ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Isaac reflects on Indigenous curatorial praxis. She speaks to her curatorial and artistic practice as a braided process in which there are three strands: decolonizing, Indigenizing, and self-determining. Isaac reflects on the importance of creating sovereign spaces for Indigenous art to enter into a broader art discourse by freeing it from the impositions of whitestream expectations. Reflecting on previous exhibitions she has curated, Isaac examines how this theory of Indigenous Curatorial Praxis is put into practice. Isaac argues that within Indigenous curatorial methodologies, representations of culture can be authentically and respectively explored and engaged within the critical visual art world in exhibition making and criticism, by disrupting the archaic linearity of art history.
