Disarticulate—Repurpose—Disrupt

Art/Archaeology

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ID6043871
AuthorsDoug Bailey (0000-0002-1304-8762)
Year2017
Volume27
Issue4
Pages691-701
Publication date2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0959774317000713
OpenAlexW2754749450
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This project sees archaeology and art as a political tool for disrupting conventional, politically loaded narratives of the past. Rather than producing institutionally safe narratives conventionally certified as truth, archaeologists should follow the lead of artists who use the past as a source of materials to be reconfigured in new ways to help people see in new ways. Using as an example the works of the Canadian artist Ken Monkman, who subverts nineteenth- century landscape painting to reinsert the missing critiques of Anglo-American colonialism, dominance of nature, and heteronormativity, this paper advocates disarticulating materials from the past by severing them from their context, repurposing them to bring contemporary concerns to the fore and creating new, disruptive visions from them. The article proposes the practice of an art/archaeology

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Visual arts · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Photography and Visual Culture · History · Law

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