Indigenous Visual Methods: Challenging Settler Structures Through Images, Movement, and Participatory Research

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 10

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The visual holds multiple opportunities for Indigenous research and theorizing, both historically and in the present. Contemporary Indigenous scholars are experimenting with and employing innovative methods of engaging with the visual, from public art installations that reclaim urban space as Indigenous land, to research that uses new media technologies of visual representation to fuse traditional teachings and knowledge. At the same time, settler scholars are turning to Indigenous theories to frame their visual research. The scholars on this panel challenge settler colonial notions of place, temporality, and land through our work with Indigenous conceptualizations of images, the visual, and cultural and knowledge production.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Methodologies and Ethics (The Shapes of Curriculum)

Chairs

• Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

• Leonie Pihama, The University of Waikato

Papers

• Not Just a Movement for Liberation but Movement for Liberation: Generating Counterspaces in Indigenous Art - Susan Blight, University of Toronto

• Visual Representation: Dissemination of Indigenous Research - Lyn Trudeau, Brock University

• Engaging Visual Sovereignty and Decolonial Aesthetics in Participatory Research - Deanna Del Vecchio, University of Toronto