VISA 1900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hybridity
29 Nov 2015
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Migration - how people move around the world. Indigenous people had their lives transformed by migration. Linked to rest of world through global trade. Text describes aspect of self, speaking in rst person to the artist and third person to the viewer. Criticism of stereotypical portrayals of indigenous people. giving them a voice. How an artist achieve voice and who gets to speak in public circumstances. Old idea was that indigenous art doesn"t change. Borrowed a chair from indigenous people and could listen to those people when sitting in the chair. Person repressed by object, person actually not there. Con ict between quebec and canadian and mohawk community. Mohawk claimed territory, idea to use this land as a golf course people died. Only can participate with violence, voice is a new alternative with his art. Hybridizing american comic books and japanese woodblock prints. Hard to determine the origins of the culture combinations together.
