TimeTravellerTM: Between Popular Culture and Posthumanism
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https://doi.org/10.35588/estudav.v0i38.5834Keywords:
Indigenous People, Popular Culture, Posthumanism, Digital Art, ColonialismAbstract
This article analyzes the work of the Canadian digital artist Skawennati Tricia Fragnito, specifically the work TimeTravellerTM, in light of the Gramsci’s theory of Popular Culture and the Posthumanism ideas of Francesca Ferrando. Since TimeTravellerTM makes visible key moments of the Mohawk nation and other indigenous peoples, the first part of the article briefly explains the history of the Mohawk people, in order to understand Skawennati’s aims. Then, the TimeTravellerTM series of videos is analyzed to define the role that, in Gramscian terms, an artist like Skawennati plays before her nation. The final part problematizes certain elements of TimeTravellerTM, which seem to contradict the postcolonial interpretations made of Skawennati’s work.
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