HAVC 176 Visual Sovereignty

Focuses on oceanic studies as a paradigm for decolonial/anti-colonial art practices. By engaging theorizations on visual sovereignty,course emphasizes the need for trans-Indigenous worldmaking that deploys individual and community assertions of what representation means in art. Readings are organized by connecting Indigenous theories of Oceania in the Pacific across networks of Indigenous coalitions of resistance across the globe to connect divergent narratives, positions, times, and spaces.