Rematriation: Indigenous Lands, Return, and the Aesthetics of Turtle Island

Rematriation is a term for an Indigenous women-led movement re-establishing Indigenous feminist practice in all aspects of Indigenous culture. While this is a new term, it is based on Indigenous practices before settler-colonial interaction. In art, the aesthetics of Rematriation center on Indigenous women's issues, land, memory, care, and restoring pre-settler colonial ethics.

In this session, we will discuss the needed role of Rematriation in Turtle Island (or North America). How does Indigenous feminist thought influence the art-making process? How is the Indigenous woman and non-binary person depicted in art? What are the more profound implications of material connections to Land? How are efforts of return impacting/promoting/prolonging Indigenous knowledge and practices? What role does rematriation have in art, art history, or museum practices? How have Indigenous artists incorporated aesthetics informed by Indigenous philosophies? How can Indigenous feminist futures be imagined? This session invites contributors that engage with Indigenous arts and practices. Indigenous perspectives are encouraged, as well as contributors informed by queer, critical race, feminist, decolonial, and eco-critical methodologies.