Site-specificity and dislocation: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and his Haida Manga Meddling

N. Levell

DOI:10.1177/1359183513486231

Corpus ID: 146874627

Site-specificity and dislocation: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and his Haida Manga Meddling

@article{Levell2013SitespecificityAD,
  title={Site-specificity and dislocation: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and his Haida Manga Meddling},
  author={N. Levell},
  journal={Journal of Material Culture},
  year={2013},
  volume={18},
  pages={116 - 93}
}

N. Levell

Published 2013

History

Journal of Material Culture

Tracing the critical biography of Pedal to the Meddle (2007) – a Haida Manga intervention, originated by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas – this article explores the biography of indigenized artworks that are generated as a site-specific form of institutional critique but later dislocated, mobilized and rearticulated in other disciplinary spaces. In its original context, Pedal to the Meddle was conceptualized and created to critique museum practices, the politics of ownership and First Nations… CONTINUE READING

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