Principal’s Series: Thinking at th
e Edge of Reason: Interdisciplinarity in Action
Charlotte Tow
nsend-Gault\, Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory
Coach
House\, Green College\, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road\, UBC
5-6:30 pm\, T
uesday\, December 1\, 2009\, with reception to follow
For more than t wo and a half centuries many claims have been made about the iconography\, the style\, and the purposes of Indigenous art on the north west coast of N orth America\, of which the claim that it is ‘art’ is only one. The histori cal diversity of these claims is a subject in itself\, but since Delgamuukw \, since 1997\, diversity is not the right word\, and the claims are subjec t to a more stringent validation. Now they are rights-based\, culturally sp ecific\, essentialist. Over the last decade\, work (the right word is elusi ve) – carved\, woven\, painted\, printed\, assembled or engraved\, before a nd since 1997 – has been re-framed\, re-directed\, and most significantly\, re-validated. If ‘Northwest coast art’ as a viable generic term is increas ingly disputed\, the claims made for the potency of the cultural expression s of the region’s First Nations have never been stronger.
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