Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology

Documenting Indigenous artists’ responses to the impacts of nuclear testing, nuclear accidents and uranium mining on Native peoples and the environment, 'Exposure' gives artists a voice to address the long-term effects of these manmade disasters on Indigenous communities around the world. Indigenous artists from Australia, Canada, Greenland, Japan, the Pacific Islands and the US utilise local knowledge as well as Indigenous and contemporary art forms as visual strategies.Artists include: Carl Beam (Ojibway), De Haven Solimon Chaffins (Laguna/Zuni Pueblos), Miriquita “Micki” Davis (Chamoru), Bonnie Devine (Anishinaabe/Ojibwa), Joy Enomoto (kanaka maoli/Caddo), Solomon Enos (kanaka maloli), Kohei Fujito (Ainu), Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner (Marshallese-Majol), Alexander Lee (Hakka, Tahiti), Dan Taulapapa McMullin (Samoan), David Neel (Kwagu’l), No’u Revilla (kanaka maoli/maoli-Tahitian), Mallery Quetawki (Zuni Pueblo), Chantal Spitz (maohi), Adrian Stimson (Blackfoot), Anna Tsouhlarakis (Diné/Creek/Greek), Munro Te Whata (Maori/Ninuean) and Will Wilson (Diné).
ISBN 9781942185901. Radius Books/IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. hb. 240 pages. 160 colour ills. 22.9 x 30.5 cm.
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