Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada - Paperback

by Dylan Robinson (Editor), Keavy Martin (Editor)

Focuses on the sensory and affective impact of music, film, visual art and Indigenous cultural practice in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors address the role of the arts in residential school history, in TRC events, and outside the formal boundaries of the TRC process.

Author Biography

Dylan Robinson is a Stó lō scholar who holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen's University. His research focuses upon the sensory politics of Indigenous activism and the arts, and questions how Indigenous rights and settler colonialism are embodied and spatialized in public space. His current project documents the history of contemporary Indigenous public art across North America.
Keavy Martin is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research interests revolve around Indigenous literatures and literary theory, with a focus on Inuit literature and performance; Indigenous research methodologies; Indigenous languages; Indigenous literary nationalism and literary history; Aboriginal rights, treaties, and land claims; and the concept and practice of reconciliation. Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature won the 2012 Gabrielle Roy Prize.