Uneven Bodies (Reader) | 2021

Published 2021 by Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
120 pages
210 x 197mm, softcover with single colour illustrations
Edited by Ruth Buchanan, Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, Hanahiva Rose.
With contributions by Prof. Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Megan Tamati-Quenell, Wharehoka Smith, Leone Samu Tui, Gabi Ngcobo, Tina Barton, Jenny Harper, Dr Amber Aranui, Steve Gibbs, Eloise Wallace, Jo Walsh, Dr. Clémentine Deliss, Samoa House Library, Lana Lopesi, and Wanda Nanibush.
Designed by HIT
Printed by Spree Druck
ISBN 978-1-98-854309-3

Uneven Bodies (Reader) is a comprehensive collection of writing produced as an outcome of a symposium of the same name held in Aotearoa New Zealand in early 2020 that addresses the politics of collections today and the complex terrain of power in which this conversation sits.

The collection places specific emphasis on Indigenous positions, linking this into the so-called international paradigm. Topics covered include collecting contemporary both inside and outside the institution, repatriation, deaccession, and Indigenous methodology in collection work. With keynote contributions from Prof Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Gabi Ngcobo, Dr. Clémentine Deliss, and Wanda Nanibush and nine other positions, the readers offers a template for how we can imagine collecting in the future; full of mutated spaces we don’t yet know how to move in, full of powerful languages we still need to learn how to speak, together.