10:45–11:00 a.m. 1:00–1:45 p.m. COFFEE BREAK RESPONDENT AND DISCUSSION Diker Pavilion Lobby Jolene Rickard » CORNEll UNIVERSITY 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, New York City 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 BROOKLYN 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 .