A foot severed from the bronze monument of a conquistador. The spillage from this rupture opened up long festering colonial histories. These histories reared their heads again in 2017 when the foot suddenly reappeared, two decades after the original act. Those who cut it off wanted to speak again about the importance of telling history in its entirety and to begin conversations about reparations for those Indigenous peoples who were killed and mutilated by the conquistador Juan de Oñate. This was not the end of the story. Colonial monuments continue to haunt us as does the genocide of Indigenous people. What do these monuments represent now, particularly once they are removed from their pedestals?

Join us for the second lecture in the 2022 Viewpoint Lecture Series from Candice Hopkins. To view the full semester-long schedule, please visit our 2022 series announcement. 

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Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her writing and curatorial practice explores the intersections of history, contemporary art and indigeneity. She is Executive Director of Forge Project in Ancram, NY and Senior Curator of the 2022 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art. Hopkins was part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale, featuring the work of the media art collective Isuma and co-curator of notable exhibitions including Art for New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now; the 2018 SITE Santa Fe biennial, Casa Tomada; documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany; Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada and Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years in Winnipeg, MB. Her essays include “The Gilded Gaze: Wealth and Economies on the Colonial Frontier,” for the documenta 14 Reader, “Outlawed Social Life” for South as a State of Mind, and “The Appropriation Debates” (or The Gallows of History), for MIT Press.

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