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DESCRIPTION:Gloria Bell\n	University of British Columbia\n\nThe Eloquence of
  Things: Towards an Indigenous Materiality of the 1925 Pontifical Missiona
 ry Exhibition\n	In this paper\, I investigate Indigeneity via cultural belo
 ngings made by Indigenous artists at the Pontifical Missionary Exhibition 
 (PME). Held on the grounds of the Vatican\, the exhibition featured specia
 lly designed pavilions showcasing the art and cultural belongings from mis
 sions across the Americas\, Asia\, Oceania and Africa. Sponsored by Pope P
 ius XI and with the cooperation of the city of Rome and Italy’s fascist di
 ctator Benito Mussolini\, the exhibition featured over 100\, 000 objects\,
  drawing in over one million viewers. Amidst a flurry of world fairs and c
 olonial exhibitions\, this exhibition is unique in that it was the first a
 nd largest Catholic missionary display in Europe during the early twentiet
 h century. Despite the exhibition’s success\, drawing in pilgrims and tour
 ists from across the globe\, this potent and revealing example of Catholic
  missionary history remains under-examined. I focus on the Hall of America
 s section of the exhibition which held over 4\,000 material things includi
 ng photographs\, sculpture\, textiles and diorama displays. Through an ana
 lysis of the statuary of Indigenous American delegations\, artworks of Ind
 igenous American artists\, children’s games\, and missionary accounts\, th
 e project contributes to a novel understanding of the mobility of visual c
 ulture\, and the global circulation of Indigenous artists and artworks in 
 metropolitan and imperial spaces such as Rome. This paper promotes expansi
 ve thinking about Indigenous peoples from Turtle Island abroad. The mobili
 ty of visual culture\, art and cultural belongings that were sent in for t
 he exhibition\, suggests the rupture and unsettling of colonial aims and C
 atholic visioning. The consideration of Indigeneity in Italy is innovative
 \, and challenges core colonial assumptions\, prevalent in art historical 
 literature on Indigenous peoples\, first that Indigenous peoples had alrea
 dy disappeared from history or second that they existed only outside of mo
 dern metropolitan cultures and certainly not in Europe. \n
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LOCATION:W-220\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Job talk | Gloria Bell 'The Eloquence of Things: Towards an Indigen
 ous Materiality of the 1925 Pontifical Missionary Exhibition'
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 e-things-towards-indigenous-materiality-1925-pontifical-missionary-285696
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