Charles Stankievech

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Foreword Afterall Journal issue 49

It has been almost five years since the first Afterall editorial meeting was conducted in Toronto, Canada, which in turn instigated a roundtable and subsequent symposium on the question of the ‘Global Indigenous?’. Since that time, the art world’s discourse has been supercharged with two concerns: a cyclical resurgence of identity politics and an acute assessment of the environmental crisis

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Foreword Afterall Journal issue 43

If there is a leitmotif to be found in this issue, it is in the variations of these mutating questions: What is indigeneity? Who defines it? Where does it exist? What is the role of kinship, communitas, comunalidad? And what role does art or the museum play? The rhythm might loop, it might skip, it might enter a fugal dissonance. And at times it might go silent.

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