{"id":84,"date":"2018-04-11T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/?p=84"},"modified":"2018-04-29T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:47:59","slug":"why-do-you-want-to-be-in-a-museum-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/indians-in-art-museums\/2018\/04\/11\/why-do-you-want-to-be-in-a-museum-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tania Willard<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(Secwepemc Nation). #haunted_hunted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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WHY DO Y’ALL WANNA BE IN A MUSEUM ANYWAY?<\/h1>\n

EVEN THOUGH WE UNDERSTAND THE MUSEUM AS A COLONIAL INSTITUTION,<\/p>\n

EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW RECOGNITION<\/a> FROM THE INSTITUTION DOES NOT MEASURE OUR VALUE,<\/p>\n

the museum can really get into our heads! They shape public consciousness, especially among well-meaning liberal folks. These institutions have the potential to make us think differently and grow, but they can also keep us complacent by affirming tepid politics.<\/p>\n

Tony Bennett and Simon Sheikh are both interested in the *mind-control* aspects of museums as arms of the state.<\/p>\n

Bennett, Tony. “The Exhibitionary Complex.\u00a0<\/a>new formations<\/em>, no. 4 (1988): 73-102.<\/p>\n

How does the museum train visitors to think and behave? How do we give power to the museum by thinking of it as a truth-teller? Do you feel smarter when you leave the museum?<\/p>\n

Sheikh, Simon. “Constitutive Effects: The Techniques of the Curator<\/a>.” In\u00a0Curating Subjects<\/em>, ed. Paul O’Neill, 147-185. Open Editions, 2007.<\/p>\n

On Inclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Schmelzer, Paul. \u201cHow Can Contemporary Art Be More Inclusive of Native Voices?<\/a>\u201d Walker Reader<\/em>, 12 Oct. 2017.<\/p>\n

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Artists Dyani White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota),\u00a0Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw), Luzene Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee), and Candessa Tehee (Cherokee Nation), and curator Kathleen Ash-Milby (Din\u00e9) on their experiences in contemporary arts spaces, museums, and educational settings and the ways in which museums might move forward.<\/p>\n

See also: WHAT’S RECOGNITION?<\/a><\/p>\n

On Unsettling Colonial Spaces<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barnd, Natchee Blue. “Introduction<\/a>.” and “The Space of Native Art<\/a>.” In\u00a0Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism<\/em>, 1-17 and 124-148. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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