Mega-exhibitions and Indigenism.

Session 1. 28 June 2023, 18-21h. CEST Session 2. 11 July 2023, 18-21h. CEST Online Course (delivery in Spanish) Deadline for submission of applications: 16 June, 2023. Accepted applicants will be informed by e-mail on: 23 June, 2023. Course participants: 10 - 15. Certificates of attendance will be available upon request. (The organization may opt to cancel the course if it does not reach a minimum of 10 registered participants.)

The increased visibility of the Indigenous in the framework of global contemporary art is marked by the recent inclusion in the "megaexhibitions" (peripheral biennials or global salons, Documenta) of an increasingly bulky presence of artists from Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Canada and the Nordic countries in the search for a global discourse of "Indigeneity", a term that comes from the adjective "indigenous" and the abstrasuffix "eity", which indicates quality. The emerging discourse of Indigeneity leads us to establish a distinction between the idea of Indigenous as related to identity, and the notion of Indigeneity understood as a discursive formation, as a relationship that not only includes Indigenous peoples but also those who self-identify as non-Indigenous. Within this framework, in this course we will present the works and contexts of a series of Indigenous artists present in four major exhibitions: the 2017 Kassel Documenta, the 2022 Kassel Documenta, the 2022 Venice Biennale, and the 2023 Sharjah Biennale (United Arab Emirates). Deadline for submission of applications: 16 June, 2023. Accepted applicants will be informed by e-mail on: 23 June, 2023. Course participants: 10 - 15. Certificates of attendance will be available upon request. (The organization may opt to cancel the course if it does not reach a minimum of 10 registered participants.) Session 1. 28 June 2023, 18-21h. CEST Session 2. 11 July 2023, 18-21h. CEST Online Course (delivery in Spanish) Universitat de Barcelona Applicants must fill in the attached registration.