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Edgar Heap of Birds
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7499-2
Publication date:
2015
This thematic chapter describes Heap of Birds’s public artworks, including temporary sign panels and permanent sculptural installations. These works function as a kind of critical public history, engaging in dialogue with other markers and monuments. In these works, Heap of Birds asks, “Who owns history?” and raises questions about the nature of history and notions of historicity, presumptions of whose memories compose history, and who can narrate the past. Moreover, these works confront and interrogate the amnesiac culture of the present day and examine the historical legacies of settler colonial societies for the future. Key artworks include Building Minnesota (Minneapolis,...
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