Ways of knowing

"Featuring works by 11 artists from 9 different countries, the exhibition Ways of Knowing highlights different ways that artists give form to complex ideas. This accompanying catalog to the exhibition highlights how some of today's most compelling artists resist conventional assumptions about how information should be gathered, documented, and shared. Bringing their own perspectives to cultural artifacts and histories, they find new narratives and possibilities within them. Some focus on the ethics of research or the connections between culture, place, and language, while others examine the impacts of colonialism across continents or the historical formation of gender identity, among other themes"--