Unsettling/Indigenizing Museology (UIM)

comprises Indigenous, BIPOC and white settler scholars, curators and museum professionals who activate, mobilize and bring forth Indigenous and decolonial museum theory, methods and praxis by advancing new scholarship and critical curatorial practice. UIM engages institutions, archives, exhibitions, community members, creators, and collections in dialogues and exchanges in order to reimagine institutional practices and policies and their impacts on Indigenous peoples on a long continuum. Together we will devise new models for unsettling and Indigenizing creative and public spaces drawing on non-performative and non-extractive collaborative methods. One major UIM outcome by the midpoint of TTTM is our partnership with the Native American Art Studies Association to revisit and critically re-examine the ground-breaking 1994 Task Force Report on Museums and First Peoples, in light of the 2015 TRC Calls to Action, UNDRIP, MMIWG, BLM, Land Back and other activist-led demands for social justice within and beyond museum and gallery walls.

(Partners: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Confederation Centre Art Gallery; McCord Museum; Native American Art Studies Association; NSCAD University; Carleton University; Mackenzie Art Gallery)