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Disarticulate—Repurpose—Disrupt: Art/Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2017

Doug Bailey*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA Email: dwbailey@sfsu.edu
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Abstract

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This project sees archaeology and art as a political tool for disrupting conventional, politically loaded narratives of the past. Rather than producing institutionally safe narratives conventionally certified as truth, archaeologists should follow the lead of artists who use the past as a source of materials to be reconfigured in new ways to help people see in new ways. Using as an example the works of the Canadian artist Ken Monkman, who subverts nineteenth- century landscape painting to reinsert the missing critiques of Anglo-American colonialism, dominance of nature, and heteronormativity, this paper advocates disarticulating materials from the past by severing them from their context, repurposing them to bring contemporary concerns to the fore and creating new, disruptive visions from them. The article proposes the practice of an art/archaeology.

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Copyright © McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2017