The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Indigenous New York Online Resource Guide is a growing nexus of scholarship, curatorial frameworks, and artistic practices. This digital platform is the foundation of the Vera List Center’s year-long initiative that declares New York Indigenous terrain through a series of discursive programs. Encompassing the findings from three 2016-2017 colloquia—Curatorially Speaking, Critically Speaking, and Artists Perspectives—this platform includes video documentation of the events and an evolving, collaborative bibliography. These resources are intended as prompts and catalysts to think again and think anew about the relationship of Indigeneity and contemporary arts at a key moment when the discursive frameworks of these fields are shifting critically. The texts are supplied by: David Garneau, Aaron Glass, Chris Green, Joseph Henry, Elizabeth West Hutchinson, Amal Issa, Carin Kuoni, Alan Michelson, Amanda Parmer, Jackson Polys, Kendra Sullivan, and cheyanne turions.

Indigenous New York is a public program and research initiative of the Vera List Center developed in collaboration with artist Alan Michelson and in consultation with artist Jackson Polys. It facilitates collaborations and exchanges among contemporary curators, artists, critics and scholars through public events and colloquia that focus on Indigeneity and the legacy of colonialism and position the local as evidence of concerns shared globally. It is supported, in part, by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, members of the Vera List Center Advisory Committee, and is part of the Vera List Center’s 2015–2017 curatorial programs on Post Democracy.

Indigenous New York Bibliography

Al Haj Saleh, Yassin. “Syria and the Left.” New Politics 15.2 (2015).

Anthes, Bill. “Contemporary Native Artists and International Biennial Culture.” Visual Anthropology Review 25, no. 2 (2009): 109-27.

Capeheart, Loretta and Dragan Milovanovic. “Indigenous/Postcolonial Forms of Justice.” Social Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements, 108-125. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Clifford, James. Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Comaroff, Jean and John L. Comaroff. Theory from the South, or How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Garneau, David. “Extra-Rational Aesthetic Action and Decolonization.” Fuse Magazine 36, no. 4 (2013): 14-21.