The Language of Secret Proof

Indigenous Truth and Representation

Nina Valerie Kolowratnik

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Sternberg Press
24 March 2020

Architecture; Architectural structure & design

Series: Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice

New spatial notational systems for protecting and regaining Indigenous lands in the United States.

In The Language of Secret Proof, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik challenges the conditions under which Indigenous rights to protect and regain traditional lands are currently negotiated in United States legal frameworks. This tenth volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series responds to the urgent need for alternative modes of evidentiary production by introducing an innovative system of architectural drawing and notation.

Kolowratnik focuses on the double bind in which Native Pueblo communities in the United States find themselves when they become involved in a legal effort to reclaim and protect ancestral lands; the process of producing evidence runs counter to their structural organization around oral history and cultural secrecy. The spatial notational systems developed by Kolowratnik with Hemish tribal members from northern New Mexico and presented in this volume are an attempt to produce evidentiary documentation that speaks Native truths while respecting demands on secrecy. These systems also attempt to instigate a dialogue where there currently is none, working to deconstruct the fixed opposition between secrecy and disclosure within Western legal systems.

By: Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: Germany
Volume: 10
Dimensions: Height: 151mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 136g
ISBN: 9783956790973
ISBN 10: 3956790979
Series: Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 24 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nina Valerie Kolowratnikis an architect and researcher currently based in Vienna. Her practice is situated in the context of forced migration andculturalclaims to territory and develops spatial notational systems that operate within human rights debates. Since 2014 she has been teaching graduate courses on borderlands, migration, and counter-narratives at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Technische Universit t Wien.