10:45–11:00 a.m. 1:00–1:45 p.m. Coffee Break Respondent and Discussion Diker Pavilion Lobby Jolene Rickard » 11:00 a.m. –1:00 p.m. 1:45 p.m. Session Four Closing Remarks Indigenous Aesthetic Paradigms: Community and the Artist 2:00–3:00 p.m. Contemporary Native Arts Symposium Reception Chair: Robert Jahnke » Te Pūtahi-a-Toi, Diker Pavilion Lobby the School of Māori Studies Miranda Belarde-Lewis » University of Washington SATURDAY, May 7 A:shiwi Aesthetics: Defining Ourselves 2:00 p.m. Anna-Marie White, curator » POST-SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM Nelson, New Zealand Seeing Indigenous: Indigenous Good Mãori, Bad Mãori: Art and Media Arts on Film Connoisseurship and Fred Meyers » New York University Contemporary Mãori art Stephen Gilchrist » National Gallery Natalie Ball » Chiloquin, Oregon of Victoria Circa Indian Mario A. Caro Nicholas Galanin » Sitka, Alaska I Killed an Indian (Diker Pavilion)

Essentially Funding for the Essentially Indigenous Symposium generously provided by: Indigenous? Anonymous

Ford Foundation Thursday, May 5 – Friday, May 6, 2011

Diker Pavilion, George Gustav Heye Center Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian National Museum of the American Indian One Bowling Green,

Image credit: Nicholas Galanin, Tsu Héidei Shugaxtutaan I (2006), video still. www.AmericanIndian.si.edu/symposia 11:00 a.m. –12:15 p.m. 3:30–4:15 p.m. Essentially Indigenous?: Contemporary Native Arts Symposium Session One Continued Respondent and Discussion In the past, many discussions about Native art have focused mostly Ute Meta Bauer » Massachusetts 12:15–1:30 p.m. on the identity of the artist. While Indian identity has a place in the Institute of Technology Lunch break—on your own ongoing dialogue about Native art, our intention for this symposium 5:30 p.m. 1:30–3:15 p.m. is to break new ground by focusing on the art. What is it about a Curator’s Tour Session Two Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains » work of art by a Native artist that makes it Native? Iconography, Essential Place: The Relationship Museum subject matter, or aesthetic sensibility? Is it a relationship to land between Native Art and Place (Free for symposium attendees) or ties to traditional art forms? Is there something essential we can Co-Chairs: Kathleen Ash-Milby and Gerald McMaster, Art Gallery of Ontario or should define? Gloria Bell » School for Advanced FRIDAY, May 6 Research 8:15–9:00 a.m. Symposium Schedule Meditations on Place: Métis Artistic Registration Expressions in Virtual and Physical Diker Pavilion Lobby Landscapes 10:00–10:45 a.m. THURSDAY, May 5 9:00 a.m. Session One Suzanne Morrissette » Ontario WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 8:15–9:00 a.m. Essential Images: On the Critical College of Art & Design University Kathleen Ash-Milby Registration Production and Reception of Stories of Place and Knowledge: Diker Pavilion Lobby Contemporary Native Art Writing Home and RESERVE(d) 9:15–10:45 a.m. Chair: Mario A. Caro Session Three 9:00 a.m. Lisa Seppi » State University of Blood Memory: Indigenous Welcome and Opening Remarks David Garneau » University of Regina New York at Oswego Genealogies and Imagined Truths Kathleen Ash-Milby » National Museum Necessary Essentialism and Essential Difference? Or Situational Chair: Nancy Marie Mithlo » of the American Indian Contemporary Aboriginal Art Essence? The Genealogy of Land, University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstraction, and Spirituality in the Mario A. Caro » Massachusetts Institute Will Wilson » Santa Fe, New Mexico Art of Kay WalkingStick of Technology Indigenous Visuality as Strategic Dylan Miner » Michigan State University Against Hybridity: An Indigenist 9:15 a.m. Essentialism within Contemporary Julie Nagam » Ontario College Indigenous Art Practice Provocation on Contemporary Art Keynote Address of Art & Design University (Re) imaging the Living Archive The Aesthetic of Disappearance Andrea Geyer » New School Sean Teuton » University of through the Performed Interventions Robert Houle, artist, scholar, and Spiral Lands: Un-learning Visual Regimes Wisconsin-Madison curator » TORONTO, CANADA of Rebecca Belmore Native Literature, Native Art, and How Devorah Romanek » British Museum There Might Be Memory in the Blood Re-framed Essentialism: Native American 3:15–3:30 p.m. Coffee Break Artists and Historic Images Rachel Harris » Concordia University Diker Pavilion Lobby Of God, Guns, and Government: 10:45–11:00 a.m. Reforming the Non-Inuit Subject Position Coffee Break in the Work of Annie Pootoogook and Diker Pavilion Lobby the Kinngait Avant-Garde