... Chapter 3 demonstrates how the work of contemporary artists can prompt imaginative engagements with past materials that had equally complex lives abroad. Horton overturns a truism that Native American artists have never exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, revealing...

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... This chapter introduces the concept of an undivided earth through Emendatio , James Luna’s multimedia exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Luna reconstituted the archive of Pablo Tac (1822–41), a Quechnajuisom scholar who wrote the first dictionary and history of his people under...

... colonial societies for the future. Key artworks include Building Minnesota (Minneapolis, 1991), Wheel (Denver, 2005), and Most Serene Republics , Heap of Birds’s project for the 2007 Venice Biennale. These works are examined in light of the artist’s grounding in indigenous ceremony and worldview...