Site-specificity and dislocation

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and his Haida Manga Meddling

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2391014
AutoresNicola Levell (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas93-116
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183513486231
OpenAlexW2326620605
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas29

Tracing the critical biography of Pedal to the Meddle (2007) - a Haida Manga intervention, originated by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - this article explores the biography of indigenized artworks that are generated as a site-specific form of institutional critique but later dislocated, mobilized and rearticulated in other disciplinary spaces. In its original context, Pedal to the Meddle was conceptualized and created to critique museum practices, the politics of ownership and First Nations' dispossession on the Northwest Coast. However, when this artwork was dislocated from its site of origin and re-curated in other exhibitionary spaces, its indigenized critique, relational aesthetics and locational meanings were inevitably altered. It is these retellings, through the artist's practice, different spaces, material configurations, collaborative processes and curatorial voices that constitute the subject of this article

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