TY - JOUR AU - Gilchrist, Stephen AU - Skerritt, Henry PY - 2016/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Awakening Objects and Indigenizing the Museum: Stephen Gilchrist in Conversation with Henry F. Skerritt JF - Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture JA - Comtemporaneity VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Special Section: Curatorial Agency DO - 10.5195/contemp.2016.183 UR - https://contemporaneity.pitt.edu/ojs/contemporaneity/article/view/183 SP - 108-121 AB - <p>Curated by Stephen Gilchrist, <em>Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia </em>was held at Harvard Art Museums from February 5, 2016–September 18, 2016. The exhibition was a survey of contemporary Indigenous art from Australia, exploring the ways in which time is embedded within Indigenous artistic, social, historical, and philosophical life. The exhibition included more than seventy works drawn from public and private collections in Australia and the United States, and featured many works that have never been seen outside Australia.<em> Everywhen </em>is Gilchrist’s second major exhibition in the United States, following <em>Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art</em> in 2012. Conducted on April 22, 2016, this conversation considers the position of Indigenous art in the museum, and the active ways in which curators and institutions can work to “indigenize” their institutions. Gilchrist discusses the evolution of <em>Everywhen</em>, along with the curatorial strategies employed to change the status of object-viewer relations in the exhibition. The transcription has been edited for clarity.</p> ER -