy is 
 Director of the Museum & Heritage Studies programme at the Stout Research 
 Centre\, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington\, Aotearoa New 
 Zealand. He has published widely on museum history\, theory and practice\,
  including the books Exhibiting Māori (2007)\, Museums and Maori (2011)\, 
 and Museum Practice (2015)\, volume 2 of The International Handbooks of Mu
 seum Studies (Wiley Blackwell). In 2017 Conal was one of the authors of Co
 llecting\, Ordering\, Governing: Anthropology\, Museums\, and Liberal Gove
 rnment (Duke University Press)\, and a co-editor of a volume of essays in 
 memory of Māori art historian Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Victoria University Pr
 ess). In 2018 he published the history of Te Papa (Te Papa Press)\, and in
  2019 Curatopia: Museums and the Future of Research (co-edited with Philip
 p Schorch\, Manchester University Press). His next publication is a multi-
 authored book from a research project led by Professor Dame Anne Salmond: 
 Hei taonga mō ngā uri whakatipu: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expediti
 ons 1919-23.This event will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to
  registrants by 10 am on the day of the event. This event will be live wit
 h automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Indigenous Theories of Indigenous Arts in Tra
 nsition
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