#  Dep. of History of Art and Architecture New Directions Lecture Series: "Casting Shadows: Speculative Impressions of a Captain Cook Memorial", by Julia Lum (Scripps) 

 



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 **November 19, 2020** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 In mid-June, 2020, in the midst of a movement in defense of Black and Indigenous lives, law enforcement stood duty in Sydney’s Hyde Park to protect the safety of a bronze sculpture: the 1879 memorial to navigator James Cook by Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner. At that very moment, visitors to the Biennale of Sydney beheld the memorial’s ghostly echo in *Shadow on the Land, an excavation and bush burial* by Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂, Sitka, Alaska)*.* An act of future anterior resistance to colonial “discovery” narratives, Galanin’s work imagines an archaeological excavation of the memorial’s shadow. This paper, itself a speculative gesture, describes select episodes in the life history of Woolner’s sculpture by way of its material castings: in bronze, in photography, and in this contemporary earthwork. It asks: how does colonial memory get re-cast?

 **About the speaker**: Julia Lum is Assistant Professor of Art History at Scripps College; her work examines art and visual culture of the eighteenth century to present in Britain and the (former) British empire, with an emphasis on cross-cultural exchange and entanglement in Oceania and North America. Currently, her research centers on landscapes at the intersection of Indigenous and colonial cultural practices.



 

 



 

 

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